+ernies Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 i suggest that current holder of trackables (that are their own) receive automatically generated reminder e-mails by Groundspeak after a certain period (like 3 weeks, and the weekly) in order to remind them that they have coins/tbs that need to be dropped. i have 100s of coins on their way and they often get forgot by the cachers and i have to remind them to get those trackables moving. these reminders help, but they should be done by Groundspeak. it should be a setting (checkbox) in the trackable listing. thanks for your consideration. Quote Link to comment
+Panther&Pine Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 No thanks. Nagging doesn't do much positive. I generally check on my own trackables every six months or so. I've even misplaced my own coins, I as the holder don't need a reminder to do anything about it, they'll turn up eventually. Plus half my inventory is coins that never leave me- I don't need 12 emails tellin me I haven't been caching in a while (cold oh so cold right now in Colorado, plus the six days a week of work...) Quote Link to comment
+whh0 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 This assumes that the holder of the tb/coin has a verified email address. My tb disappeared into the hands of a newbie cacher who had never been on to the geocaching website and never registered an email address........ Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 An automatically generated system would only work if trackables were logged correctly (accurately showing who the last holder is). That doesn't seem to happen often these days. With a bunch of unvalidated players now using apps with "never" listed on their profiles (for never logging into the site), that email reminder goes nowhere. Quote Link to comment
+Gitchee-Gummee Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 (edited) True, nagging does little good and mostly bad. Aside from those not verifying an email address, there appear to be many that never, ever respond (read?) their emails, anyway. Quite possibly they sign up a free account so that it never conflicts with their "true", used account. Never to bother with it at all. Edited January 9, 2015 by Gitchee-Gummee Quote Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Look at how many cache owners come to the forums to ask "How can I stop the emails for the cache..?" Easy enough to set up a separate email account and filter the emails. TB emails will get added... And there's another Groundspeak email not read, from a user with a valid email address. Even if they accept the emails, there will be a point with enough emails about the TB, that they get fed up and throw out the TB, and claim they dropped it in a cache. Now what are you going to do? Quote Link to comment
+Manville Possum Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 No thanks. I'm getting ready to release about 20 proxys of my geocoins that have been missing for a few years, and I don't think that nagging would help. Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 And then there are newbies who just don't understand that TBs and geocoins are not trade items. The site cant send reminders if the trackable is never logged out of the cache, and newbies like that are unlikely to log trackables out of caches. Quote Link to comment
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