+hal90oo Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 (edited) Hello, The other day I received an email [personal message through the geocaching website] from someone claiming to be messaging geocachers on behalf of Thorntons, with the following message: Hi, I'm currently working on behalf of Thorntons to create a nationwide easter egg hunt. Would you be interested in placing a cache on behalf of Thorntons in return for a free hamper? We are happy to send out the geocache kit to you along with the Thorntons voucher to be placed inside. If this is something you would be interested in, if so please do get in touch If I were to go through with this, I'd like to know if this is legit or not, or if anyone else has received this kind of mail, Thanks Edited February 7, 2015 by hal90oo Quote Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 (edited) Does rather sound like it's "Commercial" and as such should really have the backing of Groundspeak. (You could always say 'Yes' and use the voucher yourself... ) There have been other 'Promotions' in the past, but were never successful, for one reason or another. (Outdoor clothing company comes to mind) Edited February 7, 2015 by Bear and Ragged Quote Link to comment
+dartymoor Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 (Tin foil hat on) If you're the only one to get it, then it might be somebody trying to socially engineer you to supply your address... Quote Link to comment
+hal90oo Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 (Tin foil hat on) If you're the only one to get it, then it might be somebody trying to socially engineer you to supply your address... My thoughts exactly. Quote Link to comment
+Just Roger Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Hello, The other day I received an email [personal message through the geocaching website] from someone claiming to be messaging geocachers on behalf of Thorntons, with the following message: Hi, I'm currently working on behalf of Thorntons to create a nationwide easter egg hunt. Would you be interested in placing a cache on behalf of Thorntons in return for a free hamper? We are happy to send out the geocache kit to you along with the Thorntons voucher to be placed inside. If this is something you would be interested in, if so please do get in touch Before I go through with this, I'd like to know if this is legit or not, or if anyone else has received this kind of mail, Thanks Even if it is genuine, any cache placed would be a "commercial" cache and wouldn't get published Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 It's been discussed at length on Facebook Geocaching groups. The consensus seems to be: 1. It's a legit marketing company. 2. It's not a scam. 3. While they have been contacting some cachers through their GC.com profiles, they have also contacted others via their own websites/blogs. 4. Groundspeak have disabled some of the accounts which they used to contact cachers. 5. They may be intending to place "caches" to be publicised on their own websites/literature, the caches aren't necessarily going to be listed on Geocaching.com, and hence it's none of Groundspeak's business (except using geocaching.com for the initial contact). I have no association with any of this, and haven't been contacted myself, I'm just passing on what I've learned in the last few days. If you're on facebook then look on the "Geocaching UK" group, where there have been a few discussions. Quote Link to comment
+Chief301 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Hello, The other day I received an email [personal message through the geocaching website] from someone claiming to be messaging geocachers on behalf of Thorntons, with the following message: Hi, I'm currently working on behalf of Thorntons to create a nationwide easter egg hunt. Would you be interested in placing a cache on behalf of Thorntons in return for a free [red] hamper?[/red] We are happy to send out the geocache kit to you along with the Thorntons voucher to be placed inside. If this is something you would be interested in, if so please do get in touch If I were to go through with this, I'd like to know if this is legit or not, or if anyone else has received this kind of mail, Thanks Free hamster? Groundspeak should definitely get behind this promotion. Quote Link to comment
+MBFace Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 (edited) My email through geocaching.com just said "Would you be interested in setting up a geocache in return for a chocolate hamper from a well known UK brand? " and came from username tomdawkins who had chosen not to send his email address. I checked the profile and found that the account had been set up that day. (edited here for clarity) It was locked at about the same time as Groundspeak responded to my complaint about receiving an apparently commercial post through their system. Tom Dawkins is employed by the marketing company Caliberi - it's rather unfortunate that he shares his name with the Australian behind StartSomeGood. Edited February 9, 2015 by MBFace Quote Link to comment
+Seaglass Pirates Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 You will never get it past the reviewer ... ... especially now. If you manage to get it past the reviewer ... somehow ... someone will report it to the reviewer. Then the reviewer will hate you. Each time you upset a reviewer a kitten dies. Please think of the kitten before you embark on this reckless, chocolate addiction fueled, break away faction, bahaviour. Quote Link to comment
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