Idea for hide?

[dairy_milk]

Hi!

So I think, a long time back, I read something about a cache inside a commercial premises, shop maybe? Where you basically had to go in and ask for "Mr Tree"  or something, and they would present you with the container/log book.

Two main questions really:

Did I make this up in my head? Was it ever a thing?

 

And more importantly, is this against the rules? I have read through the hide rules and cant see anything on or around this topic? The only thing I can see is "Caches cannot require geocachers to contact the cache owner or anyone else" which i'm guessing this might fall under? But not 100% if that isn't to stop a "ring me and I will tell you" type situation?

Thanks in advance, hopefully some thoughts?

[Keystone]

Please see the section of the Cache Listing Guidelines called "No Commercial Content," which reads as follows.  See the boldfacing that I added.

"No commercial content

Cache pages perceived as commercial will not be published. Commercial content includes any of the following characteristics

• Overtones of advertising, marketing, or promotion
• Suggests or requires the finder do any of the following
  • Go inside a business
  • Interact with employees
  • Purchase a product or service
• Name, links, or logos of the following
  • Businesses
  • Commercial products
  • Competing games or cache listing services
• Links or logos of agencies and organizations (including nonprofit organizations), unless needed for permission"

 

[dairy_milk]

Thanks, that answers that one, I guessed I was missing something!

[+little-leggs]

On 2/20/2019 at 11:47 AM, dairy_milk said:

Did I make this up in my head? Was it ever a thing?

Your not going mad , it was a thing if you like to call it a thing ,

I have found a cache located inside the  Tourist information   bureau   .....

the cache most probably has been there a long time , and was placed before the rule was writen ..

the cache was nice and dry , but it didn't stop the trackable inventory being messed up ,three TB's listed , none were in the cache and it had been that way for months looking back to see when they'd been left