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Can 2 geocachers share a cache?


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31 minutes ago, Gillyguppers said:

We are both premium members.

You can.

But, only one account can be responsible, eg post Temporary Disabled, Owner Maintenance logs etc. if/when there is a problem with the cache.

 

The Placed by part of the cache page can have any name, either of you, or a joint name, but the link is only to one cacher.

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2 hours ago, Gillyguppers said:

We are both premium members.

 

Your membership doesn't have a bearing for cache ownership unless you're starting them PMO.

Most families we know have a team account, so you can "share" a cache, and you can share maintenance duties. 

One of you will need to have the cache on the Watch List, as notifications will only go to the account listed in publication. 

Realize that the one listed in publication will always be "responsible" for the cache, no matter what you decide in shared duties.

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47 minutes ago, cerberus1 said:

Most families we know have a team account, so you can "share" a cache, and you can share maintenance duties. 

I've seen shared accounts used to place caches, even when the members of the family, team, or other group have individual accounts. All the members have the password to the shared account on geocaching.com, and the shared account on geocaching.com uses an email address (e.g., a Gmail account) that forwards messages to all the members' individual email addresses addresses.

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Just to restate what has already been said: officially, each cache is owned by a single account. How the two of you manage the cache behind the scenes is up to you. The system won't automatically help you, but you don't need the help, do you?

 

The only tricky thing is what Bear and Ragged mentioned: the "placed by field" is under your control, so you can override the default to list both accounts there even though the system will still link the text you set it to back to that one owning account.

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I have friends that occasionally hide a cache or create an event as a 'couple'.  When you create a cache, you can type anything you want in the 'Placed By' field. So they will sometimes enter 'Fred and Mary' for example.  And that's what shows on the cache page.  But the cache is only 'owned' by the person creating the cache page.  So only Fred gets the log notification emails.  Mary can add the cache to her Watchlist and that way she can get the log notification emails, too.  That's as close as you're going to get to that idea of 'sharing' a cache.

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