Guest tamster Posted February 21, 2001 Share Posted February 21, 2001 Hi ya! My first post and first day to learn of such sport. Anywho, I'd like to hear about what stuff of any real monitary value people have found. Not that I would'nt be thrilled to find any 'ol stuff Just wanna know. Quote Link to comment
Guest Hamster Posted February 21, 2001 Share Posted February 21, 2001 A great promotion for GPS manufacturers would be to plant Caches locally with like 100 dollars in cash in them, or a new GPS unit. They could advertise on internet and radio, and have people looking for them or something. Would be excellent marketing ploy. Quote Link to comment
Guest WrongWay Posted February 21, 2001 Share Posted February 21, 2001 There's a story that was related to me one stormy night in the surplus isles of a popular outdoor outfitter. A GeoCacher, who, during the days of Selective Availability and 8 channel receivers, stumbled across a cache containing wealth beyond his wildest dreams. It's told that he marked a waypoint and in his hasty moment of greed forgot to Average. It's rumored that he's spent the remaining years searching for "The Lost Cache". To this day you can find him, at any purveyor of leading edge GPS receivers, at REI or Wal-Mart, at Best Buy... He'll be the one with the sunburned forehead, torn clothes, worn out shoes and pockets full of crumpled maps from TOPOZONE.COM. He'll be staring vacantly into the glass cases and mumbling to himself : "?it has to be there?it has to?was it True or Mag? Was it WGS84 or NAD27? It has to be there?" As for me, I've netted a worn out Jack antenna ball, a nifty magnifier pen, a disturbing, bleeding gash on my leg, and a lifetime of great memories with my daughter. I'll never give up though, you never know, "The Lost Cache" may just be the next one you locate. Quote Link to comment
Guest DrunkenBard Posted February 22, 2001 Share Posted February 22, 2001 I suspect you could get a mfr to provide a new GPS for something like this if you talked to them really nicely. After all, they're usually just covering their costs on the price of the GPS itself, so they can make a killing on the cables and software. My Lowrance, for example was $200, and the accessories come out to; software $130, power cable $25, data cable $35. I don't know what their cost is on the SW, but I made both cables for about $6 each, without the benefit of buying parts in bulk. ------------------ DrunkenBard http://www.drunkenbard.com Quote Link to comment
ju66l3r Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 While digging through the old posts (I'm procrastinating from doing work)...I stumbled on this thread: quote:Originally posted by Hamster:A great promotion for GPS manufacturers would be to plant Caches locally with like 100 dollars in cash in them, or a new GPS unit. They could advertise on internet and radio, and have people looking for them or something. Would be excellent marketing ploy. Oh, prognosticator of prognosticators...where has ye gone? -- http://www.theonering.net/staticnews/1064605367.html Quote Link to comment
+canadazuuk Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 $2000-3000 worth of goodies in one cache... I got a Garmin Vista one time, along with a share in a $3000 cache split between 3 teams... Quote Link to comment
Swagger Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 This one was worth a hundred bucks to the first finder. -- Pehmva! Random quote: Quote Link to comment
SE7EN Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 I came across one with a single trade item. Just to trade even I would have had to trade my GPS unit for it. To me, it wasn't worth it as the item had very little appeal to me. Quote Link to comment
+amishangel Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 The most valuable one I have found was a swiss army knife of a size and heft that it makes an excellent paperweight. maybe about 40.00. Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? Quote Link to comment
+DirtRunner Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 Value is in the eye of the beholder. What I feel is worthless is priceless to my little girl, she still plays with a rubber ball we got from one of our first caches last year. Who knew ? I've gotten a couple of Geocoins that I thought were pretty priceless. And I also got some memories that are worth more than that. So, it's a a relative thing...relativly speaking. DirtRunner. Your not first...But you could be next. Quote Link to comment
+Bilder Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 Some of the items I have found that I kept and actually use are: Neat little keychain- use it every day. New leather wallet- not expensive, but I like it. Compact Binoculars- First finders prize. Very nice. Found some cash that was left for first finder- Probably 20 bucks total. Pays for gas. Best stuff has been the kids toys and such when I take my daughters with me. The look on their faces as they rummage through the cache is priceless. You would think all those toys were covered in gold. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have never been lost. Been awful confused for a few days, but never lost! N61.12.041 W149.43.734 Quote Link to comment
+Hiemdahl Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 I once found an immitation Rolex watch about 2 feet from a cache in heavy brush. The band had a broken link and was laying on the ground. Due to the remote location, obviously a Geocacher had lost it. I posted a note on the cache page and E-mailed the last 4 people that had logged the cache. No responses. I am still considering making it a FTF prize in mu next cache. Quote Link to comment
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