+Taliban Hunter Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 We are new at this. We have found a few and placed 0ne. I was wondering if there was a compatetion or something where there was $$ in the cache? Do some caches have money or something valuable in them? My daughter keeps asking why we have'nt found any gold yet. Thanks Quote Link to comment
+robert Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 Nope, no money, and no gold. Sometimes you'll find Where's George dollars... and if you're first to find (FTF) you'll sometimes get a good prize such as a gift certificate, cash, etc. But I wouldn't count on it being a regular thing. Quote Link to comment
+Enspyer Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 Sometimes there are small coins or fake jewelry or stuff, but nothing really worth a whole lot (usually). You might get lucky...but for the most part count on McToys and similar items. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 There is a site that runs a competition with $ involved. You have to pay to play. Regular goecaching is about the hunt. Quote Link to comment
+bons Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 I know there was a $10 starbucks card in the FDN cache and there's a local mystery cache that I finally have the coordinates to that I'm hoping to find some daylight to visit that has some very nice stuff in it. (Heck, I went shopping just to make sure I had something decent to trade, I settled on a nice LED flashlight that can clip to your hat in addition to my usual pile o' swag). As for gold, I've been leaving virgin Geocoins in caches every now and then, is that good enough? Quote Link to comment
+JMBella Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 RK what site is that? Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 RK what site is that? There was a link to it that I found. I thought I saw the link on keenpeople.com or woodsters.com. When I went to find it I couldn't. Sorry. Quote Link to comment
cutsandbruises Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 We are new at this. We have found a few and placed 0ne. I was wondering if there was a compatetion or something where there was $$ in the cache? Do some caches have money or something valuable in them? My daughter keeps asking why we have'nt found any gold yet. Thanks There's gold in my teeth and silver in my hair!!! Geocaching to me is not about the find but the HUNT!! I'm making great memories with my kids and seeing areas we never knew existed until we finally got off the couch and went hiking.. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 A lot of caches in this area have Wheresgeorge bills in them, but rarely more than 2, or 3. So if you were expecting to get rich, forget about it. I've heard of people putting cash in a cache as a FTF prize and this is usually anywhere between $5 & $20 and more in very rare instances. Quote Link to comment
+RPW Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 Related to this topic is a question I wanted to ask. Yesterday a person posted a log entry in a a local "park-n-grab" cache that I watch but do not maintain. The entry said, in part, Also decided to hide a few prizes from Chicago while in the area. A $100 cash prize has been hidden somewhere near Indy. Visit http://www.TreasureHuntGames.com and sign up to receive clues leading to it's location. The "www" address was hyperlinked for easy access. I went to the site and found out that for a monthly fee a person can get clues to where the cash is hidden. 70% of the fees get turned into prizes; the site is nicely up-front about this. My "scam-o-meter" goes on high at this point but, hey, in some ways it is no worse than playing the state lottery -- something I do not do but that a lot of people enjoy. So I am not coming down on the concept itself but rather I am questioning the use of logs to do advertising for such a concept. If it was a cache that I maintained then I would probably edit the entry to delete the ad. But since it is another person's cache should I be concerned about this log? Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 A lot of caches in this area have Wheresgeorge bills in them, but rarely more than 2, or 3. So if you were expecting to get rich, forget about it. On the subject of WheresGeorge bills in caches. I also like to enter bills on the WheresGeorge site, but they no longer accept (or count) bills recovered from caches. I know that was off topic, so I'll add a tad more to bring it back around. I've found some pretty neat stuff in caches, but as has been mentioned already, it's about the hunt, not the find! Just get out and enjoy the scenery and exercise. Quote Link to comment
mortonfox Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 A lot of caches in this area have Wheresgeorge bills in them, but rarely more than 2, or 3. So if you were expecting to get rich, forget about it. On the subject of WheresGeorge bills in caches. I also like to enter bills on the WheresGeorge site, but they no longer accept (or count) bills recovered from caches. I know that was off topic, so I'll add a tad more to bring it back around. Where's George bills from geocaches are accepted and counted in the stats at the Where's George site. They just get tagged so they won't show up in the Top 10 lists. Quote Link to comment
+bons Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 Out of curiosity, if you found gold, what would you leave in return? Quote Link to comment
+Kitch Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 Out of curiosity, if you found gold, what would you leave in return? McToys...or I maybe I would never log that I even was there... Quote Link to comment
+smenzel Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 Of course there's a reward for playing and the payout is priceless -- it's called personal satisfaction. You could also call it fun or a number of other things. Just not financial reward. Quote Link to comment
+xenophon10k Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 If there were money to be had, I'd be out caching right now, instead of reading the forums in between replying to job ads. Quote Link to comment
+Taliban Hunter Posted December 8, 2003 Author Share Posted December 8, 2003 Ok I put out my first cache yesterday. I put in alot of goodies. But the FTF will get the ROLEX WATCH and the $25.00 Gift card. THe name of the CACHE is AIRBORNE #1 Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 On the subject of WheresGeorge bills in caches. I also like to enter bills on the WheresGeorge site, but they no longer accept (or count) bills recovered from caches. Where'd you hear this? I've been entering bills found in caches since I started geocaching and I am still entering them and they are still being accepted and counted. I entered one this morning in fact. Quote Link to comment
cutsandbruises Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 On the subject of WheresGeorge bills in caches. I also like to enter bills on the WheresGeorge site, but they no longer accept (or count) bills recovered from caches. Where'd you hear this? I've been entering bills found in caches since I started geocaching and I am still entering them and they are still being accepted and counted. I entered one this morning in fact. That's a relief. I have several Where's George dollars bills I'm saving just to put in caches I was starting to wonder myself if this was unacceptable. Heaven forbid that I go against the rules!!! Quote Link to comment
+geospotter Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 It is about the hunt, but a reward is also nice. Here is some of the loot from my upcoming cache. (Shameless self-promotion) Imagine the look on your kids' faces when they open this! Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 On the subject of WheresGeorge bills in caches. I also like to enter bills on the WheresGeorge site, but they no longer accept (or count) bills recovered from caches. Where'd you hear this? I've been entering bills found in caches since I started geocaching and I am still entering them and they are still being accepted and counted. I entered one this morning in fact. I was misinformed when I first posted about this. WheresGeorge still accepts cache bills, but they are flagged as such and not counted in any of the "Top Ten" lists. My apologies for any confusion. And, they don't know they are cache bills if ya don't tell them! Quote Link to comment
+Taliban Hunter Posted December 9, 2003 Author Share Posted December 9, 2003 It is about the hunt, but a reward is also nice. Here is some of the loot from my upcoming cache. (Shameless self-promotion) Imagine the look on your kids' faces when they open this! Nice LOOT!!!! Quote Link to comment
+Tiwica Posted December 9, 2003 Share Posted December 9, 2003 Out of curiosity, if you found gold, what would you leave in return? Platinum! I am trying to get a cache approved that contains 100 pounds of Gold as a first finders prize. I sure hope they hurry. I really want to give away $650,000. Yeah right! Quote Link to comment
+BoredKitty Posted December 9, 2003 Share Posted December 9, 2003 So far I've recovered $3.75. Most of the coins were dimes and quarters but I was lucky enough to find a gold dollar and a 50 cent piece once. Of course, what I leave is always more than the value of the coin. I love to see nice swag in caches and stock my own with nice items for others to find. I love the hunt but the trading is very fun too. -BK Quote Link to comment
+Cat'N'Geo Posted December 9, 2003 Share Posted December 9, 2003 We are new at this. We have found a few and placed 0ne. I was wondering if there was a compatetion or something where there was $$ in the cache? Do some caches have money or something valuable in them? My daughter keeps asking why we have'nt found any gold yet. Thanks There's gold in my teeth and silver in my hair!!! Geocaching to me is not about the find but the HUNT!! I'm making great memories with my kids and seeing areas we never knew existed until we finally got off the couch and went hiking.. Add to that the lead in my butt & we might be worth recycling! Quote Link to comment
+scoobydooers Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 Certain - was started with a $20. I had orignally planned to start it with a hundred, but I changed my mind and decided to break the hundred up and restock the cache every so often, its still the same prize, only instead of going to one person, its being spread out. the only catch is I am not discloseing when I restock.... so like a slot machine... you never know if it will payoff. Scoobydooers Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 Certain - was started with a $20. I had orignally planned to start it with a hundred, but I changed my mind and decided to break the hundred up and restock the cache every so often, its still the same prize, only instead of going to one person, its being spread out. the only catch is I am not discloseing when I restock.... so like a slot machine... you never know if it will payoff. Scoobydooers <Sparky camps out next to the cache and waits....and waits....and waits......> Quote Link to comment
KimAndMollie Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 We are new at this. We have found a few and placed 0ne. I was wondering if there was a compatetion or something where there was $$ in the cache? Do some caches have money or something valuable in them? My daughter keeps asking why we have'nt found any gold yet. Thanks It's all here! Quote Link to comment
+Ken243 Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 I started my multi with a $20 FTF prize. It is a 9 part multi and its very difficult, so I figured I'd make it worth while. 25 minutes after it was posted people were looking. But it was 11 hours later some one completed it. Quote Link to comment
+Bear_Left Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 We did place a cache with a couple of hundred dollars worth of first and second finders' prizes, as a sort of farewell before we emigrated. Mind you, the winners had to also log seven _other_ caches to get the clues required to get the coords to this final one! This is rather unusual for us, though, and we normally just fill a plastic box with crappy junk and stick it under a rock! Quote Link to comment
+instep_guy Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 The largest amount of cold hard cache I've ever heard of was a $100 dollar bill placed in the flip top of an engraved zippo lighter as a FTF prize. the cache was a 5 star terrain! 13 Mile Cache (WV) Quote Link to comment
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