Volunteered To Adopt, But No Reply From Gc?

[+Patuxent Pirates]

What gives?

 

Both I and the regional approver have e-mailed GC.com several times about a cache in Richmond, VA which needed to be adopted but we have not received any answer at all. I thought I would have at least received a "thanks but no thanks" reply...... but after about three weeks not a peep. Its been very disheartening as I felt we were trying to do something good for the game by restoring what was out there.

 

[+Renegade Knight]

It's the holidays. The email plumbing may be backed up.

 

But if things hold true, then they have to make a reasonable effort to contact the original owner before they can give you a good answer.

[+hydee]

RK is correct, the volume of emails coming in has been higher than normal. We get to things as quickly as possible, but some request take time. Thanks for your patience.

[+DustyJacket]

I am still waiting - I adopted 3 mid last year.

I thought the neighborhood approver was going to make the change, but he didn't.

I still am "caretaker", although 2 of the 3 have been muggled and archived.

 

I am going to do a maintenance trip to replace the container and goodies on the third this week.

 

Just have patience.

[Keystone]

It's fine to send a reminder follow-up after three weeks or so. Dusty Jacket, your adoption papers probably got lost in the shuffle. Only Groundspeak can change over ownership... all the volunteer reviewer can do is assist you by posting on the cache page to try and get a response from the owner, and forward on a positive adoption recommendation to hydee. Like hydee said, it then goes into a seemingly endless queue of e-mail requests. Please send her a follow up with links to the caches you're maintaining and would like to adopt.

[+Patuxent Pirates]

Ok, that's all I wanted know. If the e-mail traffic is causing a backlog then that's the answer. I'll stand by and wait for the gears to turn! Guess there are quite a few of us..........

 

[+ski]

I agree the cache adoption delay is somewhere at GC.com.

The local admins were very helpful in getting some of my caches adopted last month, but I havn't heard a word since they were forwarded to GC.com.

[+Quest Master]

I was just wondering...

 

Why can't the approvers handle the adoptions?

[+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite]

I offered to adopt one that has an inactive cacher as owner some time back but never heard anything about it. I guess I'll offer a second time. Do you request adoption at the contact email address?

[+Patuxent Pirates]

I did e-mail the old owners first, but never received any reply. I am still hopeful that we'll get the ok from GC.com and replenish the cache soon after.

[+ski]

Less than 24 hours after posting that my adoptions didn't go through yesterday, GC.com took care of them and all is well. []

 

Thank you Hydee and NJadmin!!!

[+OurWoods]

my adoption offers havent gone through on GC.com either.. The owner moved to Colorado.. both have gone through on NC.com though I emailed KeyStone who helped me out, but I never heard back from the GC people (yet)

[ucmike]

probably no harm in going out and doing voluntary cache maintenance in the mean time, especially if the cache owner is unresponsive and the cache clearly needs some help.