Saturday, November 18, 2006

Anything to make a buck

I was just now viewing some of the ways people try to make a buck off of geocachers by selling all sorts of geocaching stuff on eBay. You can view some of their ideas here. Some of these items are very clever. Some are just plain foolish and even dangerous. Example: magnetic electrical coverplate microcaches. The description states "This cache can be placed on any flat metal surface such as a electrical box, AC unit, metal lightposts, etc." True, it can be attached, but if the reviewer is aware that it's bee placed on electrical equipment, it shouldn't be approved for listing on geocaching.com. Before you spend your money on these types of caches, please review the guidelines and think twice about where you may be encouraging geocachers and their family members to look for caches.

1 comment:

jjlash said...

I had to chuckle at the auctions for 50 film cans. Starting bid was $4.50 plus $5.10 shipping, one of them actually had a bid. I thought everybody knew you can go to most any place that develops film and get the canisters by the sack full for free.