[Az-Geocaching] changes at geocaching.com

[Koch, Dan]

The way I look at it is to compare it to other forms of entertainment...well
at least to ones that you have to pay for :)  Thirty bucks gets me into four
movies, one hockey game (decent seats), etc.  When I consider the added
costs of other family members/friends going with me to these other events,
the costs skyrocket quickly.  With geocaching, they get to come along
without any extra costs.  

I've had more fun geocaching in one weekend (see the logs of my February 23
central Arizona run) than I've had at any four movies in years (hockey's a
different story ;)).  Geocaching has gotten me out hiking South Mountain
(several times), the San Tans, and the McDowells.  It's introduced me to
many different areas of the Phoenix valley that I would have never known
existed.  That's why I've already paid my $30.

On a related note, I'd like to thank all of you fellow geocachers who have
placed these caches that I so enjoy finding.

And another thanks goes out to Team Snaptek for their efforts on
geocaching.snaptek.com.  I'm starting to make a run to get on the first page
of team stats (I'm currently number 31 and religated to the second page).  

Team LazyK - Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Farquhar, Larry
To: 'az-geocaching@listserv.snaptek.com'
Sent: 3/6/02 9:51 AM
Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] changes at geocaching.com

It's either $3 a month, or $30 a year.

Full info at: www.geocaching.com\subscribe

The basic service will remain free and it's optional to subscribe to the
premium service. I think Jeremy has done a great job and it is costing
him
some bucks. I'll be subscribing - it's less than 60 cents a week (I can
find
that inside of  caches). I'll be looking at it that it's not so much of
a
subscription to the premium service, but I'll be supporting more to the
basic services. Time will tell if there's any benefit to the Premium
stuff.
I'd rather donate these few bucks than see tons of garbage
advertisements
and pop-ups!

Larry Farquhar
Team "Wyle E"
www.azjeeper.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Baja Fleg [mailto:fleigle@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 7:33 AM
To: az-geocaching@listserv.snaptek.com
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] changes at geocaching.com


Anyone know how much this premium account will cost?

----Original Message Follows----
I'm very much of two minds regarding this. Living in
IT myself, I agree that servers do cost quite a bit
and since my specialty if WANs and security, I see
where more money sinks are.

I specifically bought my GPS through the link Jeremy
has to Amazon so he would get the commission on it. I
don't mind paying for something received, I'm just
wondering what "extra features" will appear.

My fear is that he may take some of the standard
features and turn them into premium only ones. Hints
and seeing more than just a few logs are two that I
can think of off the bat.

While I understand why some people would want member
only caches due to theft, we don't have much of a
problem with it here. Most of the missing caches seem
to be from people stumbling across it although I'm
convinced someone with a GPS removed Municipal.

In any case, until I get a job I have no intention of
signing up. Once I have one, I will probably sign up,
just to be able to keep all of the information
available and the site up.


Eric
TD


--- wolfb8 <wolfb8@qwest.net> wrote:
 > What do you all think of this
 >
 > http://www.geocaching.com/subscribe/
 >


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