HAVOC Geocaching

I received an email from my pathtag designer yesterday.

He informed me that the cost of a starter kit on Pathtags.com will be increasing by $10 on April 1st:

http://forums.pathtags.com/showthread.php?5069-Price-Increase-As-Of-April-1-2011

If you are either still waiting on your Pathtag design artwork, or you haven’t yet submitted artwork, you can place an order for your tags without having your design ready. This allows you to take advanatage of the lower price right now, and then when your artwork is ready, you just need to send it to orders@pathtags.com along with your order number.

To place an order without a design ready, just click on the button labeled “Order without uploading a design”, on the Upload Artwork portion of the online ordering process. Pathtags.com will then hold your order for up to 45 days from date of submission. Then when your artwork is ready, you just email it to orders@pathtags.com.

An alternative to ordering now to get the current price, would be to purchase “Pathtags Forever Coupons” from the Geocoin store:

http://www.geocoinstore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7&products_id=540

These coupons are similar to the USPS “Forever Stamps” offered when postal rates rise. The Forever Coupons will be offered at today’s price ($99) and will be worth the base price ($110) after April 1, 2011 enabling our dedicated customers to “cushion the blow” by stocking up now.

So if you wee thinking of doing up a bathtag I would like you to be aware of the price increase and what options you have available to them to get a reduced price now before the prices go up.

darth.

Just the other week, I stumbled accross a cache listing in Manitoba:

http://coord.info/GC1YT47

The actual listing requests;

Logging
Etiquette: Geocache hiders often go through a great deal of
effort when placing their caches. As a result, they’d like to hear
your feedback on whether you liked or disliked any aspect of the
hide, or if you feel that some cache maintenance is required.
Single word, acronym, or emoticon logs may be easier when you have
a lot of caches to log or are logging from a mobile device but it
doesn’t tell the hider or other finders anything about your
adventure (or lack thereof) in finding the cache. Please keep this
in mind when entering your log.

What do you think?
I find it very had to log my finds on a smartphone, so I chose to save my find as a field note from the app, and input some more data from my computer later.
I find that giving myself some time between the find and the logging gives me an opportunity to think about the cache and experience.
As a cache owner, I really enjoy effort put into a log, when the cache deserves it.
I always try to compose a good log myself. However, time does not always allow, So I just try my best.

I recently also found on the geocaching.com.au site a statistic page which listed the average number of words in my logs, and I have managed to increase my number from 51 to 64.

What are your thoughts on logging?
Should I include a box like that above in my cache listings?
Would it offend or inform?

darth