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hack1of2 7 years ago.
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I thought it be interesting to get opinions on this.
Recently, I traded TB lists for discovery with a cacher from the UK whose TB I recently dropped in a cache. Among his TBs were a few promotional TBs – including 3 that were US only promotions like Halo Top & Treasure X, so he must have gotten them elsewhere – that have never left his hands. Worse yet, at least 2 of the promo tags were for photo-related promos, and there were no photos of them on the TB pages!
Now, you all know my Halo Top story. I was worried when they agreed to send me a new one that they thought it was so I could have one to keep, which wasn’t the case at all, no matter how cute I thought the little robot was. I was even all ready to send one back so I wouldn’t get that reputation. But at their suggestion, I gave the extra to another cacher instead. Neither went very far during the promotion, and I still hope one day to reunite with the one I sent out now that the promotion is over. It’s in MN, so there’s a chance.
I think it ruins the spirit of getting a promotional tag to keep it, since the whole purpose of them is to, well, promote whatever it is they’re promoting via a contest. While it’s possible this cacher submitted photos to the appropriate website, keeping the tag meant that no one else could participate. And the contests weren’t even open to him as a UK resident, anyway.
My thought is if you receive a promotional tag you put it in the Wild like you should. It allows others to jump in on the fun promotional game that HQ is running.
My thought is if you receive a promotional tag you put it in the Wild like you should. It allows others to jump in on the fun promotional game that HQ is running.
I agree, you never know where it’s going to end up . . .
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-Henry David Thoreau
I think it ruins the spirit of getting a promotional tag to keep it
I agree. Sadly there are those who will keep them in their “collection” rather than sending them out as part of their agreement.
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