+Mom-n-Andy Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 I posted this to Getting Started but I'm not sure how many people read that forum (and I've asked the mods to close it there) - Is there any way to give a geocacher a gift of a premium membership anonymously? Quote Link to comment
+Kochibu Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Buy a gift card and throw it in their mailbox? Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 When you click that link on a profile where it says "Give a Gift Membership" it takes you to a form ready-filled in with your account name in the 'From' box, but you can edit out your name and put in something like 'Anonymous' or whatever. The rest of the stuff you fill in is all private stuff about your card details / or a link through to pay by Paypal. My guess would be that with that bit of editing completed the recipient would not know who had gifted the PM to them... but I can't be sure... So it would be good to know aye or nay from Groundspeak: When you find out come back here and let us know! MrsB Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Here is the Help Center article on gifting of a Premium Membership. It does not specifically address your question of anonymity, but I suspect someone at Groundspeak can make it work that way for you. Quote Link to comment
+DsrtMtnRox Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Would be a great "pay it forward" or "random act of kindness" surprise....not just for the holidays either. Quote Link to comment
+mikemtn Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 I was told by GS to make a sock puppet to do it anonymously. Quote Link to comment
+Mom-n-Andy Posted December 23, 2011 Author Share Posted December 23, 2011 I was told by GS to make a sock puppet to do it anonymously. Thanks, I thought of that. Will need to make a new gmail address first. You would think this kind of thing might happen fairly often. It shouldn't be too hard for the developers to create a way to do this without having to make a fake account. Quote Link to comment
+Turtle_Sask Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 (edited) Someone can test it out and give me a premium membership anonymously ... just sayen ... would love a premium membership! Edited January 11, 2012 by Turtle_Sask Quote Link to comment
+Ash McCloud Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 I too would love a free gift of Membership. Too bad I am not a attractive young lady in a tree. Quote Link to comment
+triggerfish Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 I realise this is an old topic, but for me still current... How difficult would it be to add a checkbox "anonymous gift" on the form? If creating a dummy email address, dummy GC account and donating the premium membership that way, is the ay to go, so be it, but it leaves a further useless email account and gc account... Quote Link to comment
+crazypig88 Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 I wouldn't mind a gifted premium membership It's on my "cachemas list" Quote Link to comment
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