WGA Membership Food card?

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:31 pm

Now, this could be a lot of work or fairly easy.....maybe. And I was thinking of this in conjuction with places to eat. There is a pizza place in Hayward that is very Geocaching friendly. The owner gives me $20 gift cards to put in caches for as a FTF prize on my puzzle caches. He has also letting me put in $5 off coupons(with a min. $20 purch.) in my caches as well.
And I bet, if I asked him, he would give discount on your order if you showed a card of somesort saying you are a Geocahing member.
I think MIGO members get a 10% or something like that to some ,major sporting goods store.
Like I said, just a crazy idea.

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:55 pm

Not crazy at all!

D-cards bring in business and cost the merchant very little! They know that 80-90% of your money is better than 0!

It also makes it easier to place a cache on private property, when you show a business owner income vs. expense.

Our TB Exchange is at a truck stop. When I showed the owner how it worked, he said he would be stupid NOT to give permission! He also donated a doorprize for our Event in October.

We stop there with a printout occassionally to let him know how many cachers have stopped, and we highlight the positive comments.

I think a geocaching ID card is an excellent idea. Why not pose the question to the candidates? Now's the time...

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:58 pm

Rather than try and come up with some whole new card...perhaps ask the facility to grant a discount to those holding a WGA ID tag. Most of us who have visited WGA sanctioned events now own one.

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:10 pm

Lostby7 wrote:

Rather than try and come up with some whole new card...perhaps ask the facility to grant a discount to those holding a WGA ID tag. Most of us who have visited WGA sanctioned events now own one.

Well, I don't know too many up this way that have WGA ID tags and I don't think there were any at the picnic last summer. Other than Bnb that is.

Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:19 am

cheezehead wrote:

Lostby7 wrote:

Rather than try and come up with some whole new card...perhaps ask the facility to grant a discount to those holding a WGA ID tag. Most of us who have visited WGA sanctioned events now own one.

Well, I don't know too many up this way that have WGA ID tags and I don't think there were any at the picnic last summer. Other than Bnb that is.

Well then, perhaps a WGA event in your area ........

Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 8:35 am

Well Marc, that would be great, but I have been told that I live in a Non-WGAE zone. wink

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Now, is there anyway that a membership card could be filled out and downloaded from the WGA site?

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:41 am

cheezehead wrote:

I think MIGO members get a 10% or something like that to some ,major sporting goods store.

Yes, all MiGO members get a 10% discount card for Dunhams.

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:31 am

I think that's a great idea. As to your "non-WGA" zone status, hopefully that can change soon. At the LC Event on Saturday, I heard another candidate share some great ideas regarding the ignored outstate areas. I will allow him to share those ideas himself, I wish I'd thought of them!