I don’t want your bloody collector card. I’m shopping in your store this one time, to buy one freekin’ item.
I don’t want the damn card. I won’t be coming back, and certainly not the 20 times required to get the stupid $5 credit in your crap store. I told you I’m from out of town and your store doesn’t have a location in my city - doesn’t matter - you thrust the card at me anyway. “You can use it next time you’re in town.” you say blithely. Well, except that I’m in town once a year and it expires after 6 months!
Quit shoving the damn thing at me, and then acting hurt when I say “No thank you.” And especially don’t expect me to pay for the fucking thing. I don’t give a flying rat’s ass if I’ll save $3.20 this purchase – the son-of-a-bitchin’-fucking-card costs $20!
Take your card and shove it up your ass!
Ahhh. I feel better.
Alice (who just cleaned about 20 stupid-ass collector cards out of her wallet.)
I don’t want anybody’s collector cards, no matter how often I shop there. This marketing ploy is one of my least favourite new things to come along.
Safeway, if you’re having a sale, just have the freakin’ sale already; this “No sale price for you!” sale Naziism just totally rubs me the wrong way. And quit trying to call me by name while you’re at it. You’re screwing us on prices all the time; you know it and we know it; calling me by a mangled name doesn’t change that.
And if you’re really special, you get to pay for it too!
I’m not kidding, Indigo et al. have a special card that you have to pay for each year. I have one now, but only because when I got it I was going to spend $600+ there, and I would save more than the $20 the card cost. (I also got 2 $5 off coupons from spending that much. Free book!). Most years I don’t shop there often enough for it to be worth it.
I’ve got several of those cards, but never had to pay for one.
However, I still think it’s a joke. I go to Farmer Jack more often now because they don’t require the card to get the discounts, but if you use it, they give you coupons.
The only one I ever paid for was Costco, but that’s a different deal.
The only kind of cards that are worth anything are free coffee cards. Mochas taste so much better when they’re free! I’m not sayin’ how many of those cards I have, but it’s a lot.
I almost lost it when the cashier at Eddie Bauer kept trying to sell me one of those damn cards. I don’t even want free cards, why would I pay you for your worthless card? And when I say no, that means no! NOOO!!! NOOOO!! How many times do I have to say it? NOOOOOO!!! I DON’T WANT YOUR DAMN CARD!!! Just shut up and take my money, and quit trying to sell me the card. I won’t be shopping there ever again. And Hallmark–I don’t want your card either. Your cards are sappy and cheesy, and I only buy cards from you if I can’t find anything at Cameron’s, because their cards are a little too naughty for my grandma. And then it takes me half an hour to find a decent card, because your cards are so sickly sweet they send me into a diabetic coma, and I’m not diabetic. You know, it takes longer to finish every transaction when you have to ask if they want your stupid card. Yes, I know about it, and no, I don’t want it. I know it’s free, and I still don’t want it. Just give up already!
I work in a bookshop, and we offer cards. Cards for books, cards for kids books. Cards for cards, games and DVDs. Cheaper-Harry-Potter-Cards. So many cards. I offer them to people who are buying lots of things at once, because I like the idea of loyalty cards, but only for Cds and coffee.
That’s it - “loyalty” cards. Even the name pisses me off. I am not loyal to your stupid store - if it has what I want, or it is located conveniently, I’ll shop there. Stop trying to have a relationship with me. We both know it’s just customer manipulation.
Yea, fair enough. I shop at one particular comics shop because they’re the only one in Auckland that does the ‘buy 10 get one free thing’. I guess that’s loyalty. Cubboard love, perhaps, more than loyalty. They don’t bother me, either handing them out or being given them, because I know that companies aren’t my friends. They want my money, I’d like a discount. It works both ways.
When I applied for a part-time job at a Waldenbooks, I was told I would have to sell a certain number of cards every week to keep my job. The manager who interviewed me told me all the major bookstore chains do this. That’s the reason so many salespeople push these cards so aggressively.
FWIW, I find the pay cards slightly less irritating - I’d never buy one, but I understand that the poor sap working at Spatula City[sup]TM[/sup] is mandated to flog the things.
It’s the stupid free ones that really piss me off - the person just thrusts them at you and when you say “No thank you.” they go “But it’s FREE!”
Look, fuckwit - dog shit is free too, but I don’t want to carry it around in my wallet just for kicks.