I got sick and tired of having a dozen little "bonus" cards to carry around, so I made this simple fix. Basically, I just scanned in all my barcodes, fit them nicely into a row in photoshop and then printed them out onto a card. There are more detailed instructions that follow if you need them. This page shows the finished product.
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Get all the cards you have with barcodes, line them up on a scanner and scan into the computer. I used grocery store bonus cards, gas station card, bookstore bonus card, library card, and student ID (of course I blurred them for this instructable just to be safe).
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I ended up finding an Android app "Key Ring" that does the same thing. I'll try it, see if their scanners can actually read the barcode. But this is such a useful thing, esp. since you can have one flat paper printout instead of many oddly shaped and thick plastic cards.
Thanks!
To date I 'belong' to NINE club/discount businesses, and all I ever need is my ONE phone number to access whatever dicounts are offered.
Is it not simpler- and faster- to just need to remember the ONE number that you aleardy have memorised, instead of needing to carry a card with many numbers, need to dig it out, unfold it, find the proper number, tope in THAT number... I would be done and gone in half the time.
For now, if you shop at ralphs, just ask the chashier for a club card and they will give it to you along with a registration form. Throw out the form and just use the card, unregistered. It's what I do, I still get points, and i can redeem them for 10 cents off a gal on gas once a month at ralphs gas station, or now at shell gas station.
http://www.barcoding.com/upc/
it does really great images in a few major formats
I worked out some of the Barcode Symbology codes for the bigger companies I carry cards from.
Safeway = UPC-A
PETSMART = UPC-A
KingSoopers (Kroger) = UPC-A
BestBuy Reward Zone card = Code 128
Does anyone know how small the bar codes can be and still function?
As for firing I went to the Giant on Dec 22 and was told they would not take card off phone anymore I made a few phone calls, when told that my 50,000 friends in my phone club wanted to know who to call to complain, he said he would fix it, and next time I went to the store they took the code off the phone other people say they have no more problems either.
http://www.justoneclubcard.com//
Thanks going to do your!!
little known fact: safeway club cards work at QFC - if you go thru the 'self-check-out' stands. the human checker won't scan the safeway card, but you can do it yourself at the self-scanners. one less little card to carry round.
and i always put slightly modded information on the applications for store cards, so they don't have any of my real personal information, and i use a phone number i got off a pay phone so they can call me anytime and i won't know.
for fun, when you make the application use a name like "Imah Jerke"
then when the checker reads your name off the recipt they have to choke on the words "thank you Mr. Jerk. you saved 29cents today"
(Or just back and read the indentations backwards)
Sure you can't go into a shop and buy anything, but paypal doesn't want chip or pin or any of that stuff... :/