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How To: Use Your Membership Cards Without Having to Carry Them

2008_05_19 scan card.jpgI have a big pile of club cards that I don't carry with me because they would make my wallet about three times as fat as it is now. Sure, I don't need to carry all of the cards all the time, and have managed to only carry the most used ones, but I run into the situation often enough where one of the cards I need I have left behind. If you have a phone with a big screen, now you can carry all of your cards without taking up any extra space in your pocket.

 
 

If you scan the front and back of all your cards and save them as jpegs on your phone, the barcode can be scanned just fine from the screen. The less I have to carry, the happier I am, so I'm definitely going to have to try this.

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Great idea, but will stores actually allow this?

posted by Noah on May 19th 2008 at 2:37pm
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Are you positive this will work? If so, I'm definitely going to do this. I hate carrying all those discount cards with me.

posted by spanishfish on May 19th 2008 at 2:46pm
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www.justoneclubcard.com

It's the bomb.

posted by Libra007 on May 20th 2008 at 6:52am
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Don't forget to add your LIBRARY CARD.

posted by swanroad on May 20th 2008 at 9:17am
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I have no library card.

posted by Curtis on May 20th 2008 at 9:47am
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no library card Curtis? so sad.

posted by swanroad on May 22nd 2008 at 1:50pm
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isn't one of the points of a physical card that it's at least a little difficult to duplicate?

posted by Alex D on June 11th 2008 at 2:29pm
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