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The Storefront Alliance Card is a discount card that provides members with a 5 - 10% discount in all member storefronts.

We are currently looking for storefronts and members to join the Alliance.

Members must pay a $15 Million US entry fee and $10 million annual fee. When you sign up, you are automatically assigned a Unique Obnoxiously Long Account Identification Number-Type Deal (a UOLAINTD) which you must present to the storefront in your order. (Or, you could just put 'Storefront Alliance Cardholder' in your sig.)

If you're a storefront owner, you may be asking, "What's in it for me?"

Well, that's simple. You receive $2.5 million of the annual fee every time the card is used in your storefront.

So what are you waiting for? Sign up today!



These l33t peoples are members:

Akimonad
VISA Corp


These l33t storefronts are receiving money for doing nothing:

Pale Rider Arms (both it's Small Arms and Creative Weapons divisions) will gladly accept this card at all locations. We look forward to working with VISA Corporation in the future, and wish them success in their endeavors.

Yours,
Daniel Quetzal
CEO of Pale Rider Arms

Economic Report
While studying the use of the Storefront Alliance Card, I have found it to be a bad economic decision for storefronts to accept such a card. Sure, for buyers it is a great deal. Say that you pay for thirty annual fees and the initial fee, which would be a total of $315 million; to make up that loss, all you have to do is make a purchase of between $3.15 billion and $6.30 billion (depending on the exact value of the discount) at a single storefront... once in thirty years. So to make up the fees, a nation has to buy one aircraft carrier in thirty years and the rest is just pure discount.

But what about for the storefronts? A $2.5 million annual fee. Again, let's use a thirty-year period. You would receive $75 million. But if someone uses that card just once to buy a destroyer for between $750 million and $1.5 billion in thirty years, then you begin losing money. The only bet that would make it a good deal is if accepting the card increased business traffic to one's storefront by over 5-10%. We have concluded that it is a terrible idea for storefronts to accept this card until its economic policy has been reevaluated.

Mine,
Dr. Andrew Stevens
Degree in Business & Economics
Center for International Economic Development