[Groop] A Little Con Stuff, Cards, Shirts, etc.

[Tone]

Gary,
            If you place an order for a new batch of Groop Membership
Cards I will definitely be on board with the order! You quoted a cost
per card of $5-$7, which is absolutely fine with me. At that price I
would buy two. If you need some kind of advance payment to get things
going just ask me. Ultimately are you ok with a Paypal money transfer to
speed things up?
            As far as my name and year on the card, it would be just
"Tone" as the name and "2005" as the year for me joining the Groop,
although I have been a long time Groo fan since at least 1984.
 
            I do want to clarify something though. In some of the photos
of membership cards I have seen from various people, I feel like I
notice some cards appear red, while others seem yellow, orange, brown,
or even green. If I am correct, what is/was the deal with the card
colors? Was this a card production anomaly, did people have any choice
in the matter, and if new cards are made might we have a choice in the
overall color?
 
            Also, you last said you are "not gonna mess with special
numbers this time around." By this I am presuming you mean what would
normally be the credit card's 16 digit account number, which is also
where the card displays the Groop member's membership number in the last
four digits? If you are not going to mess with them, do you mean you
simply do not want to have ANY kind of account number printed on the
cards at all? I would think that would be VERY different considering
what you also stated in an earlier e-mail about any newly issued cards
being exactly the same as the older/original ones. If that is the case,
it would suck JUST A BIT.
            Perhaps you just meant you simply do not want to deal with
the hassle of personalizing each individual's card by changing around
characters of the account number from card-to-card. I noticed most of
the cards I have seen have "GROO SMST 1982 ####" with the last four
digits being a person's Groop membership number. Obviously the first
four characters are self-explanatory, and the third set of digits (1982
of course) is the year of the first Groo publication, but what does
"SMST" stand for (Sergio, Mark, Stan, & Tom??)? In any case, if you are
not going to mess with "special numbers" I do think it would be a shame
to alter at least the first twelve digits/characters of the account
number on all the newly issued cards. With that said, and considering
you do not want to make special numbers, what would you have the last
four digits be universally on all the newly printed cards?
            Of course there is also the possibility by special you
simply meant you did not want to completely change the "GROO SMST 1982
####" format, and you would still at least apply sequentially different
numbers to different members in the Groop, rather than make the sixteen
digits/characters read out to be something completely different like
"GARY GROO PLEA DER!", "GARY LOVE GROO BEST", or "GARY IS#1 GROO FAN!".
:-) If you meant you do not want to go the extra mile of making people's
Groop account numbers appear similar to the vanity plates on some cars,
then that I can absolutely understand. Now I am just crossing my fingers
to hear you did mean opposition to this latter scenario.
            Did I mention it would be really nice if I could get member
number "0808" or perhaps "8080"? :-) And did I forget to ask where I
should be sending the money to??? :-) (No, I am NOT anxious about Groop
cards <cough ahem cough bs cough cough>).
_TONE_
 
 
 
            
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