Originally Posted by wgscott

Their credit card used to be a great deal. I would buy pretty much everything with it, and then get a huge dividend every year. Now you get 1% for any non-REI purchase, and anything discounted at REI doesn't count (and the "discount" usually brings it more in line with amazon or some other on-line competitor). In addition, spurious charges would show up on my card every few months, necessitating cancellation and reissuing the card. Now I hardly use it at all, and only for (increasingly infrequent) REI purchases.

I too joined at the Berkeley shop, but it was 1986. That place was always packed.