Savings on Your Everyday Essentials Pays for Your Veterans Advantage Membership

Since we’re on the first page of the 2010 calendar, I wanted to highlight a few of the Veterans Advantage benefits that help you with everyday savings essentials, and pay for your membership.

For instance, we have a great discount on gym memberships, a perfect fit for New Year’s Resolutions. With our recent additions of New York Sports Clubs and 24-Hour Fitness, our discount gym provider is offering a full set of discount options with top clubs across the country. Sample pricing on New York Sports shows you save nearly $150 annually on a gym membership in the New York City area – more than twice in savings what you pay for your Veterans Advantage membership.

We are pleased to announce the launch of our online benefit with Dunkin’ Donuts, with a special 20% discount throughout the month of January. Our VP of Marketing just loaded up on a month’s supply – list price of $39.99 for five one-pound bags – for his home and saved $8. If he purchased once a month (some months will provide a 10% discount), he would save $60 over a year, paying for his VA membership. So, his VA membership is free without any change in daily coffee habit because he is a Dunkin’ Donuts customer and Veterans Advantage member.

Speaking of other annual savings, I noticed a great discount for Peter Eldredge, an Advisory Board member and proud daddy to a 90-pound golden retriever. He’s loading up on a 12-month’s supply of flea and tick medication, combining our 15% discount with the 1800petmeds.com’s generally advertised discount, netting a savings of 28%. Those savings amount to $57.17 – again nearly covering the annual fee.