Teachers can get them, I work for a non profit org. so I was able to get one....

So I have a form that says I shop for a 501c non profit our church quilting group. That gets the tax removed which is 8.25%. Sounds like that is better as that works if sale merchandise or not.
I sent off for VIP card it came in saying go to store to get it activated. Small print said it expired 8-31-11. I didn't bother since it was so soon. Was going to try again pretty soon. Now, not so sure.
I didn't realize I could be a quilt guild member of AQS and that would qualify me.

I used the 40% coupon on a coke there once. I had lots of coupons and bought a book etc and still had another coupon. The saleslady told me to use the coupon on the coke.
Great!

How do you get a VIP card?

I use my 10% card along with their 20%, 30% off, no problem.

My JoAnn's told me I could only use 1 coupon per purchase, so I told them to ring each purchase seperate. They need to be more consistant.

Thats true here at my Joanns. I had a friend that worked at Joanns and she told me that when you have more than 1 coupon for things tell them to ring them up seperate in order to use them because otherwise it will only ring up 1 discount at a time.

i use my regular joann coupons (40% off etc) then hand them the 10% vip card...they will then do the vip card, and it automatically take off the 10% on whatever qualifies (sometime sewing machines, irons, cricut stuff does not qualify for ANy coupon).....i got my vip card by joining quilters club of america....it is $30 or so dollars to join (i pay that back plus some in joanns discounts) but also with the membership, you get free access to a lot of quilting sights, free patterns, some shows like quilt out loud, and other web shows....it is well worth the membership for all the reference material you can get....

Not ours.........tried it and was refused.

i think it depends on the cashier. There are some that take it and some that are snide and not nice about any coupon