The Limits To Unlimited Golf Ball Redemptions
When I was 12 years old, there was a kids outdoor play area. Go karts, batting cages and the indoor was something like a Chuck-E-Cheese, token based games, etc. You could get a wrist band for maybe $15 and it would get you unlimited rides, mini-golf and some other activities.
Everything else cost tokens. When you finished golfing, you would get two tokens for bringing your ball back. Unlimited golf, $0.50 worth of play value inside. So my friends and I would go there, speed run two golf games and give the balls back. It would only cost a dollar to our pockets.
Later on, we started just fishing balls out of the water hazards and turning them in. Subtly at first and then in bulk later. The guys working there didn’t care or actively laughed at it. So we would have a few hundred tokens. We then started selling them for five tokens for a dollar.
We stopped buying the unlimited bands. I would bike there and earn 25 dollars in just a couple of hours. Management eventually caught on and altered the token for ball exchange, so golf users could no longer return an unlimited number of balls for tokens. Story credit: Reddit / Teripid