Collected thoughts on card design (Part 1)

To be fair, those are very nice designs. Apparently the Santander Zero account has frequency come and gone so that credit card may come back.

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This is in line with the Spanish giant’s commitment to hitting net zero carbon emissions by 20250.

Well they have 18000+ years to get there. No pressure.

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Slightly off topic but I thought this might be this thread’s bag

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Mastercard are introducing cards with three different sorts of notches in them to distinguish between credit, debit, and prepaid cards.

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To get this exclusive card, all you need to do is donate a minimum of £5 to the Royal British Legion – 100% of what you give will go to the Legion.

I don’t like the fact that Revolut defy the industry standard and charge £5 for physical cards, and for that - along with some other good reasons - I don’t use them. But good of them here to surrender the fiver they normally take for issuing the card and instead having it go to the RBL. This is probably the one time I’d be willing to pay for a card from them, if their customer service didn’t have a reputation for being dogsh*t!

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You can have multiple physical cards.

There is some kind of limit, although I’m not sure what it is.

You are allowed at least two though (I have a normal card which is Visa and a RevP Mastercard).

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According to Revolut’s own help pages, you can have up to 6 :slightly_smiling_face:

https://www.revolut.com/en-US/help/making-payments/getting-a-card/can-i-have-multiple-spare-cards

I have a second card kept in with my travel gear, just in case I was ever unlucky enough to lose my wallet while away.

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I find all these cards that Revolut produces a bit wasteful. It obviously encourages people to order cards even if their current ones work just fine.

Because you don’t need that new one in that first place. It’s the reason why Starling are telling people not to say their card is missing to get the slightly different design. It is a waste for something that isn’t needed.

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But you could apply that logic to lots of things.

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And? That doesn’t make the logic wrong.

Your point would make more sense if they were free.

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Agreed, it would be more of an issue if they were free as that would arguably make it easier to be wasteful.

Then again, there is only a tiny minority of people who are interested in card designs at all and that often overlaps with those who are interested because they collect them - so in reality the number of people throwing away “working” cards is going to be incredibly small.

I’m not sure it’s the issue that @Lightning720 thinks it is.

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Still doesn’t mean my logic is wrong.

Anything that helps reduce waste is good. Revolut encouraging people to get cards they simply don’t need goes against this, no matter how few people you think are interested.

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How are they encouraging it?

Does that mean every single company that sells something that isn’t essential is encouraging waste?

Hard to disagree, but they last 5 years and given that few people are likely to be interested the waste is likely to be extremely small.

So small as to be virtually insignificant.

If you are ideologically opposed to any activity which creates any waste at all, then I take your point. Otherwise it just is not “the thing” worth focusing on.

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Do you own a PlayStation? Any DVDs? More than one biro? An umbrella? A washing up bowl?

You don’t need any of them either.

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It’s clear none of you are even trying to understand where I’m coming from because your defenses don’t even reflect what I am saying.

Seriously, what is the point of even trying to have discussions here…