Collected Thoughts on Card Design (Part 2)

Is the anniversary card the one you would get if you opened an account with a UK premier status?

I have some free time so …

Bermuda, Egypt (they are leaving), Indonesia (they are leaving), Macau, Malaysia (Premier is the new ones), Malta (only Premier uses the lion), Mexico (just a few use the lion), Philippines (just a few use the lion), Qatar (Premier is the new ones), Taiwan (Premier is the new ones), Saudi Arabia (just the credit cards)

A beautiful card from Macau

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HK also has Pulse

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The anniversary design is HK exclusive​:thinking:.

This one is probably the best card for the mainland, some people use this card to buy Tesla or Xiaomi, 4.4% reward cash.:joy:

I tried applying for that reason, but rejected. Now I have an ICBC credit card with 2% cashback on purchases abroad and 0FX fees on like 10 currencies or something.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

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This card is literally the most useless card I’ve ever seen - need a university degree to even apply for it and has little in way of useful benefits.

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Trip down memory lane for some of you

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Can we see the entire collection? :eyes:

No postcheque card? Or maybe that wasn’t a separate card? Used it a few times for cash in European post offices.

Old cards those are the only ones - and not keeping them (so spot them on eBay soon)

Maybe should organise the rest of my cards. They are all just gathering in some box

I wasn’t collecting them for a while so I cut/bin some of my Panama ones :smiling_face_with_tear:

I was lucky to have my old Halifax Expresscash card expire so that I can have a standard current account card before the Halifax brand goes away.

I think that the new card design does look modern but a bit weird since the lines have been removed from the X and it’s been given rounder corners. The darker shade on their rewards account also looks nice. I’m not sure if it’s worth signing up just before they shut down so I can get the card.

Not mine as I don’t have it anymore, but I did have one of these many years back and also the corresponding pink cheque book for use in Europe.

The cheques were pretty useless, no merchant would accept them but fortunately the card doubled up as an ATM card. You used to be able to write cheques in any European currency (in theory), I had this just before the adoption of the Euro which might give my age away a bit :joy: And might explain the lack of acceptance

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This question always gets one answer on this forum:

Yes.

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That, literally, wasn’t a question.

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They were useful for posting off to hotels to pay deposits. I did use them occasionally in shops in France too. But yes, they were quite limited in their usefulness.

The cheques though, were a work of art. I wish I’d held onto my Eurocheque book and card. Very pretty.

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Yes, I remember. Mine was attached to my Barclays current account “The Barclays Bank Account”.

Both the EC card and cheque book were really nice, much nicer than my Connect ‘Visa Delta’ card and plain old boring regular cheque book of the day :joy:

Mine came last week, it is actually quite nice in person.

I tried for the member CC as it only needs ÂŁ5k income but they said I was incredibly unlikely to be accepted :confused: