Not completely sure its worth just ordering a replacement.
I’ve tried ordering 4 or 5 replacements; all are terrible TAG cards. Mine is an investor card though so not sure if they are only made by TAG.
Either way, I can never get anything other than a wishy-washy answer from Monzo so I’ve come to the conclusion they don’t care.
On a tangent here, but where do you bank in China that all your cards from there are flat-printed? My cards from ICBC, Bank of China, UOB, and BEA are all embossed except for one ICBC limited-run debit card.
some people should mind their own business 
Awareness is one thing, telling people what to do is another. if he feels he wants a nice new card like his partner (and brand is very important to monzo) and the facility is there then he is totally within his right to do that. I know you aren’t saying otherwise btw 
ABC
Tbh I have a BOC card but haven’t used for a long time and and my IBIC was a university bank I’d card
You have sent me down a rabbit hole!
Although I’m using Tasker, webhooks, IFTTT, and Meross on Android
ABC are the only (nationwide) one that issue unembossed UnionPay cards. The others all use embossed.
Funny thing is though the card is really pointless in China as basically no one uses it. It could just be printed on paper and would get the same use out of it.
Btw what is your connections to China as I see you post on everything China related
Spend about half my time there and when dealing with business things especially finances it’s gotten me quite used to the quirks and hoops of their unique approach to it all. Helps quite a lot. I suppose it’s useful for others as well in case they have issues or want to know how to deal with something.
I just received my “new” Monzo card and it looks nothing like new. It’s maybe still an unmissable Monzo card, but it looks and feel flimsy and cheap, it is even slightly bended. It’s maybe a silly thing to complain, but it’s not the best thing to happen when a card is the only physicality that a customer gets from a bank representing their money.
Of course I’m not getting a replacement, I care about the environment, but it’s definitely annoying and not very professional. I love Monzo, but when you are trusting all your money to a company, cheapness is the least feeling you should get from them.
I think they said it was ‘sorted’ and would flow through to us once the existing stock was exhausted.
Yes, my new card is the one at the back that look so worned out and blurry. The one at the front is my old one that, after years of use, was still looking great.
This sounds right up my street!
I flagged this up months and months ago. I would have thought they’d have ironed out or used all their old stock by now 
Edit: It was 7 months ago, in a topic that others had also flagged it months prior.
I just got one of these in the post. My poor retinas 
I had forgotten how insanely bright the cards are meant to be
The impact of waste is presumably why they’ve chosen to use the ‘poorer’ cards rather than throwing them all away and starting again.
An individual replacing a card is on a very different scale to a bank throwing away a batch of them.
The self-righteous moralising about individual cards confuses me somewhat. I’m far more horrified at the sheer amount of plastic food packaging around - as a household of 4 I’m sure we get rid of more of that per week than goes into a single card.p which may get discarded once if unsatisfactory.
Reduce plastic waste, please, but start with the mass causes and not just niche applications like cards.
Monzo should be sorting this with a supplier.
I understand “It’s just a few shades different” but do you think BMW would allow cars to come off a different production line in a different colour? Would Apple let phones made in a different factory be a different shade?
I’d argue that coral is actually more important to Monzo as it’s a key part of their brand. If the supplier can’t match the colour then off they go and find a different one.
By all accounts, they have. What they didn’t do is bin everything else in the meantime so those have had to be used before any now stock is purchased.
Perhaps Monzo could create a online counter linked to the number of “imperfect” cards remaining. Get some engineers on it, Monzo!! Nowt else to do, have you!? 
This has been a while now, surely they have gotten through their stock…
If not - maybe an update on how many of the old type are left?
That was my thought as I wrote the above. We have no way of knowing when that job’s ‘done’ meaning we should be seeing better results.
