Sadly in Ireland, none accept contactless afaik.
Our machines are ancient, still those old Nixdorf.
You rarely see folk use them though, possibly on account of the stamp duty charge - almost everywhere accepts card and many places give cash back (including pubs 
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Actually - you can get cashback on a Revolut Virtual card. Maybe that accounts for a low uptake of physical cards and perhaps you really don’t need a physical after all
The issue with how Revolut are doing it is that it’d actually be very easy to frame it as ‘better for the customer and better for the environment’ to discourage people having a physical card by highlighting how Apple/Google Pay and virtual cards are more secure and having less ‘single-ish use plastic’ generally is a good thing.
But they’ve not done that - they’re instead milking the cash-cow by coming up with weird and wacky different cards that people can instead purchase.
I’ve stuck with a purely virtual approach to Revolut even when I have taken advantage of their ‘free upgrade to one of our premium options’ trials although I’ve got to admit Revolut is not a ‘main account’ for me at any level.
Monzo and Starling are where I do all my day-to-day banking but even those cards are hardly used. I think I’ve taken cash out at a cash machine twice this year (I’ve had a fiver in my wallet now since April that I keep forgetting I’ve got ) and it’s really only if I’m at a pay-at-pump petrol station that I’ll use the physical card and even those are now also being upgraded around here so I can use Apple Pay.
So - just checking in, are people still having their Revolut account switched over to the full Bank account?
I got the ‘In just over a month’ email on the 20th April - but I’ve not been switched yet.
Nothing from team yet,
Same here, not yet 
From mid June onwards apparently
I’ve had two emails from Revolut about them converting me to a bank account (March/April) and still nothing lol, not really bothered though… credit cards won’t come immediately anyways and the savings accounts have been FSCS eligible since launch.
On week 5 now, £250 put away 
Are they really milking the cash-cow though?
I absolutely completely agree that using a virtual card is better for the environment from a production and then delivery perspective, and also much better for security.
But how many people out of the 75m users though are really actually buying limited edition cards, I expect most couldn’t care less about them and will get the cheapest, or the virtual - ‘it’s just a card’ after all.
Out of the huge profits that Revolut is now posting, I doubt that card sales factors in other than the tiniest of percentage
Cards surprisingly cost money to make, and it wouldn’t surprise me if there isn’t a profit margin at all.
Got a notification last night that my ID Mobile direct debit was due tomorrow (today), looks like it went out just after 7am but no notification yet.
Someone did mention this a long time ago on here I think. Isn’t it ballpark £4-5?
There was research in this published a month ago or so - about 75% use primarily contactless payments where they can and two thirds of this 75% use mobile wallets not physical cards. Data by transaction volume.
We have nothing to do.
We have loyalty elsewhere.
Lots of people still use physical cards, it feels counterproductive to me for Revolut to charge for one.
As for the “you don’t need to use one”, no you don’t but a large proportion of people want a card as at least a backup payment option. I can pay via Garmin Pay or my watch or Google Pay on my phone but still carry a few cards as a “just in case” option alongside a note or two for cash only merchants.
A big Bloomberg piece today about Nik and his (soon-to-be-$200bil) company.
Hopefully the archive link works, is not violating t&c.
At times it reads more like a PR piece but I don’t disagree with it, I do think Revolut is a great company. + An endorsement by Jensen Huang !
Sooner Revolut goes public the better. Need to vacuum up some shares before there’s no growth left 
I have tried Revolut again but I’m still getting poor accuracy on the location of any purchases.
For example my local corner shop, correct on the map but address is the next village over, which doesn’t have a co-op store. Right postcode. It’s bizarre.
I know this doesn’t bother some people but all the other banks get this right.
It’s frustrating as I like the interface and the features and I want to like the bank.
May be stop using it for that shop
Close your eyes when you’re looking at the address that basically means nothing?
