Originally Posted by
trikotret
you have to have the card in your hand to see how cheap it looks. I think it's how your name looks on it what makes it cheap. I just received a sapphire replacement and my name is engraved nicely compared to double cash card lol. they should have just used the same design for premeir thank you card and just changed name. I assume they used the color green for cash
Now I get it, all the complaints. AAA stopped sending me embossed cards, and now the name/number appears to just be poorly stamped on. I'd expect a big outfit like Citi to try harder.
In general, the move by Chase, Citi and now Cap 1 to go to flat cards + move everything but the bank's name (even the Visa/MC logo) to the back of the card is just silly IMHO.
It reminds me of Silicon Valley in the 90s, when all the cool kids started printing phone numbers with a "." instead of a "-" because they thought it looked techno modern. No, they looked like wannabe tech poseurs, and the trend faded away like bell bottoms. I expect trendy "flat" credit cards will suffer the same ignominious fate.
This does not seem entirely convincing to me. If Citi is willing to offer World versions of this card, I would expect a conversion from a MasterCard World card to retain that classification.
+1
I have World MCs from Citi already. I was planning to PC, but if they aren't going to PC my World MC to another World MC, then forget it. I'll wait for a targeted offer.
Originally Posted by
jeanie
BTW, the card is glossy. It is not embossed. The numbers are printed flatly on the back, and they are not raised. One thing that I did notice is that my name was not cleanly printed on the front. The laser printer they used did not print the first letter of my name very well. If others have the same issue, maybe that is why they think it looks cheap.
Thank you. I have never seen the card, just images on the Citi website, and the images the companies put on their websites are often very different than how the card looks in real life. Note to the banks: the most important thing on
my card is
my name, not yours.
Originally Posted by
ericdabbs
On regular CCs the silver coating that goes over the card number fades away after wear and tear and I can only imagine what it will do to this card after a while.
You have hit my pet peeve of card designs. The silver (or black) paint on the embossed numbers wears off so fast. Then the merchants flash my card back and forth in the light to try and read the name on my card (to match it to my ID). It's the 21st century, someone must've invented durable paint by now.
Originally Posted by
jeanie
My CSP is not embossed, either, and that hasn't been a problem. Also, I just got a Quicksilver from Capital One, and it was not embossed. It was a replacement for the old Cash card.
I have so many different cards, I don't put any one through enough wear and tear for the numbers to have rubbed off even though it is not embossed.
That depends on the meaning of "not a problem." Have you ever had the magnetic stripe fail, and the merchant keys in the number manually? With non embossed cards, that is not allowed. If the swipes fail, the merchant is required to refuse the card.
I have the Marriott Rewards Visa, which is metal and uses non embossed numbers. I practically never use the card, yet in less than a year of no wear and tear, the card is amazingly scratched up, just from sitting in my pocket. Disappointing.