stinger101

Looks like this might make it a little easier to carry around all our cards. Pre-order it for $55. Will ship in 2014. I'm in for 1.



You get $5 off your card if you refer someone. Feel free to conga.

oldsmoboi

Probably should be in Travel Tech rather than Manufactured Spend?

oldsmoboi

This is just a high-tech version of Wallaby?

cashback

Yeah.... Conga to give away $50...

sdsearch

It doesn't display a network logo. How many retailers (especially ones which only accept cards on certain networks) will really take it?

I often try to use an Amex or Discover card someplace that doesn't take it, and they can tell that by looking at the card (at my talbe, in a restaurant, without having to go back to the register and come back and say "it didn't work"). But if I've mixed Visa, MC, Amex, and Discover cards on the same Coint card, the merchant is likely to be very confused, as am I.

And btw, the website linked above has an FAQ which is absolutely ridiculous: It answers:

What kind of cards can I use?

not with explainng whether it works with all networks, but just by saying gift cards, rewards cards, etc.

Also, if one of the cards you've got on it is declined, how likely is the merchant to accept you clicking something on the card and then handing it back to them saying "it's acting like another card now". Yeah, right!

jmj8778

I took the plunge, and will report back. If anyone wants to use my referral, I'd appreciate it:



I see a different downside than most of those on the thread... I don't like the fee and the non-replaceable battery (will have to get one every 2 years).

That said, if nothing else it'll be a conversation starter, and I was POed when I forgot the card I needed to hit a bonus on a recent trip...

reclusive46

Haha I have to agree that, as a merchant myself in the UK, I wouldn't be accepting it then. Its basically a cloned card. Its also no good as EMV is used everywhere other than the USA (and thats changing).

Although to be fair, my American Express (Not just my Amex but normally card I'm using) declines every so often and then works again when re-attempting the transaction seconds after, this is a common problem with EMV that you guys will encounter. Sometimes contactless will decline and say "DO NOT HONOUR" but then inserting the PIN being entered works fine.

I have to say the Amex,Discover/Diners,MC,Visa logo thing is a good thing in some ways. A couple of merchants who take Amex hate taking it and will occasionally say they don't take it (Even though they do), this would get around that as they wouldn't know what kind of card it was until after swiping it.

Flyiboy

Sounds great. Only question I would ask is... All my CC's have a chip on it and most merchants here in Sweden have the chip function. Granted you can swipe if needed.. So one needs to wonder if they can add a chip function? One wonders...

MASTERNC

Besides the cost & battery, the big issue is definitely the lack of permanent numbers and a "card network" (i.e. how will a merchant know this card is really one they accept?). I think Wallaby at least has a permanent card number and an attached network.

djrez4

EMV would require it being able to emulate the internally store PIN on each card. That may be tough.

oozze

I will be more worried bringing this card to manuf. spending.
It is hard enough with regular CC with "name" and now we came up with funny looking card with no visa, mc, amex, discover whatever known logo...

but it does look cool maybe at restaurant.

wished that the card can do maximize rewards than the need to do manual selection prior paying.

reclusive46

Pretty much impossible without the card networks and banks co-operation..

cuebert

Aside from the lack of EMV I like it.

Going to check out Wallaby first, though I wonder about Wallaby's business model. Are they selling data?

decibel08

ordered mine this morning. is posting a referral link ok in the flyertalk t&c's these days? if not i can provide via pm for anyone interested.

AllieKat

Unless this manipulates the stripe data to remove the use IC where feasible service code, this won't work with EMV cards and even if it does that, in theory transactions where that data is manipulated should be declined I believe (I believe if the service code is changed, it'll decline in online authorisation).

Thus, this is dead-on-arrival given it's going to be coming right around the time of mass EMV rollout (Citi's already there...)

P.S. If they follow the merchant guidelines, which I know no one does, no merchant should accept this card.

P.P.S. just saw this thing isn't launching until next summer! It won't even get a few months of usability, by that point MOST US-issued cards will be EMV (Chase and Bank of America, at least, will likely be there and Citi already is. Wells Fargo may get there soon from what I'm hearing, etc).