The CSP is a perfect example

i second that! raised numbers are annoying. I can fit more cards into my cardholder if they weren't raised. the sapphire is not raised, but i think it will still work on those machines

some stores actually do the carbon prints on my cc for really large purchases, in addition to swiping. i always wanted to give them my discoverit and see what they do, but the rewards are not good enough.

Am I the only one who has no idea what is this "raised number" business you guys are talking about?

My pet peeve with OV is the packaging. It takes a while to open it and get all the sticky stuff off. But I like that you don't have to set a pin.

This is just a reference to the fact that on the OV, the numbers are embossed/raised, like on a traditional credit card (and unlike say the CSP). In contrast, most VGC just have the number printed on, so they can be stacked more easily and take space. Is this a first world problem? Of course, but so is all MS!

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Strip clubs take an imprint of your card because they get so many people who dispute the huge spend they made while trashed drunk. Some even get a thumbprint too. Or at least this is what I've been told by people who have been to strip clubs.

The PenFed cards don't have embossed numbers (and they're also oriented in that dorky portrait format) and they all look like fakes.

Maybe banks think the embossed numbers make the cards look more genuine?

Thinking about it, the Capital One Quicksilver seems to modeled on the One Vanilla Card, just a little less professional!

On this comment: I think the only person that would have been funnier to have written this, than someone named "Father of 3", would have to be "vagrants".

All the strippers I've met only took cash.

A raised number is harder to fake if you manually have to punch in the 16 digit card number.

Yesterday, my Chipotle's computer systems were down. They couldn't take CC's or even their own gift cards.

They didn't have the old school credit card machine. Instead they were using the side of a pencil and rolling it over the credit cards to capture the imprint for the CC slip.

Last summer Budget at CPT absolutely refused my CSP for my rental because they couldn't do a manual imprint. Had to give them a different Chase card and then messaged Chase to reverse the foreign transaction fees I incurred (it was Chase's decision to design the CSP in a non-imprintable fashion). I even tried to go back to Budget at the end of the rental to have them charge the full amount to the CSP instead of the card they had imprinted - no go.

Just for the heck of it, I tried my local CVS today where I had worked for many years. The manager showed me the register screen that said "cash only" for the VR. No problem at all buying the VGC. The shift lead said she kept missing the question on their new training about using a CC for VR because she knew how many she had sold me! OOPS! Anyway, they obviously have had the employees do training on this issue so I think it is truly dead nationwide!

Question - Why do people buy OV when vanilla GC are the same price and work the same way?

Every question on FT should from now on be prefaced with "I swear I read the previous page in this thread before posting this question."