Stainless steel credit cards !!!

[QueBert]

The CC focused Reddit has posters that crave the metal cards as some sort of status symbol. They somehow feel special and important if they have one they can tap on tables to make that certain sound among friends.

Dink, dink, dink .... yeah, that's them.

LOL I got an Apple Card and it sure is a metal beauty. A female grabbed it from me and I guess thought I must be balling because she was smiling stupidly. (females don't smile at me lol) Apple, or I guess Sacs who issues the cards, approved me for a whopping $350. Yet, most people who I let feel the card just assume I gotta be wealthy.

$350 on an APPLE card is almost like getting pranked. I know I can use it anywhere because it's a Mastercard, but if I wanted to use it on actual Apple stuff, I could get a band for my Apple Watch Ultra and a wireless charger or something. And while it's beautiful and shiny and heavy, metal cards don't work with tap to pay which sucks. So I gotta insert the card like a peasant and after a while the metal starts to get dinged up But I suppose with a credit line of only $350 I qualify as a peasant lol.

 

[Brainonska511]

LOL I got an Apple Card and it sure is a metal beauty. A female grabbed it from me and I guess thought I must be balling because she was smiling stupidly. (females don't smile at me lol) Apple, or I guess Sacs who issues the cards, approved me for a whopping $350. Yet, most people who I let feel the card just assume I gotta be wealthy.

$350 on an APPLE card is almost like getting pranked. I know I can use it anywhere because it's a Mastercard, but if I wanted to use it on actual Apple stuff, I could get a band for my Apple Watch Ultra and a wireless charger or something. And while it's beautiful and shiny and heavy, metal cards don't work with tap to pay which sucks. So I gotta insert the card like a peasant and after a while the metal starts to get dinged up But I suppose with a credit line of only $350 I qualify as a peasant lol.

Did you open the card for a specific Apple purchase? I ask, because a few months ago, I opened a store-branded credit card for somewhere else, and only got a few hundred higher than the items I was buying in line of credit, but that's also because they didn't request some huge amount.

 

[QueBert]

Did you open the card for a specific Apple purchase? I ask, because a few months ago, I opened a store-branded credit card for somewhere else, and only got a few hundred higher than the items I was buying in line of credit, but that's also because they didn't request some huge amount.

Oh, I did get a basic Apple Watch on interest free payments. I was originally trying to get financed on a Macbook Air, but Apple was like "no way, you suck, but if you want an Apple Watch, we guess..." Maybe after I make the last 3 payments on the watch my credit limit will double? I doubt it, but maybe that's how it works. Or they'll just give me another measly $300 that I can't get anything with besides a cheap Apple Watch or some Airpod Pros. The 2 years of interest free payments I got on a $350 watch is hilarious, that seems so very Unapple like.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

If I ever get one, I may cancel and return it with a note "I wanted a credit card, not a slice out of a tin can."

 

[Red Squirrel]

I just got a new credit card renewal, the card is made with Ocean Plastic(R) and there's not even embossed numbers on it, they are just printed, on the back! This is like some kind of dollar general low tier credit card or what, I want stainless steel dammit!

 

[lxskllr]

My new one was printed also. Probably better printed. Embossed cards grind against other cards, and for some 007 stuff, they can leave an imprint on paper that could conceivably be read by unauthorized people. AFAIK, the only purpose for embossing is to work with those antique receipt rollers they used with carbon paper. It's probably been 20 years since I've seen one of those, and I only saw it cause the wireless system went down, and the festival vendor needed an analog processor. When did they really quit being used? 1990?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah I think the embossing is really an old thing that we will probably slowly see phased out. I've only ever seen those "readers" in movies, old movies.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

All of the cards I've received in the last 5 years or more are flat.

Some of the older, individually owned stores still have the card rollers stashed under the counter 'in case the internet crashes', but won't be able to use them on flat cards.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Looks like some places still sell the imprinters and the carbon or NCR sales slips they use.

 

[nakedfrog]

LOL I got an Apple Card and it sure is a metal beauty. A female grabbed it from me and I guess thought I must be balling because she was smiling stupidly. (females don't smile at me lol) Apple, or I guess Sacs who issues the cards, approved me for a whopping $350. Yet, most people who I let feel the card just assume I gotta be wealthy.

Protip: referring to women as "females" won't do you any favors.

$350 on an APPLE card is almost like getting pranked. I know I can use it anywhere because it's a Mastercard, but if I wanted to use it on actual Apple stuff, I could get a band for my Apple Watch Ultra and a wireless charger or something. And while it's beautiful and shiny and heavy, metal cards don't work with tap to pay which sucks. So I gotta insert the card like a peasant and after a while the metal starts to get dinged up But I suppose with a credit line of only $350 I qualify as a peasant lol.

I've tapped my metal Amazon card to pay plenty of times. It's not a Discover card, but here:

What Is a Metal Credit Card?

Learn what a metal credit card is and how it differs from a plastic credit card. Find out how to destroy a metal credit card and if metal cards offer rewards.

www.discover.com

There’s little difference between metal credit cards and plastic credit cards; you still swipe, tap, or insert your chip in the same way.