changing current account questions

split_second

diamonds wrote: »

I still have one of both them in a drawer full of personal effects. Bright lime green

Had to pay my fuel on my personal current account and transfer from my business account as they issued Electron with business accounts and late night driving home I could not get petrol at self service, what a royal pain in the bottom it was :rotfl:


They purple cards were a nightmare, had a savings account with one too, memories... (thankfully) you gave me a laugh for a split second

yellow atm cards for savings, that had lifespans of about 10 years :rotfl:

thats part of what would bother me, where I work we have to pay our expenses and claim them back if we go away, an electron or similar would be a nightmare.

diamonds

split_second wrote: »

yellow atm cards for savings, that had lifespans of about 10 years :rotfl:

thats part of what would bother me, where I work we have to pay our expenses and claim them back if we go away, an electron or similar would be a nightmare.

Oh yeah I had a yellow aswell, my other purple was a second basic current account they gave to not credit worthy people I wanted for taking on nights out, in youth I would get trollied and lose my Green cards every few months :rotfl:
The ladies in branch would laugh when I said I had lost my visa debit again "drunk?" would come out in laughter haha, good days.

Too much cash too young lol



I remember Asda didnt accept them at all to start with and I had to detour 3 miles en route home at 1am to get shopping at Tesco if I had lost a Lime green one AGAIN as I was working 70-90 hour weeks and was a night shopper on my minimum 25 mile drive home from Asda.

Paul_1977

grumbler wrote: »

What's 'dreadful' about them? If you mean 'online' cards, they can be embossed in other banks. One of my Santander cards unembossed, and I have no problems with this.

They looked cheap, the numbers came off so you could not use the thing, horrible.

Paul_1977

split_second wrote: »

they were the electron cards, they were purple when normal debit cards were green.

the numbers used to scratch off and once your signature strip wore off (which didnt take long as atms used to ruin them) or the black strip got ever so slightly damaged, they were a nightmare.

i remember having to check with shops if they accepted electron cards were accepted (they usually weren't) before i shopped there

They were still issuing them in 2011 when I left.

I could never work it out, they gave me one with my 123 account, yet a family member on a everyday account got a full debit card.:mad:

NectarCollector

Paul_1977 wrote: »

Do Santander still issue those flat cards, dreadful things.

Yes they do, however these are for the 'basic account', top-up debit cards for those that need extra control over their money. (mainly intended for those with low credit scores or young people I would guess) as they don't allow you to go overdrawn.

grumbler

Paul_1977 wrote: »

They looked cheap,

Who cares? It's just a piece of plastic with a chip, not jewellery, that nobody looks at except you. And ATMs are the only places where I use my debit cards.

the numbers came off so you could not use the thing, horrible.

Don't know what cards you are talking about, but this is definitely not the case for my card. I would need to grind them off. And who needs these numbers anyway?

NectarCollector wrote: »

Yes they do, however these are for the 'basic account', top-up debit cards for those that need extra control over their money.

Again, I don't know what cards you are talking about, but my account with the above card isn't basic. I don't know why they gave me this card as I already had an account with an embossed card and a big overdraft, but I really don't care. A good thing is that unembossed cards are thinner and take less space in a wallet.
In fact, embossed cards were intended for manual processing by imprinting, but this method died decades ago.

Paul_1977

You need the numbers for online payments. I have a photo of mine with all the numbers faded, can't work out how to upload it.

grumbler

For online payments I drag&drop the numbers from a Word file.
As an extra advantage, this beats the basic keyloggers.

Paul_1977

That is an option, but I hope your PC in encrypted.

diamonds

Unembossed cards do have a advantage, you can get more in your wallet purse slots.