Do you consider credit card design when applying?

Superscrooge

With all the posts on another thread regarding what the new Aqua Gold card looks like. How many of you consider the credit card design before deciding to make an application?

When I apply I just look at the benefits on offer. The colour or design of the credit card is of no interest to me.

Am I unusual in not caring what the CC looks like? Does my wallet lack street cred?

worried_jim

Years ago I got that Mint card with the corner rounded, a friend has a never mind the !!!!!!!! virgin card. I dont really bother anymore, just the best deal.

Edit- I see the MSE fascists won't let me use a popular cultural reference. It's by the mmm pistols.

DCFC79

Lol OP your not unusual at all, I dont care what colour the cards are, its just a flipping credit card.

Dobbibill

It's all about the benefits for me.

I'm more interested in what the statement looks like......I'd rather a card that doesn't look very pretty but has no interest on the statment (because it's paid off in full) than a card that looks nice in my purse/wallet that's incurring interest every month because it carrying a balance.......that is what I like to look at

forgotmyname

I do not care about the cards design or shape, its the deal that counts. I do remember one card giving the option of which style. Cahoot?

Recently managed to get a Revolut pre-paid card (after some issues with not having photo ID) and its a funky purple metalflake style, which makes reading anything printed on it almost invisible.

But the wallet it came in is nice. You grip the tab and pull to the right and the card slides out to the left, held in place by a stamped plasticy black embossed card. Probably not plastic just a coated cardboard.

Biggles

This is a money-saving site. If you choose the prettiest card, you aren't getting the best deal.

Maybe there's a prettycardexpert.com forum somewhere for people who have more money than sense but less taste?

TheShape

I'd have a picture of GOATSE on my card if the deal was right!

Nasqueron

I tried to get a card from Halifax with a photo of a clown fish that I TOOK i.e. it's my own copyright and they rejected it, moved banks since then so don't really care.

I think in days gone by where a Gold or even Black card was a rare thing and only for the top 1% (and probably there were even more special cards for the 0.1%) the colour meant something but where even the cards for the dirt poor/credit rebuilders/new to credit are giving out Gold/Platinum cards then worrying about the colour of the card or the status it gives is daft.

I have a blue Halifax CC, a purple Nectar one and a "platinum" BT card and I don't care what colour it looks so long as I get my cashback/bonus points.

Anthorn

Superscrooge wrote: »

With all the posts on another thread regarding what the new Aqua Gold card looks like. How many of you consider the credit card design before deciding to make an application?

When I apply I just look at the benefits on offer. The colour or design of the credit card is of no interest to me.

Am I unusual in not caring what the CC looks like? Does my wallet lack street cred?

Erm ... so what does the Aqua Gold Card look like? What colour is it? What's the main design?

Doctor_Duke

Pointless there are so many card designs out there who will actually notice?? It's about the benefits, online access etc for me..

Jlawson118

Not designs as such, but I generally feel the bank/lender themselves say more than the design of the card. Like I remember getting an Aqua card and thinking that anybody seeing me using it will know that I have poor credit (even though it was due to my age and limited history)

Though once I got my first one with a proper bank, I felt a little better about it. I think the design of the card I had was nice, it was just the point it was an Aqua card..

I was in a shop the other week and saw a lady with one, and I kind of wondered to myself what her circumstances was. I mean nobody really wants one unless they need a little help building up a credit score.. But then today I saw a lady with the British Airways AMEX card thinking the complete opposite..

So not perhaps the design, but the lender as such