Clydesdale to Virgin current account

Eco_Miser

My new Virgin (ex-Yorkshire) debit card has just arrived, very red, and reminiscent of the cards that went in old Virgin Media set-top boxes.

Also, it's got all the information needed for card not present transactions on one easy-to-copy side.

colsten

Eco_Miser said:

My new Virgin (ex-Yorkshire) debit card has just arrived, very red, and reminiscent of the cards that went in old Virgin Media set-top boxes.

Also, it's got all the information needed for card not present transactions on one easy-to-copy side.

I wouldn't worry about all the info being on one side. I have had many such debit cards from different outfits for a while now - some for as long as 4 years - and nothing has been copied. 

I suppose all the information being on the back of the card only could even be a security improvement, as cameras on ATMs etc would not see the information on the front of the card when you insert the card with the blank side facing upwards. People will soon learn that their card only works that way up.

EarthBoy

colsten said:

I did not say that all debit cards from all banks come in those shapes. I said all new ones do, as they do. 

But they don't, you've just made it up.   Why are you stating a guess as fact?

colsten said:

Obviously, many banks still have old stock to use.

If you have any evidence that "all banks" are going to send out unembossed portrait cards once they've used up their old stocks, then please provide such evidence.  

WillPS

EarthBoy said:

colsten said:

I did not say that all debit cards from all banks come in those shapes. I said all new ones do, as they do. 

But they don't, you've just made it up.   Why are you stating a guess as fact?

colsten said:

Obviously, many banks still have old stock to use.

If you have any evidence that "all banks" are going to send out unembossed portrait cards once they've used up their old stocks, then please provide such evidence.  

Name a new design of debit card since Monzo's which has a landscape design?

The only one I can think of is RBS/Natwest - but theirs is exactly the same as the one that came before without the embossed characters.

Oh - and Tesco Bank's Current Account debit card I suppose, that switched not long back - but even their new Clubcard Pay account has gone flat and portrait.

EarthBoy

WillPS said:

EarthBoy said: use

colsten said:

I did not say that all debit cards from all banks come in those shapes. I said all new ones do, as they do. 

But they don't, you've just made it up.   Why are you stating a guess as fact?

colsten said:

Obviously, many banks still have old stock to use.

If you have any evidence that "all banks" are going to send out unembossed portrait cards once they've used up their old stocks, then please provide such evidence.  

Name a new design of debit card since Monzo's which has a landscape design?

First Direct. See the design on the separate thread.

colsten

WillPS said:

Name a new design of debit card since Monzo's which has a landscape design?

Below the ones I currently have - Virgin, Curve, Starling, Wise, Tesco, TSB. Yes I know, not all of them are banks but all of them are VISA or Mastercard debit cards. Ironically, my Monzo card is still of the old-fashioned version.

There is also First Direct.

eskbanker

Surely in the above picture of the six cards (and putting to one side embossing and notches), three are portrait and the other three are landscape?

P.S. Just received my new Santander Mastercard debit card today (so not old stocks), landscape and embossed....

AndyPK

I see 5 new style cards. 

AndyPK

They either don’t have raised digits or have a mouse bite out of them, so not old style to me 

Eco_Miser

Only the Monzo card has embossed digits, and any information about the card holder on the front.

Of the rest three have the cutout, three don't;  two are landscape, four are portrait; and only Virgin has upside down writing when the chip is at the top (normal way of inserting the card into machine).

So Monzo is old style, but the others have different varieties of new style.