After a few days of letting the concept of the green card sink in, my views have changed somewhat...
I love the initiative, always have, still do. I just couldn't bring myself to spend 99 euro on top of the premium subscription. But then, during the black friday weekend I have booked a number of flights and I was actually quite conscious of my ecological footprint. I realised that I could have actually planted 16 trees, purely by buying the flights I had to buy anyway... Without noticing...
So yeah, I decided to get the green card anyway. Also turns out I'm also a bit weak for the shinies after all! The implementation is (as expected of bunq) really cool. Love the little animations of the trees 🌲;)!
Now, I do still think the marketing and pricing around the product should have been different (e.g. I think many more would have been interested if the price was a one-off for a card (e.g. 50 euro) and then an x amount a month (e.g. 2-3 euro) to use it). I hope bunq will keep an eye on this, so we can get more people on the green side!
For now I will keep the card at least for the year and see how big of a forest I can grow!
