Maybe in a Supergreen subscription bunq could let évery payment count to save on trees. Not only via the card payments but also with (scheduled) payments, money transfers when paying your invoices or direct debits. So in fact, for every €100 we spent with bunq a tree is planted. Not for nothing to u named it Supergreen after all, right?!

@Tom#156726 Da sind schon gute Nachrichten

@Tom#156726 Thanks for the update. Sounds good.

@MarJamJars#156731 Letting only card payments count has an imo very good reason. Not only could you easily fabricate non-real spending if bunq would let regular money transfers count, but they also don‘t generate any income because there are no interchange fees for bunq to collect. Don‘t want to start a price discussion but the subscription includes all kinds of features, multiple cards including one Metal Card. It‘s not just pure profit for bunq.

However, not giving legacy Green Card owners their 2 trees per 100 Euro (at least when they use their Green Card / Metal Card), is just poor form. The bunq community somehow probably planting 50% more trees on average has literally nothing to do with the matter at all. I wonder why they thought this „excuse“ would go over well with people. They are the ones that started with the gamification of banking by implementing awards or the tree counter. They should know best how important these numbers can be to some users who strive to „collect“ or „earn“ more awards / points / trees. Is it stupid to care about this? Yeah, probably. But they started with it, they need to take it seriously.

Sometimes I wonder to myself (now though to the bunq world) if bunq is being led by professional business minded people or idealistic university students. Seems more like idealistic students.
There’s just no way that any business minded person would have just made such drastic changes as we saw a couple of days ago.

Wenn ich das lese, ich bin einfach schockiert. Genau aus diesem Grund darf grüne Partei nie regieren. Die Leute leben in Wolken. Habt ihr überhaupt irgendwelche Bäume gesehen oder Pixels reichen für Euch. Was für ein Energieverbraucht das ganze verursacht :) ich würde das noch verstehen , wenn die Bäume noch in Europa gepflanzt wurden.

@mangerlahn#156183 Eu pensei exactamente o mesmo. Não preciso do cartão para plantar árvores. Numa doação do valor que dei do cartão planto bastantes árvores.

@Casper-Yellow-Wolf#156728 This is incredibly lame

I just received an e-mail from bunq saying:

'[we] have decided to plant 2 trees per €100 spend on your Metal Cards, until March 2021. On top of that, you will continue to get 1 tree per €100 spent on all your other bunq cards.'

Very nice solution in my opinion, kudo's for this.

@mangerlahn#157159 Correct, after March people can re-evaluate if they still find the subscription worth it!

@Tom#157179 Hallo Tom, was passiert mit meine GreenCard nach einem Jahr wenn ich meine Mietgliedschaft auf Premium umstelle? Kann ich die Metalkarte weiter benutzen? Klar, ohne Bäume zu Pflanzen.

@BRARUSS#157181

Hey Dima,

The Metal Card will get frozen if you downgrade from SuperGreen after the year. You can always upgrade back to SuperGreen again if you'd like to continue using it.

Cheers
Tom

@Tom#157179 Hi Tom,

Thank you for this great solution :)!

I have a question about how this works: how is determined which card is spending the 100 euro? Are the metal card and other cards both seen as a different ‘counter’? For example, what happens if I spend 99 euro on my metal card and then 2 euro on my maestro?

Thank you very much. All good now :)

@Tom#157179 Perfect, thank you!
Until March 2021 is great, after that I hope this will stay.