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Idea: Metal cards

Heiko-Hartwig

Mobile payment is coming! Don't care what the card looks like.

TeleMonster

+1 for the black finish!

JeroenE

Johannes 🇦🇺 There was a separate topic of Michiel 🏳️‍🌈 which was completely in Dutch (even with replies) and that one is gone now. So it might be that Sander moved Michiels post here (Sander unlocked this topic first, as you can see)

Johan

Michiel 🏳️‍🌈 @moderator goed bezig!!!

DaveFlash

no no an no. any physical cards no matter the material is a bat ideal, plastic is bad for the environment, metal is even worse, the future of payment is in mobile devices and so called wearables through Google/Apple/Samsung/Fitbit/Garmin Pay or Android Tap & Pay, since bunq update 6 or 7 in the spring of last year I've been using Apple Pay almost exclusively and don't even touch those card anymore (or only when needed). They are a waste of earths resources, bunq in my opinion, should become the first bank to stop issuing physical cards altogether and go with digital, virtual-only provisioned cards in the mobile wallet solutions from the major manufacturers as mentioned above.

Otherwise, bunq might as well make their cards from bamboo for all i care 🤣

johannes

DaveFlash I am also against a metal card, as it's even more bad for the environment, but I think you are a bit dreaming with your world without any cards.
Cool, that it might work at your places, but it will take a long time for NFC being the standard all over the world.

Dennis-Lime-Panther

DaveFlash And wearables dont generate waste? You do realize cellphones are maybe 1.000 times worse then a metal card...for the environment

Dennis

If bunq would stop issuing physical cards, I'd need another bank.

DaveFlash

Dennis no, just a smartphone, watch, ring or other NFC-enabled wearable or jewelry I've even heard talks about car-manufactures are going to put NFC-chips in keys that will contain a bankcard for example, I believe the future of payments in stores (for as long as we are still buying stuff offline) will be a world of NFC-only terminals at some point and beyond the traditional bankcards.

LH-Black-Wolf

DaveFlash That’s just not enough right now. Cards are unfortunately still required in various places, especially abroad. Might as well make ‘em nicer.

JensH

DaveFlash Not in Germany... some shops only accept girocard (german bank card) or cash (barber, bakery for example). So how do you get cash from an atm without a physical card?

LH-Black-Wolf

Incidentally, that blackish metal card in the OP looks really awesome. I’d pay a small setup fee just to get that :P Very nice! Hope such an option will come. (And otherwise at the very least get a better card design than the current ones :P)

Arcardy

Jens Some ATM's support NFC. Not in germany, of course 😅

Hunter

And to differentiate between the cards better in Apple Wallet. So bunq, please add more different designs to choose from.

Bartosz-Indigo-Dragon

I would be delighted to pay, let’s say, 5€ to have card with my graphic on it.

smyles

bump 👍

smyles

Looks like the original response was that the idea of a metal card was environmentally unfriendly. With Apple launching the idea of a card without an expiry date, maybe the longer lasting metal card becomes more attractive than disposable plastic ones 🤞

johannes

Steven Just because you don't print the date on a card, doesn't mean it's not there. It's right in the magnet stripe and the card still expires at some day.

smyles

Johannes 🇦🇺 I suppose you could just set an expiration date far further in the future 🤷‍♂️

johannes

Steven No, it's hardcoded in the magnet stripe.

smyles

Johannes 🇦🇺 That’s what I’m saying, hardcode it to a date far in the future, not the usual ~3 years. Make it 15 or 20 years 😊

johannes

Steven .. but why is the Apple Card now helping with this? Then you can also print a expire date that is 20 years in the future. I just don't get why the Apple Card is now showing something that helps with this topic :)