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@BearsAndTurtlesRtheBest wrote:Very first CC that you received? My sister got her Sport Chalet VISA on April 2012 and plans to keep up as a memory. It looks just like this)
I think my very first CC was an MBNA UCR Alumni Association card. I'm pretty sure I chopped it in half and threw it away after my BK. I managed to get that thing up to a $10500 CL. Ugh.
Do I still have my first CC?
Yes!
Is it still open?
No!
Sears - 1996
(I also have my first non-store VISA by BOA 1998, but was co-signed by pops...my first non-store CC was a Delta Amex, which was closed by Amex once my repo reported, I no longer have in my posession.)
I still have all of my original cards, in mint condition, which I started collecting in the early 1980s. I did a lot of traveling back then, so I made a hobby of collecting regional & department store cards
About half of them are the "princess cut" size (which are not as tall as most standard-sized cards), and most of those were intended to be actually pressed through a carbon paper inprinting machine, and so do not have a magnetic stripe.
Some of the younger folks may not realize that all credit cards had the account imformation embossed on the hard plastic for the purpose of mechanical imprinting at the point of sale. Those mechanical imprinters are virtually non-existent, now - which is why many of the newer cards do not have raised embossing at all.
I saved my early cards, with the idea that they might rise in value to future collectors. And indeed they have - but not enough to justify the effort required to sell them, at this point... maybe in a hundred years.
@NonSufficientFunds wrote:I still have all of my original cards, in mint condition, which I started collecting in the early 1980s. I did a lot of traveling back then, so I made a hobby of collecting regional & department store cards
About half of them are the "princess cut" size (which are not as tall as most standard-sized cards), and most of those were intended to be actually pressed through a carbon paper inprinting machine, and so do not have a magnetic stripe.
Some of the younger folks may not realize that all credit cards had the account imformation embossed on the hard plastic for the purpose of mechanical imprinting at the point of sale. Those mechanical imprinters are virtually non-existent, now - which is why many of the newer cards do not have raised embossing at all.
I saved my early cards, with the idea that they might rise in value to future collectors. And indeed they have - but not enough to justify the effort required to sell them, at this point... maybe in a hundred years.
It's nice to see that SOME stores (various types) do keep the slide style as well as the press style in the event their computer systems go down, and can't not swipe a card.
Still have my BoA Cash Rewards. First card. It's in a binder clip with a bunch of other cards inside of a drawer.
@BearsAndTurtlesRtheBest wrote:Very first CC that you received?
Unfortunately no, due to BK.
@BearsAndTurtlesRtheBest wrote:Very first CC that you received? My sister got her Sport Chalet VISA on April 2012 and plans to keep up as a memory. It looks just like this)
Yes, I've kept the card through multiple bank mergers. It was the first credit I ever obtained in my name, way back in the early 1970s.
I still have my old cards from when I was 18 and didn't know any better. Unfortunately the accounts themselves have been closed.
Capital One Platinum Visa (with the Starry Night image design)
Sears Gold MasterCard (actually issued by Sears National Bank back then before Citi took them over)
Fleet Bank Fusion Visa (it had a cool smart chip which I never used...this was before EMV)
They're still in a drawer with some other cards I'd acquired along the way and I keep them to remind me to never go back to the place I was back then.