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? Ugly credit cards

NoMoreE46 — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:13:42 GMT

I've seen a few posts about 'good' looking credit cards.

Asking to see if anybody has 'ugly' ones...

Re: ? Ugly credit cards

BearsCubsOtters — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 01:28:32 GMT

@NoMoreE46 wrote:
I've seen a few posts about 'good' looking credit cards.

Asking to see if anybody has 'ugly' ones...

Looks are subjective but....

I think all "vertical" cards are ugly; I do not like them and I hate when banks/credit unions switch to them and force them on people like me, that do not care for them.

I am not a fan of the redesigned NFCU Cash Rewards card.

I have also never seen an attractive BMO Harris; TD Bank or BB&T card. And newer Bank of The West cards are pretty bad too.

Dishonorable mentions of course go to the sub primers: First Premier, Credit One and Merrick Bank.

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wasCB14 — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 01:55:12 GMT

Not a fan of the "snowy" Amex designs (ED, EDP, BCE, BBP, etc.)

Sallie Mae Rewards (the 5% one) was nothing special to look at.

Re: ? Ugly credit cards

TSlop — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 02:30:36 GMT

I think my BoA PR is absolutely ugly (see signature). It's a jumble of different fonts, sizes and offsets that are randomly spread across the card. Seriously, 5 different lines of text across the card.

I could give this card a pass if it cleaned up the text, even with the same background. Maybe just have BoA and premium rewards in the upper right and call it a day. Move my name, visa signature, and Merrill Lynch to the back.

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Anonymous — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 02:33:20 GMT

Here are the 2 cards from Lake Michigan FCU. I always thought they were terrible looking. I think they would be fine without the words Prime and Max but they are way too big on the cards.

Re: ? Ugly credit cards

NoMoreE46 — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 02:54:31 GMT

@TSlop wrote:
I think my BoA PR is absolutely ugly (see signature). It's a jumble of different fonts, sizes and offsets that are randomly spread across the card. Seriously, 5 different lines of text across the card.

I could give this card a pass if it cleaned up the text, even with the same background. Maybe just have BoA and premium rewards in the upper right and call it a day. Move my name, visa signature, and Merrill Lynch to the back.

It looks like a card to purchase car tires.

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NoMoreE46 — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 03:07:55 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Here are the 2 cards from Lake Michigan FCU. I always thought they were terrible looking. I think they would be fine without the words Prime and Max but they are way too big on the cards.

I totally agree about the font size being out of scale.

This reminds me of a friend who said to her fiance that she wanted a "big" ring. Well, he did what she wished and got her a big ring. Her band was like 7 mm (vs 4 mm) so it made the diamond look smaller than it was...

Thanks for the replies. Keep 'em coming.

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Anonymous — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 23:43:23 GMT

DCU Platinum is the ugliest card in my wallet. In fact it's the only card I have that I consider ugly. The basic black and white color scheme would work very well if they didn't add glitter to it which makes it look even cheaper than it feels.

The image looks better than the card does...

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wasCB14 — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 23:56:39 GMT

@NoMoreE46 wrote:
@TSlop wrote:
I think my BoA PR is absolutely ugly (see signature). It's a jumble of different fonts, sizes and offsets that are randomly spread across the card. Seriously, 5 different lines of text across the card.

I could give this card a pass if it cleaned up the text, even with the same background. Maybe just have BoA and premium rewards in the upper right and call it a day. Move my name, visa signature, and Merrill Lynch to the back.
It looks like a card to purchase car tires.

Brought to you by the people who created Merrill Edge.

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blindambition — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 23:58:29 GMT

The ugliest was one I had in the 80's. I was a AU on my moms Sears card when I was a teen. Back then you showed a signed note. That wouldn't fly now.

Anyways, it was white with gold lettering. Looked like vomit. The card wasn't even a full sized card, it was like 1/3 of a regular card. It was so strange.

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TSlop — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 00:02:39 GMT

@NoMoreE46 wrote:
@TSlop wrote:
I think my BoA PR is absolutely ugly (see signature). It's a jumble of different fonts, sizes and offsets that are randomly spread across the card. Seriously, 5 different lines of text across the card.

I could give this card a pass if it cleaned up the text, even with the same background. Maybe just have BoA and premium rewards in the upper right and call it a day. Move my name, visa signature, and Merrill Lynch to the back.
It looks like a card to purchase car tires.

I don't know how long companies go between CC refreshes, but this needs to be sooner rather than later. I'm willing to bet later since it only came out 3 years ago

I also don't know how to get on BoA's CC review list to mention it. I've never been asked to review it like the reviews I see on their website, and I've had it only a couple months after it was originally released.

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iced — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 21:04:35 GMT

@NoMoreE46 wrote:
I've seen a few posts about 'good' looking credit cards.

Asking to see if anybody has 'ugly' ones...

I'm sure I'll get some flack for this one, but the ugliest one in my collection is the American Express Platinum. Two reasons:

1. I like the color blue. It has no blue on it.

2. It's weight and design is the poster child for pretentious-looking cards. It's not very subtle. It's the kind of card that will get me mugged if I pulled it out. It's fine on Apple Pay, but the physical card needs to take it down about 3 notches.

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wasCB14 — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 21:49:30 GMT

@iced wrote:
@NoMoreE46 wrote:
I've seen a few posts about 'good' looking credit cards.

Asking to see if anybody has 'ugly' ones...
I'm sure I'll get some flack for this one, but the ugliest one in my collection is the American Express Platinum. Two reasons:

1. I like the color blue. It has no blue on it.
2. It's weight and design is the poster child for pretentious-looking cards. It's not very subtle. It's the kind of card that will get me mugged if I pulled it out. It's fine on Apple Pay, but the physical card needs to take it down about 3 notches.

More subtle than the yellow Platinum, at least.

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Anonymous — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 23:27:39 GMT

@wasCB14 wrote:
@iced wrote:
@NoMoreE46 wrote:
I've seen a few posts about 'good' looking credit cards.

Asking to see if anybody has 'ugly' ones...
I'm sure I'll get some flack for this one, but the ugliest one in my collection is the American Express Platinum. Two reasons:

1. I like the color blue. It has no blue on it.
2. It's weight and design is the poster child for pretentious-looking cards. It's not very subtle. It's the kind of card that will get me mugged if I pulled it out. It's fine on Apple Pay, but the physical card needs to take it down about 3 notches.
More subtle than the yellow Platinum, at least.

This is one ugly card.

🤮🤮🤮

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CYBERSAM — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 23:49:18 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
DCU Platinum is the ugliest card in my wallet. In fact it's the only card I have that I consider ugly. The basic black and white color scheme would work very well if they didn't add glitter to it which makes it look even cheaper than it feels.

The image looks better than the card does...

😂😂😂 This is so true lol

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Anonymous — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 13:52:12 GMT

I've always said CU's are competing with each other for who can have the ugliest card

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sxa001 — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 23:05:10 GMT

While I love the shuttle on my NASA FCU card, I hate how the VISA logo has a white background instead of being transparent, it almost looks fake.

I don't have one, but have considered the Citi Double Cash in the past, though, IMHO, it is pretty ugly.

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coldfusion — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 17:25:14 GMT

@wasCB14 wrote:
@iced wrote:
@NoMoreE46 wrote:
I've seen a few posts about 'good' looking credit cards.

Asking to see if anybody has 'ugly' ones...
I'm sure I'll get some flack for this one, but the ugliest one in my collection is the American Express Platinum. Two reasons:

1. I like the color blue. It has no blue on it.
2. It's weight and design is the poster child for pretentious-looking cards. It's not very subtle. It's the kind of card that will get me mugged if I pulled it out. It's fine on Apple Pay, but the physical card needs to take it down about 3 notches.
More subtle than the yellow Platinum, at least.

This is one ugly card.

The worst part about that card was that you had to make a 4-figure donation to some charity event in order to get it.

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Remedios — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 01:09:50 GMT

Altitude Reserve.

While you'd have to pry it from my cold, dead hand, it looks like business card for funeral home owned by Illuminati.

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wasCB14 — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 01:20:57 GMT

@coldfusion wrote:
@wasCB14 wrote:
@iced wrote:
@NoMoreE46 wrote:
I've seen a few posts about 'good' looking credit cards.

Asking to see if anybody has 'ugly' ones...
I'm sure I'll get some flack for this one, but the ugliest one in my collection is the American Express Platinum. Two reasons:

1. I like the color blue. It has no blue on it.
2. It's weight and design is the poster child for pretentious-looking cards. It's not very subtle. It's the kind of card that will get me mugged if I pulled it out. It's fine on Apple Pay, but the physical card needs to take it down about 3 notches.
More subtle than the yellow Platinum, at least.

This is one ugly card.
The worst part about that card was that you had to make a 4-figure donation to some charity event in order to get it.

And then have people mistake it for an Amex Gold...or think that you specifically requested a card reminiscent of urine.

Musician Pharrell Williams has been "creative director" for nearly four years. If he's done anything good for customers, I'm not aware of it.