Giant Black Visa Card Offer. Stainless Steel! - lol

[cashnocredit]

Picked up the mail today and didn't get the bi-weekly Discover solicitation. Instead there was this giant, stiff, black card app. Visa Black Card has a new marketing gimmick. It now comes in "Stainless Steel" unlike those stain prone Palladium and Titanium wannabes.

 

$500 AF.

 

Couldn't stop laughing.

[RiotAct]

Good luck, hope you get approved!

[SuperGurl72]

Oh my...

[Burgerwars]

I've seen the ad on TV. Some card issuers try to portray their card as something that is held by jet setting corporate tycoons or celebrities to rake in the annual fees. My free cards work just as well at McDonald's as that one. Flashing around some card made of steel isn't a way to impress.

 

My plastic cards avoid stains too, plus won't rust.

Edited November 22, 2013 by Burgerwars

[mariuszh]

https://www.blackcard.com/

 

They claim:

 

Cardmembers enjoy an industry-leading rewards program where points have double the value of American Express Platinum when redeemed for airfare

[creditmmax]

Lol, in the fine print at the bottom of the website "Visa Black Card is issued by Barclays Bank Delaware" so likely a TU pull. Not sure what type of FICO is required?

[dbwCredit]

I went to the website and it got me laughing. You totally took out the part about the back being carbon. CARBON and stainless steel. Wow. Well if that isn't a reason to spend $450 on fees..

 

But the part that got me was the exclusive members only subscription to Black Card magazine. That is what got me laughing...

 

dbw

[cashnocredit]

Carbon (aka coal) is what Santa brought if you weren't "good." The Black Card was originally made with carbon. The carbon rebranding wasn't going so well I guess so they added "Stainless Steel."

 

I think they need to get a new Marketing Exec.

[dbwCredit]

It was made with carbon? Carbon can be very soft and sometimes bend-y.

 

Well I don't know about the new marketing exec? I mean they got us to look at it right? I mean -- sure we looked just to get a laugh -- but we did look at right?

 

Okay you're right - marketing is not doing so good.

 

dbw

[cv91915]

It's a floor wax AND a dessert topping!

[Jaboon]

Why the heck is the AF $500?

[takeshi]

Because people are willing to pay it.

[SuperGurl72]

Why the heck is the AF $500?

Prestige

[Jaboon]

I would rather prestige my 500 dollars anoter way...

[truckerbonk]

Lol, in the fine print at the bottom of the website "Visa Black Card is issued by Barclays Bank Delaware" so likely a TU pull. Not sure what type of FICO is required?

Yes They pull from TU or EX (call the reckon number to talk to A credit analysts they'll pull from EXP for you)

The FICO score needed is 770+ with low balance's and good CREDIT CARD history

You need to make $90k+ A year also they may ask you for A financial statement

 

It's A easy card to get if you meet the requirements.

They denied me because I didn't have long enough credit card history even doe my scores is in the 800s thanks to a few paid off installment loans and A few AU's.

I'm going to try again next year I never really cared for credit cards until this year so I been building my file this year

. A friend of mines that told me about this card got it and loves it.

 

They will start you off with A $5,000 limit that you have to build on to become unlimited.

Good Luck to whoever try to get this card

[clutchcargo]

[foeplay]

 

Ha, my boss brought me one of these back from Costa Rica a few years ago!

[tcindie]

Stainless steel eh? Would make a great make-shift window scraper here in the frozen north.

[funkiehouse]

What's next? Cards made out of recycled TP?

[cv91915]

They seriously need to find a new angle to promote this white elephant of a black card.

 

Go to the Web site and on the first page they tell you not once, not twice, not three times, but FOUR TIMES that this ridiculous thing is made of stainless steel. That basically tells you that there is no other story to tell... no other reason to have this card.

 

What a stupid, useless product without a market.

 

[cv91915]

Did I mention that it's made of stainless steel?

[cocomad]

My fingers are too sensitive for rust from a stainless piece of steel that I had to pay for every year at that price. That's not prestige, that's pure nonsense. Buy gold or add to a good portfolio. That's prestige.

[mariuszh]

My fingers are too sensitive for rust from a stainless piece of steel that I had to pay for every year at that price. That's not prestige, that's pure nonsense. Buy gold or add to a good portfolio. That's prestige.

 

Good stainless steel does not rust.

[cocomad]

My fingers are too sensitive for rust from a stainless piece of steel that I had to pay for every year at that price. That's not prestige, that's pure nonsense. Buy gold or add to a good portfolio. That's prestige.

 

Good stainless steel does not rust.[/quote

I would still not pay 500 per year for it. IMHO just not prestigious, investments are....

[qwerty4]

Lol I wonder if the sapphire preferred card is also stainless steel?