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Re: Plastc Card

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Post by atourgates »

kenferry wrote: post #13
pervycreeper wrote: post #9

1) The process of selecting a card and paying appears to have many more steps compared to merely selecting the appropriate physical card and using that. Is the sell here something to do with security (not displaying the card number all the time)? Does this support temporary/ burner numbers? 2) I would like to know what target demographic, if any, that that ad was not intended to irritate.

The prospect of getting away without a wallet is exciting to me! If I could get down to just driver's license, this, and billfold, that'd be pretty cool.

I would pay 2x what they're asking if it worked like it's supposed to, and I could leave everything else behind.

But realistically, I think mobile payment systems are much more likely to succeed. Plus, I already have my phone with me anyway, and it doesn't seem too far fetched that it could provide all the info on my driver's license. So with that and widespread adoption of ApplePay (or whatever ends up succeeding in that space) I'm down to just leaving the house with my phone and whatever cash I want to carry.

Re: Plastc Card

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Post by nathanm412 »

joshstrange wrote: post #29

I pre-ordered Coin and have signed up for the beta and while this card seems to be much cooler (and 3x more expensive) I feel like Coin has a better chance of making it to market. Their idea and product just seems more "do-able" than this. It's easy to throw up a list of tech specs on a website, it's a lot harder to actually ship those features. I'm highly skeptical of their support for chip-and-pin. In my (uneducate…

Coin doesn't handle the chip and pin problem at all for the moment. Even they say that the next version of the card will work with chip and pin. As far as the battery is concerned, Coin will just stop working after two years. At least with this card, it will be rechargeable, even if I have to do it monthly.

My biggest concern would be pre-ordering anything like this for the time being. I was left pretty jaded with Coin promising for a year that they were running on time with shipping. Summer 2014 came and went and they finally admitted just two weeks after the previous update that they wouldn't be able to make it for at least another 6 months. Now this product is advertising a more advanced feature set to be released at around the same time. I wouldn't bet on it.

Re: Plastc Card

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Post by smeyer »

nodesocket wrote: post #11

I really like the idea, but at $155 this is a luxury item for people who have disposable income. Also, with the release of Apple Pay, I truly think eventually all brick and mortar businesses will support paying with your phone.

>eventually all brick and mortar businesses will support paying with your phone

There are brick and mortar businesses that don't even support credit cards. It could be a long time before all brick and mortar businesses support phone payments.

Re: Plastc Card

#44

Post by egwor »

untog wrote: post #39
jMyles wrote: post #35

What need does this address? Are cards taking up too much room in people's lives? This solution doesn't reduce the height or width of the encumbrance at all, and reduces the depth only by n*.76mm, where n is the number of cards that will be replaced. I don't get it. Also, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheZenOfProgramming

This and Vessyl feel like the harbingers of Silicon Valley doom. Products that solve no meaningful problem and cost orders of magnitude more than their 'dumb' alternatives. A waste of good brains.

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Re: Plastc Card

#45

Post by mcmancini »

The problem I have with this product, as well as Coin, is that seems to be far less convenient than pulling a card out of my wallet. Maybe George Costanza would get some use out of one of these, but I'm usually choosing between an ATM card or one or two credit cards. Plus, I don't need to worry about having my phone, charging batteries, electrical gremlins, &c.

All I'm seeing is an expensive ($155?!) solution to a non-existent problem.

Re: Plastc Card

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Post by [deleted] »

pervycreeper wrote: post #9

1) The process of selecting a card and paying appears to have many more steps compared to merely selecting the appropriate physical card and using that. Is the sell here something to do with security (not displaying the card number all the time)? Does this support temporary/ burner numbers? 2) I would like to know what target demographic, if any, that that ad was not intended to irritate.

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Re: Plastc Card

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Post by sleepycal »

jackmaney wrote: post #40
untog wrote: post #34

A credit card that requires charging? Haha, no.

Oh gods, that sounds like a horrible idea (the site is unavailable at the moment, so I can't see the list of features). Only slightly worse than the idiotic start-up idea that made the rounds two years ago, whereby all of one's cards could be combined into one (Oh goodie, if I lose one card, I lose EVERYTHING!).

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Re: Plastc Card

#49

Post by kerkeslager »

brentm wrote: post #21
skorecky wrote: post #2

Wow, this will certainly give Coin ( https://onlycoin.com/ ) a run for their money.

I can't help to think this and Coin are each a solution in search of a problem. Do you know many people that use more than 3 cards regularly? If the norm was to have so many cards they barely fit in your wallet this would be perfect.

If it were just credit/debit cards, I'd agree with you, but this purports to support gift cards. I've had too many gift cards to carry around, and ended up not using them because when I was actually in the store they were at home. So I do think it does solve a problem. That said, the problem this solves isn't important enough to justify the price tag (for me).

Re: Plastc Card

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Post by Tloewald »

mcmancini wrote: post #45

The problem I have with this product, as well as Coin, is that seems to be far less convenient than pulling a card out of my wallet. Maybe George Costanza would get some use out of one of these, but I'm usually choosing between an ATM card or one or two credit cards. Plus, I don't need to worry about having my phone, charging batteries, electrical gremlins, &c. All I'm seeing is an expensive ($155?!) solution to a no…

Also, credit cards are simple, cheap, and robust. Most of them become pretty thrashed with a year or two of frequent use -- this thing would theoretically be used more than any single card; how robust will it be?

(And you'll still want a backup card in case it fritzes.)

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