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Both my credit and debit cards are instant prints that don't have the embossing those require. Running the old carbon copier over them wouldn't show anything ex
by rtkwe 3y ago
Both my credit and debit cards are instant prints that don't have the embossing those require. Running the old carbon copier over them wouldn't show anything except maybe a vague outline of my credit card.
- mikestew 3y agoApple Card doesn't even have a number printed on it (because you can request a new # ad hoc, via the app), let alone embossed. Just my name, and (without walking to get the physical card) Apple logo, and I think a Goldman-Sachs logo. If the power goes out, the card's only utility would be if you need a thin piece of titanium for your McGyvering.
- phone8675309 3y agoI remember getting mine in the mail and being utterly astonished by that. My Apple Card number has been replaced three times and the fact that I mentally have to tell myself "no, you're not getting a new card, so don't be looking for it in the mail" is so much different than any other card (debit or credit) I've ever had. Weirdly enough, replacing my Chase debit card is so much easier with an Apple Wallet because it instantly gets a new card number while I wait three or four days for a card to show up in the mail. I can tap to pay in the interim and it's so much less of a pain in the ass in the interim.
- olyjohn 3y agoThen you can just write it down. You don't have to use the imprint, it's just to help reduce error and make it a bit faster.
- rtkwe 3y agoThere's a secondary point to the carbon copy machine. It proves the person possessed and presented the card which is a level of proof against fraud.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoMaybe prove in a legal/compliance sense. It's not too complicated to emboss numbers and letters onto a plastic card.