Well, debit cards, actually.
We bought a couple of air conditioners in the off-season, when you get a great big rebate.
The rebate came in the form of these two Visa debit cards.
That same dude is currently smiling out of the Australian Fujitsu General home page. I suppose he's meant to be a cheerful everyman type. I'm not entirely sure that I want him living in my wallet, though.
We immediately blew the money on bills, but still have the now-empty cards. I suppose we should chop 'em up or something, not that anyone can go on a spending spree with an empty debit card.
(For everybody who's currently trying to squint their way to accessing our fantabulous empty Fujitsu promotional accounts, I wrote a bit about how credit/debit card numbers, and other algorithmically twiddled ID codes, work here.)
29 October 2006 at 11:10 am
It's Mark (Tubby) Taylor! He's not just an Everyman type, "an idealistic personality who possesses charm, charisma, exceptional intelligence, sex appeal, and a multitude of talents", he's was a recipient of the greatest award Australia can bestow on a citizen - captain of the Australian Cricket Team!
29 October 2006 at 1:31 pm
Yeah... I'm still gonna go with everyman.
cricket. pfft!
29 October 2006 at 9:37 pm
Good thing you didn't call your blog "How to Spot an Ex-Australian Cricket Captain".
I got one of those cards too. I spent it on a replacement wedding ring for the one that I lost. Oops.
29 October 2006 at 9:52 pm
I don't drink beer, either.
30 October 2006 at 12:04 am
I thought this was going to be a rant about how the "rebate" is sneakily encapsulated in a card that will get VISA money via merchant fees each time you use it somewhere, in addition to the inability to actually extract the full rebate value as cash! Aww, I'm disappointed ;) We got a few of these, too. I agree - they're very scary looking.
30 October 2006 at 1:52 am
You'll get deported if you're not careful, Dan. Although Mark Taylor does look suspiciously different these days...
30 October 2006 at 3:55 am
This whole controversy is, of course, just a cunning plan on my part to get more high-value ads displayed on my site.
30 October 2006 at 5:41 am
At least they're still the normal shape. Banks here have decided that it would be a good idea to issue funny-shaped credit cards, presumably on the basis that once they've been doing it for a few years, all the machines that don't like them will have died due to being jammed with them. Example at http://plastic.ie; various other banks also do different shapes.
30 October 2006 at 4:41 pm
I've got a funny shaped credit card (like the plastic.ie ones, but only one corner is rounded). It did come highly recommended, though.
18 May 2008 at 10:18 am
Instead of having Mark's face on their we should put our own on, with anz credit cards you can design your own credit card so you don't have to look at Mark's all day :)