Does anyone collect credit cards?

I know if you are probably thinking...huh? What? Credit Cards?

Well, if you think about it..coin collecting is collecting money, and with it all things money. Paper money, elongated cents, etc.

Some people also collect mint bags, piggy banks, paper stock certificates, even the books about coins.

So it probably comes as a surprise to you, yes, there is a teeny tiny amount of people collecting credit cards...

..think about it, paper money is a form of payment, coins are a form of payment, and so are checks, and some people collect old checks.

Since credit cards are money, technically speaking, I'm surprised it's never, or very rarely brought up.

Yet people DO collect them, and rare credit cards, like the American Express Centurion Card, aka "the black card", can command prices of over 100 dollars, and some other private issue cards can command over thousand dollars.

So if people are paying money, it does show there IS an interest in them.

While I only have one credit card, a Citibank card that expired in the early 90s..it is kinda cool to hold and it think what kind of stuff this card could of bought.

Old credit cards, theoretically speaking, can be kind of rare, most people toss or cut up the old one.

So this leaves the question, does anyone on here collect them?

 

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Here is an article about a coin collector who collects them.

http://ephemera.typepad.com/ephemer...---i-first-began-collecting-credit-cards.html

 

Most people I know just collect the bills and not the cards themselves...

 

Well this is certainly something interesting to bring up. I expect roughly 5 pages of comments before this thread dies.
Anyways, in regards to your question no I don't collect credit cards as the thought of collecting them never crossed my mind. I do reckon that many Americans who are in some serious debt collect credit cards unintentionally.

 

In my wallet.

 

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quadruple post.

 

no end of troubles with this site at times, sorry.

 

And yes, my aunt has over 1000 gift cards, and at least that in credit cards, some do collect.

 

People will collect just about anything. But then there is that distorted line between collecting and hoarding.

 

I collected/have some star wars gift cards. probably not worth anything. some lady at Walmart was handing out star wars gift cards of course with no value on them. she said want them all and I said yes. 3 of them together made up a picture. probably not worth anything now.

 

If we come across such double-triple-quadruple posts (or when people report them), we will usually take care of them.

As for card collecting, I don't. Unlike coins and notes, they are all private issues, with zillions of different types. I can even have a card with my preferred design made these days. So my personal answer is No, but others may appreciate them.

Years ago, quite a few people in Europe collected those payphone chip cards we had here. Initially that may have been interesting, but later there were way too many issuers and types. Don't think that there still are many collectors out there ...

Christian

 

I thought about collecting them, but the men in the black suits make it unhealthy for me to pursue that hobby

 

There was a story in Numismatic Scrapbook about a guy who collected one cent checks-he had thousands of them. He just asked people to write him a check for one cent and they did. Can you imagine walking up to someone today and asking them to write you a check for one cent? You'd probably get maced.

 

Yes, I was going to mention this. This was a pretty popular hobby in Europe a while ago, but kind of like stamp collecting and baseball cards before it, everyone piled on and made way, way too many collector only cards and kind of killed the hobby. The same almost happened a couple of times in numismatics, but we have been able to survive it by just bypassing the overproduced crap. At least in the old days we had the luxury of melting down overproduced crud.

 

You can collect almost anything I guess. My wife collects piggy banks we must have like 50 of the things and shot glasses she probably has a 100 of those. I have collected random things over the years myself like steelbooks.

 

Whats a steelbook? You mean yearbook?

 

What, is your internet broken that you can't type that into google and figure out what it is????

 

I think I found something.

 

Wrong! That says Steal, not Steel! It's obvious he only collects paperbacks that have 'Steel' in their title, like this:

 

i refuse to even touch a credit card. no debt for me!

 

It was a joke.

 

gee.... so was my reply!