Beim Durchziehen der Karte steht dann "Bitte Chipkartenleser verwenden".
Dann sollte das Gerät die Karte abweisen, weil es sich um eine Karte mit kopierten Magnetstreifen handeln könnte. Hängt aber vom Gerät ab.Die Frage ist, was passiert wenn die Karte zu erst gesteckt (Chip) wird und der Chip nicht ausgelesen werden kann?
Fallback auf Magstrip?
Habe sie mir selbst gestern erst bestellt und war so frei dir eine Einladung zukommen zu lassen...Kann mir jemand ein Einladungscode schicken?
Sehr Riskant, da immer noch nicht klar ist, ob Chip-Transaktionen jemals mit der Karte funktionieren werden.Die Karte ist immer noch nicht verfügbar aber mit den 155 $ bekommt man jetzt auch eine 2 Jahres Garantie und eine Lebenslange freie Mitgliedschaft ohe 50$/Jahr zu bezahlen.
Kann mir jemand ein Einladungscode schicken? Wahrscheinlich leg ich mir die zu, bin aber noch hin- und hergerissen.
Grundsätzlich richtig.Am Ende hast du dann 155 für eine Karte bezahlt, die nur deinen Magnetstreifen kopiert und daher in Europa unbenutzbar ist.
Curve ist jetzt gratis und funktioniert (zumindest bei mir) ganz gut.Was Neues im Westen?
Curve ist jetzt gratis und funktioniert (zumindest bei mir) ganz gut.
Sehr interessant, geht mir aber noch nicht weit genug.
Der Umweg über eine Plastikkarte gefällt mir nicht, warum nicht gleich alles ins Smartphone integrieren? Das dann mit Fingerabdruck geschützt und man hat einen sicheren Zugang zu all seinen Karten und Ausweisen. Auch der Führerschein und Perso sollten da mit drin sein - so dass man auf das Portemonnaie komplett verzichten kann.
Suuuper-Idee.
Wenn dann plötzlich mal der Akku leer ist, das Smartphone runterfällt und kaputt ist oder gar geklaut / liegengelassen wird, stehst Du ganz-und-gar ohne Karte da...![]()
We Regret to Inform You...
For the past 3 years, our mission here at Plastc was to build and deliver the most technically ambitious smart card on the planet. After making enormous leaps in development, product innovation and progress towards our goal, Plastc has exhausted all of its options to raise the money it needs to continue.
Plastc, Inc. is exploring options to file Chapter 7 Bankruptcy and will cease operations on April 20, 2017.
While we have fallen short of our goal, we are proud of our team and the effort that went into developing a working Plastc Card. However, without the necessary capital to continue, all employees have been let go, which means that Customer Care and Social Media channels are unmanned or have been shut down.
How We Got Here:
We were expecting to close a $3.5 million Series A funding round on February 28, 2017. There are functioning Plastc Cards, which were demonstrated to our investors and our backers, and the capital was to be allocated for the mass production and shipping of Plastc Cards to pre-order customers. At first, the principal investment group postponed their investment and a couple of weeks later the round fell apart.
After the initial funding was unavailable, Plastc made progress with another investor who offered $6.75 million. This deal was scheduled to close last week and would propel development across the finish line, as well as allow for Plastc Card pre-orders to be shipped and for production to continue into a retail phase.
However, once again at the very last minute, our investor gave us notice that they have decided rescind their investment offer. The round was a signature away from closing and we were extremely caught off guard when they notified us yesterday they were backing out. Our existing investors kept us alive and functioning as long as they could during this fundraising process, but in the end, we needed new outside capital to get into production.
What This Means For Backers:
It’s been a long road with a lot of obstacles. The support of our amazing backers has been incredible, which makes this announcement even harder. We were so incredibly ready for production in order to hit our deadlines but without capital it is impossible for us to move forward and we will not be able to fulfill any pre-orders.
We are disappointed and emotionally distraught, and while we know this is extremely disappointing for you, we want our backers to know that we did everything we could to make Plastc Card a reality.
- Plastc Inc.
As you probably know, Plastc shut down operations as of April 14, 2017. Edge Mobile Payments, a Santa Cruz-based Fintech company, today announced it has acquired the assets of Plastc, enabling Edge to build on Plastc’s progress and to accelerate the release of its upcoming Edge Card.
If you preordered a Plastc card, you are eligible to receive a $50 discount on the purchase of a new EDGE Card, scheduled to ship in Q3 of 2018.
Like the Plastc card, the Edge Card will allow you to consolidate all of your credit and debit cards into one dynamic smart card and will offer improved security, support for NFC, EMV and Magstripe and a companion smartphone app. The Edge Card also will add support for cryptocurrency, a color touchscreen, an expanded card management app for the phone and other additional features to be announced.