# Bent credit/debit card, common?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bent-credit-debit-card-common/232414
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 3, 2004, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bent-credit-debit-card-common/232414 "2004-03-03T23:44:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2004, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bent-credit-debit-card-common/232414/1 "2004-03-03T23:44:43Z")
I recieved my new debit card for my new bank the other day.
It’s only slightly bent, probably 3 or 4 degrees difference between one end and the other, but to the ridiculously sensetive ability of the human brain to detect non-paralells, non-right-angles, and curves it is CONSPICOUSLY bent.
Is it common to recieve bent cards? Should I order a new one?
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bent-credit-debit-card-common/232414/2 "2004-03-03T23:53:10Z")
I’ve never received a bent one before. If it works in card readers I wouldn’t worry about it. But certainly feel free to order a new one if it makes you happy.
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### Author:  [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bent-credit-debit-card-common/232414/3 "2004-03-04T02:16:16Z")
How common? Not very, I’d say. Do you suppose it’s a deliberate style choice by the issuer, or a manufacturing fault?
(I have a credit card that has three right angle corners and one (deliberate) pronounced curved corner. At home it’s pretty commonplace, but overseas it’s a great conversation starter–it seems every store attendants wanted to chat to me about my funky credit card.)