That's Why I Carry This (Personalized Pics on Credit Card)

Factual Questions
1

Does any credit card issuer let you customize your card with a photo? Not just a little square with YOUR photo – is there anyone that would let me upload a graphic for the whole card front? I know there has to be a Visa or MC logo, but apart from that?

2

You might not want to carry a Capital One card - when I did, just a couple years ago, they had a way to do just that. Send any picture you wanted from your computer, and they’d put it on a card for you.

The picture of course had to meet decency guidelines.

3

Out of honest curiosity, why would that help anything? If you put a picture of your cat on it, wouldn’t you have to bring your cat to the store with you.?

Just asking.

4

Somebody does, but I don’t remember who. they have a commercial where the girl buying coffee and the girl selling coffee have the same guy on the front of their cards.

5

Bank of America Photo Expressions.

6

If you want to do it yourself…(nsfw) http://www.zug.com/credit/student/index02.html

7

I’m pretty sure here that ANZ bank allows you to do it. I remember a friend telling me they log onto there net banking and tried to change theres but the bank kept canceling what he wanted due to little things like there was a logo on his shoes in 1 pic and another he tried had a cartoon character in it that was copyrighted. I remember it was really limited in what you could add.

8

I think he wants it for uniquness & entertainment value, not for security.

9

Yes, the OP is talking about the design of the front of the card, not a photo ID thing on the back.

Anyway, this was the first link I got when I Googled “personalized credit card”, and it does what the OP asked. I have no idea if it’s reputable and am not endorsing it in any way, but there it is.

10

Thanks for posting that! I knew I’d seen it somewhere, but I never could find the damn thing again.

11

It could help prevent situations where a sales clerk is juggling too many customers and gets the cards mixed up. This happened to my parents - they got back someone else’s card, but didn’t realize it until several hours later when they actually checked the name imprinted on the card. If they’d had our family reunion picture on their card, it would have been obvious when they got someone else’s instead.