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BECAUSE they feel unnaturally heavy. It's a status thing. When you hand your card over to the person at the till, you feel important, because your card is metallic, instead of plastic.

Kind of like business cards in American Psycho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISYzA36-ZY

Some people still aspire to behave like that.

Huh. I kind of get that. I guess a depleted uranium CC is close on the horizon?

1. Because they are cool aesthetically

2. Because they appear to be more durable (see thread, unfortunately).

Do they bend? I mean you can bend a plastic card and it will recover. I'm curious what titanium does though.

Titanium is very elastic.

It probably bends, but I think most of the issue is with the actual finish of the card which seems to be flaking off or discoloring.

It's a faux status symbol, much like gold coloured cards used to be until every card was gold. Then came platinum...