Stratos Card

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14 pointsabbottry3 comments

No support for EMV at the moment on this either. They actually recommend carrying the EMV cards as well which sort of negates the point of having this.

This was a great idea until I scrolled down and its a yearly membership and its absurdly expensive for what amounts to be a $10 widget that both Square and Paypal use for remote card capture, and for a card that doesn't seem to be all that special at all.

How about selling the whole thing for either $49.99 one time fee for $9.99/yr, or just don't bother being in business at all because you obviously didn't understand anything about your target market.

/rant

> don't bother being in business at all because you obviously didn't understand anything about your target market

I think their target market is "people who don't feel like carrying a wallet full of credit cards." That seems entirely like a luxury market to me (i.e. a market that garners higher prices). I certainly have better things to spend my money on, but I can understand the angle.

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