I bet a card in your purse right now. I would also be a chance that if you're like most people, there are many who do not know that the card is not. Some of the things you do not know likely would hurt, but we are not in this article. Instead, here are ten of the most interesting and / or fun facts for short, in my opinion.

Among other things, was the first card was issued in 1950 in New York. E 'was Diner's Club card is issued to two hundred membersfor twenty-seven positions.

1. Paper is the most expensive currently issued by American Express. They called the black Centurion Card cardholders are required to spend 250 thousand U.S. dollars per year. The annual fee is two thousand five hundred dollars.

2. Visa International Service Association (VISA), has offered his first paper in 1958. It 'been a card of Bank of America. In 1970 all financial institutions issuing the card in the United States, an association formed.In 1976 he began to call their union VISA.

3. In 1985 Sears Discover card on the market. The map was very popular because of its decision to charge no annual fee.

4. The minimum balance as a means to encourage cardholders to use their skills and as a means of higher interest rates and taxes are more.

5. Most credit card companies do not allow their retailers (merchants who accept credit cards) do not reachpersonal information (name, phone number, address) to cardholders.

6. The size of a card, strict compliance with international standards. Therefore, all credit cards are the same size.

7. Most issuers do not allow their suppliers to apply a surcharge (fee for services) with credit card purchases are not. In most countries it is illegal to attach a surcharge for using a card for the purchase of goods or services.

8. Each card comes with a user deal. You never saw the contract and not sign this agreement because it is assumed that each time the card is used.

9. The card issuer can not simply send a card and I hope that you use it. Renewed or replaced cards were the only exception to this rule. You can complain if you get a card that you requested is not received.

10. Your credit card expiration date is meaningless. Your card can not be used after the expiration date. The only reason it was done because> The printing press can bear if you are not a new one every four years or so to get.