That metallic Chase Sapphire Preferred you’ve been slinging around may be impressive, but is there room for improvement? Absolutely!
A bank in the Isle of Man — a possession of the British Crown located in the Irish Sea between Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales— is offering a 14-carat gold credit card to customers who have at least $168,000 (£100,000) of metal bars in their vault.
The Bullion Visa card, issued by IMGold, is the world’s first solid gold credit card backed by the precious metal itself that allows users to effectively borrow against their bullion possessions,reports FT.com (subs. required).
If you want to be on the waiting list, here’s the sign-up. This isn’t the world’s first (literal) gold card, though. Check out this report from 2012:
A bank in Kazakhstan is introducing an exclusive credit card made of gold, diamonds and mother of pearl.
The Visa Infinite Exclusive card, now being marketed by Sberbank-Kazakhstan, will grant the user perks, such as lounge access at airports and discounts on hotels and meals. The bank even throws in an iPhone 5 and a Montblanc card case.
The card will cost $100,000. The bank says it spends about $65,000 to make the card, but the remaining $35,000 stays with the user.
Yearly fee is $2,000.
If you’re interested in opening credit cards for make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan, here you go.
this will be the only credit card you won’t throw away after closing the account.
Chase also has the Palladium Card for their private banking clients. Maybe Lucky has one of those 😉