BHA MBNA branded Credit card

Got a letter saying the existing 'deal' is over and i'll get a new one soon.

Anyone else had one? Not really sure how much benefit BHA got from my use, but am intrigued as to what MBNA would have contributed.

MBNA did lots of branded credit cards - charities, sports clubs etc. The Brighton card, like many others, was closed to new users some time ago, presumably because there were too few users. MBNA contributed a small start up fee and a miniscule % of the card spending. Presumably they recouped the money from the interest charged to users.

The charity cards seem to have stopped completely,and the football cards are limited to some of the obvious clubs such as Liverpool and Arsenal - but strangely also still retaining West Ham and Aston Villa

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Ditched mine a while back as used it for work expenses only and the twats applied a card payment to the bill twice from my bank account and took 6 months to resolve the issue and refund the bank charges I incurred

I've had one for years and have received the same letter. Same as Beach Hut, mainly use it for work expenses. May not bother now once balance cleared.

Since the capping on card fees it's not worth bothering from their perspective, or the clubs - as it's just more aggro for no money.

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Rowdey said:

Got a letter saying the existing 'deal' is over and i'll get a new one soon.

Anyone else had one? Not really sure how much benefit BHA got from my use, but am intrigued as to what MBNA would have contributed.

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I'm in the same boat (didn't see your thread back in June) - and now I'm using the new one with no Albion badge, I'm feeling the old one is a tiny, tiny bit of the history of the twenty years "from Hereford to Here".

The deal was done in Dick Knight's day, and the club was getting a cut.

But that deal finished years ago - I think mbna informed us a decade ago that the club was no longer profiting, but they were keeping the club badge ... and that's why the club badge never got updated.

One odd thing is that occasionally a barperson/shopkeeper will say "oh you support the Albion'" but even in Brighton no-one ever said "... err, that's the old badge".

Here's a pic for anyone interested.