I made some calculation and the most resaonable card type is the Named Black because you save on monthly fee (active and/or inactive).
Agree, the only card that really makes sense is the Named black card as there are no fees involved. The others are all a bit on the ridiculous side in my opinion with all the fees.
The Named Black card however will set you back $100 to order plus another $70 for DHL delivery whereas a Xapo card will cost you $20 to order and $55 for DHL making it almost a $100 cheaper and you have a single annual fee (from the 2nd year only) of a $1 a month or $12 year. No other funny fees involved and no lifetime limits.
As said, I think Bit-x has just priced themselves out of the market and have taken a simple service like a debit card and overcomplicated it with more fees than any bank currently asks on their offerings. Cannot say that I'm impressed with these developments but will wait for the official announcement to see what they say.
This is when you have lots of users and for them it's a little hard to move to another service, The Named Black is the best of these expensive cards.
I am watching similar services such as xapo and e-coin at the moment, but i liked always the bit-x about the buy/sell orders which are realistic.
But now with these fees i think that i will buy another one and probably xapo which converts the bitcoin in seconds like bit-x in ATMs. Let's see further feedbacks from users.
We have not announced any new fees or cards yet! We will ensure that all users will be satisfied.