This is perhaps the not the best sub for this question but it’s directed at Americans so here goes..
Do any of you have Diners Club cards? I see them listed on those stickers stores have on the front door saying which credit cards they accept, but literally never in my life have I seen a Diners Club card in person or heard anyone mention them. Never seen an ad for one either. It just seems so bizarre that my entire life I’ve seen them only on those tiny signs in stores or wherever but never anywhere else.
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I think those completely died in the 90s.
Closest today would maybe be country club memberships.
According to [NerdWallet](https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/credit-cards/what-is-a-diners-club-card), they don’t issue them anymore and Discover takes care of remaining customers.
I’m in my 40s and worked in restaurants and retail in the 90s, I’ve never seen one.
Apparently they’re still a thing: https://www.dinersclub.com/cardmembers/global-card-acceptance/
Haven’t heard of anyone having one in decades.
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/credit-cards/what-is-a-diners-club-card
Looks like it is not available to individuals anymore.
Not in any real sense.
Diners Club is/was the first widely accepted credit card. They still exist but they exist as branded MasterCard in North America and Discover Cards everywhere else. Even people who did use them in the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s were long ago issued MasterCard or Discover Card replacements.
I know one person that had a Diners Club card, it was Telly Savalas. When he died, card use died with him.
I’d say if you’re under 70ish you don’t have one
I never saw one even when they still existed.
Try definitely exist and continue to issue cards, just as Discover.
I don’t know anyone that actually had one, but I remember the commercials in the 80s.
I believe they were bought out by Discover some years ago.
Diner’s Club was bought by Citibank in the 1990s and there is no longer a dedicated network.
I had one for years in the 1990s and early 00s. It was a great, under-appreciated card with incredible fringe benefits and top-notch service. But acceptance was pretty much confined to travel providers, hotels, and A-tier restaurants.
Citibank bought the Diners brand and gutted the proposition so it was a kind of sub-brand of Citi Mastercards, if I remember right. I gave mine up at that point. Discover bought the brand from Citi around 2008 or so and they don’t issue new Diners Club cards anymore.
It’s sad and weird because 50+ years ago Diners Club was as big a thing as American Express, but somehow Amex grew and grew while Diners stumbled and withered.
My old corporate card from my last job (2019-2021) was a Diners Club card…