Slot cards that are not imprinted (or 'blank' as they are often called) are usually in better condition than imprinted cards, and therefore can be of greater value.

In the printing process, a card is fed through a ribbon printer and also an encoder and receives a fair amount of physical contact with rollers, mag-stripe recording head and metal guides. This tends to scratch the surface of the all the cards that pass through these machines.

Then, if a card is used in a slot machine (or other reader device) there is additional scratching and marring that takes place each and every time the card is inserted and again removed from these devices, not to mention the added wear of how and where the user stores /keeps the card.

So, a blank card avoids all of those scratch prone devices and generally does better in the marketplace.

I've always felt that blanks are better!

See you in June!

Jim