Please read these frequently asked questions before emailing us to ask questions. Any question that we receive that has already been covered in the FAQ below will not be answered.

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• General
• Card Design and Print Process
• Card Delivery
• Payment Information
• Ordering Information
• Legal Issues
• Mistakes and Returns
• Other Cards and Custom Card Designs

General

Fluxcard began life as a home-based business selling made up fake id’s and business cards to local customers. The website www.eyic.com was set up in early 1997, and pretty soon the site was selling hundreds of cards per week. In 2000 the range of cards offered was increased to 20, and the website was changed to www.fluxcard.com. Fluxcard were the first to introduce personalized plastic cards, contrary to whatever other sites say. Marketing drives and media advertising contributed to fluxcard’s continuing success.
The name fluxcard derives from the latin Flux*, which means a state of constant change. We like to think this represents our position at the forefront of the novelty ID industry, constantly innovation and supplying many thousands of customers with value for money identity cards

*It also is an archaic term for dysentery, possibly including any condition that produces an extensive flow of fluid from the body, but we try not to associate the company with that!

Surprisingly our cards are the same or cheaper prices than our competitors, with "extras" such as holograms or overlays included as standard on all cards. Our premium card ranges are priced higher of course, but these are at the cutting edge of fake id technology at the moment and are unsurpassed by any other.


It's quite hard to answer this question without coming across as insincere! We have been around since 1996, we were the first company to issue PVC cards. We have constantly led the way in terms of innovation and quality. Our cards are consistently original, and originality really helps the cards we sell to be as effective as possible.
Are your card designs convincing and effective?
We cannot really comment on the effectiveness of our cards, as it would imply that there are other uses for our cards apart from novelty use.


We sell to all countries worldwide apart from the following:
• The USA, it's colonies, dependencies, military stations, outlying islands or any territory claimed by the USA.
• Iran, Iraq, North Korea
• Libya, Mexico, Nigeria


Some of our cards have metallic print or foil holograms. Unlike other companies, these holographics are supplied standard.


There are around 150 fake id sites on the net, about 20 of which are based in the UK. 5 or so of these are total scammers, but the rest are genuine sites. The nature of the internet guarantees that you can find out who is a scammer fairly quickly. Check the net for "fluxcard scam" and you will get no results, which would go some way to proving it.
We are also a limited registered company, traceable and accountable under Trading Standards legislation. If we were scammers, we would hardly go to all this effort to construct a fully working website!


All cards we sell are for novelty use only, they cannot be used for any other purpose. For this reason, it is impossible for us to comment on whether the cards will "work" all we can say is that our sales have consistently grown since we started. We get many repeat orders and recommendations to our site from previous customers, so that must mean that the cards are of some use to people.


We like to have a theme running through each of our card ranges. In previous years, we have used ranges of different images. In 2000 it was our friends, including the sexpot Crepido (email him : crepido at hotmail.com). In 2001 it was famous economists, 2003 it was famous mathematicians, reflecting the geek background of the founder of fluxcard. 2004-2005 it was the Legends of Rock..Led Zeppelin. 2005 – 2006 was the lovely Liv Tyler, to salute her overall babeness. Schwing!

Last year it was the turn of masters of cheezy goodness, Robert Goulet, Barbara Streisand, Tony Bennett, Paul Anka, Johnny Mathis, Engelbert Humperdinck and last but not least, Barry Manilow!

This year, it's Uncle Chop Chop! Careful, he'll fucking kill you!

All images © their respective owners, used under concept of fair use, and a general appreciation of their work. Please email removal requests using our contact form.

Card Design and Construction

When you order a card, all the details you enter into the form are stored in a database in our server. We then match forms and payment received in the post to the database. All valid cards (those with payment and photo enclosed) are then printed on that day. We make a scan of your application form, this is stored on our servers.
Your photo is cropped from the form and edited, in some cases removing the background from your photo. This is then stored on our server, where it is matched to your order record, then printed. Cards are then checked and treated with any special finishes such as holographic overlay, then packed.


No, the age of ID cards in kit form passed in 1992 and we're not going to insult our customers by offering them!

All of the information that does not change from card to card, e.g. the background graphics and text are preprinted using a lithographic process. These are ISO standard cards which are printed in the same way that credit cards and UK DVLA cards are printed. We maintain a stock of each type of card in our range. The print quality of these cards are second to none, no other supplier of cards prints their product in this way. See printing technical specifications for more details. The cards are personalised using a Fargo HDP printer, which can personalise both sides of the card in one go. HDP printed cards are far superior to normal thermal printed cards.

Fargo is a registered trading name of Fargo Electronics. We are not associated with them in any way. Fargo Electronics do not endorse such use of their printers.

Our cards have, amongst others the following features
• Working embedded Siemens SLE4442 Chips with data storage
• Working HiCo magnetic stripes with data encoded
• Unique custom hologram overlaminates
• Metallic spot colour printing (unique to fluxcard)
• Transparent Signature printing on some cards (unique to fluxcard)

Card templates printed using Pantone Matching System on 400 micron pentawhite PVC.
Printed 42 up on SRA2 size sheets. Lithographically printed on 4-head Heidelberg Speedmaster offset press.
Cut and rampunch to ISO 7810 standard.
Laminated sheetfed to 760micron ISO standard.
Card print resolution is true litho and screen resolutions of 1200dpi, microtext readable to 1pt size.
(All other competitor cards have minimum readable type sizes of around 4pt)
Spot metallic ink printing to give some areas of card metallic colour effects (unique to fluxcard).

Card Delivery

The delivery time of cards depends on the following:
• Time taken to get order delivered to our processing office
• Time to print cards
• Time to deliver printed card back to your address.
Typically this delivery time can vary between 3 and 10 days.

A note on competitor's claims:

Next Day delivery means that the cards are printed the same or next day the order is received. It is completely unrealistic to claim that a card can be delivered within one or two days of sending off the order. Common sense should prevail here - it's simply not possible to move something through the postal system that quickly.

The cards are enclosed in a piece of A4 card folded in three, which has text and graphics printed on it, making it difficult to see or feel what is inside. This card is then wrapped with your application form, which is then placed in a window envelope. All you can see from the outside is your address as printed on the form. The envelope has a airmail logo printed on it plus a return address to our Irish post office box. This is to ensure that if your letter is lost in the post it gets returned to us.

Payment Information

Please also see our how to order section for more information on this. We accept the following methods of payment: Cash, cheques, postal orders, money orders, bank drafts. Please make all non-cash payments made payable to IDENTITY.
We reserve the right to withhold cards that are paid for with cheques, particularly with the first 10 cheques of a chequebook. Most commonly cheques are bounced in this range. We will refer any bounced cheques to a debt collection agency, this will affect your credit rating adversely.

A note on sterling payments:
Please do not send sterling payments if you are resident in the Republic of Ireland, or euro payments if you are resident in the UK. We reserve the right to deduct a processing fee from anyone attempting this, equal to the amount received. We will only process applications that are paid for in the currency of the recipient's country.

Ordering information

For instructions on ordering a card, please see this section


The better quality your photo is, the better it will look on your card. We will touch it up to the best of our efforts using photoshop, but we cannot work miracles. Please try to send us a photo taken in a passport photo booth, this will give the best quality.
Photographs taken from nights out, scanned and reprinted colour pictures will all look substandard and should be avoided if it all possible.
Your photo is not returned with your card.


No, we feel it's a little insulting to charge £10 or whatever and then ask for an envelope or stamp!


No we do not sell your details in any way. Cardholder records including a scan of your form, cropped photo and signature are stored for about 6 months on a secure server not connected to the Internet.
Please note that we are under legal obligation to release details about your order if specifically requested for your record by UK or Ireland law enforcement officers, but this would only occur if you were in trouble with the law.


Yes, there are, please have a look at our fake id prices page.

Legal Issues

We can make and sell these cards legally because they do not infringe on any existing copyrights held on any identity cards. Look at it this way, if you print up a card saying "Clown College ID", this does not mean that you are a member of a Clown College, or even that such a college exists.
It is this principle which allows us to print and sell these cards. None of the cards we sell are illegal to buy or possess, but it is illegal to use these cards to lie about your age and status. Another way to look at this is that if you were to apply for a driving licence from the DVLA or other issuing authority, and you gave false information, you would be committing an offence, but the issuing authority would not be guilty of any crime as they took the details you supplied to be genuine.
When you apply for a card you sign the application form, by doing so you indicate your acceptance and understanding of the terms and conditions applicable to the sale of our cards.


No, it is not illegal, but you can use these cards in an illegal manner. Similar to the way that screwdrivers are not illegal, but could be used as a weapon in the wrong hands. Or cheesegraters, for another example.

Buying and possessing these cards is not illegal. However, using these cards to misrepresent your age, status or other attribute may be illegal. Common misuses of identity documents such as buying alcoholic products while underage, buying cigarettes while under the legal age, entering a licenced premises while under the prescribed age limit. All these misuses are serious transgressions of the law, and are punishable severely under law.

Mistakes and Returns

If you receive your card and you spot a mistake which is our fault, we will replace your card. The letter that arrives with your card outlines how to return the card. What happens if I made a mistake when ordering? If you make a mistake on your form, please go back to the start of the order process. Otherwise we will simply print your card with the mistakes on it. Please do not alter the form by hand, as we use the database record for printing and the mistakes will still be printed.

Other Cards and Custom Designs

Can you make me up a custom card?
Yes, we can make a custom card for you, as long as it is not illegal, i.e. a copy of an existing card.
We will not make copies of the following cards or documents.
• Fake Connexions Card
• Fake Portman Prove It Card
• Fake Garda ID Card
• Fake or False Passports
• Fake or False Driving Licences
• Fake NUS Cards
• DVLA Cards
• Immigration Certficates
• Fake National Age Card
• Fake Local CouncilCards


No, as we state above, we will not make a copy of any existing card.

 

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