WASTEFUL

Do any of you buy the points cards for the Wii, X Box 360 and PS3? How about the World of Warcraft play time cards?

If so you will know exactly what I mean when I say that they are so wasteful. In each case (not sure about the WoW cards as it's been a while since I bought one but was the case about a year ago) you end up buying the card encased in a DVD sized case. Why? Is there some economic reason for this? Am I right in thinking that it's both environmentally and economically advantageous to produce these over a small card holder like most high street store gift cards come in?

At least with the PS3 ones you can use the case a spare PS3 games case should any of your game cases get cracked. Microsoft have gone to the length of specifically producing a case that only fits the card. In fairness they have recently revised this again to be a smaller slimmed down version, but it is still over the top.

Can we please just have points cards without the over the top wasteful packaging?

I don't expect cheaper points cards, but I would like to think that I was throwing out a lot less rubbish than I need to. Producing less rubbish starts with the suppliers of goods and I think it is high time this over the top packaging was kicked into touch for more practical options.