Thanks for the replies ! I'm going to try the credit card fix today, the damage to the slot is identical to the picture in rpdom's link to the credit card repair. My wife felt bad for me so she agreed I should order another Pi , which I promptly did, so if this works I will have two ! Will post back...

Hello , I was messing around with my pi , that i just got 5 days ago ,building a case and i broke it. Yes I know i'm in idiot. I had left the sd card in and when i was moving it around the gray plastic around the sd card slot broke off. The card will not stay in place. Is my 5 day old card junk ? ca...