Spend 40k per month consider to be invited to platinum class ? What you mean actually ? Amex Plat CC is my primary card since the day i got it except the merchant doesn't accept it. 

Oh, wrong typo. 40k per year 

Dear all,

Just want to share my experience trying to redeem my MR for Frequent Flyer / Frequent Guest programs.

I have AMEX Gold Credit Card. When I called the CS, they said that Credit Card will NOT be eligible to redeem points such as Starwood, Hiltonhonors, etc. Reason? Maybank still haven't set up the "facility" for this type of redemption.

If you have AMEX Charge Card, then yes, you can redeem for frequent flier / guest points as usual.

I found this to be shocking after spending my purchases mostly to AMEX credit card only to find this issue yesterday. I even talked to the supervisor on the phone and she could only apologised for the problem.

I told her I might just write to AMEX HQ (in USA, I assume) regarding the silly things Maybank is doing to their brand.

Anyone else has the same issue?

Can I cancel Maybank AMEX thru phone? Or need to fax letter to Maybank?

hey guys..wanna ask u regarding the GST rm50 per year..

is the amex GC also chraged r??coz its written there lifetime fee waiver..

coz 1 agents from HLB told me, all cards have this rm50 charges eventhou its lifetime fee waiver....

yes all cards have the RM50 GST regardless whether they have fee waivers or not. The Fee waiver is referring to the card's annual fee (which is charged by bank), while GST is collected by Government.

owh my gosh...so this one can redeem via points or not for amex?

10000MR points to redeem.

= to how many RM need to be spent r???

If you're using for petrol, groceries, cathay cineplex, phone bills, you only need to spend RM2k to get 10k MR points. RM1 = 5MR points
For other spending, you'll need RM5k for 10k points. RM1 = 2MR points

IMO, Amex Gold CC the cheapest card to earn points for GST redemption.

By the way, Happy Chinese New year to those celebrating

Just got reply from Maybank regarding the AMEX Plat I am applying, they required my pay slip as prove of income? I feel this is redundant since I already submitted my photostated other plat cards during application. Not to mention AMEX Plat requirement is one of the lowest around (compared to my other plat cards as well).

It could be probably your reference Plat card is less than 1 year. If your reference card is more than 1 year and your current CL is good enough to show a Plat cc status, you need not provide income pay slips. However, MBB has long been well-known for requesting extra confidential information from customers.

Those cards more than a year but still... sigh. Credit limit I believe should be at good level (definitely not RM 5k as per reported by a Plat card user in the cc thread). Really teruk this Tiger bank, I treat it as an insult.

Frankly, if you compare the benefits of this AMEX Plat n AMEX Gold Credit Card, you will notice that this card is nothing great. Not forgetting you might need to pay a hefty AF as well (unless you spend as much as someone who got it waived successfully here)

1st AF for Amex Plat cc is automatically waived. Amex/MBB knows that this product is rather weak and has since reduced its income requirement to RM60,000 per annum only, as well as given AF waiver for 2nd year onwards upon request. Amex Plat cc now intends to target mass market but unfortunately, its benefit sucks, can't even compete with its Gold cc.

what about amex Gold CC and amex gold???is the benefit better than the plat?