Hi guys, just wondering which bank (except CIMB) offer free-annual fee waiver (automatically or on-call) for Visa Infinite / World MasterCard?


TQ.

This post has been edited by niel: Mar 15 2010, 11:23 PM

I've just called SC and being told they don't offer Visa Infinite card anymore
So, it seems I am left with unfavourable RHB / CIMB .

That's easy! Thank you for the info.

TQ.

This post has been edited by niel: Mar 16 2010, 01:51 PM

i was told by hsbc that you can't purchase a liquor/non halal products with amanah credit card! is it true?

there's nothing much there except for the free beer and foods... i would rather pay for the food at the new "jalan alor" in klia anyway.
back to your question, it's not all platinum cards are acceptable, only limited to eon, standard chartered, ocbc, citibank, ambank, alliance and amex.

however, do note the restriction of each bank. for eg. eon allows principle/supp card to access, but with a very limited quota which always hit on the 2nd week of the month. standard chartered limits the free access to principle card holder only and not sure about others.

best is to call plaza premium lounge to check.

i don't know how they would know, but what i know is they will take down your card number. i don't know if SC will subsequently charge it to your bill or not because it is clearly written free access for principle card only. plaza premium lounge will charge the access to the respective credit card bank.

This post has been edited by niel: Apr 8 2010, 04:56 PM

they don't run your card through the machine, only take down your card number. i can't remember if the one in klia verify it against your name on boarding pass or not, but the one in lcct didn't do that.

Is this a limit imposed to merchant? I have signed for multiple of 50K's buying properties and it goes through just fine.

alright, just got some confirmation from friends in car industry. reason being merchant does not want to bear the bank charges. they do, however accept "booking fee".

This thread is fast becoming a basic Q&A thread. Let's discuss something different.

How well your current credit card is serving you? For myself, I am still with Maybank due to the following reasons:-

1. 5x Petronas Point. I have plenty of tanks to be filled up each month, 5x point is really something. Imaging RM150/tank = 750 pts, I will get back almost RM4 worth of vouchers. Who needs the petite cash rebate then?

2. 2x point for any spending with AMEX, most grocery stores, gadgets, fine-dining and even shopping mall restaurants are accepting AMEX. Once in a while, there are promo of 10x points. I am really making full use of these offers including buying vouchers from groceries stores for use during non 10x period!

3. On-the-spot redemption, save me additional 1000 pts for every RM50 voucher. I always use my point to exchange for shopping/petrol vouchers because it's better value, it can be used during promotion in malls as well, that's additional discount. I used to get 167pts = RM1 voucher, but now they have increased to 186pts = RM1.

4. Maybank point never expires, so keep accumulating! All your different cards with Maybank, Amex, Petronas, Supplementary etc etc, the points can be accumulated as well.

5. Annual fee waiver, required a call to Maybank, but easily waived for all the cards under your account.

6. The bad point is, their customer service line is extraordinarily hard-to-reach, if not impossible, even for their dedicated Platinum line.

I am now exploring what HSBC can offers, so do share yours! HSBC customer service, to me, is top-notch. Anytime I call, I can get a human to talk to me immediately. I thought the good service is only for Premier card holder, but even the phone number for Plat and Gold card owners are great!

The charge will be factored into your redemption point, you get substantially lesser point for redeeming at Maybank Centre.

No more 16,700, beginning 1/4/2010, it has been revised to 20,000. Parkson has the cheapest at 19,300.