I thought there are a comparison chart posted by someone showing the Amex reserve better rate than VI

Yeah, I posted this after coming back from Europe ... VI rate was worse than Amex.

Aspire RM50K, PW RM250K deposit right?

I signed up to PW like 2 months ago but so far haven't got the card - apparently Maybank have some issues, so much for "Premier" service

Yeah, I have the recognition card just not the PW debit card. Apparently there's some issue with them (relating to PIN not working )

I just posted my Aussie transactions with my Maybank 2 Cards Premier AMEX Reserve versus Visa Infinite in my latest article titled A Little Bit Of this and A Little Bit Of That - Vol.1, Chapter IV.

For the benefit of those of you not interested in reading about stuff that I write about, here are the transactions:

Maybank 2 Cards American Express Reserve:
AUD44.19
RM135.9
Conversion Rate: 3.0753564

Maybank 2 Cards Visa Infinite:
AUD156.80
RM486.06
Conversion Rate: 3.09987


Dozz - managed to perform any overseas transactions yet with your MBB 2 Cards Premier?

Hi Gen X and all!

I'm back to this forum again. Yap, i just come back from Japan few days ago. I purposely use different cards on the same day transactions. I checked my credit card statement online and here the outcome :

Maybank 2 Card Visa Infinite
Transaction date : 28 March 2014
Yen : 1890.00
RM : 118.21
Conversion Rate: 0.03290

Transaction date : 27 March 2014
Yen : 3420.00
RM : 112.56
Conversion Rate: 0.03291

Maybank 2 Card AMEX Reserve
Transaction date: 28 March 2014
Yen : 1890.00
RM : 62.01
Conversion Rate: 0.03280

Transaction date: 27 March 2014
Yen : 3100.00
RM : 101.74
Conversion Rate: 0.03281

Obviously Maybank 2 Amex Reserve card give us cheaper conversation rate in oversea transaction.

Thanks, so far you, rjb123 and me confirmed AMEX's foreign currency conversion rate lower than VI.

I like the design of this card but to entitle for annual fee waiver one need to spend RM 80,000 per annum.

Thanks @Gen-X and @Dozz 4 confirmation...really appreciate that....

I guess Maybank make more on transaction fees with AMEX, hence the exchange rates are lower.

Looks like I won't be using VI much in the near future.

agoda giving 12% discount when using VI on wednesday.
i am wondering if i make booking on agoda and select RM instead of USD..
does this count as oversea transaction to get 5x TP or local transaction (2x Tp only)?

Same here.... lol

Was looking at my 1st statement of CC account and noticed 30,000 "RESERVE ACTIVATION TP " ...
Didn't know about FREE 30,000 TP before...

30,000 TP = 6,666 enrich miles,
so This free TP alone can almost justify paying rm800 annual fee for frequent flyer like me .....

EDIT : Thanks for @iamWill for corrected me...

This post has been edited by tigaxxx: Apr 18 2014, 09:24 AM

30, 000 tp is more like 6666 enrich miles. 4500 tp = 1000 em

This post has been edited by iamWill: Apr 18 2014, 09:18 AM

Still, how do you get 30,000 TP? is it from amex or vi? afaik, only vi is given 10k tp

I'm sure from Amex , cos in the statement , stated there "RESERVE ACTIVATION TP " and NOT "VISA INFINITE ACTIVATION TP" ...
Perhaps other users can confirm this...

This post has been edited by tigaxxx: Apr 18 2014, 01:03 PM

Yah, nice welcome gift, FREE TPs. If you had not post I would not have even noticed it.

Yah, nice welcome gift, FREE TPs. If you had not post I would not have even noticed it.

I just checked my Statement after reading the posts above. Well, my statement also mentioned "RESERVE Activation TP" BUT I only got 20,000TP!!! Well, better than nothing and get to offset cost of RM100 GST. As for the VI, I got nothing for activation, only earned TPs from overseas spent. Maybe got to use the VI locally to get 10,000TP? I must go call CS and report back later.

This post has been edited by Gen-X: Apr 18 2014, 01:48 PM

I have used VI (locally)...but earned only regular TP..

Done it before, and it was considered overseas. But that was awhile back.

I called Maybank CS and was told we will only earn 10,000TP each for activating the AMEX RESERVE and Visa Infinite. Therefore what I got. i.e. 20,000 TP is correct I guess. tigaxxx, you lucky fellow get to be rewarded with 30,000 TP

For those of you new to Maybank 2 Cards Premier, click here to read my Comprehensive Review of the Maybank 2 Cards Premier.

And click here to see the Agoda 12% for Visa Infinite issued in Malaysia for bookings on Wednesday until 4 June 2014.

This post has been edited by Gen-X: Apr 20 2014, 12:42 AM