received my principle card from taipan branch on friday.... funny thing is, my supplimentary have to collect from gardens branch on SUNDAY even after i've placed instruction to collect both cards from taipan. Their internal communications really need to improve.

Nice to see that the starwood promo has been extended to 2015.

This post has been edited by raist86: Jan 12 2015, 02:38 PM

Bro, like I said you blur-est person in Credit Card Section. Simple math also don't know and want to give guidance to others. Zero means nothing lah!!!

It is a fact that you are now after post counts again. It is so obvious that you stopped posting as smsbusiness2u and started another username with sms2u. This new username joined in December 2013 and today got 500+ posts!!!! But it is not surprising how you got so many posts in such a short time as you have spamming every where in the Finance Section instead of just sticking to Garage Sale where you got no post count.

hahahaha, and you admitted you No.1 Spammer in Credit Card Section. And of course you will reply this post because you after post counts, hahaha

To ALL: over the years, many con men (including sellers at garage sale) have come to Credit Card section and post for the simple fact to get post counts so that they can give the impression to others that they are members that contribute.

and this sms2u is the top spammer known as smsbusiness2u previously.

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i think the starwood promo thingy sucks for east malaysians.. u only get discounts when u do buffet not for ala carte items ...

dining privileges is more for KL city lo. Can't blame the banks cos there's not many high end hotels outside of KL.

I just went to the nearest MBB branch apply for MBB2 Premier card. Not sure if I have made the right decision to drop by into branch instead of Card center.

I have a couple of MBB FD which I did last year, 4% FD upfront too. Hopefully they let me use to pledge for this card.

Branch also can apply. just that whether they got any incentive to expedite your application. Gardens cardcenter was quite good in the sense they update me on the process (ie, submission of form, eta on approval). Just that if you need to pledge FD, then it's up to the branch to provide their service.

you did the right thing. i went to card center, and they explained to me that my income doesnt meet the requirement, so they cannot process. they suggested me to walk in to branch or go to any place that got maybank credit card booth/roadshow, that will be easier because they have different process and can help you to appeal if your income doessnt meet 180k/year

i tried to talk to branch, they seems very reluctant to help me.

one of the cardcenter staff refer me to maybank credit card sales guy, a very helpful guy, he helped me to submit. this guy know how to process the application with FD pledge. he told me he had experience to help people without income (such as house wife) to get this card with FD pledge.

so now i am waiting for card center to process and get back to me on how much i should pledge in order to get the card.

i need to thank @herc who wrote the steps how to apply this.

The simplest way is simply to write a letter to offer to pledge. The credit unit will then send you a letter to offer. Then just bring this to any branch. It can be frustrating frankly but I guess it is well worthy of the effort.

I think many of us has shared it is basically a 30k CL, you just top up via FD to 30k from your existing given CL by Maybank.

Starwood Dining privilege

Let's enjoy a fine cuisine, Starwood Dining at any participating hotels including The Westin Kuala Lumpur, Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur, Four Points by Sheraton Penang, The Andaman Luxury Collection Resort and many more! Bring yourself a date or the whole clan, the more the merrier! It is all from January until December 2015.

What's more interesting? You are also entitled to a 10% off or use the privilege of Ezypay for any wedding packages at any of the participating hotels.

Dining privileges at all Starwood Properties in Malaysia:
•25% discount when dining alone
•50% discount when dining with one (1) guest (total of 2 people)
•33% discount when dining with two (2) guest (total of 3 people)
•25% discount when dining with three (3) guest (total of 4 people)
•20% discount when dining with four (4) guest (total of 5 people)

The participating hotels are:
•The Westin Kuala Lumpur
•Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur
•Sheraton Imperial Kuala Lumpur
•Aloft Hotel Kuala Lumpur
•The Westin Langkawi Resort & Spa
•The Andaman Luxury Collection Resort
•Le Meridien Kota Kinabalu
•Four Points by Sheraton Sandakan
•Four Points by Sheraton Penang

Terms and Conditions:
•Not applicable to alcoholic beverages and cigar lounges
•Not applicable during Breakfast Period, Prego Branzo (Champagne Brunch) at The Westin Kuala Lumpur and Sunday Roast at Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur
•Applicable at all participating Starwood Hotels & Resorts Malaysia Only (as listed above)
•Applicable to lunch and dinner buffet at participating restaurants.
•Applicable only to Maybank Visa Infinite, Manchester United Visa Infinite, Ikhwan Visa Infinite and World MasterCard Cardmembers.
•Subject to participating restaurants and hotels.
•The Dining privileges is not applicable for lounges and pool bars as listed below :◦Aloft KL Sentral - WXYZ, Re Fuel
◦Le Meridien KL - Gastro Sentral
◦Sheraton Imperial KL - Toastina, Pavilions Lounge
◦The Westin Kuala Lumpur - Qba Club and Cigar Lounge, Splash Pool Bar
◦The Westin Langkawi - Breeze Lounge
◦The Andaman - Jentayu Lounge, Tepian Laut, Beach Bar and The Japanese Restaurant
◦Le Meridien KK - Pool Bar, The Lounge, Lobby Lounge
◦Four Points By Sheraton Sandakan - Wrapped, Lobby Lounge, Pool Bar

Awesome!!!

For fee waiver, do you have to spend >80k for AMEX and >50k for VI separately?

No. Both card combine 80k

Great! Just got the card (with 30k FD pledge) and was worried for a moment that it was >130k.....

May I ask how long is the whole process from the moment you submit the application till the moment you received your card?

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Special Offer Valid until 31 Aug 2015
15% off self-drive rentals in Europe
for Hertz Car Collections, minimum 4 days rental

Make A Reservation
» Family Collection | Prestige, Fun & Green Collection

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10% off self-drive rentals + Free one day rental on
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Make A Reservation
» USA | Europe | Australia T&Cs apply.

10% off self-drive rentals
for all car groups, minimum 1 day rental

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» Worldwide T&Cs apply.

10% off self-drive rentals + Free one-car-class upgrade
minimum 3 days rental
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» USA/ Canada | Europe | Australia/ New Zealand | Asia T&Cs apply.

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http://www.happartners.com/visa/visa_infinite.php

About a month. It can be faster as 20 days is spent on waiting for the offer letter to arrive.

Don't really use any other cards any more .. pretty much everything goes through the Amex.

Maybank treatspoints catalog is great too ... I've redeemed stupid amount of stuff in the last year

Looking forward to using my Enrich miles soon

This post has been edited by rjb123: Jan 17 2015, 07:29 PM

Hi kmarc,

Can i know which branch and staff you speak to on the 30k FD pledge? Hopefully i cam speak to a staff who is familiar with this pledge.

Im interested to upgrade from mbb2cards platinum to premier. Currently holding mbb VS as well.

Thank you.

From my experience, fastest way is to place FD then contact the MBB Premier card centre to apply, only visit the branch once you have the offer letter from them in the post.

I did this way for VS and Premier also - was much faster this way than doing the whole thing in branch (which I did for MBB 2)

Roughly about 10 days. Went to the main branch to apply and had to collect the card directly from the branch.