Good day ladies & gentlemen,
Any advice to optimize cash backs & cards offering 0% balance transfer?
My data for consideration of the above:
1. Annual Income: paiseh to share exact, just enough to get Visa Signature / Visa Infinite / etc. but cut-up/rejected i hardly use those facilities
2. Free Lifetime Annual Fee: Yes please - even if not auto waive, call to waive like Citi is ok
3. Cards required for:
Major monthly expenses, in sequence of high-to-low total average monthly, charged to cards are:
a. Tesco & Giant groceries
b. Online shopping (mainly Tesco again)
c. Insurances
d. Mobile telecommunication bills
e. Utilities - TNB, TM/UNIFI, IWK, etc
f. Petrol
4. Existing credit cards if any:
a. MBB DuaCard: Amex + Visa - mainly earlier for the weekend cash back, now zzz
b. Citi Cashback - 2% groceries + mobile telcos EXCEPT Celcom (Citi killed cash back for Celcom payments a few months back)
c. PB Visa Signature - online spending 6%, groceries (miserably up to total RM60 cash back only)
d. CIMB Cashback - online spending 5% (miserably up to RM30 cash back only) + groceries 2%
5. Looking at CC from:
anything to optimize
a. insurance cash back (not the miserable 0.2%) or point to vouchers equivalent %
b. often offered 0% and >=12 months (lazy to track 3-6 months) balance transfers
6. Others:
no CCRIS issues + consistent / good repayer, thus getting a card isn't an issue.
just unsure what's good out there WITHOUT severe parameters like HLB's Wise or something - crazy, track how many transactions & must be more than $xx...
urgh
simplify + long term

one more card for you: MBB VS. AF auto waived with RM50K per annum.