No doubt it is a good card but the requirements though:
Annual Income: RM 250K p.a
Annual Fee RM 1,215.09 (waiver is tiered 100% if spending is RM 240K above, 50% for 120K above).
The following activities excluded from point collection....
(a) Cash advances, cash withdrawals, cash deposits and/or betting or gaming transactions;
(b) Retail transactions in respect of purchases of petrol, diesel and any other purchases made at the petrol kiosk;© Retail transactions which are disputed by the Cardholder;
(d) Transactions made using prepaid credit balance which is the amount paid into the Cardholder’s credit card account minus any amount used on credit by the Cardholder. For example, if a Cardholder’s original credit limit is RM50,000 and he/she uses RM10,000 from the credit limit and then pays RM30,000 into the credit card account, the balance of RM20,000 paid
(RM30,000 payment minus RM10,000 utilization) is the prepaid credit balance. If the same Cardholder does not use his/her credit card at all but pays RM20,000 into the credit card account, the RM20,000 is the prepaid credit balance;(e) Payment of the annual fees or service charges, delivery charges, cash payments, card replacement fee, government service tax, dispute charges, fraud charges, interest/finance/profit charges/facility charges for CIMB Islamic Credit Card, cash advance fees, processing fees, or any other kind of fees and/or penalties whether imposed by CIMB or
otherwise;
(f) Instalment payment plan transactions;
(g) Auto billing / direct debit / recurring transactions (not applicable to Merchant Credit Card and e Credit Card)(h) Payments to charity under designated MCC 8398-Charitable and social service organisations (not applicable to CIMB Preferred Visa Infinite-i Credit Card);
(i) Any government related payments under designated MCC below: -
9211 Court costs, including alimony and child support
9222 Fines
9223 Bail and bond payments
9311 Tax payments
9399 Government services
9402 Postal services – government only
9405 Intra-Government Purchases-Government only
(j) JomPAY, FPX and/or Duitnow QR transactions.
(k) E-wallet transaction under designated MCC 6540.It was good until 31.12.23.
I had a good one year in 2023 and a couple of months in late 2022 when it was just launched. I collected tons of miles from it.
Since I have spent more than enough for AF waiver, I'm keeping it until my AF in Nov. Only use it occasionally when I go overseas, even that my other card gives better conversion. It was a good card for local retail, not anymore after this year.