Hehe, may be I should do a poll then fruitie sister can use the result to email Grab/BigPay management

Haha. Others can complain too.

Regarding the refund, I got all reversed. So, I'm OK.

My friend 1 finally activated, but he didn’t get any referral reward for the activation despite he used my referral code..

Probably didn't help that I was attempting to activate it while overseas (activation fee not in MYR). Those transactions are currently still Pending, we'll see whether they ever switch to Settled (but my balance has been deducted any how)

Mine were reversed quite fast, within 1 hour. All amounts have a strikethrough and marked reversed.

Refund received at 26 may.. almost a week..seller approved at 20 may.

I must say I love shopping in Taobao with BigPay, this reason itself is sufficient for me to continue using this card.

The rate is so so good. Almost identical to XE.com, without credit card service charge for foreign currencies.

I purposely waited till all my transactions are "Settled" to compare rate.

My boss is going to the States for business trip for three months which I usually will buy stuff from Amazon and post to him to bring back to Malaysia, looks like this round I will use BigPay card to pay.

This post has been edited by fruitie: May 31 2018, 10:27 PM

yes sis...! totally agreed with you

Got big exchange rate for my shopping in Thailand and Singapore.
Even my ATM cash out in SGD also very attractive. of course the more we withdraw, the best rate we get (coz RM10 withdrawal fee)

This is really a good to go card for overseas.

I may go to Russia in August and they prefer cash over cards, so most of the places don't accept cards except for hotels and restaurants. At first I thought I won't have chance to fully utilize this card but at least I can withdraw from ATM.

If anyone could inform any transaction so far not receiving any bigpoints, and oversea transaction if receiving 1 big points very RM2 spent. I will update in post #01 for easy reference. Thanks

Unfortunately Taobao is considered as online transactions and not overseas, so only RM 20 = 1 point for me.

My spending at Thailand is only 1 point for every RM20. Attached screenshot for reference



This post has been edited by mamamia: Jun 1 2018, 08:19 AM

I would like to say thanks to TS for updating the 1st post and provide good fresh informative value to the thread. Great job!

Myself tried almost 20x trying to add the card via Grab app but to no avail. At first I thought it didn't go through but when checking the BigPay app the RM1 verification charge was charged many many times to my horror. Checked the details and all the transaction indicated that it has been cancelled.

Tried to add the card via Grab webpage and it doesn't work too. Maybe TS would like to update the 1st post on this development until the ability to add the card to Grab is sustainable.

Recently I purchased a bus ticket and paid for using BigPay. The payment processor was iPay88 and they did ask who is the card issuer. I selected others and manually typed - BigPay, transaction went through. Receipt shows payment done via "Credit card" with no indication of card issuer.

On another note, members may have noticed their posts removed and this is due to violations on the BigPay referral code which is not allowed.

This post has been edited by hye: Jun 1 2018, 09:12 AM

Unable to use BigPay for myeg transaction. Error message appears as unable to process payment as this card is not issued in Malaysia.

yep, guess still not fixed. others have reported this issue since early Apr.

Mod and all, thanks for opportunity and appreciate your all support and advice for more saving tips.

Will update notes in regard to BigPay application on GrabPay.

Although I did not see any place mentioning RM2 oversea transaction will reward 1 bigpoints, but I do have an email from BigPay that inviting to join BigPay do make this clear statement.

May be you shall email BigPay for missing Bigpoint claim.

anyone got 1 bigpoint for every RM2 overseas transaction? I didn't, and dont rmb seeing this feature anywhere. Someone can confirm?

I think this was a feature for the big prepaid card (legacy)

This post has been edited by hwachong: Jun 1 2018, 10:03 AM

Feeling a little bit investigative this morning. I checked out the Issuer Identification Number (IIN), first 6 digits for BigPay and this is came out.

From (binlist dot net)
BRAND : Unembossed Prepaid Student
TYPE : Debit
Prepaid : YES
COUNTRY : Malaysia

From (bincodes dot com & exactbins dot com)
Issuing Bank TPAAY ASIA SDN. BHD.
Card Type DEBIT
Card Level PREPAID RELOADABLE
ISO Country Name MALAYSIA


This confirms that TPAAY ASIA is the issuing bank as mentioned earlier by some members. (and not CIMB) I believe a bank infrastructure is still required for them to "keep" the money but this might be irrelevant for us as BP can use any bank they choose.

This post has been edited by hye: Jun 1 2018, 10:22 AM

Thanks for the info.
I re-check again in my AIA online portal, it is still showing CIMB as the bank issuer.