QUOTE(ClarenceT @ Jun 21 2018, 08:07 AM)
I spend RM1000/month on Insurance and Govt which I may get only 0-0.2% rebate/reward. so my return is not less than 8%.
If Bigpay topup is part of month spend, assume cash withdraw RM3000 every quarter, then
(100x12) - (6x4) - 160 = 1016 / 12000 (spend on 3 categories, excl bigpay) -> 8.47%
For me my insurance is about RM1345 combining my kids and mine.
With the normal spending on others spending combining my wife and company hotel/flight purchase, i can easily get the RM68k bonus which is RM880, although i got RM1800 bonus in my first year.
It's your own decision to get RM1016 cash back per year (for higher CB %) with HLB Wise or you can combine with others to get RM1440/RM2400++ per year (although lower CB %) with HLB Fortune.
Btw i'm also spending online transaction just for PBVS and PBQMC, using PBQMV to reload 2 X RM500 into Bigpay every week just to get the campaign RM50 cash back + RM10 (4000 VIP points) as the same time.
Sometime we need to maximize the cash back value, not the cash back %.
QUOTE(seankeith90 @ Jun 21 2018, 08:15 AM)
HLB Fortune not only 50/month max?
There is additional real cash at the end of your card financial year.
If you spend RM38k/year you got RM280, RM68k got RM880 and RM108k got RM1800.
My first year got a lot of furniture and electrical stuff to buy since buying a new house and easily achieve over RM108k and thus get RM2400 for the first year (RM1800 + RM50X12).
If you don't take it out to offset your card balance, you can get additional FD interest as well.
Now i got over RM4k real cash in the account over 2 years and my current real cash account gave me over RM10 per month just for the interest.