Which bank? Why need original form?

I went for the Treats Fair on Friday evening, overall a pretty decent experience. I had applied for Petronas Visa at PC Fair, not sure if Maybank will approve my 3rd Visa card from them.

My colleague applied for the Petronas Visa, got the temp card after 1.6 hours. The free bag is worth the RM50 spent as long as you don't buy anything much more expensive than RM50. I exchanged 11.5k TP for a Braun shaver, quite worth it. Most items were quite reasonably priced, not really that much more expensive compared to normal store pricing.

CIMB DA, stated there that original form is required to apply. I need the PIN to get the E-PIN at ATM, in order to able to use CIMBClicks and see my cc statements. What a hassle.

This post has been edited by Underhill: Aug 3 2008, 04:06 PM

Well, I did tick the portion in the application form.

After a week or two when I got my card, I called the CS why I didn't receive my ATM PIN since I wanted to view online statement. They said it takes to genereate the PIN and will send it to me soon.

Yes, I would say you can get similiar discounts with cash/credit at shops outside for any products. Maybe they just throw in some cheap freebies like "onion bags", brolly, duck-beak-hat, etc. during the fair. My opinion of these CC fairs are for users to spend their TP. After all, it is not everyday you can convert the TP to RM/vouchers if you have something like e.g. bags/luggage choices from Samsonite, Delsey, Targus, etc. or any other stuff that you'll like.

Oh, they have a LASIK booth there as well and hair/scalp inspection. It's good if you always wanted to try it, but lazy to go for pre-inspection at their shops.

According to MBB, they estimate users to spend around 130 MILLION TP there I don't even have 1% of it. Not even close.

Well, I don't buy stuff at petrol kiosk other than engine oil, which is confirmed 5x. I purchased it somewhere in Jun/Jul '08. OK, maybe I buy other stuff like mineral water, tin can nescafe and ice cream, but normally pay cash. So, other than Petronas products, I'm not sure. The stuff in kiosk are normally expensive.

I did not check whether can redeem Syntium engine oil with TP. Anyone knows ?

Well, you can redeem RM 10 x 5 Petronas vouchers.

Use that to buy Syntium engine oil.

@cute_boboi,
I guess I'm interested onli in the Samsonite counter; unfortunately it probably wouldn't make a diff to me cause no TPs - maybe I'll start collecting mine and use it at next year's TreatFair *grins*

@Underhill,
All CC applications will tell U they want the original form; I guess that's because they need the original signature *shrugs*

Direct Access allows you to fax in the application form:

http://www.directaccess.com.my/pdf/DA%20cr...%20apply_01.pdf

@David83,
Act if banks insist on wanting the original form, what about applications made through the internet?

CIMB DA doesn't have online application. I mailed in my application.

For MBB, I submit online application for MBB Visa Classic. Then I faxed in my supporting documents. If I remembered correctly, they didn't ask me to send in the original form. As for my MBB Petronas Visa, no online application is available and I have to mail in everything.

Not sure for other banks. I cannot remember HSBC one since it was 2 years ago!

This post has been edited by David83: Aug 3 2008, 10:33 PM

To backtrack a bit, has anyone actually found a Subway cafe that accepts ccard in order to benefit from the 2x TP? So far all the subways i've been to is Cash only.

i applied cimb petronas. Formed downloaded from internet and filled in details nicely.. brought the form n docs to the branch n the officer told me that.. internet form no use 1.. then she get an ori form, attached it together with the downloaded n just need a single sign. she said she will copy the details for me.. 1 weeks later card receieved.. hehe

Crap! If it's useless, why put there! Stupid!

yeah the DA cc is a bit difficult as you have to apply for pin no. before you can use the internet banking. i gotta go to the main branch at damansara to apply last time

Not just CIMB DA. I believe you have to do the same for any CIMB CC.

haha.. I was at maybank treat fair at midvalley today, spent whole day there
hand was 'itchy', ended up with applying maybank petronas card
not much of things to buy lah (no money ooh ) only bought RM60 hotlink top up card, managed to get a free bag
Will swipe it 'kau kau' at petronas to get TP once i got the cc

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Added on August 3, 2008, 11:22 pmi thought the voucher can buy petrol only?

This post has been edited by muscaa: Aug 3 2008, 11:22 PM

Don't tell you paid that reload card using MBB Petronas Visa?

yes RM60 only i spent for the reload card, swipe it with temp card!
wanted to buy necklace at wah chain booth but later found that another shop tomei at ground floor centre court gave better discount/price so bought it with citibank card

This post has been edited by muscaa: Aug 3 2008, 11:29 PM

Not bad! They accept CC as payment method.

I saw nokia N78 handphone, RM1799, look like a good buy