Recent content by dane

No petrol stations, but we do have... Air Asia Earn 10 Bonus Points for every $1 spent Staples Earn 2 Bonus Points for every dollar spent plus 500 Bonus Points for orders over $200 Delivery Hero Earn 3 Bonus Point per $1 spent Premium Corporate Cars (Uber competitor?) Earn 1 Bonus Point...

I believe it's a 0.5% saving using the Mastercard (Westpac 2% + MC Issuer Cross Border Assessment 0.8% + MC Currency Conversion Assessment 0.2% = 3%) instead of the AMEX (Westpac 2% + AMEX FX Conversion 1.5% = 3.5%)... although, as Cove mentioned, even at the lower rate (2c per airline point) it...

Tell me about it! I'm not sure why I tried again either... a decade of blind loyalty has somehow skewed my perception of value. Seriously considering the Diners combo for a cheaper annual fee and a wider range of transfer partners (Hyatt, AA, Delta, SPG, etc.) - they also have a very similar...

Just spoke to another Westpac phone rep, who was friendly and polite, but wouldn't budge on a Platinum Plus to Black upgrade at the same annual fee. She understood that I would have hit the points cap a couple of times in 2012 and the changes would impact me (a much better experience than...

More information is finally available from Westpac on Altitude Black. So it's a 3.99% balance transfer (6 months) and 40,000 Altitude points for new customers. I guess I'll have to call them to see if this Platinum Plus customer is now eligible to upgrade to what they were already getting...

Saw this on OzBargain, it's for the first 1000 registrations for spend by 28 March and it looks like they're still accepting people... https://enroll.amexnetwork.com/AU/en/david-jones-highpoint-2013/?cid=AuDavDirMar13afb I hope some of you can get some use out of it. :) Get a $50 credit back...

I just read the start of an interview with our signee... Couldn't read past "delighting our customers" (emphasis mine).

If you'd like some extra frustration, call them after 8am tomorrow and they should repeat the lie to you over the phone. They might even abbreviate it to "the changes won't really affect you". If you're lucky, they might "plant the seed" for a future upsell offering the features they've just...

Sorry about the lengthy rant above, I think this sums up my frustration: That and when I spoke to them and asked if there would be future uncapped options I got an evasive response that new cards would be announced soon, but no further information could be provided to me. I probably would...

Got my letter yesterday about the points cap, with no mention of new cards. :( They've got a dedicated phone number set up for the 'unworthy' customers where the operator explains that the changes won't impact you, or if they do, that "that's life" and it's really only going to impact the...

They do have the power to decide if they want to sell them or not.

Today my concierge, completely unprompted, mentioned that they were investigating people using gift cards at Australia Post to pay bills. This was after she'd written down my license number and name for an amount over $500, and after the standard disclaimers about Coles and Myer not accepting...

I don't think a bank-issued Amex will work for their global transfer program... To be eligible for a Card transfer, your Consumer Card must be issued by American Express. You must be the Basic Cardholder, and have held the Card for at least 12 months... I can't post a link directly to that...

Sorry Foreigner! 2 bonus points per weekend transaction does sound like one of the dodgier deals out there! I'll update my initial post to make it a little clearer that it is per $ spent. (So much for copying the low earning headlines from the Amex website without thinking.) [Update: Okay, it...

Re: 5xbonus at BP 'til 31Dec2011[Ext.to 31Mar2012] Must register your card. Sorry, I think you're out of luck - those cards are excluded from the promotion.