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Hi, I thought I would post about a problem I have had around 3 times. Often when I travel to Thailand for business I book award flights as BA has quite a bit of award availability. Often I am not sure how long I will stay and whether I will return directly to Australia or make a trip to...

Yes you won't find a card giving better points with no points cap. You could risk Citibank Gold as they have a possible points restriction. ie. You do not automatically stop earning points when you reach the cap - someone has to notice and change your account. I earned millions of points over...

In my opinion, you have very unrealistic expectations. Air Asia is a budget airline. I wouldn't expect any special types of meals on a budget airline. If you want special requests, fly a full service airline. If you fly a budget airline, you should always be prepared that something may go...

Just received a postcard in the mail today from Amex. The promotion is 2 extra points for every dollar spent from registration date to 31 January 2010. Not a bad promotion. If you didn't get the postcard, try going to www.americanexpress.com.au/plus2bonus

Re: Visa Waiver Programme - Newbie It was my understanding (at least from a NSW point of view) that to get a section 10 bond where you are found guilty but no conviction is recorded, that you need to plead guilty. So people don't really want to hear that you claim to be innocent. Your day in...

Would you really want to risk it Thailand? For example, I believe for Laser Eye treatment, many asian countries are recommended for quality & cost, but Thailand is a big no go. I have heard Thailand just doesn't have the safeguards that some other asian countries have for medical treatments.

Yes Westpac Plat in unlimited points. So is NAB Qantas Plat. Beware you don't earn points on BPAY payments with Westpac, whereas you do for NAB.

This is perfectly safe to do. Just in case people don't realise, the first 8 digits of the Amex CBA card are the same for all Amex CBA cards. Normally you could get the first 6 digits (the BIN number) from the below site, but it hasn't been updated recently enough for the CBA Amex card: List of...

Seems this will happen more and more with card issuers in Australia being able to use the Baycorp service that monitors changes on peoples credit files. Stuff up one thing, and all your cards will be canceled or limited. I see good and bad points. You can't blame Amex for wanting to reduce...

I think the point that I am trying to make is that Velocity has the worst penalties of any airline's reward program that I am familiar with. Virgin has tried to give themselves an image other than of a very low cost carrier. However it seems that Velocity Rewards operates similar to Tiger...

I regularly redeem Qantas Award flights. I decided to have a look at redeeming Velocity Award flights. With Qantas you can change or cancel an award flight (up to 24 hours before the flight) and you only get charged 5000 points. I did a search on the Velocity website for flights on V...

Research some US issued prepaid Visa/Mastercards or travel cards on the Internet. Then take the USD cash to the US and buy one of these type cards to use over there at the start of your stay.

They give an indication to the other Customs & Quarantine staff on your "dodginess". ie. One letter may be for nothing suspecious. Another letter may be to indicate that you are slightly "dodgy" (eg. that you have previously not declared food and had a warning) etc. There is not much point...

re: PayPal Australia now [NOT] accepting AmEx [Again!] I also hate PayPal but need to use it. You will find a lot of people hating PayPal if you do a search on forums such as Whirlpool. Unlike a bank, they do no checks (or very little checking) when you open a PayPal account. However when...

re: PayPal Australia now [NOT] accepting AmEx [Again!] I really think we can not be sure what is going to happen without some inside information. But from the statement that was prepared, I think it is not a 1 or 2 day glitch. My guess is that it could somehow relate to the fees that PayPal...

re: PayPal Australia now [NOT] accepting AmEx [Again!] ChrisCh - It seems whoever responded to your email did not have the latest information. When I called the Amex Platinum desk this morning, they said they had only just received an update about PayPal not adding any new cards for the...

re: PayPal Australia now [NOT] accepting AmEx [Again!] Bad News. Seems PayPal won't be adding Amex afterall. If you have not yet added your Amex card to your account, then you won't be able to. (for at least the immediate future). Not 100% sure of the reason, but if you call Amex, they now...

Just for ppl's information: This promotional code no longer works.

Nearly always PayPal conversion rate is worse then the banks (even after the 2 or 3%). It is usually always better to select the option "bill in the sellers listed currency." Often it will default to converting to AUD and you need to click on a small link to change it when making the payment.

It also happens I think if you have exceeded your credit limit.