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Re: Qantas sticking to charging passengers for carbon tax Do you really think what Australia does can have any significant impact on the environment? China population: 1.3 billion Australia population: 22 million For any carbon tax policy to work, it would need to be done as a worldwide...

Re: Qantas sticking to charging passengers for carbon tax Of course they can't be as bad as the current mob. The current mob is so bad its funny. Australia's version of the carbon tax is plain stupid. Theoretically a carbon tax could be OK, but only if it was done as a worldwide measure...

Generally the counterfeit products are somewhat hidden. If you show interest to a tout they will take you to the stores who have hidden back sections or stores who pull things out from under the counter etc. The biggest range of premium counterfeit goods will actually be sold in other...

Re: Qantas denies pocketing $100 million from card surcharges Many banks charge extra not just for Signature/World/Corporate/International but also for Platinum. These days nearly half the population seem to be using a Platinum card. And I am sure for frequent flyers, most would be using...

Yes, I would definitely not recommend having this as your main transaction account. It is way too risky. Remember that they issue a Visa debit card which increases the chance of fraud compared to a standard debit card. In the unlikely event you get hit with fraud, your actual cash is gone...

They are very trigger happy at putting a block on your credit card and wanting you to call back to confirm transactions for them to unblock it. Apart from this overall they are OK. I also have a Signature credit card with them and I have learnt to treat it as a No Frills basic card. I guess...

Buying a train ticket in China at the proper ticket office is a hard thing to do if you speak no Chinese. You are better to use a provider to buy the tickets for you. Depending on who you use, you may only pay a dollar or two more. It is likely your hotel concierge can help you. Normally would...

Re: [fare gone] Yangon to New York, London etc. R/T in C < $800 Which site is this still available at?

I think that it was acknowledged some time ago that this board got hacked and the hacker(s) got a copy of the user registration info including email addresses. A lot of different free php based scripts including the forum software vBulletin that this forum uses had vulnerabilities in the past...

Re: [fare gone] Yangon to New York, London etc. R/T in C < $800 Just to let everyone know that my credit card was charged shortly after I purchased the airfares. I charged it to an Amex card and I have three confirmed transactions on the Amex card (I bought 3 tickets). I guess there may be a...

Considering the two transactions were made within 2 minutes of each other, I am not sure this is the case. Although maybe the back end processes of one of the banks update the exchange rate slower than the other bank.

As Citi provides a Visa debit card, it should use the Visa interchange rate.

This is wrong. You can use any overseas ATM with the Citibank account. I have done this and confirmed. Check the product page of their "No Fee" account for more information.

If you buy a Mars bar and eat half of it and then take it back to the store, do you really think they will give you a 50% refund? If you buy a 12 month gym membership (which is at a discount compared to monthly membership) and half way through you want to cancel, do you expect them to give you...

re: [fare gone] Yangon to New York, London etc. R/T in C < $800 Maybe they mistakenly used the official exchange rate of about 1 to 6.5 instead of the "black market" exchange rate of about 1 to 800.

re: [fare gone] Yangon to New York, London etc. R/T in C < $800 Yes, I ended up trying again with a new browser a bit later and I managed to book 3 tickets successfully. I booked around 4pm so seems still all good.

re: [fare gone] Yangon to New York, London etc. R/T in C < $800 Its already gone....When you proceed in the booking it will give you an Error....I waited too long to confirm dates with my friend :(

If you speak some basic chinese, you can ask one of the people hanging around the ticket office to accompany you to buy the ticket and they use their ID card. You just need to pay them 10 or 20 rmb. I have done this before.

No company outside Thailand can beat the exchange rate given by companies/banks inside Thailand. This is because the thai currency has two exchange rates - the inside thailand rate & the outside thailand rate. The Thailand government did this around the time of the asian currency / financial...

This seems very interesting. I never considered using Citibank points direct with Citibank to book flights. Garuda would only be possible on some flights that they fly. I just tried out their online search tool and I guess that the airline that they would book you with would be the airline that...