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Ah thank you! I did choose year to date, but didn't click on "view", so it must have been showing the default view. Citi didn't have anything as detailed and intuitive, but from memory did have a line by line breakdown of sorts of the earn, on one of the pages on the rewards site. It was...

I finally had a chance to review my account and I think the points are accounted for - would be fantastic if someone can cross check with their own account to confirm though! Points earned up to 24 Nov: show up in your "Opening Balance" Points earned on transactions settled from 24 Nov to 30...

Adding my experience: Hotel: InterContinental Melbourne When: December 20-21 Status: Platinum Rate: 56K points redemption Booked: King Premium Club Lounge Access Received: King Premium Club Lounge Access Amenity Offered: Drinks or 600 points. A little disappointing not to receive an upgrade as...

That's exactly the situation I found myself in this year - I got the IHG premier card with 5 free nights, and the free night vouchers themselves were very valuable 60K vouchers (vs the 40K voucher that is issued with the card annually). Only problem is my travels this year brought me to places...

There's a specific card called "MyCard Rewards" - that's the card that's losing insurance benefits, no? My understanding is that there were always two levels of insurance coverage, and effectively the cards with the lower level of cover are getting that coverage devalued away completely, but...

My understanding is the same - so long as invoice name is correct and the actual refund is paid into an account or card in the name of the traveller, then you're fine - but I personally think it also comes down to the mood of the officer on the day. Be extra polite, have all your docs in order...

Got an invitation to sign up to FoundersCard for a free 12 month trial after a booking with Expedia, and it looks like a generic promo code, so I thought I'd share with the community here in case anyone else is interested in trying it out: FoundersCard From some basic research, it appears that...

Try requesting the transit hotel on the website - it's buggy, but does ultimately work. If you can get a confirmation, you should be good to go. Note that if travelling alone in economy, your room is subject to sharing with a stranger unless you pay a supplement. The hotel itself is quite nice...

That portal is horrendous and hasn't worked properly in a long time. I had to call to check availability + get it ticketed. This along with the limited number of routes you can redeem for significantly reduces the value of the amex velocity plat in my opinion.

Final outcome: stuck :( The application expires after a month so it was time for me to call in. Neither the fraud line nor the general service line could provide much information, but the latter did provide me with an "applications" number to call - the lady who picked up there couldn't see the...

I've been patiently waiting to see if the doc review passes without intervention, as success rates from calling seem to be next to zero - so far that strategy is not working! The review is still "in progress"... I'll give it a few more days before running the gauntlet with the call centre.

It's a painful process - it took me months of submitting and resubmitting requests/follow ups and even then, only three of the four legs on CZ were ever credited. I think DL still has people manning their social media accounts - you might have better luck reaching out to them and asking for help...

Yes and also interestingly, the pre-approval tool for the VX now also asks the same question, but allows the application to proceed even if you say no to being a citizen or resident - was not expecting that!

I tried the Cap1 VX credit card pre-approval tool again today and much to my surprise, it responded in the positive! The only verification requested is identification - but they specifically asked for state issued ID, so it'll be interesting to see whether a passport upload is sufficient.

Sorry if this is a silly question - but how do you pay into the account? Or do you have to wait for a statement to be issued?

Haven't seen one posted for the Chase IHG One Rewards Premier, but imo it's a nice keeper as you're guaranteed to get something tangible for/commensurate to the fee you pay - for the $99 annual fee, you get IHG platinum status, one free 40K night every year, ~2.5% return on travel bookings...

Given the fact that there's now no fee free option in the Velocity product family to downgrade to, has anyone been able to downgrade to one of the other product families?

As in call to check? I can, but to be honest I'd be happy with any of them given the fact that there won't be further opportunities to apply for this product anyway - and I have taken the credit check hit already anyway.

I got greedy and tried to applied for all three at the exact same time and it did not work - two were denied by the next morning but one did go through. The only issue is I now have no idea which offer was the one that went through!

Interesting! I had no issues adding my US Amex to the PayPal AU account, but the Chase card just refused to work. I followed PayPal's advice here and created a US account, which solved it for me. There's a minor side benefit to all of this - PayPal US seems to push out more offers than AU; so...