Application process

[Isochronous]

How difficult is it to get approved for a Diners card?

 

[andye]

Mine was fill in a form, they called my accountant and that was all. Takes a bit of time. Minimum income requirement not too high. Had a few probs in the first few weeks after approval (see the ropey start thread) but have been quite happy of late

 

[Isochronous]

I gather Diners shares the back office with Citibank - in which case, would already having a Citi card make it harder to get the DC?

 

[andye]

As far as I know DC and Citi don't affect each othet (unlike virgin money and citi)

 

[Loga2015]

I just applied mine via fax. So hoping for some revert on their side soon!

 

[Loga2015]

Got approved for the card!

But was checking that most of the utilities don't let you use diners as a payment? Do you guys use Paypal?
Also can we pay our rent using BPAY to diners?

 

[andye]

Dodo internet and telstra (via app) do accept the DC but Energy Australia doesnt.
My understanding of Paypal is that although you can enter the DC as a Discovery card it does a currency conversion into USD and back so no value.
Obviously you can use the MC with anyone and 0.78 AA miles per dollar is not too shabby.

 

[Loga2015]

Awesome! Thanks for the tip Andye.

Also can we use the Citibank's banking site to BPAY considering the MC is managed by Citi?

 

[Isochronous]

Awesome! Thanks for the tip Andye.

Also can we use the Citibank's banking site to BPAY considering the MC is managed by Citi?

So you can't bpay through the Diners portal?

 

[andye]

Never used Bpay with this card so don't know sorry. There is nothing on my portal

 

[albyd]

I've registered my Diners MC for citi online banking and you can BPay with either card. No points are awarded for Diners but MC did award points.

I understand they've blocked new Diners MC from signing up for citi online banking. Interested to hear if anyone has tried recently.

 

[Isochronous]

Why would they want to block you from making bpay payments with the Diners World MC? It doesn't make sense.

 

[albyd]

I'm not sure but Post #112 in the Ropey Start thread posted by Deen suggests registering for citi online banking is no longer available (unless I've misunderstood the post).

 

[Loga2015]

I tried registering my Diners MC on the Citi banking page, and it did not allow me to do so.