Things You Missed – 10th to 23rd May 2021
Notable things we talked about form credit cards and wallet apps to investing and rewards programmes. Join us so you won’t miss time-sensitive stuff!
Credit cards
- Does Maybank Platinum Visa give cashback for things like ipaymy or CardUp? Both are listed as eligible.
- How to pay NTUC Income premiums? Probably AXS
- Tax payment via CardUp – can I pay for my parents? They’d have to sign up themselves
- Can you pay less that your income tax via CardUp? Yes
- Targeted OCBC FRANK spend promo; another variation of it
- Sign-up gifts: what if I sign up for multiple cards from the same bank? Also, how long after cancellation until I’m eligible for rewards again
- Amex’s helpful in-app chat support seems missing for some people
- How to clear small surplus on credit card before closing account
- Cards that earn rewards on education transactions
- Discussion on DCC (Dynamic Currency Conversion) charges for overseas payments
- Do banks have a limit to number of lost card replacements? Unanswered ):
- Discussion on the newly revamped UOB EVOL card; great pair with UOB Absolute?
- Discussion on OCBC FRANK and telco bills
Wallet apps
- Razer allows FAST; top-ups via credit card disabled for users who opt in
- Anyone tested using RP Card at GTM top-up?
- Is Grab’s Rewards Multiplier worth it? I’m going to say no, and someone else thinks so
- Revolut Card can’t be added to SimplyGo’s portal (it’d still work for fares though)
- Dash is reducing the top-up amount via credit card to $500 (from $1,000) monthly
- New Grab Power Up challenge differs in spend amount per user
- CitiRewards Master gives 4 mpd on ShopeePay top ups?
- Does Revolut have a referral programme? Why indeed it does!
- Grab now has a limit meter for Grab card spending!
- Revolut’s 20% cashback on groceries promo
Investing
- Discussion on cryptocurrencies
- Is free Apple Share still on for moomoo? Yes!
Rewards programmes
- CapitaSTAR new redemption: parking coupons
- GrabRewards had a flash sale
- SP GreenUP getting a revamp from 17th June
- What’s the limit on eCapitaVoucher and STAR$ one can have? $999 for eCapitaVoucher; unknown for STAR$
Others
- We had a podcast with Ascend Design; episode to be uploaded soon
- We’ve crossed a 1,000 group chat members 😄 Thanks all for taking part 🍸
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