So BoB has jumped the devaluation bandwagon as well. They have added the minimum spend criteria to their airport lounge access from 1st Jan 2025. The good old days of credit card is in its last phase.
From November 1 onward, the maximum gems that can be earned through bill payments will be limited to 150 per category, instead of the earlier limit of 500 gems, with no category restrictions, even we are Mega Star 🌟 status. I have spoken with customer service regarding this issue and told that I...
Hey fellow TF Members!,
I had applied for the YesBank Marquee a week before the devaluation and received the card today.
I don't think I will hit the 1L spends per quarter - at max will reach 70-75k per quarter. Does this card have any other redeeming qualities? It carries a hefty joining and...
According to RBI guidelines, if a bank wishes to make changes to a credit card’s benefits or terms and conditions, the issuer must provide a one-month advance notice to all customers of the specific product. If a customer doesn’t respond, the bank may consider this as consent to continue using...
Hey TFCians,
Now it’s Yes Bank, and they’re raising the spending requirements to get complimentary airport lounge access. Several Yes Bank credit cards have been devalued, making it necessary to spend a significant amount each quarter to qualify. And some changes regarding reward point...
ICICI’s recent devaluation of rewards has completely shattered my credit card usage plans. Here is a breakdown of my current situation and thoughts on next steps:
Current Card Usage
Active ICICI Cards:
ICICI Sapphiro
ICICI Coral Rupay (for UPI scans)
Amazon Pay ICICI for most of my spending...
Now it's ICICI Bank's turn—they've joined the 2024 devaluation party. Here’s a simplified breakdown of the changes:
Utility & Insurance Capping:
You will continue to earn reward points for utility and insurance spends up to Rs. 80,000 at the current earn rate on Rubyx and higher variant...
Not sure if this has been mentioned. After charging 3% for Amazon Pay Gift cards, Smartbuy Gyftr has now started charging 2.5% for Amazon Shopping voucher also.
I don't think this is HDFC rather Amazon hiking their charges. Seems now good old way of buying using CC offers is the way forward...
So, someone requested me for lounge access for VTZ a while ago. I knew pinnacle has access to this airport but before confirming I happened to have logged in to dream folks website to check available lounge. And I was astonished to find that except 6 metro cities none of the airports are showing...
Massive Devaluation Alert.
Just tried to reach Axis Customer Care (Burgundy Account Holder).
Now Phone Banking only available from 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week.
No support over call after 8pm.
Are we in 90s?
Today I started noticing HDFC Gyftr charging 2.5% gst on amazon shopping voucher and flipkart shopping voucher . Earlier this was only ment to be there for Amazon gift card. if hdfc is going to charge so much for everything how will this work . This is so sad :( they are just not stopping one...
1.With effect from 1 Nov’24, the Finance Charges revised to 3.75%.
2. With effect from 1 Dec’24, The sum of all Utility payments made in a billing cycle exceeds 50,000 then 1% fee will be charged on total amount of Utility payments
Hi TFC,
I guess I started using the GoSats at wrong time. Paid 999 for Elite Card and now it's devalued.
BTW, Wallet Load via CreditCard is now restricted to 10K per month. Post that, You need to pay 1.5% GST.
Attached is the conversation with GoSats.