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What's that Credit Card you got with minimum effort and maximum effort?

DCB Pvc, fyf
Surprised to know that they are still issuing PVC variant. For last few months they have been issuing only Metal and, infact, I have an email where HDFC stated that they are moving pvc out of circulation.
I think, fee for both the variants is same. When there’s an opportunity, move to Metal for better milestone based benefits.
 
Seems like Infinia will be a tough one to get..

Just spoke with HDFC about it.
New requirements:

So I have 3 cards from HDFC, Regalia First, Bonvoy, Swiggy.
Just spoke with HDFC RM who connected me to the branch Credit Card.
They said 2 more conditions would be required:
1. 9L spends would need to be done on Regalia First. (Abysmal waste of rewards...)
2. Closure of all other HDFC credit cards.. not sure why. So RIP Bonvoy and Swiggy. But I don't want to close Bonvoy for the loyalty tier..
Max 3 cards you can hold. If you want to aim for Infinia then having cobranded card is a nightmare and HDFC won’t encourage.
 
Easiest - APay, SBI CB, Marquee, Coral, and few others.

Easy was DCB Plastic LTF. At that time I only had Paytm co branded HDFC which used to give 1% cashback. I didn't care much about CCs back then and got to know from a friend that they are offering DCB LTF for our college alumni. He sent an agent's number. She took salary slip and degree and in couple of weeks the card was visible in netbanking. No follow up required.

Medium - Sapphiro. Came LTF with salary account. Had to do multiple follow ups with the agent. He was trying to convince for Rubyx LTF but I didn't budge and got sapphiro.
Also AMEX was moderately hard. No response for a week. Then agent came for home verification. Uploaded form 16 and salary slips. Got approval after a 2-3 weeks of application date.

Hard - Infinia. DCB limit was 5L so they didn't approve Infinia even though I was very close to 7.5L milestone. Eventually last month, had a big spend for which I used DCB, also increased limit using FD lein and finally got Infinia.
 
Ok what i suggest you now is, take DCB upgrade through priority redressal. Almost same reward rate as infinia. Start heavy spending when u r ready for infinia attempts
True. I guess that might just be the way forward. As long as they don't ask me to close the rest of them.
 
Max 3 cards you can hold. If you want to aim for Infinia then having cobranded card is a nightmare and HDFC won’t encourage.
Yeah. Will stop the rest I guess. But might aim for DCB first for a year or so. Because heavy spending on Regalia first would suck.

Anyone know spend requirements for DCB? again not meeting that salary criteria
 
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