Well color me confused. About a week ago it was all ashes and sackcloth as DBS stealthily uploaded a new set of T&C to its website. You can find a summary of the changes here, but long story short itย added a lot of exceptions for what types of transactions could earn the additional 9X points (ie 3.6 miles) for a grand total of 0.4+3.6 (1X +9X)=4 miles per $1.
Now DBS’s rep has gone on the record on the HWZ forums as saying everything’s fine, nothing’s changed. Here’s the quote in full and the screenshots below in case it gets removed
Yes, there was an update to the T&Cs on our website on 7 June, however we have not made any changes to how additional bonus points for online purchases are awarded, the update was meant to provide greater clarity to all. As such, there was no need to send out service eDMs or SMS.
It’s an update to provide better clarity, but the way points are awarded for online purchases have not been changed.
Online purchases – the updated version leaves less room for misinterpretation
DBS positions this as a clarification rather than a policy change, but it’s quite clear from reading the T&C before and after that by the letter of the law, under the new T&C many of the transactions that traditionally qualified for the bonus 9X no longer qualify
DBS says that the way points are awarded for online transactions have not changed. Indeed, people on HWZ are reporting that their 9X for May is successfully posting (bonus points are posted on the 16th of the following month, remember). So it seems that if there was any effect, it will only be prospective, not retroactive.
So it’s prima facieย reassuring that DBS says nothing has changed, but I don’t think you can really hold them to that if on 16th July your 9X bonus for June doesn’t post properly. I’m trying to figure out what DBS is doing here- why add these new terms if you don’t want to change anything?
My take: the only way to be sure is to see what happens on the 16th of July. That’s when the bonus points (or lack thereof) will come in for June’s transactions. Until then all this is speculation.
Their HWZ “clarification” about their t&c “clarification” makes no sense if they are expressly excluding what you now get points for…. as you say, time will tell…
a deep dark part of me suspects that they added this so that in the future if someone comes to them with a super guai lan transaction and demands 9X they can point to the T&C to decline it, but everything that has worked so far will continue to work. I have 0 basis for suggesting this, by the way.
hi aaron, does it mean i should continue to load $4000 per month to my fevo card? i won’t want to waste $40 if i can’t get the 5x and 10x points. sianz.
Maybe try $10/20 first?
it means that we have no way of knowing for sure till the 16th of july
I guess to play safe, don’t use the card yet until 16th July. Based on what DBS is saying, they are following existing t n c s. If 16th July, we still see the 9X points given , then it will then be safe to use WWMC for fevo top ups. That probably don’t make sense still as the t n cs are there for a reason. Have decided to change my spending habits a little. Use WWMC as mentioned by Aaron for online purchases. Started to use the spreadsheet for UOB paywave purchases more often now. Also as my… Read more »
Sounds great then
My guess is they want to keep it consistent across all cards that earns rewards for online purchases (I.e. Live Fresh 5% vs WWMC 10x points).
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Not sure if you read this. In this FAQ, fevo is clearly given as an example.
https://www.dbs.com.sg/iwov-resources/pdf/cards/credit-cards/live-fresh-dbs-visa-paywave-platinum-card/lf-pts-cashback-faq.pdf
i believe the hope is that what applies to the livefresh doesn’t apply to the woman’s card
Base pt awarded. Hope it’s still the same
we will know in due time!
Haha, what are the chances?
Anybody’s guess. My wife’s statement also indicates based points awarded. Wait until next month.