Welcome to For The Record, or #ftr, a place to catch up all that’s been shared across The Milelion’s Telegram and Facebook Groups where people talk about miles and points, 24/7. Here’s my attempt to summarize the things I found interesting in the past week.Â
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- You can use Apple Pay at Challenger to purchase Google Play top-up cards, providing yet another way to max out the 20X on the current Citibank-Apple Pay promotion (Timothy)
- Other places which accept Apple Pay include: SGH, NUH Clinic A and Pharmacy in Clinic A, Alan Photo, Pet Safari, Bengawan Solo, MBS Mastercard Theatre, Pizzeria Mozza, Gain City, Giant, Fitness First [Bugis, Market Street, ORQ, Paragon], Anytime Fitness [Kovan, Clementi], Hai Di Lao Seletar Mall, SAFRA, Shinagawa, Asos, PS Cafe Palais Renaissance, Jannpaul (Nox Lee, Junrong, CC, yosithezet, Phil, C, Keith Ng, Lisa, WM C, Reagan, Jiehao)
- It may be possible to use Apple Pay with Airbnb if you change your region to US (Ben Ho)
- Singtel kiosks cap transactions with Apple Pay at $2K each but there’s nothing stopping you from doing multiple transactions (Pally)
- Citibank Rewards continues to earn 10X points with Points.com (Clark Kent)
- Using Apple Pay at GTM machines will not earn any bonus with Citibank cards (DonDon7219)
- If you tried to do the Hilton status match with GHA Black status but got rejected, writing in to appeal may yield results (Wee Teck Ng)
- The Citi Prestige can be applied for as a secured credit card if you’re willing to pledge a total of S$80K with the bank. It’s recommended you apply at a physical branch outlet if you’re interested (Isaac)
- If you’re participating in the soCash free cash promotion, note that you’re limited to 3 withdrawals per day from the same merchant
Thanks for the summary Aaron.
RE: Citi Prestige, do you know if the 80K has to be in a fixed deposit? Can it be sitting in Citi Maxigain for example?
It must be a pledge (hence secured card). Your $80k basically gets locked down at 0% interest as long as u are holding on to the secured card. U can only get ur money out after u cancel your card which might take another 2 months as they need to make sure all pending transactions are posted.
If u can leave it in maxigain and withdraw ur funds anytime then it wouldn’t be a secured card anymore.
Sorry, but what are GTM Machines?
the thing you manually topup your ezlink at, next to MRT gantries
Ah! Thanks!
Many thanks for this update, Aaron.. very useful indeed! ??
Hi Aaron, thank you so much for the summary! Could someone please clarify “The Citi Prestige can be applied for as a secured credit card if you’re willing to pledge a total of S$80K with the bank. It’s recommended you apply at a physical branch outlet if you’re interested (Isaac)”? I don’t quite get what it means. Thanks!
Citi Prestige usually requires 120K income to apply. if you’re not such a high-earner, you can dump 80K as collateral and they will still give you the card.
Apply at a physical branch, as it’s probably not in the usual protocol and a CSO on the phone or email may not be able to do this for you.
It must be a pledge (hence secured card). Your $80k basically gets locked down at 0% interest as long as u are holding on to the secured card. U can only get ur money out after u cancel your card which might take another 2 months as they need to make sure all pending transactions are posted.
FYI – Singtel Kiosk can’t be used to pay Singtel Corporate mobile phone account bill.