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Jan 7, 2015, 11:23 am

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percysmith

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Originally Posted by svellmann

For what it's worth, I seem to recall that the HSBC terms and conditions explicitly mentioned dining outlets in hotels don't earn when I put 6X for dining on my card.

I know. I wrote as much (HSBC telling cardholders all buffet places are not dining):

http://www.hongkongcard.com/forum/fo...p?id=13758&p=3 #21

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But then again I think HSBC is just saying a flat no to all buffets because so many of them are in hotels. Some hotels such as Regal http://www.hongkongcard.com/forum/fo...p?id=13735&p=2 #18 and Hotel Icon are really hard coded as hotels, nothing you can do. Other places that have hotel chain MCC like Shangri-La International 3543 and Marriott 3509 can be avoided by using Unionpay card which will revert the MCC to 5812. But how do you teach a 广州 CS to explain this? "Just say no" like Govt la...