Application for US Diners Club Cards?
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Application for US Diners Club Cards?
Maybe I am loosing it but I have just spent 10 minutes on the Diners Club US site and can't see how you apply? Is it still possible to apply to get a US Personal Diners Club card? If so, does anyone have a link?
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Why what?
If you mean why would I want to get a Diners Club card - I was interested after I finished my RewardsDB page showing which lounges worldwide can be accessed with alternative (non-airline membership) programs or day passes and noticed that Diners still has a good range of lounges in several places in the world.
If you mean why don't they have an online application form, I have no idea... my initial thought was that it had something to do with the Discover takeover. I also noticed that the credit card they had been forshadowing, has now vanished.
If you mean why would I want to get a Diners Club card - I was interested after I finished my RewardsDB page showing which lounges worldwide can be accessed with alternative (non-airline membership) programs or day passes and noticed that Diners still has a good range of lounges in several places in the world.
If you mean why don't they have an online application form, I have no idea... my initial thought was that it had something to do with the Discover takeover. I also noticed that the credit card they had been forshadowing, has now vanished.
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The Diners Club credit card was apparently used as a transition product for holders of the discontinued Carte Blanche Classic and Montage cards, but to my knowledge applications were never accepted.
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That would explain the lack of an oline application, the never-solved problem of Quicken downloads (after years of it not working right), the often out-of-date information all over the website, etc.
Btw, also remember that DC in the US is administered by Citibank. Ie, the same company which has the following online issues: 1. When I get a new card, the process of adding online access not only is manual. (Chase adds them automatically.) 2. When I try to add a new Amex card online, it barfs unless you add a leading zero. But there's nothing to inform you of that leading 0 being necessary (until you ask customer service why you're getting errors!). 3. Every time you add a new card, you have to add the check account info from scratch, even if you want the same payment account for the new card as for every card you already had. (Chase doesn't have this issue either.) I'm sure there are more, but those are just the ones I had to deal with in the past 24 hours...
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Btw, also remember that DC in the US is administered by Citibank. Ie, the same company which has the following online issues: 1. When I get a new card, the process of adding online access not only is manual. (Chase adds them automatically.) 2. When I try to add a new Amex card online, it barfs unless you add a leading zero. But there's nothing to inform you of that leading 0 being necessary (until you ask customer service why you're getting errors!). 3. Every time you add a new card, you have to add the check account info from scratch, even if you want the same payment account for the new card as for every card you already had. (Chase doesn't have this issue either.) I'm sure there are more, but those are just the ones I had to deal with in the past 24 hours...
This alone has driven me to use Amex cards more frequently.
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Worth remembering that Diners Club cards are free to Citigold customers (....except that each year you typically need to call the Citigold CS line to get them to reverse the annual charge.)