HDFC Diners Club Credit Card (ex Jet Airways cobrand)
Mar 28, 2018, 10:59 pm
#184
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: around the bend
Posts: 400
Do people actually manage to make substantial use of this offer? I have an approximately 95% failure rate when I try to use the Diners Black at POS overseas (limited to about 25 attempts mostly in Europe, admittedly). This includes places that advertise acceptance of Diners cards. I'm wondering if lots of people know of other avenues to use Diners internationally.
Mar 28, 2018, 11:48 pm
#185
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: India
Programs: Star Alliance Gold, SkyTeam Elite Plus, Hilton Gold
Posts: 907
Do people actually manage to make substantial use of this offer? I have an approximately 95% failure rate when I try to use the Diners Black at POS overseas (limited to about 25 attempts mostly in Europe, admittedly). This includes places that advertise acceptance of Diners cards. I'm wondering if lots of people know of other avenues to use Diners internationally.
Mar 28, 2018, 11:51 pm
#186
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 217
Is there any OTA allowing foreign currency payment for india domestic flights or international flights departing India? I tried searching but could never find any.
Mar 29, 2018, 2:03 am
#187
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: India
Programs: Star Alliance Gold, SkyTeam Elite Plus, Hilton Gold
Posts: 907
Mar 29, 2018, 2:38 am
#188
Join Date: Jul 2017
Programs: KrisFlyer Gold, Marriott & SPG Plat, Hilton Gold, ShangriLa Jade, Enterprise Plat, Taj Gold
Posts: 3,347
I use it extensively in the US on hotels - mainly Marriotts and Hiltons. Never had a problem. Then again would not expect it to not work with the larger chains. IME the Discover network in the US has been as good as the Amex network.
Discover coverage is poor in western Europe though. Slightly better at the ATMs but very very limited at PoS.
Discover coverage is poor in western Europe though. Slightly better at the ATMs but very very limited at PoS.
Last edited by PiperAtGatesofDawn; Mar 29, 2018 at 2:44 am
Mar 29, 2018, 2:43 am
#189
Join Date: Jul 2017
Programs: KrisFlyer Gold, Marriott & SPG Plat, Hilton Gold, ShangriLa Jade, Enterprise Plat, Taj Gold
Posts: 3,347
Mar 29, 2018, 5:59 am
#190
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: around the bend
Posts: 400
What about setting your country as, say, the US, when making a booking on, for example, jetairways.com? You're quoted a price in USD, but I think the actual charge might be made in the currency of the country where the credit card is issued. Or is it?
Mar 29, 2018, 8:19 am
#192
Join Date: Jul 2017
Programs: KrisFlyer Gold, Marriott & SPG Plat, Hilton Gold, ShangriLa Jade, Enterprise Plat, Taj Gold
Posts: 3,347
Tried to do a dummy booking on Jet... here's what it said just before payment - "Payment made using AMEX will be converted to Indian Rupees at time of settlement. However, you will be billed in your local currency. Hence, it is possible that the billed amount on your card statement may be more than the fare shown on the ticket." They ask for address when paying by Amex but not MC/Visa.
I don't think they can change it to local currency before booking without informing you because changing currencies can mean extra fees & charges.
Some websites which match addresses (mainly zipcodes) to the card won't be able to process payments unless you change your currency to INR eg: United.
I don't think they can change it to local currency before booking without informing you because changing currencies can mean extra fees & charges.
Some websites which match addresses (mainly zipcodes) to the card won't be able to process payments unless you change your currency to INR eg: United.
Mar 29, 2018, 12:42 pm
#193
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: BOS
Programs: BA Gold, AA Platinum, SQ Gold, Marriott Titanium
Posts: 1,582
Do people actually manage to make substantial use of this offer? I have an approximately 95% failure rate when I try to use the Diners Black at POS overseas (limited to about 25 attempts mostly in Europe, admittedly). This includes places that advertise acceptance of Diners cards. I'm wondering if lots of people know of other avenues to use Diners internationally.
Hope it helps.
Mar 30, 2018, 12:33 am
#195
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: around the bend
Posts: 400
I don't know if you are hitting the same issue or not, I was getting all declines in US (including amazon.com) even though I had enabled international and set limit reasonably high. Then I found the hdfc netbanking site also has a option of notify international travel. Once I added details into that, all my transactions that were failing, started going through. Amazon + buy spg points (points.com). As expected HDFC customer service had no idea.
Hope it helps.
Hope it helps.