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Old Sep 11, 2018, 3:33 pm
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Tandem's customer service informs me that they have blocked Revolut and Transferwise. It's been possible to do some Revolut loads from Tandem but required more in call charges (to Tandem's fraud department) than one earns in cashback.
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Old Sep 17, 2018, 11:01 am
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Curve Card Changes.

Anyone else had an email from Curve telling us about the enhancements they are making ?

The bit which stands out to me is
"Eligibility for rewards. Your card issuer will now be able to identify your spend categories. If you have a card which gives you Rewards based on categories of spend (e.g Groceries, Travel, etc.), you now may be able to earn these Rewards, on top of your Curve Rewards."


I bet the card issuers actually use that information the other way around to stop rewards being earnt on certain (most) spending on the Curve card :-(
At the moment they are pretty blind and pay rewards on the whole balance.
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Old Sep 17, 2018, 11:10 am
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Originally Posted by Sisyphus1carus
Anyone else had an email from Curve telling us about the enhancements they are making ?

The bit which stands out to me is
"Eligibility for rewards. Your card issuer will now be able to identify your spend categories. If you have a card which gives you Rewards based on categories of spend (e.g Groceries, Travel, etc.), you now may be able to earn these Rewards, on top of your Curve Rewards."


I bet the card issuers actually use that information the other way around to stop rewards being earnt on certain (most) spending on the Curve card :-(
At the moment they are pretty blind and pay rewards on the whole balance.
It also suggests that due to the passing through of codes ATM withdrawals will now land you with a fee on your underlying card.
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Old Oct 10, 2018, 3:30 pm
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Quidity Plus is self-contradictory regarding a 4% fee for credit cards or not. Costs | Quidity Plus How it works | Quidity Plus
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Old Oct 16, 2018, 3:48 am
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Originally Posted by inY
Quidity Plus is self-contradictory regarding a 4% fee for credit cards or not. Costs | Quidity Plus How it works | Quidity Plus
Only way to find out is to try it. Entropay used to charge 3.5% but this got reduced to 1 % to comply with EU regulations last year. It could be that Quidity used to charge 4% but have now reduced that and not updated some pages on their website.
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Old Oct 16, 2018, 11:50 am
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Originally Posted by luckyjim
Only way to find out is to try it. Entropay used to charge 3.5% but this got reduced to 1 % to comply with EU regulations last year. It could be that Quidity used to charge 4% but have now reduced that and not updated some pages on their website.
Ugh, Qudity's merchant category code is 6051 "Non-Financial Institutions – Foreign Currency, Money Orders (not wire transfer) and Travelers Cheques" which many credit cards reclassify as a cash advance.

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Old Jan 4, 2019, 5:07 am
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Lydia: 200 / month from a Visa/MC https://lydia-app.com/en/about/price.html?tab=limit

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Old Jan 8, 2019, 11:55 am
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Lydia: 200 / month from a Visa/MC https://lydia-app.com/en/about/price.html?tab=limit
Nice one. Not keen on that 15 fee for a failed transaction though!
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Old Jan 8, 2019, 2:15 pm
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Originally Posted by flashware
It also suggests that due to the passing through of codes ATM withdrawals will now land you with a fee on your underlying card.
Apparently MCC is 6540. At least that's what I got from my bank in Taiwan regarding cash withdrawal via Curve.
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Old Jan 9, 2019, 12:33 pm
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Originally Posted by barracuda93
Apparently MCC is 6540. At least that's what I got from my bank in Taiwan regarding cash withdrawal via Curve.
This is consistent with comments on https://www.headforpoints.com/2018/0...h-withdrawals/ . Is your Taiwan card a Mastercard? According to https://www.citibank.com/tts/solutio...gory-Codes.pdf at least, 6540 only exists on Mastercard, so I wonder what it maps to on Visa.
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Old Jan 10, 2019, 5:14 am
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Originally Posted by inY
This is consistent with comments on https://www.headforpoints.com/2018/0...h-withdrawals/ . Is your Taiwan card a Mastercard? According to https://www.citibank.com/tts/solutio...gory-Codes.pdf at least, 6540 only exists on Mastercard, so I wonder what it maps to on Visa.
Taiwanese card (underlying card for the withdrawal) is Visa Infinite. Curve is a MasterCard (obviously).

While I do not have current period statement yet, from online banking and phone talk with the bank support it seems that withdrawal was treated as a normal purchase: no fee charged and apparently miles gonna be credited.
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Old Jan 13, 2019, 6:58 am
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Old Jan 13, 2019, 11:47 am
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https://verse.me/en/ transfer to other people up to EUR 10,000/yr (I know, small right!) but denominated in GBP. Takes Visa/MC including US cards. MCC 4829 (same as Transferwise) so beware cash advance fees.
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Old Jan 16, 2019, 4:57 pm
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How many prepaid cards will HMRC accept for a self assessment bill?
1?
3?

(This is in addition to the main debit card that I want to settle the bill with)

Thanks
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Old Jan 27, 2019, 10:38 am
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Has anybody been able to open a First Premier Card? The website looks scammy and it woudln't let me open one "User Blacklisted". Calling led to this e-mail address: [email protected] which seems to be the backend provider. E-mail was not answered.

https://www.firstpremierprepaid.co.u...okieCheck=true
https://secure.firstpremierprepaid.c...okieCheck=true
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