Author Archives: Siddharth
If you’re looking for the fees, features and benefits of the ICICI Bank Emeralde Credit Card, do check out the actual review here: ICICI Emeralde Credit Card Review. This article covers my experiences since past 1 year of holding the card. Upgrade Process I showed interest for the Emeralde card as soon as it was launched. They called… Read More »
Trident, Chennai is not only a historic hotel in the Chennai city but also the first ever Trident hotel in the country. It also has the registered office of EIH Associated Hotels (Oberoi Group) in it. Here’s my short stay experience at the hotel during Jan 2020. I recently received the complimentary Trident Dining voucher worth Rs.7500 from… Read More »
American Express India just sent out an email to all platinum travel credit card holders on 29th June 2020 about the discontinuation of SpiceJet vouchers issuance from 1st August 2020. Here’s everything you need to know, The Change Here’s a quick look at the email just incase if you haven’t got it yet: How does it affect? Here’s… Read More »
As you might know, almost all credit card issuers are making changes to their rewards program by cutting down the benefits left, right and in center. As everything looks fuzzy at the moment, this article would give you some clarity on whats happening in the country across all credit card issuers and what you could do to prevent… Read More »
Just like how every credit card issuer has one or more sad news during the Covid situation, SBICards is no different. What’s the change? Here comes a bad news for everyone who love using online wallets like Paytm, Mobikwik, etc as SBICard silently decided to revoke reward points accrual for e-wallet load transactions by adding a line in… Read More »
HDFC bank just sent out an email to all Infinia and Diners black credit card holders today. The email comes with the subject line “You’ve unlocked savings on Shopping & Travel @SmartBuy!” which is funny, because the email is mainly about the new restrictions. Just like how Yesbank did with the latest devaluation, HDFC too included the MOST… Read More »
There are entry-level cards with Zero joining fee and then there are super premium cards with high joining fee that comes with a metal form factor. What if you mix up both segments and issue a free card? That’s OneCard. Here’s everything you need to know about the OneCard metal credit card: What is OneCard? OneCard is an entry-level… Read More »
As you might know, HDFC Infinia has one cool benefit for those who love dining, which is 2X reward points benefit on Dining spends at stand alone restaurants. I used this benefit quite often when I initially got the card, as getting 6.6% return on Dining spends is quite attractive. But then I hardly used them after those… Read More »
Despite improvements in technology and Artificial intelligence, Credit Card frauds remains pretty common across the world and so India is no different. This happens especially with international transactions as those type of transactions don’t require 2-factor authentication. Yes, you can Chargeback the transaction but now the problem is, it seems they’re not being honoured as its supposed to… Read More »
One of the greatest benefit of using a credit card over a debit card or other payment modes is the buyer protection that gives you the ability to chargeback a transaction. Let’s see more about it in detail in this article. What is Chargeback? In simple terms, chargeback is the return of money to the buyer. Here’s an… Read More »