Don’t forget IHG Rewards Club ‘Friends & Family’ rates for cheap hotels

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• shadowfixer says:

  17 Feb17 February 09:31

  Just applied with directorowner and iOS, originally i was on android and was rejected… so just used the back button and changed to iOS.

  My referral code if you are interested 🙂 OfF7A

  SF

  • paul says:

    17 Feb17 February 09:34

    gone for the $75. Apparently it comes with with free TUMI wallet..

    My referral code is yLRea if it’s of any use to anyone.

    • sd83 says:

      17 Feb17 February 09:36

      the referral code system doesn’t seem to work? anyone else having problems with this?

• RTS says:

  17 Feb17 February 09:37

  Referral code: fZfkm

• harry says:

  17 Feb17 February 09:37

  Curve can save you money abroad compared to normal bank cards. So just keep using Curve everywhere you go. We cut your exchange costs to the MasterCard wholesale rate plus 1%, with no fees. Curve is accepted in 35 million places worldwide, wherever you see the MasterCard logo. Linked your Euro account to Curve? In a Euro area you pay zero exchange rate costs and fees, just like you would using your Euro account card. Same for all 15 currencies we currently support.

  This bit could be a killer advantage, I’d get my 2 MR points per £ for 1% fee – ie 0.5p/ Avios

  • Genghis says:

    17 Feb17 February 09:45

    Exactly. Plus even if you use Halifax Clarity which gives great rates, you still get charged interest even if you pay off the balance. This is a game changer for withdrawals abroad I think.

    • John says:

      17 Feb17 February 10:22

      You don’t pay interest on Halifax Clarity if you pay it off before it hits your transactions list, usually 2 working days.

      • Callum says:

        17 Feb17 February 10:39

        Or if you use a fee-free debit card.

        As someone else pointed out to me earlier, if you managed to get a Supercard and link this to it you’d get fee-free transactions – that could be a game changer. This product alone certainly isn’t – it’s a great manufactured spend card, not travel card.

        • Rob says:

          17 Feb17 February 10:43

          I wouldn’t say that. Remember that, within 12 months, every MasterCard and Visa travel card will have gutted their rewards programme as a result of the new EU rules. Amex will be the only game in town – and Supercard doesn’t link to Amex.

        • Callum says:

          17 Feb17 February 14:05

          Well yes, that’s exactly why you’d be linking the Amex to the Curve and the Curve to the Supercard…

        • Mark says:

          17 Feb17 February 19:11

          It’s unlikely linking a curve card to a Supercard will work as you can’t link prepaid cards, which is what the curve card is apparently classed as.

  • John says:

    17 Feb17 February 10:24

    Why would you get 2 MR per £? I expect Curve will be treated as a UK merchant. If you still have the buggy £125/year Gold then possibly it might fall under travel spend.

    • harry says:

      17 Feb17 February 10:45

      MBNA legacy card @ 2 MR points/ £1

• harry says:

  17 Feb17 February 09:40

  I missed out on Supercard (& lived to not regret it 🙂 ).

  I’m holding back here as well until I can see the T&Cs. Not likely to miss out if I wait until tomorrow – sez he lol

  • BLT says:

    17 Feb17 February 10:00

    Really, you should regret it. I’ve earnt 100k avios at cost of 0p!!

    • Worzel says:

      17 Feb17 February 10:36

      BLT, expand please, rather than stop mid-sentence!

      • harry says:

        17 Feb17 February 11:12

        It would be probably for paying tax as you can get all the other Amex benefits for normal spend, just not HMRC payments

      • BLT says:

        17 Feb17 February 13:34

        Sorry nothing more than what’s been written about in this thread, it’s just worked very well for me this year.

• Aimvpr says:

  17 Feb17 February 09:42

  So far what I’ve gleaned is from chatting to the agent is…

  Dispatch will be in March.

  The Tumi Wallet has two external folders, and a central part.

  At the moment there is only an App on iOS. They are working on Android.

  Hoping Supercard > Curve > Amex will work for basically max points, fee free FX.

  The black card brings you double reward points when we launch our loyalty scheme, and you’ll get first access to certain new features that will be launching this year.

  I have gone for the (£75) Black Curve + Freebie Tumi Wallet.

  Hope this helps people out.

  Referral Code: fZfkm

  • John says:

    17 Feb17 February 10:28

    Supercard > Curve > Amex is likely to not work outside North America and Europe.

    Supercard times out if it doesn’t get a response in 3 seconds. Supercard has been flaky for me in New Zealand and rural Sweden – presumably due to the longer latency. I haven’t tried to use it anywhere “exotic” so can’t comment.

    Now when it has to authorise Curve, which also has to authorise Amex, I suspect that this will take longer than 3 seconds in many places.

    • RTS says:

      17 Feb17 February 10:54

      Supercard worked fine for me in Japan, Hong Kong, Philippines and a remote island off Philippines…

      • Joel says:

        18 Feb18 February 17:28

        I had issues in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia trying to withdraw cash from ATM. Getting failed transactions.

• Nick Burch says:

  17 Feb17 February 09:52

  From the “What are the key benefits of using Curve?” page:

  Pay no standard cash advance fees at domestic ATMs, across debit and credit cards.*
  *Subject to fair usage policies.

  Also, section 2.2 of the terms and conditions:

  2.2 Your Business Account. Your Account is a Business Account. …… you attest that
  you are not establishing the Account for personal, family, or household purposes, and its
  use by you must be limited to business expenses.

  I expect quite a few of the more obvious MS routes will be caught by those, but some will still remain!

  • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

    17 Feb17 February 11:06

    This is a requirement from MasterCard to use the Commercial Prepaid platform.

• Scallder says:

  17 Feb17 February 10:18

  Didn’t know where to add the referral code in when ordering but if someone can find it then my code is here: H9sGD

• jac says:

  17 Feb17 February 10:18

  Where to you enter the referral code? When clicking on the url I get message page does not exist while during registration I saw no option to add referral code

  • sd83 says:

    17 Feb17 February 10:28

    I asked the same question to the online chat agent… teething problems with website going live I assume.
    this was their response:

    “OK, sorry about that – but don’t worry, we’ll fix this on our end and ensure your friend gets his reward. Thanks for ordering 🙂 “

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