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IDFC Debit Card Rewards Point devalue

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IDFC Debit Card Rewards Point devalue:

Please note: Payment to Mutual Funds, Insurance, Financial Institutions, Security Brokers, Dealers, Wallet Uploads, Quasi Cash, ATM Withdrawals, Credit Card Payments and Account Transfers transactions are not a part of FIRST Rewards program.

The transaction categories are identified through Merchant Category Codes (MCC), defined by the network, e.g. Visa, MasterCard and RuPay.

IDFC FIRST Bank does not define the merchant category. The merchant category codes that are excluded from FIRST Rewards Program are mentioned below:

Merchant Codes

Merchant Categories

6300

INSURANCE SALES AND UNDERWRITING

6012

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS - MERCHANDISE & SERVICES

6211

SECURITY BROKERS/DEALERS

6051

QUASI CASH

6540

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Benevolent Benevolent
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@abhishek012 Any other card except this, dc or cc, which gives cashback on insurance and bill payments?
Critic Critic
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@kukdookoo Stop running after cb wasting your time & mental peace, simply start fixed/recurring FDs of 1 year at good interest rate & use them to pay occasional insurance premium(fixed FD maturity) & regular bill payments(recurring monthly FD).
Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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@abhishek012

Is this better than HDFC Platinum debit card? If yes.. some more info please.. 

Finance Mentor Finance Mentor
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@catchchirag

Yes.

RBL Bank Signature+ Debit Card -
Fee Structure
  • Joining Fee: 5000+GST = 5900/- (No Waiver Criteria)
  • Welcome Benefit: 5000 worth GV
  • Renewal Fee: 1500+GST = 1770/-
  • Renewal Fee Waiver Criteria: Spend 3L+ in previous year
Return on Spend

Return Ratio: If you max. out the spends, i.e. 1L per month X 12= 12L in a year, you receive:

  1. 1000 GV per month X 12 = 12K points
  2. 5000 GV per year X 1 = 5K points

Total= 17K on an effective joining fee of (5900-5000)= 900 INR. Renewal fee anyway will be Zero from next year upon spending 3L+ in previous year.

  • Return Percentage for 1st year= (17K-900)/12L ~ 1.34%
  • Return percentage next year onwards= 17K/12L ~ 1.41%

Best Value: If your spends aren’t that high, hitting 5L in a year is the sweet spot.

In 1st year You get 5K Monthly + 5K Annual benefit = (10K-900)/5L ~ 1.82%

And next year onwards you get (5K + 5K)/5L ~ 2%

If you spend more than 12L in a year, return value goes downwards. As you can see, this card holds good till annual spends of 12L max only (preferably 1L per month spend with minimum 10K in a month to earn cashbacks as GV)

GVs available: Wide range of GVs with multiple price points are available for redemption against both Welcome/ Monthly benefits. Notable ones are Amazon, Flipkart, Croma, Bigbasket etc.

If you want to know where you spend RBL Signature+ debit card -

Paytm app - direct use debit card for cc bill repayment or Paytm wallet load

mobikwik app - cc bill repayment

Bajaj app - cc bill repayment

Payzapp app - cc bill repayment

Cred app - cc bill repayment (pay more than Rs50,001+ or selected user 10,001+ and get debit card option)

Amazon full kyc wallet - load and spend anywhere via Amazon wallet UPI for bank transfer/cc bill repayment or merchant transaction via UPI.

Finance Mentor Finance Mentor
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IDFC debit card still offer reward points on mobikwik for credit card bill repayment.

This transaction count under Utility bill payment.

For incremental 10X,

Online( CC Payment)

Classic
Till 20K - 0.33%
After 20K - 1.84%

Eg: For 2 Lakh, total cashback Rs.3378

Select
Till 1L - 0.50%
After 1L - 2%
Eg: For 2 Lakh, total cashback Rs.2500

Wealth
Till 1.5L -0.67%
After 1.5L - 2.17%
Eg: For 2 Lakh, total cashback Rs.2090

Private
Till 2L - 1%
After 2L - 2.34%
Eg: For 2 Lakh, total cashback Rs.2000

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Deal Subedar Deal Subedar
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Since what date is this new guideline applicable? 

Analyst Analyst
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Didn't they recently launched their Debit card rewards program joy

Deal Newbie Deal Newbie
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I thought it will last atleast for six months.

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Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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Yes and it's over

Deal Lieutenant Deal Lieutenant
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imagejust saying

Finance Mentor Finance Mentor
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Mujhe yeh pahele se pata tha hoga.

Everyone must use RBL Signature+ debit card, best debit card ever.
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Deal Lieutenant Deal Lieutenant
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RBL signature+ is beneficial if you can waive off your renewal fees.

@abhishek012 can we take this card without opening an RBL bank account? 🤣

my RBL account is kind of frozen.

Finance Mentor Finance Mentor
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Spend 3 lakhs annually and renewal fees wavier.
Deal Lieutenant Deal Lieutenant
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@abhishek012 Instead of posting this kind of news from your main account, create a secondary account and use that 😂

and post good news from this account only. 

Or keep it balanced, with 1 bad news, post 1 good news, or alternatives as well.

Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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Gai bhains paani me

Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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Anyone received any points for 24 or 25 aug txns?

Deal Newbie Deal Newbie
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just to know the curiosity of this trick...

please share how much reward you earned.

Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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Around 8-9L

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Benevolent Benevolent
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@abhishek012 so no normal debit or credit card which provides cb for insurance etc.?

Finance Mentor Finance Mentor
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Use SBI Cashback Credit Card na ? and get 5% cashback upto Rs5000.

First buy Amazon gv upto 1 lakh (depend on your LIC/Insurance premium amount) and use on Amazon to pay.

Where to buy upto 1 lakh Amazon gv using 5% SBI Cashback Credit Card ?

Here - https://www.desidime.com/discussions/trick-to-g...
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Deal Subedar Deal Subedar
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Made 21k points

Too bad. It was too good an offer anyways!

Vanguard Vanguard
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I knew IDFC Reward system was too good to be sustainable..

The moment they secured BCCI Sponsor Title, They said "NO MORE REWARDS" joy

Customer First my a-- 💀

Finance Mentor Finance Mentor
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Ek youtuber ne video banaya ki looto 50,000 next da devalue ho gaya didn't even used 

Jobless misusers ko kya hi kaha jaye

Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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IDFC could have got more customers had they used the money to sponsor bcci to keep this reward rate 

Blaze Blaze
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Will it give rewards for cheq app payments???

Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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So now no reward points if we pay cc bills on mobikwik, Paytm, cheq, cred using IDFC Debit card?

Finance Mentor Finance Mentor
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Mobikwik cc bill pay transaction comes under Utility/Telecom.

Other merchant try and check.

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Deal Lieutenant Deal Lieutenant
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Hey Just Now Thinking To Ask You , 2 Days Back Paid Credit Card Bill But Not Received Points... Thanks For Creating Post 😄 And What Is UNDER WRITING ??

Deal Newbie Deal Newbie
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today i received rewards, paid via mobikwik

Generous Generous
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Main to next month ka wait Kar raha tha.. all cc paid karne ka.. is month ka to ho gaya sara.. ab kya kya bacha hai?

Deal Newbie Deal Newbie
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use mobikwik for bill payment, its working..

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Helpful Helpful
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TO AB KYU BATA RAHE ....JAB TAK CHAL RAHA THA TO EK SPECIFIC post DAAL DETE ....

Deal Newbie Deal Newbie
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Anyone tried on cred or cheq ??

Still getting rewards??

Finance Mentor Finance Mentor
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I heard paytm and mobikwik still working.

No idea about cheq and cred.
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Mobile Guru Mobile Guru
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Was too good to be true but earned more than 15k in 2 months. Was expecting, so paid majority of card payments last week but still have to pay around 1 Lac in coming week.

Critic Critic
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15k worth RPs or 15k RP as 15k worth RPs seem too much unless you paid 7-8lakh+ of bills?
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Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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Someone confirm if getting rewards for cheq?

Like Magnet Like Magnet
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Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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Someone confirm if getting rewards for cheq?


Cool Cool
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Yesterday did txn on mobikwik for cc payment.,no points receieved

Deal Newbie Deal Newbie
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I opened an account recently with 25k MAB. Did a cc payment of 40k yesterday via paytm. Got the 500 cashback in account (2% offer). But haven't received the reward points yet.

Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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Anyone got points for txn done one on 24th???

Finance Mentor Finance Mentor
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Merchant name ?
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Blaze Blaze
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Not received a single reward points from last week transaction on cheq

Heart of Gold Heart of Gold
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Not receiving any reward points from last week's transaction on Paytm. Looks like it's game over for IDFC DC

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