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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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kukdookoo wrote:
Any other card except this, dc or cc, which gives cashback on insurance and bill payments?
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).
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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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catchchirag wrote:

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

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.

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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

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flash007 wrote:
imagejust saying

Mujhe yeh pahele se pata tha hoga.

Everyone must use RBL Signature+ debit card, best debit card ever.
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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.

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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.

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abhishek012 wrote:
Mujhe yeh pahele se pata tha hoga.

Everyone must use RBL Signature+ debit card, best debit card ever.

Also, now I am thinking, the way you're promoting the RBL Signature+ debit card in every post, how long do you think it will remain the best card? 😆

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flash007 wrote:

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.

Spend 3 lakhs annually and renewal fees wavier.
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Anyone received any points for 24 or 25 aug txns?

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abhishek012 wrote:
Mujhe yeh pahele se pata tha hoga.

Everyone must use RBL Signature+ debit card, best debit card ever.

what about union Bank signature card, 1% cashback  including cc Bill payment without upper limits

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just to know the curiosity of this trick...

please share how much reward you earned.

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Made 21k points

Too bad. It was too good an offer anyways!

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rahulrocks63 wrote:

just to know the curiosity of this trick...

please share how much reward you earned.

Around 8-9L

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abhishek012 wrote:
Mujhe yeh pahele se pata tha hoga.

Everyone must use RBL Signature+ debit card, best debit card ever.

I have to mail them every month that too twice thrice for credit of the points regretting getting one.

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kukdookoo wrote:

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

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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abhishek012 wrote:
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...
Any other card except this, dc or cc, which gives cashback on insurance and bill payments?
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kukdookoo wrote:
Any other card except this, dc or cc, which gives cashback on insurance and bill payments?
Axis ACE Credit Card.

2% unlimited cashback on utility bill payment category only (Insurance is not working but buy Amazon gv and pay).
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rahulrocks63 wrote:

what about union Bank signature card, 1% cashback  including cc Bill payment without upper limits

You mean Union Bank Signature Card credit_card

Pro : Great Card with almost unlimited cashback...

but $hitty support team, and my Card isn't even linked to rewards program automatically..

They have a different portal for rewards, and that customer support told me to wait 26 DAYS to get an issue fixed...That's their standard resolution time..that's how BS their customer support is!!

No escalation, No helpline..

So, Can't rely on it as a Primary...Only Backup.

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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-- 💀

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GautamgR wrote:

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-- 💀

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

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

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Vaastav wrote:

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

I thought it will last atleast for six months.

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Will it give rewards for cheq app payments???

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JUsbazZE wrote:

I thought it will last atleast for six months.

Youtuber arindam made the failed payment trick and looted Idfc and thus closed the reward system.

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rahulrocks63 wrote:

just to know the curiosity of this trick...

please share how much reward you earned.

15K

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