HDFC Bank Diners Club Black Metal Credit Card Launched | Difference Between the Plastic and New Metal DCB Card

[aniketkr.sharma]

metal card has this offer where if you spend 4 lacs in a calendar quarter, you get 10k bonus points - i'm getting it from last 3 quarters

Have you got amazon prime with welcome benefit?

 

[aniketkr.sharma]

metal card has this offer where if you spend 4 lacs in a calendar quarter, you get 10k bonus points - i'm getting it from last 3 quarters

Have you got amazon prime membership as i can see in welcome benefits they removed it

 

[rogerthat]

metal card has this offer where if you spend 4 lacs in a calendar quarter, you get 10k bonus points - i'm getting it from last 3 quarters

You should be easily eligible then for Infinia now

 

[neo.puneet]

@mojo_jojo123 - i usually have spends around 3 lacs including home/family/travel/father travel expenses, sometimes it reaches 4 and when it doesn't i rotate a bit on amazon wallet to achieve 10k points

@aniketkr.sharma - I got the benefit of amazon prime since my card is from June 2024

@rogerthat - I have already tried twice lol, the last email response i got from them literally said "apni aukat me raho" and keep using DCB

 

[Indrajeet100]

Have you got amazon prime with welcome benefit?

I got it and used in last week of March only.

 

[aniketkr.sharma]

I got it and used in last week of March only.

I checked today and it was removed from welcome benefits

 

[Indrajeet100]

I checked today and it was removed from welcome benefits

I also do not see welcome rewards tab there but in history it does show as redeemed. I had redeemed all three and generated vouchers. Last was amazon prime generated on 24th March. But they should not remove it. I remember in Regalia gold, it stayed there as I had no use for these.

 

[aniketkr.sharma]

I also do not see welcome rewards tab there but in history it does show as redeemed. I had redeemed all three and generated vouchers. Last was amazon prime generated on 24th March. But they should not remove it. I remember in Regalia gold, it stayed there as I had no use for these.

Let my spend complete by next month & will check if it's there or not as in paper's that I recieved it's written there

 

[Slayer]

You should be easily eligible then for Infinia now

Infinia lounge list is sussy

 

[aniketkr.sharma]

Infinia lounge list is sussy

Sussy ? Why

 

[Slayer]

Sussy ? Why

Already discussion happened that visa lounges are somewhat inferior to pp/rupay network lounges

 

[aniketkr.sharma]

Already discussion happened that visa lounges are somewhat inferior to pp/rupay network lounges

Can you give me the link?

 

[dexter_greycells]

Discovered a new weakness of all Diners Club cards over Visa/Mastercard/RuPay -

Some platforms (Care Religare Health Insurance, for example) add a surcharge of 1.7% for using Diners as against 0.8% for others.
I had observed the same at an HPCL petrol pump as well a few years ago after which I never swiped a Diners Club card again for that purpose.

 

[thanix]

HDFC bank has sent a survey about Diners experience after I survived 3 years with Diners acceptance. Primary target is ICICI, Axis and Amex and Rupay, Discover, Visa and MC in networks for comparison and benchmarking in all aspects of spends and offers. It took almost 30 mins to finish. Don't know whether they will renew my card after my harsh feedback 😀

 

[hender]

HDFC bank has sent a survey about Diners experience after I survived 3 years with Diners acceptance. Primary target is ICICI, Axis and Amex and Rupay, Discover, Visa and MC in networks for comparison and benchmarking in all aspects of spends and offers. It took almost 30 mins to finish. Don't know whether they will renew my card after my harsh feedback 😀

Patience testing 😁

 

[nileshgr]

In India if offline where you felt acceptability issue?

I just want to know, so that I can carry another card. Till now I never faced any acceptability issue.

You definitely a backup card. But acceptance of Diners is generally much better than AMEX. Mostly the acceptance has to do with the generation of machine. Older machines do not recognize it. Newer machines (usually Android/touch ones) accept it.

Tap to pay works only on Paytm & HDFC's machines. On other machines it doesn't.

You should be easily eligible then for Infinia now

Rewards are better on DCB Metal for offline / non-smartbuy spends. So Infinia may not be best for all.

 

[aniketkr.sharma]

You definitely a backup card. But acceptance of Diners is generally much better than AMEX. Mostly the acceptance has to do with the generation of machine. Older machines do not recognize it. Newer machines (usually Android/touch ones) accept it.

Tap to pay works only on Paytm & HDFC's machines. On other machines it doesn't.



Rewards are better on DCB Metal for offline / non-smartbuy spends. So Infinia may not be best for all.

Yeah i knew that but if still i need to carry it then why I worry about tap n pay.

Carrying cash if doesn't work because it's the dad of all failures.

 

[rogerthat]

You definitely a backup card. But acceptance of Diners is generally much better than AMEX. Mostly the acceptance has to do with the generation of machine. Older machines do not recognize it. Newer machines (usually Android/touch ones) accept it.

Tap to pay works only on Paytm & HDFC's machines. On other machines it doesn't.

Yes, the older POS machines with push buttons and with the LCD screen don't accept Diners cards at all. Any Federal Bank machines don't accept them as well. Which sucks because Federal is the provider for quite many of the SME businesses in Kerala.