Master and VISA card offers for India 2015

You must be having either Master or VISA credit and debit cards ...

its better to keep an eye on their websites for the offers provided time to time for Indian market ..

VISA India website showing the offers please visit
http://www.visa.co.in/offers

Master card India website showing India exclusive offers please visit
http://www1.mastercard.co.in/content/moments/india/en/offers.html


if you have SBI debit card please visit SBI India offer 2015
https://www.sbi.co.in/portal/web/personal-banking/debit-card-offers

if you have standard charterd credit card get your India offers at
https://www.sc.com/in/credit-cards/offers.html?pid=S:MNAV:N:IN-P:CCR-M:O-R:TXTLNK-L:MNAV-O:PLA-D:141028-10001958

Kotak offers 2105
http://www.kotak.com/kotakoffers/

Bookmyshow offers 2015
http://in.bookmyshow.com/offers/

paytm offers
https://paytm.com/offer/

10% off on ebay for mastercard debit and credit cards valid till 31 dec 2014

http://deals.ebay.in/partner-offers/master-card/index.html

10% off on ebay for mastercard debit and credit cards valid till 31 dec 2014


Coupon code EBAYXMAS10

so enjoy your shoppin on ebay india till 31 dec 2014 and have a happy year end

surprisingly on mastercard india website offer is different

http://www1.mastercard.co.in/content/mc/offer-exchange/moments/india/en/india/shopping/ebay.offers.html

showing 7.5% off on ebay india ...

never mind .. since offer on ebay says 10% offer I believe that u will get 10% using the coupon code mentioned on that website.

Gold Deposit Schemes - Pune - Maharashtra - India

India is one of the largest importer of GOLD in world .. and our passion towards gold will never end :-)

Every household will have gold collected over years ...

So in case you are thinking of generating some money out of collected gold then there are various gold deposit schemes available in market, however point to be noted here is that if you deposit gold then goldsmith will use it for making ornaments and selling it .. hence u will not get gold back in the same form that u hv deposited ! so if u r ready for that then only these deposit schemes are to be though of.

One of the good scheme that I came across is by P. N. Gadgil and sons (पु.ना.गाडगीळ ॲन्ड सन्स), there stores are available in Pune, Amravati, Dhule, Mumbai, Nasik, Sangamner, Satara and Solapur.

With options of depositing collected gold from 90 days to 365 days to investing like SIP with small amount of gold purchase per month they have various schemes available ...

I am adding here snap shots of the schemes they have displayed in their shops for reference purpose, you may please like to go to shop to check for current offerings (since they might change from time to time)

The most interesting and important thing is that they also hv started online subscription ...
http://shopping.pngadgilandsons.com/plans/

now question is that why i am writing about only this jeweler and not about other schemes .. first and foremost thing is that PNG is know to be since over 100 years for their authentic gold jewelry .. they are know to be best for the honest transactions and trustworthy .. which is most important thing when u buy gold ..

i checked about other schemes also which are advertised .. however after visiting there personally and discussing felt that they are not that worthy for ... (not writing names here but readers will understand)

you may like to visit their webpage at
http://pngadgilandsons.com/?page_id=3095

I liked the SIP option which u can collect some gold and take advantage of fluctuating prices .. then keep that gold as fixed deposit (gold FD) and earn interest say till ur sons or daughters marriage and convert gold to ornaments at the time of marriage .. this way u can keep collecting it slowly over years .. average the rate of buy .. and still earn some interest (~5% per annul) on the  deposited gold.

think on this beautiful investment option ...

happy investing in gold ...

cheers !!

Standard chartered Manhattan platinum card and titanium card experience

I have been using Standard chartered Manhattan platinum card and titanium cards since ~7 years and experience is always good.
Initially I got this offer of both cards for one time fees of ~4000 Rs which I felt was too much .. however over the years it has proven that it was good decision to go ahead with these cards giving me immense cashback month after month ...

Standard chartered Manhattan platinum card provides me the following benefits

• 5% cash back on credit card expenditure from supermarkets & department stores (this cashback I am enjoying each month since  I need to buy my monthly glossary from super stores)  
• 5x rewards when you use your credit card to pay for:Hotels, Dining, Airline ticket reservation, Fuel (now here since  I could accumulate points over years, I got Rs. 1000 as direct cash credited to my account so far and a gift voucher of Flipkart worth Rs 2000)
• for fuel filling I am using their Titanium card (which I got as supplementary card for my wife) which provides me Rs 50 cashback on buying of fuel worth Rs 2000 and the service tax reversal of 2.5%
• Maximum cashback per month is INR 500 which means best possible per year cashback is Rs 6000

Coming to the other card Super Value Titanium Credit Card which I have got as supplementary card alongwith the main card

• 5% cash back on fuel at all petrol pumps in India. You’ll also receive a 2.5% surcharge reversal and 2.5% cash back on the transaction amount, be it BPCL, IOC, HPCL or Reliance (this does help me since I keep on fueling my car time to time providing me Rs 25 cashback per Rs 1000 spent, not bad at all !)
• 5% cash back on all telecom payments including phone bills across all service providers, be it Vodafone, Airtel, MTNL , Reliance, BSNL or TATA Indicomm ( I am using this for my BSNL payment, providing me Rs 50 cashback for every Rs 1000 spent ....)
• 5% cash back on all utility bill payments, allowing you to save more on electricity, gas and water (electricity bill and water bills are unavoidable ? so why not pay using this card ? giving you cashback as well as u can pay it later ..alongwith ur card payment .. giving u benefit each month)
• Minimum transaction amount for cashback eligibility is INR 750 .. 
• Maximum cashback per transaction is INR 100
• Maximum cashback per month is INR 500 which means best possible per year cashback is Rs 6000

So I think using both of these cards save me a lot and that too for spending that are unavoidable like bill payments each month ....

wanted to share this experience as a guide to save money ...

its not necessary that u use these cars only .. u can use other cards available in market ..however for one time fee and no annual fee thereafter i found these cards to be lot cheaper than other cards in market ,,.and thought to share my experience with all ...

I can pay the card bill from internet and hence no need to write a cheque ... that's another advantage ... the same I am paying using ICICI banking facility which again earns payback points for me :-)

hope this information helps u saving money !

cheers !!

happy bill paying !!

Kotak Trump credit card offer now closed

Look at the best cashback cards on Google and u will get Kotak trump card providing 10% cashback on dining ! its very lucrative proposal na ?

Look at their website
http://www.kotak.com/kotaklpbank/SEM_trump.html

This is what they say on their website
Earn back cash up to 10% on your entertainment expenses
Now you can convert 10% of your expenses on movies, plays, and refreshments at various multiplexes, restaurants and so on. This benefit is available all year round in every part of the country on your Kotak Trump Gold Card.

Hence last week I enrolled on their website asked for call back.
since i did not get any call back in weeks time after enrolling 2 times on the Kotak website today I called to their customer care helpline on 29/11/2014.

Kotak customer care told me that now Kotak Trump card is not offered by the company, on which I asked them to remove the information from their website, however they told that it is maintained on website for the existing customers of trump card !!!

funny answer indeed !! they can mentioned that card is only offered to the old customers and not open for new enrollment !!!

anyway .....

happy shopping !!!

Flipkart Steal Deals stolen before they are open for sale ! just a buzz !!

Flipkart so called 6th oct 14 sale looks like just a buzz ... i visited the website at 8 am in morning from the time the sale has started

All the deals advertised in the local news paper shown under the steal deals offer were showing Out of stock

Karbonn mobile A5 i for Rs 99
Transcend JetFlash 360 16 GB Pen Drive
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 P3110
Zync Z99 Tablet
Kodak Pixpro FZ151 Point & Shoot Camera

all of the above products were out of stock at 8 am !!! how can this happen ? or it is just a mimic to get more visitors on 6th oct ?

see the snaps below showing flipkart steal deal offers stolen from the place from the start of sale !!

see out of stock at 8 am today 6th Oct 2014 !! Samsung galazy tab out of stock !!

out of stock again !!!

I love flipkart and have done shopping on the same its great website indeed, but then they do not need to do such things to gain more popularity ... rather go for genuine offers which customer can grab ....

or other possibility is that since all the people are trying to hit the website since morning .. servers might have responded like that !! who knows ... but they know that they will get so many hits and servers must be ready to face the traffic !! I am saying this since the notify me by email was also not working .. it was showing "An internal service error occurred."

look at the news on indiatimes mentioning the same thing which i have put on my blog yesterday morning hour as soon as the sale started
http://www.hindustantimes.com/business-news/flipkart-hosts-the-big-billion-day-sale-website-crashes/article1-1272259.aspx

they have also mentioned that on so called Big Billion Day prices of some products were selling higher than the competition !!

I think what they could have gained throughout years building reputation can get touched due to such false attempts .. better they keep pace what they are doing the best and we will keep on loving flipkart ....

on DNA india they have told this day as Flopkart !!!

http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-flipkart-turns-into-flopkart-on-big-billion-day-sale-2024058

one thing is true that some of my colleagues bought things that were not planned to be bought !!
they just got carried away by the big boom created by flipkart ... someone bought camera ... and someone shoes !! for no reasons .... anyway ... I think better that flipkart thinks in future .. ohterwise in no time the competitors will take over like snapdeal and amazon india.....

cheers !!