Personal credit cards?

[Forester]

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If you think it makes sense, you can like it; if opposite, please, tell me, why I am wrong...

 

[SCHLOSSFINANZ]

here you can get AMEX in USD or EUR

https://solo.ge/en/solo/credit-cards

you have to deposit ca. 35k EUR at the bank

 

[Nigital Domad]

SCHLOSSFINANZ said:
here you can get AMEX in USD or EUR

https://solo.ge/en/solo/credit-cards

you have to deposit ca. 35k EUR at the bank
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Can the account be set up completely online?

 

[SCHLOSSFINANZ]

my experience is from 2020, back then it was possible with my lawyer help

 

[SCHLOSSFINANZ]

another provider of AMEX USD cards

https://www.italbank.com/tarjetas/

 

[sknomad]

daniels27 said:
I can also recommend this one
https://eubank.kz/visa-infinite/?lang=en
Also a debit card, comes with 2% on Google, Samsung and Apple pay, unlimited Dragon Pass for only 4000 KZT per month, free if you deposit 5M tenge in their deposit account at 13.8% interest, fully insured up to 20m KZT.
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Kazakhstan is a country wirh strict currency control. Once you send your money there, it is in Kazakhstan forever without a special permit. Card official currency is Tenge. If you have USD and want to pay in USD with card, you loose up to 5 percent in exchange USD-Tenge-USD

 

[daniels27]

sknomad said:
Kazakhstan is a country wirh strict currency control. Once you send your money there, it is in Kazakhstan forever without a special permit. Card official currency is Tenge. If you have USD and want to pay in USD with card, you loose up to 5 percent in exchange USD-Tenge-USD
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Have you actually opened the link or even owned the card? It is a multi-currency card in KZT, EUR, USD. Why would it go to KZT and then back?

Also, what is the problem with capital controls if you use a debit card?

 

[nobel]

SCHLOSSFINANZ said:
another provider of AMEX USD cards

https://www.italbank.com/tarjetas/
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To bad: Transaction Fees Foreign Transaction 2.7% of each transaction after conversion to US dollars.
I need only EUR Card!

 

[nobel]

SCHLOSSFINANZ said:
here you can get AMEX in USD or EUR

https://solo.ge/en/solo/credit-cards

you have to deposit ca. 35k EUR at the bank
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To bad: 5 visits with PRIORITY PASS card.
Other Amex have access to the lounge without limit, I need only this.

 

[nobel]

daniels27 said:
Have you actually opened the link or even owned the card? It is a multi-currency card in KZT, EUR, USD. Why would it go to KZT and then back?

Also, what is the problem with capital controls if you use a debit card?
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Note from the homepage: Non-residents of the Republic of Kazakhstan, customers with a residence permit, and persons under the age of 18 years, are required to visit a Bank outlet to open the card.

 

[daniels27]

nobel said:
Note from the homepage: Non-residents of the Republic of Kazakhstan, customers with a residence permit, and persons under the age of 18 years, are required to visit a Bank outlet to open the card.
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I am frequent visitor.

 

[SCHLOSSFINANZ]

nobel said:
To bad: 5 visits with PRIORITY PASS card.
Other Amex have access to the lounge without limit, I need only this.
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nearly all AMEX cards don't allow unlimited Priority Pass visits since last year, they changed the rules!

Get yourself Revolut Ultra (600 EUR py), Dragonpass included with unlimited visits

 

[SCHLOSSFINANZ]

maybe get yourself the Trading 212 Mastercard. It has 0,5% cashback and no fees and 3,7% interest on your deposits.
From the cashback you can buy many lounge vouchers lol

https://www.trading212.com/de/cards

 

[nobel]

SCHLOSSFINANZ said:
nearly all AMEX cards don't allow unlimited Priority Pass visits since last year, they changed the rules!
Get yourself Revolut Ultra (600 EUR py), Dragonpass included with unlimited visits
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No. Every other AMEX Platinium has unlimited lounge access.
Unfortunately I can't use Revolut Ultra, it's for EEA citizens, which I'm not.

 

[SCHLOSSFINANZ]

this is totally untrue. In Germany 50 per year are only allowed, Switzerland and Austria will change it shortly according to AMEX SVP I spoke to recently.

Get yourself a Bulgarian address (cheap) and apply for Revolut Ultra via that route

 

[daniels27]

nobel said:
No. Every other AMEX Platinium has unlimited lounge access.
Unfortunately I can't use Revolut Ultra, it's for EEA citizens, which I'm not.
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Citizens or residents?

 

[nobel]

SCHLOSSFINANZ said:
maybe get yourself the Trading 212 Mastercard. It has 0,5% cashback and no fees and 3,7% interest on your deposits.
From the cashback you can buy many lounge vouchers lol
https://www.trading212.com/de/cards
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Not available in my country, probably only EEA countries. I should register on the waiting list. Lol. It's hopeless for me. damn_(

 

[nobel]

daniels27 said:
Citizens or residents?
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residents

 

[SCHLOSSFINANZ]

daniels27 said:
Citizens or residents?
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It's about residents certainly not citizens. Maybe Nobel can enlight us about his citizenship and residency

 

[daniels27]

Come on guys. Let's go to Kazakhstan and throw a Bunga Bunga with @JohnnyDoe while I apply @nobel some cards.