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NAB Rewards Signature Card: 100,000 Points ($3000 Spend in 60 Days), 40,000 Points Second Year, $295 Annual Fee

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Ok this deal is for the churners out there that about to have big spending coming up.

Note, like ANZ, this is Rewards card which is different with the Qantas Rewards card. You can have Qantas and this together or one after the other without cooling period. I had the Qantas card in Nov last month and just finished this and got bonus points without problem.

We're all know NAB is very good with getting back prorated fee. So apply, spend the requirement amount, collect points and close card immediately. You'll get most of the fee back. In my case, I'm getting $275 back after less than 4 weeks using the card ($20 out of pocket).

Click on the link to see details but here the summary:

  • NAB Signature Reward (not Qantas card so ok to apply for this and get the bonus point even if you had the Qantas one recently).

  • $75K salary (info not from NAB but most of us know that Signature card required much higher income than the Platinum one which only required $35K)

  • 100,000 bonus points if spend $3K within 60 days. 40K extra if you keep more than 12 months, but i believe no one here want to do that.

  • Minimum $15K credit limit

  • 100,000 points could net you ~$500 worth of giftcards. I've claimed the WoW egift cards.

  • The bonus points will available approximately 2-3 days after you have spent $3K - at least that what i found.

  • No instant digital card so need wait for physical card in snail mail. General about 5 business days after approval.

My experience with NAB was very good. They took less than 24hr to approve my application - applied at 9pm, got the approval 4pm next day. When ring up to cancel, after few validation questions, they told me how much fee i would get back and ask what account to deposit. Note, you can cancel via webchat but that didn't work for me.

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  • +1

    When ring up to cancel, after few validation questions, they told me how much fee i would get back and ask what account to deposit. Note, you can cancel via webchat but that didn't work for me.

    If it's the same as Qantas card - then just open a chat window with nab. No need to call them to close a card.
    I prefer this way, you can do it easily while working.

    • Yes. I know, but - as described - webchat didn't worked for me for some reasons. So just have to do the old fashion way.

      • Fax?

        • Lol, I'm not that old.

      • To be honest, they do have flaws in their systems.
        My partners' application ended up in a black hole. Only after calling them it got revived after almost a month, to be finally approved. Then bonus Qantas points took 2 months to arrive rather than on the statement immediately after spend was met.

  • Hmmm Citi Premier Signature much?

    • +1

      NAB bought all Citi cards recently?

      • Yep that my point, waste no time ., i hope they are not bringing those multi currency BS into NAB accounts

    • I think this card was there with NAB few years back. Never took interested in NAB till recently.

  • Point hacks says 120,000 points is equal to $2400 if you use air fares. Seems there’s a heavy penalty just for gift cards.

    Also for those who churn, do you not have several cards simultaneously and keep for 12 months for extra points? Do you just continually churn every 60 days? New to this but keen to learn!

    • +1

      Doesn't this negatively hit your credit rating churning so often?

    • +2

      Nope.

      Open one get points bonus, close card. Wait few months for credit score to recover if any hit, then onto next card.

      Rinse and repeat.

      • -1

        Have you managed to get a mortgage since doing this?

        • People have, and people that already have a mortgage do credit card churning.

        • +2

          My personal experience: have been churning CCs for about 7 years now, totalled about 25 credit cards, haven't missed a payment and have maintained a good to excellent credit score in creditsavvy (uses experian I believe). Recently landed a 680k mortgage with relative ease with ING. As long as you show history of repayments and don't have any big lines of credit when applying for a mortgage, I think you'll be fine.

      • how many months do you normally wait? im about 6 months since my last card

        • +1

          Once I close a card, I don't wait long to apply for another (days or weeks).

    • Usually I keep one (with the biggest earning rates) then we have a spreadsheet where we enter number of points (bonus) and fee (if any) and date of cancellation. If no mortgage or refinance soon doesn't impact you too much, we don't do 10 cards a year though, maybe 2-3. Spend the minimum - earn the bonus - cancel and repeat.
      The NAB one was $195 few months back I did it for me, now thinking doing it for my partner but I would have been keen on lower fee. Earning rate 1:1 is pretty good though.

  • +4

    I’ve never seen a churner buy gift cards with their points!!!

    • Blasphemy, But they do exist….not unicorns!

    • What’s the downside of buying gift cards with points?

      • bad value

    • some people don't fly though, so it's still " free money"

  • westpac altitude rewards black has 140k altitude points with a 6k spend and $49 fee first year if you have an existing account

    can’t be bothered creating a post

  • +2

    Just a note that Reward points redeem at the rate of 2 Rewards to 1 Frequent Flyer point, some, like KrisFlyer is 3 : 1

    This is a terrible deal with the $295 annual fee!

    • +2

      not if you churn and get most of the fee refunded as suggested

      • +1

        Why wouldn’t you do the same for a NAB card with QF points. Wouldn’t waste my time for 50k in points, and a possible sudden change in prorata fee refund.

        • 12 month exclusion

        • This is for those who already ran out of Qantas deals or those don't like Qantas.

          Each to their own. I have to to spend that much within for last month anyway and need to find a suitable CC - in cooling period from ANZ, WP, HSBC, Citibank, CommBank - that net a good profit.

          I don't think spending less than 10mins is a waste of time to apply a CC to earn 100K points which can get $500 from giftcard (dont need flight points).

          • @timhn: commbank have never approved me for card, all the other 3 of the big 4 are never a problem but the commonwealth reject me even before running a credit check. it’s weird.

  • Sell your points instead, has the best value.

    • But possible eviction from Qantas frequent flyer points account.

  • What's the Qantas card being referred to in here? Is there a (better?) deal still going on that one?

    • Probably this.

      • Thanks. I've been conditionally accepted for the Nab one now.

        • Can I ask when you applied for the nab card online, did it automatically pick up all the existing credit cards you owned already or do you need to manually add those cards into the application? Thanks.

          • @szy2k: It picked them up. I had to manually enter current balances. Also had to delete one card which I closed last month.

            • @gadgetguy: Thanks, those online credit applications are getting smarter nowadays. good and bad.

  • how do you handle the pro-rating, do you need to call them up separately from the closure..?

  • Anyone happen to know what happens if you close the card with a negative rewards balance i.e. after a refund?

    Do Nab chase you for reimbursement or they let it go?

  • my credit card not approved, and still waiting for final assessment. is it possible to change to Qantas signature type instead of NAB rewards? anyone succeed in the past?

  • Re the cancellation procedure/steps I assume its:

    1. achieve $3k spend
    2. wait for $3k purchases to clear
    3. 100k points credited
    4. redeem via Rewards site
    5. make payment for $3K(?)
    6. ring / chat to cancel

    Sounds right?

  • Does anyone know if this card comes with a digital card that you can use before the physical card arrives?

  • My application is stuck with the higher assessment team… :( Anyone else?

  • How long before the 100k gets added? I have reached more than $3k spend and have over 3000 points in my account.

  • I hit 3k spend last Monday and my points balance has been over 3k for 3 days. Still no sign of the 100k.

    Chat were super unhelpful and said I had to wait up to 3 months!

    How long did it take for everyone else?

    • Qantas points also took a month longer for me, last time

  • +1

    I week since I hit 3k and still nothing, wondering if I should just pay it off and cut my losses now, especially as no-one else is confirming/answering my questions.

    Reading through the thread I can only see the OP as signing up/getting points.

    • Have you tried to ring them and find out what happened? I just hit 3k yesterday and now the waiting game starts.

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