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PC Financial World and World Elite cards
July 11, 2020
10:37 am
Briguy
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Just saw someone posted on Reddit that they went to upgrade their PCF Mastercard to World Elite and the agent told them that they have added a minimum spend in addition to the annual income requirement.
Those values are:

World: $15,000 in the past 12 months

World Elite: $25,000 in the past 12 months

Looks like other World Elite cards might be following suit to Rogers World Elite?

July 11, 2020
12:04 pm
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As far as I know, the "minimum spend" concept with credit cards refers to spending previously done on that same credit card, so you have to take a hit on that card's inferior rate before you can potentially get the upgrade - at which point the cash return might very well have been reduced and/or you may have found a better deal. It sounds to me like a ploy to reduce churning and effectively adds the cost of a fee-based card for one year..

I think we should be looking for a card that would accept the amount you'd charged on any card or combination of cards as meeting this criterion. But this may be hard to get.

July 11, 2020
1:56 pm
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Tangerine sent me an offer to upgrade their Mastercard to World Mastercard.

This is what small print says: "your annual purchases on your Current Account needed to be at least $15,000 for you to be eligible for this offer."

July 11, 2020
5:14 pm
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I hope this isn't going to be a problem for renewal of all my free World Elite cards- Rogers, PC,Triangle, and Tangerine. I use Tangerine for gas and recurring bills, Triangle for bill pay and CT, PC for No Frills, and Rogers for most other stuff, so I don't spend that much on any one card. If I had to cut down to 1 card it would be hard to choose between PC and Triangle. I could still keep the Tangerine card as the basic one is not bad.

July 11, 2020
7:54 pm
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Alexandre said
Tangerine sent me an offer to upgrade their Mastercard to World Mastercard.

This is what small print says: "your annual purchases on your Current Account needed to be at least $15,000 for you to be eligible for this offer."  

They keep pestering me to switch. I like my regular old Tang card with the 28 day grace period.

July 13, 2020
7:26 am
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hmmm I have to keep a close eye on this as I have multiple WE card all serves different purposes. Will be difficult to have $15k spend on each one esp the Triangle one...

July 13, 2020
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I wonder what would happen if someone gets World card, but can't manage to reach $15K spend?

What is credit card issuer policy in that case?

July 13, 2020
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Alexandre said
I wonder what would happen if someone gets World card, but can't manage to reach $15K spend?

What is credit card issuer policy in that case?  

They might downgrade you to a lower card if they have one or just ignore the lower spend and leave you on same card.

July 14, 2020
12:31 am
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Rick said

They keep pestering me to switch. I like my regular old Tang card with the 28 day grace period.  

It's the same grace period with either one. My statement period and due date didn't change when I upgraded.

Adam

July 14, 2020
5:18 am
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Briguy said

They might downgrade you to a lower card if they have one or just ignore the lower spend and leave you on same card.  

I am more concerned that they might introduce annual fee for those cardholders who are below annual spend limit.

July 14, 2020
7:48 am
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Alexandre said

I am more concerned that they might introduce annual fee for those cardholders who are below annual spend limit.  

if they do that, I will cancel without hesitation.

They either want me to use it "some of the time" or not at all. Either way I dont really care as I can get pretty much get any card I want (except those AE by invitation $2000 a year annual fee ones...)

July 17, 2020
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I doubt any of them will look at existing cards to charge a fee, downgrade an existing customer or threaten to cancel a card unless certain "performance/volume" criteria are met. The first one to do that would be like signalling they want to get out of the credit card business, without specifically saying that. So much business would be lost.

IMO its more likely that leading cash back cards would try to scale back what they pay, like Rogers did.

My guess is the card Companies don't want to issue new cards in a pandemic unless they are assured it would be very profitable. Therefore they have (for almost all people) unattainable usage targets, earnings etc., and probably in the background I suspect they are raising the minimum credit score needed to qualify. They know many people have multiple cards already. I certainly didn't need to meet the current PC MC limits when they gave me my Elite card.

However it is still a competitive market, much as the card companies would like it not to be. Walmart just sent me a message to get their MC and get some free cash for doing so. And it pays 1% on everywhere other than Walmart. With my card mix, that would mean PC MC would lose some of my business. However I get 2% on Walmart purchases via Tangerine, so the only reason to apply would be to have another card "for protection" in case some other card reduces cash back.

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February 27, 2021
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Just got an email this week that I don't meet the required spend for my PC Financial WE Mastercard. I'm being asked to apply for the PCF World Mastercard, or will be automatically downgraded to the standard PC Mastercard. FYI.

February 27, 2021
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There was a discussion about this late last year on RedFlagDeals in Mastercard WE cards minimum spending requirements ($15K per year).

It looks like MasterCard Canada is requiring a $15,000 annual spending minimum to keep a World Elite MasterCard. That's in addition to the $80,000 individual or $150,000 household income to qualify.

February 27, 2021
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We'll probably lose ours. Rarely buy their gas and the wife has been shopping less at loblaw businesses. Other than some extra points we don't use the other perks.
Doesn't matter to me. I get a healthy cash back on my cibc card.

February 28, 2021
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Laertes said
Just got an email this week that I don't meet the required spend for my PC Financial WE Mastercard. I'm being asked to apply for the PCF World Mastercard, or will be automatically downgraded to the standard PC Mastercard. FYI.  

I think PC Financial had the most World Elite cards.

Likely PC Financial had pressure from Mastercard to reduce their World Elite numbers and likely this is why PC Financial did this bad customer service move.

Downgrading in mass without allowing the customer to meet the now enforced requirement is not how a reputable company would deal with their customers.

February 28, 2021
2:47 pm
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I think the requirement is across the board from MasterCard Canada. Rogers did the same to their World Elite MasterCard last year:

WE’RE MAKING SOME CHANGES TO YOUR ROGERSTM WORLD ELITE® MASTERCARD® ACCOUNT


Starting June 2, 2020, Rogers World Elite Mastercard accounts must have an annual minimum spend (i.e. the total of Purchases made, less any Purchase returns) of at least $15,000 posted to the Account during each annual review period in order to maintain your eligibility for the Account. An annual review period commences on August 1st of a year and ends on July 31st of the following year, with the first annual review period commencing on August 1, 2020. …

March 1, 2021
10:47 am
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Mastercard is doing this to prevent credit card churn by this $15k annual spend requirement. Also allow them to move valuable data mining on the qualified WE accounts.
Not easy to reach $15k annual spend unless u charge all reg purchases on the same 1-2 cards, as oppose to 4 or more than a lot of card churner has.

March 1, 2021
6:03 pm
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This came as a surprise to me. I was aware of Rogers WE spend and I just got the PC letter saying I will be downgraded without a prior warning from them. I can’t see how this is good for PC’s brand. I will likely cancel the card to avoid the world card. I do need to reduce the amount of cards I have.

Is it possible to pay with visa at loblaws banner stores Like RCSS? I have the td visa infinite cash back that pays 3%. It would be great to fall back to that for groceries at RCSS. I know they don’t accept Amex.

March 1, 2021
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I have never had any trouble getting Visa accepted at a major grocery chain except way back long time ago when CC's were not accepted at grocery stores at all.

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