Let's wave it!

Heads up, if you have UOB ONE card! This credit card comes with the payWave feature whereby you can pay for your purchases just by tapping your card on the reader (machiam EZ-Link card). Quick and easy, no signature needed! The cap per transaction is $100 though, for security reason.

(picture from UOB ONE website)

Being the MONEY FACE, I would't write on this feature unless there is some monetary gain. As you can see from the above banner, you can get $1 cash rebate for every Visa payWave transaction from now till 31 July 2012. All you need to do is to type SMS ONE <space> 16-digit One Card principal account number to 77862 to register, pay for your purchases using payWave and you will receive the cashback into your credit card account on or before 31 October 2012. The catch is that the cash rebate is capped at $10. Full Terms and Conditions are available in this PDF file (link) and click here for the official UOB ONE website!

If you are going to purchase some miscellaneous items, just use payWave! For example, when you buy a Mentos which would cost you 70-cents from Guardian, you can just payWave it and a $1 cash rebate will be yours! As strange as it is, you get to receive 30-cents for buying a Mentos ($_$)

What are you waiting for? Let's start waving! $$$$$

StanChart CNY 2012 Shop for Free

Wish The Money Face Readers a HAPPY 2012!

May you move closer to your financial goals / achieve greater heights financially in the year 2012!

Now, what is The Money Face going to tell you dear readers? I just saw Standard Chartered Bank has a new promotion. It's the Shop for free this Chinese New Year promotion.

There are two parts to this promotion..let's see!


Part One - Win back your spending!
For every transaction you make between 1 January 2012 and 15 February 2012, you will qualify for a lucky draw in which you can win back your spending (a cap of $500)  for that particular transaction.

There will be 3 winners every hour of the day, so it sums up to be 72 winners per day and 3312 winners for the whole promotional period. How it works is that StanChart will group the transactions made within the same hour of the day and there will be a computerised system to random select 3 winning transactions from the same group.

I personally like the way they group their sample size by the hours, instead of day, week or even the promotional period; probability of winning if you spend during the wee hours of the day seems quite high eh? However, I shan't pin too much hope on winning anything. For me, I am more interested in Part Two of this promotion, i.e. getting a guaranteed gift $_$

Part Two - Guaranteed Gift
This is the real deal for me! Part A is just a good-to-have :)

On top of standing a chance to win back your spending, StanChart will give you a Sony Audio Dock ICFDS15iP (I suppose is some speaker which will play musics from your docked iPhone) if you spend at least S$3,500.00 during the period of 1 January 2012 to 15 February 2012!

(picture from StanChart website)

StanChart is pretty generous in giving free stuffs and I love it!! :)

Before you start shopping, you must...

register your StanChart card in order to qualify for this promotion.

To participate in both promotions, simply send an SMS to 78722 in this format:

WIN<space>16-digit Standard Chartered Card number. For example: WIN 4508123456789000

For more information, please visit StanChart website http://www.standardchartered.com.sg/promotion/shopforfree2/index.html

Wish all of you luck! :)