Good Farmers Mastercard deal for new accounts.
Annual Fee of $50 and comes with $200 worth of Farmers vouchers if you do a 15 month 0% balance transfer from another Credit Card up to a maximum of 80% of the Credit Limit.
It also looks like you can spend on the Credit Card and those purchases will be paid off first before the balance transfer - which is often not the case with other Credit Cards where any new purchases remain on the card unpaid until you have paid off your balance transfer and hence get charged high interest.
Farmers Mastercard 0% Interest on Balance Transfers & $200 Worth of Farmers Vouchers ($50 Annual Fee)
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"Standard Interest Rate, currently 25.95% p.a. applies to any outstanding balance at the end of a payment holiday or interest free period".
25.95% must be the highest interest rate for a credit card that I've ever seen.
Just make sure you don't get charged interest :) Although the Foreign Currency conversion fee is quite low at 1.4%
I usually pay back every dollar i spent, so dont usually ended up paying any interest
To be eligible to redeem the Offer, you must enter the promo code ‘BALANCETRANSFER’ on your application. To be able to redeem the 2,500 Farmers Club Points (equivalent to $200 worth of Farmers Club Vouchers), you must have a valid Club Card linked to your Farmers Mastercard account prior to transferring balances over to Farmers Mastercard and you must make a minimum of one balance transfer onto your new Farmers Mastercard.
Yeah I forgot all the clauses. And you have to make the Balance Transfer by 31st October once you have signed up in your Dashboard on the account.
whats a 15 month 0% transfer ?
I don't mind doing a balance transfer but does this mean I need to hold the card for 15 months ?
15 months interest free on the balance transferred.
nice - thanks - seems like a good deal
You transfer a credit card balance from another Credit Card to the Farmers card and you will pay 0% interest for 15 months . So yes you need to hold the credit card for 15 months and then close it afterwards. So if you got a $10,000 credit limit then you could transfer up to $8,000 from another Credit Card (80% of your limit) which is worth a minimum of $200 in saved interest if you transferred it from an ANZ Credit Card that was on the 1.99% balance transfer.
Was hoping to transfer the 500 limit, get the vouchers, spend it, pay off the credit card and close it.
Still viable ?
Yes could do that as well - once you have spent the $200 Farmers Vouchers then they can't take them back :)
Been approved for the card but can't find where you do the balance transfer?
Once you get your welcome pack you will be able to log onto their website and you complete it from there
I can login already, you're able to register and login as soon as you're approved, but there's no tab/section to make the balance transfer. I guess I'll have to wait for the card or something first.
I couldn't see it straight away, logged in today and the option is now there.
@Premoz: Ah yep, it's there now.
When is the annual fee charged? Can we use $200 vouchers and close the card?
Annual Fee is $50. $25 upon opening the account and $25 after six months.
Last time they gave you $200 vouchers just for signing up for the credit card. I cancelled the card after I got the vouchers loaded on my farmers club card. Didn't pay any fees by then.
Just make sure your details are complete on the club card.
noob here. Can I, buy something $1 on my Kiwibank credit card today, transfer the balance of $1 to this card before the balance is due on my Kiwibank cc?
2) what fee do I need to watch out for with balance transfer. Thanks for your time
you need to transfer minimum 500 dollars to get the voucher i think
From T&C
To be eligible to redeem the Offer, you must enter the promo code ‘BALANCETRANSFER’ on your application. To be able to redeem the 2,500 Farmers Club Points (equivalent to $200 worth of Farmers Club Vouchers), you must have a valid Club Card linked to your Farmers Mastercard account prior to transferring balances over to Farmers Mastercard and you must make a minimum of one balance transfer onto your new Farmers Mastercard.
1) You don't need to spend any money on your old credit card before the BT. If your old card has a limit of 10k, you can BT 8k even though it has a balance of 0. Farmers will deposit 8k into your old credit card, which you can withdraw as cash if you like. (Check the fees for cash withdrawals. There won't be any interest here, if you withdraw no more than the positive balance of your card, which is 8k in this case.)
2) Don't use the new card to buy anything before you pay off the balance, as you'll have to pay interest on that purchase from the date of the transaction.
0% interest on BT is a much better way to take out a loan if you need a small unsecured loan. You'll still need a job with steady income to be eligible for a(nother) credit card. You don't need to close your old credit card.
1) On this card that seems to be fine - on other cards they ask you to declare that it won't put your other card into Credit.
2) On this card it looks like you can make purchases and these will have an interest free period and will be paid off before the Balance Transfer (see the terms contained within the first comment and see whether you agree with my assessment).I actually use my BTs to pay for my mortgage by cycling them around, and yes you need to make sure you have income to be able to pay off the minimum payment each month.
Do Farmers require you to show proof of your old credit card's balance / credit limit?
They didn't ask me for proof of income. They just gave me an amount that I was pre-approved for and let me choose an amount upto that.
Credit card companies are losing money to these new four-week loan sharks.
Similar sign up offer last year without balance transfer. Had to contact support multiple times to get the vouchers. 6mths in had to contact support to revert an account fee charge (free for a year). Rewards not worth it imo even when shopping at farmers. Ymmv
^^^ to be clear, ongoing rewords aren’t worth it imo. $200 for application, 4x support calls and some emails is pretty good value!
By giving one year's free interest you know the client will go into its next year and be charged $50 anyway which could make the interest-free offer quite expensive specially when most people don't pay the balance off. Kiwi bank 9.9% interest, a $5 overdue payment fee, $15 service fee every six months and $5 for additional card. As for the $200 farmers are way too expensive anyway specially appliances. If you are savvy, you will pay the card off before the year and cancel your card and with $200 vouchers purchase stuff you need on their discount days rather than buy a large, overpriced appliance which they're hoping you do.
Totally, it was unlikely I’d stick with it beyond the first year.
There don’t seem to be a lot of great value credit cards around.
I happen to have Warehouse red with like 2k limit (no annual fee, 5% flat off anything at Warehouse after coupons, free delivery over $50) but they’re phasing it out EOFY.
I happen to have an Amex platinum edge with a low limit ($150 annual fee but you get a free domestic return flight with air nz, between that and an occasional statement credit promo and relatively good reward points on supermarket shopping it’s worth it imo).
Curious what others consider to be good options.I have Westpac Hotpoints rewards card. I always use the points as cash rewards and normally get around ~$250 per year. I haven't looked much so can't say if that's good or bad. I tried to apply Amex once and got declined (I think I messed up the application form somewhere no idea). Didn't bother to contest it as had no time.
I have a warehouse card, that's going back. I was also pointing out Kiwi bank has a doable interest rate at around 10% if you can't afford to pay the balance back that month not 26% plus penalties that's getting into loan shark territory. I have ASB platinum rewards which earns around $500 a year and only because my credit card balance is now paid automatically but, missed a payment once and got stung badly $80.
@pdevonporf: I always pay in full. So never worry about interest rates.
@pdevonporf: I've missed payments on my ANZ and BNZ a few times- emailed them to waive the fees and interest and they usually waive it without much issue.
Note I was unable to balance transfer with an AMEX card on their webpage.
Rats, I was going to do that.
Anyone got their vouchers yet?
Read the T&Cs, says the farmers points will be paid by 16 November.
yes got mine today
Hy how do we connect farmers club card to this credit card .I couldn't find the options in my account….
When you signed up it asked you for your farmers card number. Otherwise give them a call to check that you have a card loaded.
Don't get fooled they don't allow you to transfer the money internal…. that means can't to Q Master card and which ever runed by FLEXI cards……
From the terms and conditions that I got, the repayments to your account gets applied in the following order:
7.3 Payment allocation
7.3.1 Payments made to your Account will reduce any overdue payment amount shown on your current Statement.
7.3.2 Payments made to your Account are generally applied in the following order:
a) to any Cancelled Fixed Instalments in accordance with paragraph 3.5.4 (if applicable), in the order of date on which they are
cancelled; then
b) to statemented Instalments (if any), in the order of Transaction date; then
c) to statemented Cash Advances, in the order of Transaction date; then
d) to all other statemented Transactions (excluding Flexi Payment Purchases, Pay Later Purchases and Balance Transfers that
are not yet interest bearing) in the order of date on which they become interest bearing; then
e) to statemented Flexi Payment Purchases and Balance Transfers that are interest bearing and still within their Start-up Interest
Period, in the order of date upon which they will move to the Standard Interest Rate; then
f) to statemented Flexi Payment Purchases, Pay Later Purchases and Balance Transfers that are still within their interest free
Start-up Interest Period, in the order of date on which they will move to the Standard Interest Rate; then
g) to any unstatemented Transactions in the same order as set out at subparagraphs (b) to (f) above, except that no payment
will be applied towards any Instalments until they become statemented.