Tuesday, December 11, 2012

My new credit card. yikes.

I love Metrobank Card. 

My first ever credit card was given to me by my father 10 years ago. I was in college then. He thought I was responsible enough to budget and purchase whatever I needed without my parents' help. He also knew I was not a shopper and I hardly asked them for anything. We were trained not to ask and just be happy with what we have. To reward me, he gave me a supplementary card and told me that I only had a 3,000 peso budget every month and I'm only allowed to buy things that I need, books included. He said the bill goes directly to him and once he sees I'd gone haywire, he would immediately take away the card. I told him I wouldn't fail him and I felt so powerful and naive at the same time.

The first purchase I did with Metrobank card was in a Giordano store in Glorietta. I had planned it for weeks. I needed a pair of good pants. And since I'm not a shopper type, I only buy from trusted stores, products I could use forever. I was with my college friend Vanessa So. Being a streetsmart kid from America, she found the experience amusing and interesting. She tried to calm me down as I headed towards the counter. And it's happy swiping experience ever since.

Metrobank Card has good monitoring control. Also, they are fast in investigating disputes and have always had excellent customer service. They've also started to have logical freebies. I love them.

Lately, I had an inquiry about a paypal transaction. It wasn't unauthorized, I just somehow accounted it incorrectly, apparently an owner problem. And only after few days of cutting my old femme visa card due to *ahem* owner's memory loss, I received my new one and it's hot pink, their new femme card visa version!


Just in time! I was in the mood to shop last Saturday. For the sake of breaking this in, I kept on using it this week. It's going pretty well, but I know I must stop soon.


1 comment:

  1. Cant wait to get my own metrobank femme card soon :)

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