@Anonymous wrote:
Revelate this is a shot in the dark ... would it be worth the time contacting USAA to see if you could apply based on your proposed projected needs for foreign travel at many locations? Who know ... maybe they would give you special consideration.
I was reading some of the threads and it suggested that the applications were being kicked out period if you weren't in a qualifying area. That said I have a little bit of time on this application presumably given I probably don't even get the onsite client interview until post holiday break... wasn't really thinking job search anyway till next year but what the hell.
It would be worth a shot, if for no other reason to demonstrate I was interested in the card; I don't really know who they're looking for as a target audience on this card but it's possible I might fall into that category on a couple of quick and fairly reasonable assumptions.
@rlx01 wrote:
The Limitless is a Visa, so your FX rate is going to be ~1% higher than a MC in most cases.
The Arrival+ works everywhere and supports offline C+P once the PIN is encoded. The only downside is that it defaults to signature first. Which is annoying since cashiers hate that:
I used to have a Revolut card as a backup, but they shutdown US users. I think First Tech is the only real option to get C+P and MC.
Oh interesting; had blithely assumed there wasn't padding built into the exchange rate and that the current exchange rate at swipe time with the typical small processing delay built in to skew it potentially but a quick Googling disabused me of that quickly. That's useful, thanks!
Math time once I find out more if this goes as somewhat expected on the interview process.