Change to Curve card price levels, and new Curve X level

Daliah

Crypto. Good job I am closing down Curve already.

wiseonesomeofthetime

Daliah said:

Crypto. Good job I am closing down Curve already.

It is a choice. Not an obligation.

I simply declined the offer.

I also got a push notification yesterday, saying that the levels will be changing in three days, effective 28 August 2022.

Forgive me, but we are still in July, aren't we? I haven't slept through a month

ordnancesurvey84

Does anyone know when the restrictions on the free Curve card were supposed to start?
I'd thought it wasn't until the end of August (received email about the changes on 28th June and was told that changes would come into effect 60 days from the date of the email)  - but my Go Back In Time appears to have already been limited to three transactions a month.

wiseonesomeofthetime

ordnancesurvey84 said:

Does anyone know when the restrictions on the free Curve card were supposed to start?
I'd thought it wasn't until the end of August (received email about the changes on 28th June and was told that changes would come into effect 60 days from the date of the email)  - but my Go Back In Time appears to have already been limited to three transactions a month.

And that is exactly the information they provided on their social media platforms too. So should certainly NOT have been implemented yet.

Hey Ant! Changes to improve our premium subscriptions have already been implemented. Changes to our free subscription will be implemented 60 days from the announcement.

Hey Patrick, the changes to our free subscription will be implemented in 60 days. The changes to improve our premium tiers are already in place and you should be able to make full use of them already!

Hey Ian, you can continue using all of your cards until the changes to our free tier are implemented on the 27th of August. You'll then be prompted to choose two active cards.

Source: Twitter @imaginecurve account, 29 Jun, 29 Jun, 5 Jul respectively.

ordnancesurvey84

Thanks - I'll try contacting them about this later today - as I still had quite a lot of going back in time to do!

gwapenut

I've tried clarifying with Curve Chat. Am I right in thinking that I can use my curve card to pay for a car at a dealership, without paying any debit fronted credit card fees to curve, where that dealer does not accept credit card? Assuming I don't exceed the "free curve card" daily limit of £7500?

k_man

Is there a reason in your scenario that means you wouldn't pay the 1.5% Curve fronted fee?

gwapenut

I had in mind that Curve fronted was only for cash-like transactions such as HMRC, National Savings, etc. Whereas the car dealer is just a regular merchant, paying for a product, where they only accept debit cards.

crumpet_man

gwapenut said:

I had in mind that Curve fronted was only for cash-like transactions such as HMRC, National Savings, etc. Whereas the car dealer is just a regular merchant, paying for a product, where they only accept debit cards.

I have found that the places which accept only debit cards are the ones for which the transaction is cash like.

Be prepared for it not to work when paying for a car and have a backup payment ready 

gwapenut

I just used it today for £7500 with no issues at all