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Axis Bank Visa Platinum Credit Card 

The Axis Bank Visa Platinum Credit Card is designed for individuals seeking a rewarding lifestyle with added financial convenience. Whether you’re shopping, dining, or traveling, this card provides access to a world of benefits while also offering enhanced savings opportunities.

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Discover FintechZoom best travel credit cards for 2025, featuring top picks that maximize rewards and benefits for every traveler. Travel credit cards are a game-changer for frequent travelers. The fintechzoom cards stand out for their unique benefits. right credit card can enhance your travel experience significantly.y offer exclusive perks like travel rewards, cash back, and peace of mind…

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"Platinum Aura Edge Visa Credit Card: Elevating Your Financial Odyssey"

In the dynamic world of credit cards, the Platinum Aura Edge Visa Credit Card emerges as a beacon of exclusivity, promising not just a means of payment but an extraordinary journey through the realms of luxury and convenience. Tailored for the astute individual who seeks an elevated financial experience, this card is a passport to opulence, unlocking a plethora of privileges that redefine the very essence of credit card sophistication.

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The Platinum Aura Edge Visa Credit Card is not just a card; it's an embodiment of aesthetic brilliance. With its sleek design and platinum finish, it seamlessly merges form with prestige. This card is not merely a transaction tool; it's a testament to your refined taste and commitment to a lifestyle where every detail matters.

Boundless Financial Horizon:

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Immerse yourself in a rewards program that transforms mundane transactions into triumphant moments. Every swipe of the Platinum Aura Edge Visa Credit Card accumulates points, opening the door to a world of exclusive benefits – from dream vacations to VIP event access. This isn't just a rewards program; it's a pathway to turning your financial choices into cherished experiences.

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The Platinum Aura Edge Visa Credit Card understands that your journey extends beyond borders. Enjoy the convenience of global acceptance, allowing you to transact seamlessly wherever your adventures take you. Complementing this global reach is a personalized concierge service, ensuring your travel plans and lifestyle preferences are attended to with local expertise and excellence.

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In a world where digital security is paramount, the Platinum Aura Edge Visa Credit Card stands as a fortress against uncertainty. Employing advanced security features such as encryption and fraud protection, the card ensures that every transaction is shielded from potential threats. Navigate the financial landscape with confidence, knowing that your financial security is a top priority.

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In conclusion,

 The Platinum Aura Edge Visa Credit Card isn't just a card; it's your key to a refined financial odyssey. From its aesthetic brilliance to the boundless financial horizon, rewards program, global acceptance, and robust security features, this card is crafted for those who desire more from their financial experience. If you're ready to embark on a journey where each transaction is a step towards refined living, the Platinum Aura Edge Visa Credit Card awaits – your guide to an elevated financial odyssey.Discover unparalleled options for loans and Credit Card tailored to your preferences with Arena Fincorp. As a leading digital lending platform in the Loan & Finance sector, we provide industry-best choices, allowing you to select loans that match your needs, determine your preferred interest rates, and set terms according to your preferences. Experience extraordinary – our cutting-edge technology ensures swift application processing, enabling customers to receive funds in their accounts in as little as 12 hours, with minimal documentation required .

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One of my favorite things about Tumblr is the complete lack of brand presence as support.

Because yeah we had Dennys for a while which is whatever, but there are no bots scanning Tumblr for a mention of their products so they can show up in the replies to try and help.

Like back when Twitter was a thing, you couldn't post "man my new bank of america card is good for everything but MAKING PURCHASES, stupid broken bullcarp" without a reply showing up in a few minutes from @ bofa-official being all "I'm sorry you're having a problem with your Bank of America® Personal Platinum Visa Credit Line™ card. Can you send me a direct message so I can help you resolve it? NK"

And that shit never happens here. Thank fuck.

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The credit card fee victory is a defeat

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me next weekend (Mar 30/31) in ANAHEIM at WONDERCON, then in Boston with Randall "XKCD" Munroe (Apr 11), then Providence (Apr 12), and beyond!

The headline was pure David and Goliath: America's small businesses had finally triumphed in their 20-year litigation campaign against Visa and Mastercard over price-gouging on fees, and V/MC were going to cough up $30B as reparations:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/26/economy/visa-mastercard-swipe-fee-settlement/index.html

But if you actually delve into that settlement, the victory gets very hollow indeed. Here's the figure that didn't make the headline: as a part of this settlement, the sky-high fees merchants pay to process your credit-card transaction are going up by 25%:

https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2024/03/the-proposed-credit-card-interchange-settlement.html

The payments system is a hellish complex, rotten cartel, dominated by a handful of firms who have raised their already-high fees by 40% since the start of covid:

https://prospect.org/power/2023-02-07-small-business-credit-card-fees/

These companies who take 2-5% out of virtually every dollar exchange in the American company are wildly profitable, but their aggregate profits are still much lower than the profits of all the merchants they prey upon. More: the combined market capitalization of every company that accepts credit-cards is orders of magnitude larger than the payment processing companies. If we're just talking about sheer economic muscle, the "Goliath" here is "all the companies" and the "David" is "the three companies that process payments for them."

So, how is it that these puny middlemen are able to run circles around this massive retail sector? To learn the answer, you need to consider the fine technical details of the lawsuit and the settlement. That's something few of us are capable of doing on our own, because – as is ever the case with finance – the whole system is wreathed in an enormous amount of performative complexity. It's what finance bros call "MEGO," for "My Eyes Glaze Over." Finance loves things that are made complicated so that they'll be hard to understand – because so many of us will assume that they are hard to understand because they are complicated and just "leave it to the experts."

Thankfully, not all of the experts are on the side of finance. When I want a cheat-sheet for the lies buried in Uber's balance sheet, I look to Hubert Horan:

https://horanaviation.com/publications-uber

And when I want to understand credit markets, I go to Adam Levitin and his co-authors at the indispensable Credit Slips blog – and the Credit Card Interchange Settlement is no exception:

https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2024/03/the-proposed-credit-card-interchange-settlement.html

Formally, the fight over credit-card fees is over "interchange fees" – the fees charged to a merchant's bank by Visa and Mastercard. But of course, these fees are passed on to the merchants. If you've ever shopped for a credit-card, you'll know that some cards offer massive rebates to consumers (especially wealthy consumers with great credit scores). These gifts don't come out of V/MC's bottom-line: every time you use one of those Platinum/Emerald/Unobtanium cards, V/MC levy an even higher interchange fee. So ultimately, when a wealthy customer with a "good" credit card shops at a merchant, the merchant ends up paying more to process their payment.

But merchants aren't allowed to charge that back to their customers – and that's the crux of the lawsuit. It's why American merchants pay the highest interchange fees in the developed world.

Enter the $30b settlement. Under its terms, average interchange fees will go down by 7 basis-points (0.07%) over the next five years, while all fees will go down by 0.04% over three years – a reduction of about $3b/year. Additionally: merchants will now be able to levy small, extremely limited surcharges based on either the type of card or the card brand (e.g., "We charge a fee for Visa" or "We charge a fee for gold cards"). If merchants are able to levy these fees and figure out how to max them out, they stand to make another 3b/year.

In other words, the $30b settlement comes from $15b in guaranteed savings and $15b in possible savings, for just five years – while V/MC will continue to charge more than $100b/year in interchange fees.

This litigation began in 2005, with merchants outraged over the sky-high average interchange fee of 1.75%. Today, after the settlement, those fees have climbed by 25%, to 2.19% – and they'll start climbing again after just five years. A 20-year fight over high fees resulted in a victory in which the fees are even higher.

How did this happen? Levitin gives us some tantalyzing hints. Over the two decades of litigation, the credit card cartel were able to peel off different groups of merchants and settle with them separately. Some of those settlements were vacated by courts, and other ones are still pending, but fundamentally, the merchants were not unified in the way the credit-card companies are.

This shouldn't surprise anyone. Hundreds of thousands – millions? – of merchants are unable to coordinate strategies in the way that just two credit-card companies can. Indeed, when you have hundreds of thousands of companies, that represents many, many different kinds of businesses, each of which has different kinds of customers and different labor, inventory, cash-flow and profitability specifics.

But as an industry grows more concentrated, all the firms within that industry converge on a single, homogeneous style of operations. Walmart operates very differently from the mom-and-pop shops it forced out with predatory pricing and sweetheart deals with wholesalers – but Costco, Walmart and Sam's Club are all remarkably similar to one another. As a shopper, that means that if have needs that aren't well-served by a big box store, you're out of luck – and it means that a credit-card settlement that works for Walmart will probably work equally well for Costco and Sam's Club.

Think of the mobile phone duopoly of Apple/Google. These two "competitors" have nearly identical ways of dealing with their suppliers – both charging 30% fees for processing payments (and yes, that's a racket that makes Visa/Mastercard look like pikers). These two "competitors" are also one another's most important business-partners: the single largest transaction either company makes every year is with the other – the $26B that Google pays Apple every year to be the Ios and Safari default search engine, through which Apple exposes every one of its customers to Google's incredibly invasive, continuous surveillance.

Speaking of surveillance: consider the surveillance advertising duopoly of Google/Facebook. Not only do these companies extract the nearly identical (sky-high) fees from advertisers and dribble out the nearly identical (miserly) payouts to publishers – they also illegally collude to rig the advertising market, dividing it between themselves:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_Blue

The economists' term for this is the "collective action problem." It's a problem we want corporations to have. The problem with monopolies and cartels isn't merely that they're "too big to fail" and "too big to jail" – it's that a handful of companies can form a cartel to capture their regulators:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/05/regulatory-capture/

The surveillance industry is unified; the surveilled are not. The rewards from surveillance are concentrated. The costs of surveillance are diffused. This is as good a working definition of corruption as you could ask for: conduct that produces concentrated gains and diffuse losses.

Our generations-long failure to enforce antitrust law created monopolies that rippled out through whole supply chains. As David Dayen described in his brilliant 2021 book Monopolized, it's the story of US health industry:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/29/fractal-bullshit/#dayenu

First, pharma companies merged to monopoly and started to gouge hospitals on drug prices. So hospitals formed regional monopolies that could resist these pricing demands – and then turned around and started gouging insurance companies. So insurance companies merged, too. Every corner of health-care is now a monopoly or a cartel – from pharmacy benefit managers to hospital beds:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/05/hillrom/#baxter-international

The only parts of the industry that aren't concentrated are the parts that can't concentrate: patients and health-care workers. The monopolized health care sector reaps the concentrated gains, and the patients and workers pay the diffused costs. Those costs are diffused, but they're still substantial – a literal matter of life or death:

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/investors-private-equity-nonprofit-nursing-homes-quality-of-care/

Monopolization lets businesses solve their collective action problem, so they can run circles around less concentrated, less organized sectors. But concentration also lets companies solve the collective action problem of lobbying governments and capturing their regulators. A concentrated industry can maintain message discipline in front of regulators and legislators. A diffuse sector will always have credible defectors who'll say, "No, we can absolutely function with tighter controls – my competition is bullshitting you and I have receipts to prove it."

The surveillance industry's massive concentration is why America can't seem to pass a federal consumer privacy law. The last consumer privacy law Congress passed was 1988's Video Privacy Protection Act, a law that bans video-store clerks from telling anyone which VHS cassettes you're renting. But federal law is effectively silent on every other kind of invasion – your ISP, your TV, your car, your phone, your medical implant, your dishwasher and your smart speaker can all harvest your data, charge you for the privilege and sell it to anyone, for any purpose.

That silence didn't come cheap: whenever Congress moots a privacy law, the concentrated surveillance industry is all on the same page for the ensuing lobbying blitz, which it can afford thanks to the massive profits that an industry reaps when it eliminates "wasteful competition."

This is a point that leftists sometimes miss about competition law. The point of competition isn't merely to discipline companies into finding more efficient ways to run their businesses so that their prices go down. Sure, that's sometimes a good thing for the public.

But there's plenty of commercial conduct that we don't want to improve – rather, we want to extinguish that conduct. We don't want more efficient commercial surveillance – we want no commercial surveillance.

Without competition, an industry can outmaneuver the government. Think of IBM: the DOJ sued IBM for antitrust violations from 1970 to 1982. For 12 consecutive years, IBM spent more on lawyers to fight the DOJ's Antitrust Division than the DOJ spent on all the lawyers it employed to fight every antitrust violation in the country. IBM literally outspent the US government, year after year, for 12 years! That let them delay the DOJ's breakup long enough for Ronald Reagan to be elected, and then Reagan dropped the suit.

This doesn't just effect customers for a monopoly's products – it also (and especially) effects the workers for that monopoly. When employers don't have to compete for labor, they can pay workers less and save money they might otherwise have to pay for benefits and workplace safety. Those additional profits can be plowed into lobbying against pro-union laws, and to pay the eye-watering sums charged by scumbag union-busting law firms.

Look at the companies who've gone to the Supreme Court to get the National Labor Review Board abolished: these are giant corporations from heavily concentrated sectors with little competition to erode their profits. And while Tesla, Trader Joe's and Amazon all have very different businesses, they're all similar enough that none of them sees an advantage to courting workers by offering a unionized shop:

https://newrepublic.com/article/179165/musk-supreme-court-nlrb-labor

It's not just leftists who fail to grasp the relationship between competition and the ability of regulators to do their job. Libertarians miss this, too. Even if you're a fully Fountainhead-poisoned freedom-to-contract hobgoblin, you still want a government that can enforce those contracts and defend the property rights they invoke. For a government to force a corporation to abide by its contractual obligations, that government has to be more powerful than the corporation it is charged with policing. Which means that however large you're willing to let a monopoly or cartel grow, you're going to have to tolerate a government that's even larger:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/05/small-government/

The "$30b win" for America's merchants is, in fact, a loss. 20 years of litigation over high fees, and the fees are now much higher. But that loss is surely unevenly distributed. Walmart and Amazon and other retail giants are going to be able to bargain for all kinds of off-the-books rebates, promotions, and other sweetheart deals, meaning that they'll have even more unfair advantages over smaller, more disorganized retailers. That means more of those mom-and-pops will vanish, leaving shoppers with less choice and higher prices – and workers with less choice and lower wages.

The lesson of 40 years of pro-monopoly policy couldn't be clearer: you can either have an economy that is regulated by lawmakers who are at least nominally transparent and democratically accountable, or you can have an economy regulated by totally unaccountable and opaque monopolists. Fail to do the former, and you will always end up with the latter.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/28/concentrated-benefits/#diffuse-harms

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“Is that everything? Any petrol or diesel?”

“No... Actually, do you’ve something for bug bites?”

“Like, that insect repellent stuff or some kind of topical cream?”

“The repellent, please.”

“I think we have it,” the woman at the till goes to the shelves behind her while I lean across to watch as she rummages through rows of suncream and painkillers. 

“It’s the midges,” I say conversationally, “They eat me alive, see I think I’ve really delicious blood.”

“They’re annoying alright,” she scans a bottle of Jungle Formula and packs it into a plastic bag along with all of the junk food I’ve just bought. “That it?”

I scan the shelves quickly, “oh, actually, can I have a box of those too?”

She glances over her shoulder, “Condoms?”

“Yeah, please.”

She eyes me up, “Are you seventeen?”

“Yep.”

“I’m not sure you are.”

“Do I have a right to buy them?”

“I have a right to refuse if I don’t think that you’re the age of consent.”

“Respectfully I’m going to get them from somewhere whether you refuse or not,” she narrows her eyes to slits but I give her a big smile so that she can’t be angry, “Or if you want I’ll just not use protection and it’ll be your fault my life is ruined.”

“Do you have ID?”

“Why would I have ID? I’m seventeen.”

She snatches and tosses a box across the counter at me, “Fine, there you go, because I know well that you’d stand here all day and hold up the queue just by the look of you, you cheeky bollox. That’ll be Twenty three thirty altogether.”

“Yeah, no issue,” I slot my dad’s credit card into the machine and stab in his digits. I see her watching it, a weighted, black metal platinum visa, and it’s definitely obvious that it isn’t mine, but she doesn’t know my circumstances, and anyway I know that my dad would have given me money if I had felt like talking to him today, but I didn’t. Borrowing from his wallet is the same thing. 

I glance at the shopkeeper one last time before leaving, “What are the chances you’d score me a pack of cigarettes?”

“Get lost.”

I’m checking my text messages on the way out of the shop, so I don’t see the man walking in the opposite direction. We bump shoulders in the doorway and I mutter an apology before looking up and realising who I have just collided with. 

His nostrils flare as he looks me up and down, and as I stand and look cooly back at him I wonder if he gets off, like genuinely gets off on the idea of how threatening he thinks he is. 

“You’re a friend of Clóda?” He says.

“Yeah, and you are?”

“Her father.”

“Oh right, yeah. I guess I never made the connection.” I thought you were just some weirdo glaring over at us in the Boat Club, is what I want to add but I’m not sure I’m feeling entirely suicidal today. 

He stares me down until I feel my skin prickle, and when his eyes find my bag of shopping, including the Durex box pressing label-out through the translucent plastic his face turns a ferocious shade of puce. “How old are you?”

“Sixteen.”

“Is that so?”

“Yeah.”

“And who are your parents?”

“Christopher and Colette, who are yours?”

“None of your business,” He splutters, “Are you one of those young fellas who hangs about in the caravan parks?”

“So what if I was?”

“Well my daughter is a hard worker, she’s busy at her job and I’d rather she wasn’t being distracted or having any of her time wasted.”

“Yeah, fine.”

“So if you wouldn’t mind steering clear of the Boat Club when she’s working, I’d rather you not hanging about and causing complaints from the customers.”

“Oh the customers complain about me, do they?”

He wrinkles his nose, “We prefer to uphold a certain standard at the club.”

My skin prickles, “So basically you don’t want anyone who looks like they stay in the caravan parks hanging around and making it look cheap.”

“That’s not an unreasonable request, especially since you don’t exactly dine with us, do you?”

I’m walking away already, “Yeah, fine, whatever.”

“I’m glad you understand.”

“Yep.”

On the shortcut through a holiday park I furiously kick a stone out of my way. Then a piece of rubbish. Then I spot a ceramic flower pot by the entrance to the communal showers and I kick that too, knocking it to the side and splitting it in two, and the soil spills out and the plant slumps to the tarmac. It looks pathetic so I kick it again. 

Suddenly a tennis ball comes from nowhere and whacks me in the back with a thunk. I whirl around, “Hey!”

“Hey yourself!” Kelly grabs another ball and flings it at me, and I duck as it wallops into the wall behind me. I grab and fling it back, “What’s your problem, Kelly?”

“What’s my problem?” She shrieks as she dodges it, “What’s your problem?”

“What is it with you and your brother throwing tennis balls at me, huh? What did I do now?”

She hurls another, “What are you doing here?”

“Ugh! Walking!”

“Well stay out of my caravan park. Go the long way around.”

“Your caravan park? Kelly, if this is about the frog in your hair-”

“The frog? Fuck your frog,” she lets out a tiny squeal as she jumps out of the path of the ball I’ve flung back, “and fuck you, by the way.”

“Fuck me? Fuck you Kelly, I’m not in the mood for this shit.”

“Shut up.”

“You shut up.”

“Suck my dick!” She spins on her heel and stalks away and I watch her for a minute, bewildered, until she disappears between a couple of mobile homes and then, when she’s fully gone and I am alone with the broken flower pot again, I pick up my overturned bag of goodies and shake my head. 

“Little weirdo.”

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Interview Log 7987-20230511

Main article: SCP-7987

Date: May 11, 2023

Time: 20:08

Location: Wallace Facility, ████████, Scotland.

Recording: Agent Tabitha Murray, class C1

Interviewer: Agent Owen Mark, class C3

Interviewee: Addie MacKay, human, white, male, 18-22 years old, 1.5 m, 45 kg.  Approached facility requesting indefinite containment.

(Addendum: These data represent initial observations of the entity.  We now know the entity is agender, 30 years old according to its legal documentation, and exhibits anomalous properties that suggest it may not be human.  We also know its vital statistics more precisely. - Agent Murray)

Subject has brought the following items:

Backpack

Reusable grocery bag

Five pairs boxer-briefs

One pair pyjama bottoms

Two vests

Two t-shirts

Three button-up shirts

One blouse

One denim jacket

One pair fingerless gloves

Eleven socks (unmatched)

Samsung Galaxy S10 smartphone and charger

Handmade wallet crafted from an A4 sheet of paper and packing tape

Driver's licence (UK issue, valid) (Note: the licence displays MacKay's face and vital statistics, but there is no name or gender indicated.)

Firearm certificate (Scotland police issue, valid) (Note: the document displays MacKay's face, but no name is indicated.  MacKay's signature is illegible.)

Five credit cards

Barclaycard Platinum Balance Transfer Visa

Barclaycard Platinum All-Rounder Visa

Royal Bank of Scotland Balance Transfer Mastercard

Bank of Scotland Platinum Low Rate Mastercard

Lloyds Bank Platinum 0% Purchase and Balance Transfer Mastercard

Global Health Insurance Card

ScotRail Smart card

Tesco discount card

Sainsbury's discount card

Fifteen coupons

Business card for Angel Homes Ltd, East Kilbride, Glasgow

Business card for Residence Estate Agents, Hamilton

£25 Starbucks gift card (current balance unknown)

Deodorant

Toothbrush

Hairbrush

Disposable razor

Reusable water bottle

Journal (the document could not be transcribed, but was digitised via scanning)

Two pens

Five hair clips

One bottle Garnier Ultimate Blends Hair Food shampoo (partially used)

One bottle Garnier Ultimate Blends Hair Food conditioner (partially used)

One jar Garnier Ultimate Blends Hair Food hair mask (partially used)

Compact mirror

Three cans sugar-free Irn-Bru Energy

Two packs Lambert & Butler 100s cigarettes

Refillable lighter

£245.12 in cash

Violin case containing violin, bow, rosin block, cleaning supplies, and spare strings

Banjo case containing banjo, picks, capo, cleaning supplies, and spare strings

Mark: Welcome to the Wallace Facility.  Our focus is on safe and respectful study of humans involved in unexplained phenomena.  I understand you requested study on yourself?

MacKay: Yes, I think I ought to stay here.

Mark: What phenomenon have you observed about yourself?

MacKay: I can read minds.  Puts people off.

[A pause.  Mark and MacKay stare at each other.]

Addendum: During this pause, I heard SCP-7987's voice, although its mouth didn't move and Agent Murray didn't hear anything.  This voice responded as if the entity was aware of what I was thinking, although I wasn't deliberately communicating with it.  As I recall, the communication regarded SCP-7987's so-called 'mind-reading' and its ability to 'send' mental communication to nearby people. - Agent Mark, 11/05/2023

The interview room's equipment didn't pick up any sound during this time. - Agent Murray, 11/05/2023

Mark: (to Murray) Are you getting all this?

Murray: All what?

Mark: (to MacKay) If you have something to say to me, please say it out loud so my colleague can transcribe it.

[No response.]

Addendum: SCP-7987 replied, and its mouth moved, but only I could hear it. - Agent Mark, 11/05/2023

Mark: Did you get that?

Murray: Get what?

MacKay: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll stop fucking with you.  You can hear me now, right, darling?

Murray: Affirmative.  We appreciate your cooperation.

Mark: Did he say something to you?

Addendum: I was looking at my screen and did not see SCP-7987 as it said "You can hear me now, right, darling?"  The room's equipment did not pick up this comment. - Agent Murray, 11/05/2023

SCP-7987's mouth did not move after it said "I'll stop fucking with you," and I didn't hear its next words. - Agent Mark, 11/05/2023

MacKay: I'm sorry!  I'm sorry, really, I'm done now.  I'm talking normally.  It's just so much more effort to talk this way!  And slower!

Mark: Did you get all that?

Murray: He said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, really, I'm done now.  I'm talking normally.  It's just so much more effort to talk this way.  And slower."  Did he say anything else?

MacKay: No.

Mark: (simultaneously) No.

MacKay: I thought you'd appreciate a demonstration!

Mark: We do.  I'm not angry, Mr. MacKay.  I'm fascinated.  I just want to make sure this conversation is recorded accurately.

MacKay: Ah, don't call me 'mister.'

Mark: Would you prefer Miss?

MacKay: Just call me MacKay.

Mark: I can do that.  Would you mind putting that on his file?  Is it 'he?'

MacKay: 'He's fine.

Mark: You'll be 'it' in official documentation, but that's standard procedure.  All subjects of study are 'it.'  For impartiality.

MacKay: Right.

Mark: Thank you for approaching us with this, MacKay.  We're delighted for the opportunity to study this phenomenon.  As long as you cooperate and follow our rules, I'm sure your stay here will be pleasant and comfortable.

MacKay: How long will I be allowed to stay here?

Mark: As long as this phenomenon is observed.  Maybe longer, in case it recurs.

MacKay: Oh!  Great!

Mark: Room 11 is free - let's put you there for now.  Follow me.

End Log.

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Thailand Privilege Visa

The Thailand Privilege Visa, formerly known as the Thailand Elite Visa, is a long-term residence program designed to attract high-net-worth individuals and affluent retirees to Thailand. Administered by the Thailand Privilege Card Company, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports, this visa offers a unique blend of immigration benefits, exclusive privileges, and a streamlined application process.  

Understanding the Visa

The core benefit of the Thailand Privilege Visa is the ability to stay in Thailand for an extended period without the hassle of frequent visa renewals. The program offers multiple tiers, each with varying durations and privileges:  

Gold Card: Grants a 5-year multiple-entry visa.

Platinum Card: Provides a 10-year multiple-entry visa.  

Diamond Card: Offers a 15-year multiple-entry visa.

Reserve Card: Delivers a 20-year multiple-entry visa, subject to pre-screening qualifications.

Beyond the visa duration, the program also provides a range of exclusive benefits, such as VIP airport services, expedited immigration procedures, and access to government concierge services. These privileges are designed to enhance the overall living experience in Thailand.  

The Point System: A New Era of Customization

In a significant development, Thailand Privilege introduced a point system in October 2023. This innovative approach replaces the previous fixed privilege structure, allowing members to select and customize a combination of benefits that best suits their lifestyle. Members earn points based on their membership tier and can redeem these points for a variety of privileges, including golf memberships, spa treatments, accommodation discounts, and more. This flexibility empowers individuals to tailor their Thailand experience to their specific preferences.  

Eligibility and Application Process

While the Thailand Privilege Visa is primarily targeted at high-net-worth individuals, the specific eligibility criteria can vary based on the chosen membership tier. Generally, applicants need to meet financial requirements and provide necessary documentation, including passport information, passport-sized photographs, and proof of funds.  

The application process is relatively straightforward. Applicants can submit their applications online or through authorized agents. The program emphasizes a streamlined approach, aiming to minimize bureaucratic hurdles for applicants.  

Beyond the Visa: Thailand as a Retirement Destination

For many, the Thailand Privilege Visa is more than just a visa; it's a gateway to a fulfilling retirement. Thailand offers a compelling combination of affordability, tropical climate, rich culture, and excellent healthcare, making it an attractive option for retirees from around the world.  

However, it's essential to conduct thorough research and consider factors such as cost of living, healthcare accessibility, and visa regulations before making a long-term commitment. While the Thailand Privilege Visa provides a solid foundation, careful planning is crucial for a successful retirement in the Land of Smiles.

Note: While this article provides a comprehensive overview of the Thailand Privilege Visa, it is essential to consult the official Thailand Privilege website or seek advice from an immigration expert for the most up-to-date information and personalized guidance.

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您如何用信用卡支付房租和水电费？

您如何用信用卡支付房租和水电费？

通过信用卡支付租金来获得额外的流动性？我们将向您展示这是否有效以及风险所在！

使用信用卡支付房租可能有充分的理由。例如，这可能是额外的流动性或希望从信用卡优势中受益。但是有哪些方法，您还可以通过房租、水电费等转账来填充您的里程账户吗？我们将在我们的详细指南中向您展示！

如何用信用卡支付房租或房贷？ 租金甚至抵押贷款付款通常是每个月累积的最大项目。因此，特别值得看看通过此类交易赚取里程的可能性。不能直接使用信用卡支付房租，但您可以绕道而行，我们已经在信用卡支付转账指南中向您展示了这一点。

简而言之，您可以使用信用卡为活期账户充值，然后从那里付款。或者，例如，Miles & More信用卡也提供接送服务，但这里的费用如此之高，以至于这条路线很少值得。

另一方面，那些使用帐户选择变体的人通常会被推荐给提供商 Revolut。在大多数情况下，使用信用卡充值是免费的——商业信用卡除外。���而，请注意，对于巴克莱银行的信用卡，如欧洲之翼高级信用卡以及DKB的Miles & More信用卡，Revolut的充值里程不再增加。只有 Payback Visa 信用卡（每消费 5 欧元只需累积 1 英里里程）仍可作为使用里程积分充值的选项。

始终注意您的银行是否对在网上银行充值收取潜在费用。为此，值得查看条款和条件，如果有疑问，请收取少量费用进行测试。

Revolut 帐户本身在标准版本中是免费的，您可以在我们的 Revolut 当前帐户指南中阅读。例如，我自己多年来一直在使用 Revolut，从未支付过一分钱的费用。开户也很快，可以完全在线完成——尽管您必须为帐户证明自己的身份，这需要几分钟，但除此之外，开户非常快。这也意味着您可以立即开始使用信用卡进行转账！德国的房东也必须接受通过银行转账支付租金，即使租赁协议中另有规定。

除了其他一些优势，例如轻松且廉价地转换为其他货币、130 多个国家/地区的免费卡交易和可选的高级服务，从我们的角度来看，Revolut 特别有吸引力，因为该账户适用于贷方转账和直接借记交易。存款也受到立陶宛存款保险的保护，最高可达 100,000 欧元。

Revolut 是一家成立于 2015 年的新银行，总部位于英国，拥有英国银行牌照和立陶宛银行牌照，使欧元区的交易易于处理。该公司的估值达数十亿美元，每年的营业额达数千万。据该公司称，客户数量超过 2000 万。

验证后使用 Revolut 基本上很容易。您只能在智能手机上使用该帐户，但您可以在几秒钟内通过“存款”按钮轻松充值 - 这可以通过银行转账或信用卡进行。这里需要注意的是，您不能存储美国运通信用卡。另一方面，使用其他信用卡充值通常是免费的，除非它们是商务信用卡。

充值后，您将在几秒钟内在您的帐户中看到它，然后可以立即通过 “转账” 按钮进行交易。在这里，您可以使用适当的 IBAN 轻松地将个人和公司存储为收件人，然后也可以直接存储。转账时，您只需输入金额和付款目的，钱就会在路上，通常会在同一天或几天内到达收款人的账户。但是，现在这对于赚取里程的吸引力有所降低。

辅助费用和合同也可以用信用卡支付吗？

但这还���是全部，因为不仅可以用信用卡支付租金并赚取里程，还可以通过这种方式轻松支付任何辅助费用和合同。这主要是因为 Revolut 除了定期转账之外，还可以设置长期订单。存款 Revolut的 IBAN 仍然可以直接借记付款，因此即使健身房或电力供应商不接受银行转账付款，您也可以通过信用卡间接付款。

使用 Revolut 进行交易时，请记住，与德国账户不同，IBAN 不以代码 DE 开头，而是以 LT 开头。虽然必须接受来自另一个欧盟国家的 IBAN 进行直接借记，但有些提供商不允许存入不以 DE 开头的 IBAN。

如果您决定通过 Revolut 进行直接借记付款或长期订单，请务必及时为账户充值。为此，您可以设置提醒或使用 Revolut 功能“自动充值”。在这里，您可以轻松存储信用卡并指定如果账户余额低于一定金额应充值的金额。例如，您可以指定如果账户余额降至 100 欧元以下，应始终充值 500 欧元。这样您就可以确保直接借记或长期订单将始终通过，并且您不会遇到任何问题。

间接信用卡转账可以通过 Revolut 用于以下事项，其中包括：

购买股票或债券（银行转账） 健身工作室合同（长期订单或直接付款） 抵押贷款（通常是直接借记或长期订单） 互联网合同（长期订单或直接借记） 租金支付（长期订单或直接借记） 额外费用（长期订单或直接借记） 发票（银行转账） Savings Plans（直接借记） 电力合同（长期订单或直接扣款） 电话合同（长期订单或直接借记） 维护费（长期订单或直接借记） 保险合同（通常是直接借记） 特别是如果您通过 Revolut 进行几乎所有交易，即合同、抵押贷款或租金，您应该确保始终确保您拥有适当的保险。您存档的信用卡具有足够高的限额也很重要。例如，如果您每月通过 Revolut 拨出 2,000 欧元用于常规开支，那么您的信用卡也必须至少有此限额，以便所有充值都能完成。

通常有一个很好的副作用，因为那些通过 Revolut 进行定期付款的人也具有较小的流动性优势，因为卡对账单通常是在很晚一段时间内从存入的活期账户中收集的。然后，这笔钱可以同时进行投资，例如，投资于高息通知货币账户。

严格来说，您可以通过 Revolut 间接使用信用卡支付的费用没有限制。从预缴税款或欠款到租金和抵押贷款，再到任何合同或常规义务，您都可以通过 Revolut 进行每笔交易。

不过，在这一点上，需要指出的是，根据 Revolut 的条件，如果纯粹是为了所谓的制造支出，即纯粹的里程生成，或者为了弥合流动性瓶颈，则不允许将钱转入自己的账户或朋友的账户。

Trade Republic 是支付房租和水电费的不错选择吗？ 除了著名的 Revolut 活期账户外，德国新银行 Trade Republic 最近也开始提供自己的免费活期账户。自最新变化以来，也可以通过 Trade Republic 进行转账、长期订单和直接借记。特别有吸引力：您可以获得德国 IBAN，这在支付租金和辅助费用方面比 Revolut 更具优势。

然而，与此同时，也有一个问题，因为 Trade Republic 账户可以使用任何高级信用卡或免费信用卡进行充值，例如，但始终需要支付相应充值金额的 1% 的费用。

因此，使用 Trade Republic 进行信用卡充值仅在个别情况下才可能具有吸引力，因为否则费用应该超过优势。Revolut 是更好的选择，因为使用普通信用卡充值不收取任何费用。

我也可以用 Amex 支付房租吗？ 由于美国运通信用卡在赚取里程方面非常受欢迎，因此我们总是被问到您是否可以用美国运通支付房租。不幸的是，目前这是不可能的，因为通过 SumUp Pay 的临时绕道不再有效。此外，Revolut 不允许您使用 Amex Gold Card 或 Amex Platinum Card 充值。即使通过 Curve 工具等弯路，美国运通也无法充值，因此不幸的是，使用 Amex 支付租金不是一种选择。

通过 PayPal 支付租金也是不可取的，因为任何使用 Amex 的“向朋友汇款”功能的人都有被美国运通终止的风险——条款和条件禁止使用它。

这种情况的背景可能是美国运通向商家收取的高额费用，因此也是所有允许信用卡充值的公司。虽然这里没有固定的费率，但相应总和的 1% 到 2% 之间的费率被认为是一个常见的规则。在某些情况下，商家的费用甚至要高得多。因此，我们不应该假设很快就有可能用 Amex 支付租金。

用信用卡支付租金有什么风险？ 听起来好得令人难以置信？不，因为我们已经测试并使用 Revolut 或 Trade Republic 活期账户在 reisetopia 团队中进行定期付款多年，从未遇到过任何问题。尽管如此，不应忽视潜在的问题和风险，因为尽管 Revolut 是一家非常成功的初创公司，拥有高估值和坚实的投资者，但它是一种亏损的商业模式。

此外，使用 Revolut，您“仅”受到立陶宛存款保险的保护。与德国一样，自己的信用余额受到高达 100,000 欧元的保护，但这种担保是由立陶宛政府提供的，立陶宛政府的信用评级低于德国政府。在实践中，这可能永远不会发挥作用，但至少在非常高的 Revolut 余额下，您应该牢记这方面。

此外，Revolut 以偶尔检查账户和在一段时间内冻结余额而闻名。至少根据我们的经验，几乎总是有意或无意地违反条款和条件。例如，reisetopia 团队的帐户从未被封锁，甚至从未发出警告。因此，如果您遵守常规使用条款，不使用 Revolut 纯粹用于制造支出或经常向自己转账，您通常不会遇到任何问题。

顺便说一句，这也适用于较大的金额，因此即使每月支付的 5 位数低段，我们也没有问题。到目前为止，充值和转账的限制对我们来说都不是问题。

另一个风险是成本要么被忽视，要么在未来仍可能出现。例如，直到2022年，也可以使用Miles & More的商业信用卡为Revolut账户充值。现在，这只能通过额外费用（也通过 Apple Pay）来实现。此外，提供商可能会将存款归类为现金交易，因此不再使用里程或积分进行充值，例如在巴克莱银行和 DKB。

其他提供商甚至通过将其归类为现金交易来收取自己的费用，例如 N26 卡就是这种情况。一般来说，也不能使用美国运通金卡或美国运通白金卡充值，如果您使用 Apple Pay 充值，这也适用。

最后，您必须承受这样的风险，例如，房东、其他转账接收者或直接借记者会认为立陶宛 IBAN 号码不是很严重，甚至完全拒绝它。尽管 SEPA 区域内的收款人有义务接受使用 SEPA IBAN 的付款（这也适用于直接借记付款），但这并不一定能保护您免受问题。虽然我自己在这个话题上从来没有遇到过重大困难（除了存入 IBAN 进行直接借记），但这在个别情况下肯定会有所不同。

哪些信用卡最适合赚取里程？ 由于对使用信用卡充值 Revolut 帐户的限制，不幸的是，没有太多合适的信用卡进行充值的选择。在这方面，目前只有 Payback Visa Flex+ 信用卡仍然值得一看。然而，不幸的是，这张卡并不是特别有吸引力，因为每消费 5 欧元只有 1 英里，因此只有 200 个 Payback 积分可以记入每月 1,000 欧元的 Revolut 充值，例如。

如果您不怕绕道和适度的费用，理论上也可以使用其他信用卡来赚取里程。例如，可以使用相应的Trade Republic卡为新的Trade Republic账户充值，并使用常规的Miles & More信用卡获得相应的里程积分。但是，这需要支付 1% 的费用。

然后，您可以从 Trade Republic 账户自行转账或将资金转给提供商，例如 Revolut。

关于用信用卡支付房租和水电费的结论 用信用卡支付房租和水电费可以产生几个积极的影响。与此同时，额外的流动性尤其成为一种优势。另一方面，通过转机赚取里程现在已经失去了相关性，尽管仍然存在孤立的选择。此外，您还应该注意缺点，并记住这种方法通常比常规的直接借记多一点努力。但是，如果您想这次投资，您可以通过信用卡支付获得巨大的流动性优势。

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