Bancherul - BANCI / ENGLISH / Multiple benefits for the customers holding the COSMOTE Alpha Bank MasterCard credit card

Alpha Bank Romania and COSMOTE announce the launch of a new promotional campaign for the credit card COSMOTE Alpha MasterCard, launched in October 2010. The credit card is available for application starting this week in the entire COSMOTE and Germanos network.

The card comes with very advantageous loyalty benefits, aiming to redefine the tenets in loyalty programs. The first 400 customers who successfully apply for COSMOTE Alpha MasterCard credit card during the promotional campaign will each receive gift tickets in value of lei 100, offered byMasterCard.

During the promotional campaign organized until the end of the year 2011, the owners of the COSMOTE Alpha MasterCard credit card benefit from a discount from COSMOTE of 3% for any transaction made with the credit card in COSMOTE stores for the purchase of handsets and accesories and 3% bonus from COSMOTE for services invoice payed in COSMOTE stores with COSMOTE Alpha MasterCard credit card (at Alpha Bank POS) or using the direct debit service. Moreover, for all the purchases made with the credit card with other stores than COSMOTE, the customers will receive from Alpha Bank 1% of each transaction value. All these loyalty benefits will be displayed on the customers’ COSMOTE services invoices, reducing their value correspondingly.

COSMOTE Alpha MasterCard credit card is available for both new and existing residential postpaid customers of COSMOTE Romania. All customers who successfully apply for the credit card will also benefit from a bonus which can be used at the application moment. COSMOTE customers can use this bonus in order to further decrease the price of any mobile phone or accessory bought along with a new subscription, or at the renewal of the existing subscription contract concluded with COSMOTE. Existing COSMOTE customers may also use the bonus any time during the contractual period for buying accessories and other communication products in the COSMOTE or Germanos store the customer applied in.

The COSMOTE Alpha MasterCard credit card is issued in RON. The standard credit limit is set based on the net income to a maximum of 3000 EUR (RON equivalent) with the possibility to be extended up to 10.000 EUR (RON ecquivalent) if collaterals are provided.

For any payment made with COSMOTE Alpha MasterCard credit card at merchants anywhere in the world the commsission is 0%. Also, the interest is 0%, if the customers reimburse the entire amount spent on merchant locations until the due date.

The customers may also use the direct debit service for COSMOTE invoice payment and the automatic debiting service for reimbursement of card dues. Also, with the COSMOTE Alpha MasterCard credit card the customers benefit from the option of payment by installment in a series of Alpha Bank partner stores. This service allows customers to enjoy flexible repayment terms for the goods or services purchases with their credit card at the affiliated merchants.