Gem Visa complaint?

Do you have a dispute or a bad customer experience with Gem Visa? Report it through our website to maximize the chance of getting it resolved.

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Gem Visa customer service in New Zealand is on 0800 500 505. Account tasks such as selecting a purchase for an interest-free offer are done in the Latitude App or the Latitude Service Centre, and the Gem contact page, linked in the contact details above, lists the other routes. Keep your account number, the dates and amounts involved and the name of any retailer concerned to hand.

Statement or interest charge to dispute? Start your complaint here as well, and we push it out to Gem by email, social media and printed letters.

Interest on a Gem Visa interest-free purchase usually means the plan ended with part of the purchase still unpaid, or the purchase never went onto an interest-free plan at all. For the 6 months interest free on a single general purchase of $250 or more, Gem Visa now asks cardholders to select the purchase in the Latitude App or the Latitude Service Centre within 30 days; a purchase that is not selected stays an ordinary purchase with up to 55 days interest free. Longer interest-free plans at participating retailers each have their own end date, so check it on your statement or in the app.

Compare the statement with what you were offered: the purchase date and amount, the plan and its end date, the balance left when it ended, and how your payments were applied. Keep the retailer's receipt, the interest-free terms shown when you bought, and a screenshot of the selection if you made one.

Interest added to a purchase you selected in time? Raise it through our complaint process: our trained AI opens a case for you and keeps coaching you on what to send Gem and when to push again.

To dispute a transaction on a Gem Visa card, contact Gem on 0800 500 505 as soon as you notice it, and explain whether you never made the charge at all or a purchase went wrong, such as goods that never arrived or a refund the retailer did not pay. For a charge you do not recognise, ask Gem to block the card at the same time. Visa card disputes are raised by the card provider with the retailer's bank under Visa's rules, so Gem needs the date, the amount, the retailer's name and your evidence.

Keep receipts, order confirmations, emails with the retailer and any delivery records, and note the date and reference of each call to Gem. For a purchase that went wrong, put the problem to the retailer in writing as well and keep their reply.

Yes: in New Zealand, the Insurance & Financial Services Ombudsman Scheme (IFSO Scheme) considers complaints about the financial service providers that are its participants, including credit providers, and Latitude Financial Services Limited, which provides Gem Visa, is one of them. The IFSO Scheme generally expects Gem Visa to have had the chance to put things right first, so keep a record of every call, message and letter.

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Be careful. Scammers send texts, emails, calls and even letters pretending to be Gem or Latitude. Gem says it never contacts customers asking for their passwords, so a message that asks for one, or for a one-time code, should not be trusted. Do not click its links or reply with any details.

Nothing has been reported about Gem Visa here yet. Our research shows what typically goes wrong with retail credit cards built around interest-free plans: interest charged when a plan ends with part of the purchase unpaid, purchases that missed an interest-free offer, payments applied to a different balance than the cardholder intended, account fees, transactions people do not recognise, and hardship or account closure requests.

Payment put against the wrong balance? Be the first to report it: your case opens the record for the next Gem cardholder checking a statement against their plan.

Your complaint gets its own public page on Complain.biz and we get to work: we bring it to the attention of Gem Visa through emails, social media, paper complaint letters and other tools at our disposal.

And we stay with it after you file. Our trained AI opens a case file for you and keeps coaching: what to reply, when to push again, and how to escalate if nothing happens.

Yes. We have an active community of consumers, and complaints here are public: people who ran into the same problem with Gem Visa can give you advice or back you up with their own story. A complaint with a community behind it is much harder to overlook.