BPI Auto Madness Event at Manila International Auto Show 2011

 
Buy a car now with BPI Auto Loan –get a free AVT GPS and raffle coupon to win a P100k rebate for your car purchase, this is offered only at the Manila International Auto Show 2011. check out full details below

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Shopping around for your dream car is going to get easier at the country’s biggest motoring event: The Manila International Auto Show (MIAS). Slated to open at the World Trade Center in Pasay City from April 7 to 10, MIAS is more than just your regular car show. Home to over 22 brands, MIAS will showcase more than 300 cars from both mainstream and luxury makers under one roof making it the ultimate showroom experience.

Aside from the number of brands and cars available for viewing and test drive, this year, MIAS is proud to be partnered with the country’s biggest auto loans provider—BPI Family to provide the best deals on car financing. As BPI marks its 160^th anniversary, it has chosen MIAS to be part of its annual BPI Auto Madness Event.

On its 13^th Year, the BPI Auto Madness Event at MIAS will see the continuation of its Free GPS Promo which gives a free AVT GPS Navigator to all qualified car loans made during MIAS. At the same time, BPI Family Personnel will be onsite at the BPI Family Auto Madness booth to give on the spot financing. Loan borrowers also receive a free Petron-BPI MasterCard with free fuel and fuel rebates.

On top of BPI Auto Loan’s unbeatable rates and promotions at MIAS, Worldbex Services International, the organizer of MIAS will give car buyers a chance to slash a further P 100,000 off their purchase price.

Every car purchased at MIAS, whether through cash or financing, will be qualified to one raffle ticket. The more cars purchased, the more raffle tickets will be issued by Worldbex. There will be only one winner and that person will receive a P 100,000 rebate to be awarded during the show. In case the person is not present during the raffle draw, he or she will be notified by registered mail and can still claim the prize within 60 days after the draw date.

Organized by Worldbex Services International, The Manila International Auto Show is the country’s biggest annual motoring event, visited by more than 60,000 visitors every year. With regular mainstays such as the Subaru-Russ Swift Precision Driving and the Manila Custom and Classic Car Competition, the addition of unbeatable car financing options through BPI Family as well as the P 100,000 rebate raffle will undoubtedly make MIAS the go-to summer event for car enthusiasts and car shoppers alike.

BPI Family Auto Loan now offers online application

You can now start applying for an auto loan with BPI Family Auto Loan by just logging in to their website www.bpiautoloans.com and fill up their online application and after few hours, you can get a fast approval of your application ,and also you will receive a free AVT Portable GPS gadget for your new car.

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This is a great news! BPI Family Auto Loan uses now the internet to bring convenience to their BPI holders and to people who are interested to get a car loan, it will now remove lots of worries in filling up those forms, lining up the counter, visiting the bank, and borrow a time to fix everything. Today, BPI Family Auto Loan will do all the work for you, with the form you submitted online, they can process your application within the day and get a response after it. Let's say, if you applied at around 2AM online, then when you go to your office or woke up at around 10am in the morning, you can expect a call from them and hear the news about your application, it is fast, no other fees and your time won't be wasted and you can still do other chores while your paper is on process.

The online application for BPI Family Auto Loan also features a list of information and images of cars, The car buyer's guide will let you select and also compare the type of car you want. Specs and other information of the car are posted on the website, in this way, you can read more about it and learn the difference of each car. Selecting your dream car will be easy for just a click of a button. An auto loan calculator is also available on the site, you can use that to get an idea how much you need to shell out for monthly payments.


AVT Portable GPS

The promo of that free AVT Portable GPS will from February 14 - April 1, 2011. Borrowers with a minimum amount of P700,000 and a minimum term of 36 months will be eligible for the free AVT Portable navigation system. The purpose of the loan must be brand new and for private use only.

Visit http://www.bpiautoloans.com/
or call (02) 845-6777
or visit BPI Family Savings Bank branches near your area.

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UPDATE:
BPI Family Auto Loan just extended the promo til April 15, 2011

and if you applied on the dates - Feb 14 - April 15, 2011 , you will get your free GPS unit around Feb 14 - May 02, 2011

Order food in McDonald’s using 24/7 Mobile Delivery Service

Food!!!! and I love McDonald's food and I love their burgers! no one can ever beat their burgers and fries. Today, you can now order food using your mobile phone, its a 24 hour service with no minimum purchase, the service is launched by McDonalds and BPI-iCan. Last month, we featured the use of the mobile delivery service in my previous post at BPI and McDonald's launches First cashless food delivery system

Its a service for all of you fast food lovers, you can even order a one hot fudge sundae in the middle of the night. (more info below)

After pioneering the one number delivery system 8-McDo (2002), 24/7 Delivery Service (2005), online delivery website www.mcdelivery.com.ph (2009), and the no minimum food purchase requirement (2010), McDonald’s once again takes delivery service another step further and introduces another first -the first cashless mobile ordering system.

Introducing a third way for customers to access McDelivery, McDonald’s partners with Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), the leader in electronic banking, and launches the BPI-i.Can Mobile Mall’s McDelivery Service. Now, BPI customers can order and pay for their favorite McDonald’s meals through their mobile phones, anytime, anywhere. This cashless mobile ordering system also allows customers to have the food delivered to another, making it easier for the on-the-go Filipino to share his McDonald’s favorites to his family, loved-ones and friends.

To access the BPI-i.Can Mobile Mall, a BPI Express Online Account user must register to the BPI Express Mobile Service, and download and activate the BPI-i.Can Mobile Mall applet. From there, customers may choose from the McDelivery Menu, from its World Famous French Fries, Big Mac, Cheeseburger, to Chicken McDo, McSpaghetti and Hot Fudge Sundae.

Mobile Mall is available for McDelivery transactions in Metro Manila and key cities nationwide such as Laguna, Lipa, Tarlac, Cebu, and Davao. For more information on BPI-i.Can Mobile Mall’s McDelivery, log on to www.mybpimag.com.

BPI Family Auto Loans installed road signs for Safe Drive campaign in Tagaytay City

Its fun to drive and travel, but it will be better if we follow road signs and traffic rules for road safety. BPI launched 70 road signs in one of the most visited city in the country, and I was there to witness their road safety campaign and advocacy. That me with Senior Manager Michael Anthony C. Mendoza and VP Herbert D. Tuason of BPI.

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Tagaytay City is one of the most visited place here in Luzon, and people in Manila are always the top target market, because it is near from the city, cold and windy and easy to travel going there. By taking the road of SLEX going to Tagaytay City Road is the fastest way reaching the windy city of Tagaytay.

I've been driving since the age of 19 years old, and when I started holding the wheels and enter the busy road of EDSA and Caloocan City, I always put my mind into focus and be responsible in driving, I always obey traffic rules and follow road signs. When I drive outside the city and go to Quezon Province, I see that road signs and informational warning signs are very helpful in reminding us motorist and tourist to be very careful and be alert when we drive in highways, two way roads and downhill roads. This could be a part of my own advocacy that everyone should be very careful, obey traffic signs and rules, and have a safe driving, our life and peoples lives depends on us whenever we are behind the wheels.

I'm glad that Tagaytay City has lots of new road signs and informational warning signs that is been installed to strategic locations, thanks to BPI Family Auto Loan for taking the initiative in launching their new campaign and promotion of a better road safety to help us motorist. They also avoided some areas that are already have lots of signs and avoid in having a sign pollution.

"Safe Drive" campaign was launched with the help of the Local Government Unit of Tagaytay City, It is a part of their social responsibility to help educate our motorists and be remind the perils of road driving. BPI Family Saving Bank as our leader in the auto loan industry, took up this initiative not for maximizing their auto loan clients, but to help car owners to be responsible, the city to have zero accidents and the citizens to have awareness of road safety.

It's a good move for BPI to install all of these road signs and its just a start here in Tagaytay City and they are now planning to install in other part of a city and outside Luzon, as Mr. TG Limacaoco, President of BPI, said during the press conference. The campaign is not only to promote road safety, it is also a way of giving positive message of looking forward to have a stronger and safer auto industry this 2011. Our government should do something like what BPI did, private institutions are now working alone to help us to have better and safe life in or outside the road, for me, BPI is setting a good example and other private institutions should follow.


“The partnership forged between the City of Tagaytay and BPI Family Savings Bank is a wonderful example of how effective public-private partnerships are in promoting a worthy advocacy. I believe that the value created by these partnerships, such as a potentially reduced number of accidents as well as growing number of visitors in our city, are sure to last.”- TG Limacaoco, President of BPI


“BPI Family Savings Bank, through its Auto Loans Division, is fully committed to helping the country’s auto industry grow responsibly. As more Filipinos are finding it easy to own their dream cars, we want to advocate responsible car ownership and safer road conditions for them. This is just the beginning, we hope to have similar endeavors in other key areas in the country to benefit more Filipinos.” - David Sarmiento, Jr., BPI Family Savings Bank SVP and Head of Auto Loans Division

I drove again after 10 years and I'm no longer familiar with other new signs, but reading them again and understand in a split seconds after slowing down will help you get over with it and be aware of it on the next time you encounter it. I love reading road signs and its a big help for me whenever I'm lost on the road, just like what happened when I drove the Nissan Navarra with my fellow bloggers going back to SLEX, I'm not familiar with the road going back to SLEX, but road signs saves us our time and went on track going back home. With road signs or no signs, if you are not sure on what you're going to, just don't be shy to ask people nicely for directions and tell them you are lost and you need a good route going to your destination.

and again... let's obey road signs and our traffic and driving rules.
Because being responsible and safe is our road map to success.


Flowell, Jeman, me and Juan Manila


BPI Senior Manager Michael Anthony C. Mendoza briefs us on before driving to Tagaytay / Juan Manila on the wheels of a Nissan Navarra pick up truck.


BPI President TG Limacaoco and SVP for Auto & Motorcycle Loans Dave G. Sarmiento


VP Herbert D. Tuason / President TG and our bloggers


Me driving our bloggers back to Manila


we stayed overnight at Summit Ridge Hotel in Tagaytay City.

related blog post:
http://www.juanmanilaexpress.com/2011/01/bpi-family-auto-loan-road-safety-advocacy/

http://www.angsawariko.com/2011/01/bpi-family-auto-loans-advocates-for.html

BPI and McDonald's launches First cashless food delivery system

You can now order food at McDonald's, have it delivered to your home and pay it using your BPI account by using your mobile phone. Yes, that's possible already as BPI and McDonald's finally pioneered the 1st cashless food delivery system to all their BPI account holders and McDonald's customers. With a minimal stroke of your fingers in your mobile phones, you can order and browse the menu of McDonald's without leaving your home or your office. There's also a settings if you want your food be delivered in specific time or date, or have it set to deliver your food every morning before your woke up or before your sit on the desk of your office.

more news and photos below

It's like that I want to wake up every morning and I want to eat McDonald's burgers and fries in my breakfast or a McDonald's spaghetti as my snack during my working hours. And with my busy schedule, I have no time going to the nearest McDonald's branch and buy there my food and go back home or to the office. Or if I order food, I have to reach my phone and call for a McDelivery over and over again. Its a time consuming for me but still a convenient way if we use the McDelivery, but now they made the McDelivery even better, with a stroke of a finger in our mobile phones and select an option in the end if we want that order every morning, all we have to do is click and send, and then let our bank account pay for the food we eat, sounds fun and hassle free, thanks to BPI-iCan Worldwide and McDonald's for this cashless food delivery service in the Mobile Mall of BPI.


The cashless food delivery system is developed by i-Can Worldwide, they specialize in mobile commerce and technologies and tie up with BPI 24/7 our largest bank and leader in electronic banking in our country as both party delivers the McDelivery in our mobile phones using the installed Mobile Mall application.This is a mark for BPI's 160th year and McDonald's 30th year here in the Philippines, making their services even more better for us.

McDonald's pioneered lots of services for their customers and this 2011, mobile payment and food ordering is another step of convenience and fast transaction without shelling out real money from our pockets and wallets. In 2004 McDonalds launched the 1st ever 24 hours branches, in 2009 they launched the 1st online ordering and delivery, and also 1st to have the no minimum order delivery. And for McDonald's 30th anniversary, they brought to us more hassle free transaction and made food more closer to us. The cashless food delivery service now covers all delivery addresses in Metro Manila and also in key cities nationwide such as Cavite, Laguna, Lipa, Tarlac, Cebu, and Davao. They will provide more covered cities in the future and also plans in having a credit card payment.

People outside the country can also order food for their loved ones and fiends who lives here in the Philippines, if they have a BPI account, they can now order food while they are in abroad and send McDonald's food as gift or thank you presents.

Here's what I have learned about their cashless food delivery service
1. There's a P40 charge per delivery
2. The mobile ordering and payment uses mobile internet and reflects data charges from any subscribed mobile network
3. No Minimum order
4. BPI and McDonald's customer service is available for 24 hours (BPI - 89100 and McDonald's 8-MCDO or 86236) you can inquire there if you have any problems with our order
5. The McDelivery mobile application is compatible to Phones with Java, Android OS and even iPhones.
6. All of your mobile transaction will reflect in your next statement of accounts.


For info and details of BPI-i.Can Mobile Mall McDelivery, log on to www.mybpimag.com

Here's a short walkthrough on how to use the McDelivery on your phone

First you need to download the BPI Mobile Mall and install it in your mobile phone, just visit www.mybpimag.com to download the Java applet.


After installing the app., go to the Mobile Mall app and select McDonald's. You can also see other malls and establishments that offers the same service.


Select your kind of ordering service


then enter your name and other details that are needed for the delivery and mobile payment services. You can also put a special instructions like if you want more cheese on your burger, or without pickles.


Then confirm to pay your order using your BPI account and save your information to the mobile app.


then you will receive a confirmation note and your order will be processed. You don't need to fill up the form again with your contact info as the previous info that you entered are already stored in the app.


Food will be delivered right away in your home or office. Or if you specified a delivery date and time, the order will arrive on your selected schedule.


BPI partners also with other establishments and mall giants that has good back office and integration. Where you can buy movie tickets or even shop for items and be delivered to you in a push of a button.

and here are some photos from the press launching at McDonald's Greenbelt 1


“BPI steadfastly innovates its electronic services in line with the country’s continuously growing mobile technology industry. Taking our first step this year, we are pioneering a service that will provide more convenience to our customers as they bank with us. Now they can have and pay for their favorite McDonald’s through their mobile phones as BPI brings McDelivery in our Mobile Mall,” says Teresita Tan, Executive Vice President and and Head of Overseas Banking and Channels Services Group, BPI.

“For 30 years, McDonald’s has been committed in providing Filipinos with great-tasting affordable meals and excellent service. This 2011, McDonald’s once again strengthens this commitment to provide efficient and convenient service with another first- fast-food delivery through mobile. Partnering with BPI and i.Can to bring the first cashless mobile-based delivery, will surely provide our customers with their favorite McDonald’s meals, anytime, anywhere,” says Margot Torres, McDonald’s Vice President for Marketing and Communications.











I really like the mobile service that they offer to us and because of that I am no planning to open an account in BPI just to use their mobile mall services. BPI now also offer free sign ups and registration in their website, all you have to do is visit http://www.bpiexpressonline.com/
and then select your nearest branch in your area, and after a few days you can pick up your BPI card in your selected branch, just present a valid ID and a P500 that will be used in depositing it in your own personal account.