re: Credit Card Rewards and Points Discussion

Well now I'm a lil upset. I've been waiting patiently for an Amex Platinum 100k offer to show up (I've put a ton on my PRG in the year I've had it). I decided to check out targeted offers in mine and my wife's name. She's got a 100k offer - oddly in her maiden name. Which would be great except to get one in my name is an extra $175/year.

Very good.
I called today too but after 10 minutes of going nowhere with an incompetent rep, I just said F it and I'll wait until tomorrow to see if it posts.

Did you get an email or anything telling you that happened?

I don't think they processed me today.

When you called I assume that was it and you didn't have to call the CC department first to OK the big charge?

From what I understand you get 2 chances at this so don't want to waste #2.

Thanks for the update. I'll be on the lookout for that.

I must be old thinking this is fun.

Ya using the TY points for American is like booking with cash at 1.6 cents per point if you have Prestige.

From my reading sometimes the TY site mirrors the market price and sometimes it does not.

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Thanks for putting that up

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With a Prestige that flight should be about 55,000 points on American.

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So the Prestige "changes" the value or something? What if I have 50,000 points, I wonder if I can pay the extra $$ since it's over $800 on there? Use some of that $250 I get with the card.

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Ya using the TY points for American is like booking with cash at 1.6 cents per point if you have Prestige.

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I see, so the Prestige gives 1.6 and the regular ones give 1 per I guess.. still wonder if I can pay for the extra. It's worth it for me since I have plenty of AA miles but the awards are dog shite for those dates. I can get to NOLA on the 11th for 17,500 but right now it's 50k minimum to come back early Jan. And I was looking to go in later Dec than the 11th but could go early.

$10k went from pending to posted this morning.

Funny thing is, I still can't see my actual balance on my Citigold log in.

I received my debit card and hit the "link" link on the Citigold log in page, but it asks for my bank account number which I don't have yet.

I suppose I have to wait for my checks to arrive to see my bank account number and then do the linking. Or call.

Nevermind, just got all the info in the mail

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Is there a link that drains the citi gold bonus points.

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Don't know what you mean by this.

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Is there a time requirement for when you get the card to when you can earn the points?

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By "card" I suppose to mean from when you open the checking account. You have two months (I think Calendar) to make $1000 in debit transactions and you have to make 1 or more eligible bill pays in each of the first two months.

I've already set up my bill pays to go off for this month and next (and did more than 1 to be safe).

Will start working on the debit transactions shortly. I can do that in two purchases.

Ok, I got you. I missed a page in this thread and didn't not see the links that were already posted. So you are setting the max advance to keep the entire amount from being an advance? How did they code for yalls deposit?