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[Expired] New Alaska BofA signature visa 40,000 mile signup offer (maybe targeted)
Mrs. B received a snail mail postcard yesterday with a 40k signup offer! This makes me feel better about procrasinating on the 25k offer. I will post the signup code and weblink when I get home. Not sure if this is targeted.
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Ugh. Very annoying. Both myself and the wife just recently signed up under the 25k offers. And we like the card... going to keep it after the 1st year (at least one of them)
Not expecting to get anywhere, but gonna call and see if they can do anything for us (like what AMEX recently did!).
AS/BofA was a little late in the game coming to the 20 - 25K signup bonus offers some years ago. I wonder if this is a sign that they're going to be a little late in the game of coming to the table with 75-100K signup bonus offers. It appears that they still aren't waiving the fee for the first year...which just about everyone else does.
I'm embarrassed to admit that the bonus was a whopping 5K when I signed up for the card years ago...
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Originally Posted by ANC RED-EYE
AS/BofA was a little late in the game coming to the 20 - 25K signup bonus offers some years ago. I wonder if this is a sign that they're going to be a little late in the game of coming to the table with 75-100K signup bonus offers. It appears that they still aren't waiving the fee for the first year...which just about everyone else does.
I'm embarrassed to admit that the bonus was a whopping 5K when I signed up for the card years ago...
Agree wholeheartedly. BofA (or AS, whoever controls that--though my $ would be on BofA) seems relatively stingy with the sign-up bonuses. Maybe they figure that AS cardholders are kind of a captive crowd--if you live in (or travel to) Alaska or the PNW, you're pretty much resigned to AS as your primary airline. So, offer just enough bonus miles to get existing Mileage Plan members interested in the card, but they don't necessarily need enough to convince someone to switch from a competing program.
In any case, I, too, was the victim of the paltry 5K bonus. You're not alone.
FWIW, my experience has been hard pulls on BOTH Equifax and Transunion when applying for this card. Not worth 2 inquiries for 1 card, YMMV! I'd much rather get 75K amex and 50k chase (for me, one hits Equifax and the other hits Transunion).
Hmmm. I have been waiting for a better than 25K offer like this to get into the AS program, but I am concerned about not being targeted. Is it compromising anything for others if I call the number to say I wasn't targeted but wanted to get in on the offer? Could I even trust them for the miles if they say yes?
Just now approved for the 40k offer. I did this via the phone with the promo code. I actually had applied last week for the 25k offer and was approved. The nice lady on the phone approved me for the better offer and canceled the first. Very easy to deal with. By the way, I said I received the offer via snail mail, even though I didn't.
What's interesting is that in the disclosures for the card, they've done a global "search and replace" whereby all the references to "25,000 miles" were changed to "40,000 miles".
It's a bit startling to read "40,000 Bonus miles is enough for a round-trip Coach Saver award ticket in the continental U.S., Alaska or Canada on Alaska Airlines when booked at alaskaair.com." since my first response to seeing it was to double check that they hadn't raised the minimum number of miles needed to book a coach ticket.
It's a bit startling to read "40,000 Bonus miles is enough for a round-trip Coach Saver award ticket in the continental U.S., Alaska or Canada on Alaska Airlines when booked at alaskaair.com."
Well, strictly speaking that is still true.
Sort of like the brain teaser "How many months have 28 days in them?"
I just called and they wouldn't give me the difference between the 2 offers (15,000) - I JUST got my new AS card a few weeks ago. Said I'd have to apply for the new card - which means another card with another annual fee. For 15,000 miles it's not worth it to me, but it sure would have been nice to have known and have waited.
This makes me feel better about procrasinating on the 25k offer. I will post the signup code and weblink when I get home. Not sure if this is targeted.
