Credit Card Programs - Pen Fed Visa travel offer

Just got this e-mail:

Jamfyyer ,
PenFed is making your vacation even better this summer. Spend $1,000 on qualified travel purchases between July 1, 2012 and September 30, 2012 and we’ll give you $100 cash back. That’s a savings of 10%! Or, spend $500 and get $25 cash back!
Here’s how it works:
Earn a $100 statement credit when you spend at least $1,000 toward airfare, car rentals, & lodging between July 1-September 30, 2012 on your PenFed Visa® card referenced above.
Or
Earn a $25 statement credit when you spend at least $500 toward airfare, car rentals, & lodging between July 1-September 30, 2012 on your PenFed Visa® card referenced above.
So, what are you waiting for?
Start planning your summer vacation today and be sure to put it on your PenFed Visa card referenced above.

Rate and offers current as of June 2012 and are subject to change.
This one-time offer is targeted to the account number referenced above and is non-transferable to any other member or card account. Promotional credit will be awarded in the form of a statement credit to your PenFed Visa credit card account referenced above. The offers are not cumulative and only one award can be earned during the promotional period so the maximum statement credit that can be earned is $100. For this promotion, qualified travel purchases are defined as airfare, car rental, & lodging transactions and DO NOT include transactions made with travel agencies. To qualify, the transactions must: (i) be completed using the full PenFed Visa 16-digit Card number referenced above during the Offer period; (ii) be identified as airfare, car rental or lodging transactions, based on the information ava ilable on Visa’s proprietary network (VisaNet); and (iii) post to the Visa PenFed Card account referenced during the Offer period of July 1, 2012 - September 30, 2012. Your PenFed Visa account must remain in good standing in order to receive the statement credit. Please allow up to eight weeks after the promotion ends to receive your credit.




We do business in accordance with the Federal Fair Housing Law and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.
PenFed is federally insured by the National Credit Union Administration.

Interesting.. mine said this "Get up to 20,000 bonus points this summer with your PenFed Premium Travel Rewards American Express® Card–that’s equal to $200 toward your next vacation.

Here’s how it works: Earn 5,000 bonus points in each month from July 2012 through October 2012 that you spend at least $2,500 on your PenFed Premium Travel Rewards Card referenced above.*"

I like yours better...
Does not seem too exciting with my email. Please send me a better offer...Thanks.. :)) I will just use my two 2% cash back cards I am using now and travel I can use Freedom at 5% back for Gas.

If you got "preapproved" for this offer, by it showing up both on your online account and when you speak to a rep by phone, I suggest you go for this. The don't do a credit pull for preapprovals. I just accepted mine 3 days ago with 2 of my bureaus locked. I subsequently applied for the visa version and they want me to unlock the bureau for that one.Mine is $650 spend for 20k points.

If you got "preapproved" for this offer, by it showing up both on your online account and when you speak to a rep by phone, I suggest you go for this. The don't do a credit pull for preapprovals. I just accepted mine 3 days ago with 2 of my bureaus locked. I subsequently applied for the visa version and they want me to unlock the bureau for that one.Mine is $650 spend for 20k points.

I think the two posts above yours are referring to recent targeted offers for bonuses for extant accounts NOT the sign-up bonus for new accounts.

I received the 20,000 points for Amex spend July-October and am pleased. Not as good as the 5% cahsback on hotels last year, but I'll take it.

Oh, I see. Thanks for pointing that out.

Doesn't look like a bad deal :)

Did anyone get their $100? I spent over $1000 and only got a $25 bonus. Sent them an email already.

My 100 bonus was credited on my last statement. It took some time but they came through!

Just got this e-mail:

Jamfyyer ,
PenFed is making your vacation even better this summer. Spend $1,000 on qualified travel purchases between July 1, 2012 and September 30, 2012 and we’ll give you $100 cash back. That’s a savings of 10%! Or, spend $500 and get $25 cash back!
Here’s how it works:
Earn a $100 statement credit when you spend at least $1,000 toward airfare, car rentals, & lodging between July 1-September 30, 2012 on your PenFed Visa® card referenced above.
Or
Earn a $25 statement credit when you spend at least $500 toward airfare, car rentals, & lodging between July 1-September 30, 2012 on your PenFed Visa® card referenced above.
So, what are you waiting for?
Start planning your summer vacation today and be sure to put it on your PenFed Visa card referenced above.

Rate and offers current as of June 2012 and are subject to change.
This one-time offer is targeted to the account number referenced above and is non-transferable to any other member or card account. Promotional credit will be awarded in the form of a statement credit to your PenFed Visa credit card account referenced above. The offers are not cumulative and only one award can be earned during the promotional period so the maximum statement credit that can be earned is $100. For this promotion, qualified travel purchases are defined as airfare, car rental, & lodging transactions and DO NOT include transactions made with travel agencies. To qualify, the transactions must: (i) be completed using the full PenFed Visa 16-digit Card number referenced above during the Offer period; (ii) be identified as airfare, car rental or lodging transactions, based on the information ava ilable on Visa’s proprietary network (VisaNet); and (iii) post to the Visa PenFed Card account referenced during the Offer period of July 1, 2012 - September 30, 2012. Your PenFed Visa account must remain in good standing in order to receive the statement credit. Please allow up to eight weeks after the promotion ends to receive your credit.




We do business in accordance with the Federal Fair Housing Law and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.
PenFed is federally insured by the National Credit Union Administration.


I forgot about this...and I did not get the credit. Time to make a call.

Ok, I talked to them and found out I only got a $25 credit because my purchase with Allegiant Air was not VISA-coded as airfare, but as a travel agency. That is total BS and I'm disputing that now. Penfed is saying that the promotion was a VISA promotion, not a Penfed so they can't do anything.

The email came from Pentagon Federal Credit Union, and they advertised it to me, so it seems to me that they are responsible. My purchase was clearly for airfare directly with the airline.

Penfed usually has good CS, but this is ridiculous. I will be writing up a formal complaint and report based on this misleading promotion.