greglvnv

The Merrill site is exclusively to access the card's benefits, meanwhile the BofA site will let you view transactions etc. for all your BofA accounts.

HGHUA

Ahh, understood. Thx

scottymon

what do you mean, "travel bank?"

Travelchurner

AS travelbank.

mabramovich

So because AS is free cancellation, it should totally work to buy a $590 AS Ickes, cancel it, get money in the bank, and then use that money to buy a ticket along with an AS visa companion pass and MVP upgrade, right? Will AS let me use travel credit to pay the companion amounts?

Travelchurner

If you have 50k points you will end up with 1k AS credit.
CP can be paid for with credit.

mabramovich

iPhone failed...I meant "$500 AS ticket"

I'd rather use "just" $500 and save the remaining on the credit card.

Thank you for the confirmation that this works!

Travelchurner

Sometimes you need multiple $1-200 flights, in which case my method is better.

patpatpatme

applied for merrill and bofa alaska pers/bus cards. both Bofa cards, approved merrill is pending. do you need to request the credit reports to be consolidated into one pull or does it automatically happen?

kdm31091

The one pull thing isn't an official or guaranteed thing. The bureau is assuming the pulls are duplicates and combining them. BOA has nothing to do with it. Officially, they pull for each application.

redtigeriii

If you really want this card and are looking to apply for multiple BofA cards (to take advantage of it being one hard pull) apply for the Merrill first. Only apply for additional B of A cards if you get approved for the Merrill. There are reports of people getting approved for the BofA cards then pending/denied for the Merrill. While reconsideration is possible if you get denied initially, they are very with it and tough. I applied for this card myself and got pending/denied, and called reconsideration. They cited the fact that I applied for three new BofA cards over a year ago as reason why they couldn't grant my reconsideration, request and noted I currently had four cards with BofA. And I know there are a lot of people out there who have churned many more cards than that with BofA!

frank_10b

is there a limit to the number of BofA cc you can have in total with the bank?

Does anyone have a special Merrill reconsideration number to call?
thanks!

r.brown

I applied on Friday and decision went to pending. Called 866-224-7803 and they approved immediately. Asked to be expedited and I received the card via UPS on Monday at 10 am.

xgeorge1

How many Bofa cards do you have currently?
and you just opened the Merill card? no other cards?

r.brown

0 Bofa cards.

I just opened the Merrill card - no existing relationship with them or Bofa.