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Old Nov 19, 2013, 6:07 pm
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All offers are expired/dead as of March 31, 2017

AA: https://scs.fidelity.com/other/offer...shtml?MSC=AA01

United: https://scs.fidelity.com/other/offer...shtml?MSC=UA01

Delta: https://scs.fidelity.com/other/offer...on_delta.shtml


Update as of May 21, 2014 - in recent weeks some people have reported being told that they are no longer eligible for this offer, in spite of meeting the previous terms and conditions. Some Fidelity representatives are saying that these offers are targeted. Note the bold words in the the terms and conditions below - "Other terms and conditions may apply."

The funds or securities must stay in the account for 9 months
The offer may be repeated every 365 days if the terms were met (rolling 12 months)
The funds may not already be in a Fidelity account, but must be sourced from elsewhere

If you are moving funds or securities out of Fidelity, with intent to move it back to claim this bonus, members have recommended to keep the funds/securities out for at least 3 months to avoid risk of losing eligibility for the deposit. Some have been told unofficially by advisers 30 days. YMMV.

Members who have pulled funds/deposits out within 9 months have reported they were allowed to keep the miles, but were banned for life from being able to repeat the offer.

Added September 26, 2016:

Any withdrawals from the account during the qualification period will count against the total deposited. This includes dividends upon you may dependent to live. So be sure to transfer assets whose value covers the minimum you need plus any you might withdraw during those 60 days.

It is strongly suggested you register for the offer you want by calling Fidelity's Promotion Department at (800)544-5315, as the online registration has been flaky in the past. Also, if you have high net worth, a "High Net Worth supervisor" may be able to help - simply call the Premium Services number on your account statement to find someone who has the power to do most anything. Get the name and phone number of the person you spoke with and ask him or her to note in your account that you have been approved, and by whom. Then, if after you transfer assets you get an email saying you are not eligible for the offer for which you registered (yes, this has happened), call the rep again, asking to read the notes on your account. You will probably be told that the email was automated and was sent in error and that they will hand babysit the funding and resultant miles.

If the registration page tells you are not eligible because you have had the offer before, call one of the above numbers. You are eligible after on year. That year probably starts counting when the miles are awarded, not when you register or when you add assets.

Trusts require extra caution on their part. Sometimes they require that you give them a lot of paperwork for trusts. If you have a local Fidelity office, just bring in everything required and they will copy and mail it for you. Easy. Otherwise, just mail it in. If upon trying to register online you are informed that your Revocable Living Trust account is not eligible, well, just call one of the above numbers, because it is eligible. They just have to verify a few things and then override the system. They want to know that you are the only trustee and the only beneficiary.


From the Terms and Conditions page:

Promotional Offer Rules:

This promotional offer is only available to new or existing Fidelity brokerage account customers opening or depositing net new assets into a joint or individual nonretirement Fidelity Account®. Net new assets are defined as an individual’s external new money in minus money out, including distributions and transfers.

This offer expires September 30, 2014, and is not transferable or valid in conjunction with any other Fidelity promotional offer. Fidelity Investments reserves the right to modify, change, or alter the terms and conditions of the promotional offer in its sole discretion at any time. Fidelity Investments may terminate this promotional offer at any time. Other terms and conditions may apply.

Promotional offers are limited to one per individual per rolling 12 months.
The promotion is not available for business accounts; trust accounts; mutual fund only accounts; retirement accounts, including, among others, Fidelity IRA, Roth IRA, SEP, and SIMPLE accounts; 401(k) and 403(b) workplace retirement plans; fiduciary accounts (including custodial accounts, estate accounts); 529 college savings plan accounts (i.e. college investment trust accounts); Fidelity accounts managed by Strategic Advisers, Inc. (for example, Portfolio Advisory Services); Institutional Wealth Services (IWS) clients; clients of registered investment advisors working with Fidelity Investments; annuities; and Stock Plan Services accounts. Offer is not valid for non-U.S. residents; persons affiliated with FINRA, a securities exchange or its members; employees of Fidelity, its affiliates, and members of their immediate families and households; or the media.

Certain states and local jurisdictions have laws that limit or restrict public employees from accepting items of value from vendors such as Fidelity that provide services to public institutions. Some public entities such as governments, state universities, health care organizations, etc., also have internal policies that may contain similar restrictions. If you are a public official or employee, you should determine if one of these laws or internal policies applies to you. By accepting this incentive, we assume that you are in compliance with your jurisdiction's laws and institution's internal policies.

Transferred assets will be valued, for the purposes of determining eligibility for this promotional offer, at the close of business Eastern time on the business day or next business day, if on a weekend day or holiday, following receipt by Fidelity Investments of the assets into the account that is eligible for the promotional offer. Funding must come from an external, non-Fidelity source via any standard monetary transfer method (a standard Transfer of Assets form, check, electronic funds transfer, ADM deposit, etc.). Please allow eight weeks from the funding of the eligible account, with the qualifying dollar amount of assets, for American Airlines AAdvantage® miles to be posted to your AAdvantage® account. Your Fidelity Account® must remain open with the qualifying funding for six months from the date that the qualifying assets are first received in the eligible account.

New accounts must be opened within 30 days of registering for the offer. Additional deposits to the eligible Fidelity account may earn you a higher mileage award provided the result is that the cumulative assets meet or exceed the next eligibility tier (up to a maximum of 50,000 AAdvantage® miles). For new accounts, initial and subsequent deposits must be made within 60 days of Fidelity account opening. For new money deposited into existing accounts, all deposits must be made within 60 days of registering for the offer.
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Old Feb 2, 2016, 2:44 pm
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Anyone know what the look back or review period is? I skimmed the thread and some said 3 months, others said 30 days. I took 18k out of my account about two weeks ago (was just cash sitting in there), and now am going to put that 18k back in plus another 32k to hit the 50k bonus. Will they penalize me for the 18 that was there in the first place?

Also, do i need to invest the money in a certain way, or just transfer it in and leave it, regardless of the investment?

Thanks!
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Old Feb 2, 2016, 4:02 pm
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Originally Posted by tajensen8
Anyone know what the look back or review period is? I skimmed the thread and some said 3 months, others said 30 days. I took 18k out of my account about two weeks ago (was just cash sitting in there), and now am going to put that 18k back in plus another 32k to hit the 50k bonus. Will they penalize me for the 18 that was there in the first place?

Also, do i need to invest the money in a certain way, or just transfer it in and leave it, regardless of the investment?

Thanks!
I think one reason I have had repeated success with this promotion is that when I apply my account is clean of withdrawals for the previous year. You don't need to invest the money at all.
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Old Feb 8, 2016, 3:49 pm
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Originally Posted by Robl
I think one reason I have had repeated success with this promotion is that when I apply my account is clean of withdrawals for the previous year. You don't need to invest the money at all.
When you say you have "clean of withdrawals" previous year that means you withdraw in current year prior to signup for new PROMO?

example: Transferred in security in 2015 in August and will move out 9 months later April 2016. Technically this is a withdrawal in 2016......so if withdrawal was Not in 2015...previous year you can re-apply 3 months later July 2016 and be eligible 5th time?

I've done to 4 times but but concerned on 5th attempt.

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Old Feb 25, 2016, 7:23 am
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I got my 50K bonus 10 months ago, and just pulled my $100K out. Is it reasonably safe to apply for the bonus again in 30 days, or is it truly better to wait 90? The wiki is ambiguous.

Also, when I reapply for the next 50K bonus, I can just use the form in the wiki, right? When I fill it out, will that reliably tell me if I'm eligible for the new bonus, or do I need/want to talk to anybody at Fidelity about it to reconfirm my eligibility? Thanks.
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Old Feb 25, 2016, 10:26 am
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It is my understanding that one must wait until a year and a day has elapsed since the previous application before reapplying, but I have been incorrect before.
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Old Feb 25, 2016, 10:45 am
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Originally Posted by iahphx
I got my 50K bonus 10 months ago, and just pulled my $100K out. Is it reasonably safe to apply for the bonus again in 30 days, or is it truly better to wait 90? The wiki is ambiguous.

Also, when I reapply for the next 50K bonus, I can just use the form in the wiki, right? When I fill it out, will that reliably tell me if I'm eligible for the new bonus, or do I need/want to talk to anybody at Fidelity about it to reconfirm my eligibility? Thanks.
- You will not get the bonus again before complete 12 months.
- Yes, online registration is pretty accurate, it will tell you upfront if you are eligible / not. In fact you can try registering now and it will tell you, you can not get the bonus (at this time, since it is within 12 months)

Cheers!
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Old Feb 25, 2016, 10:51 am
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Originally Posted by Paiteaw
It is my understanding that one must wait until a year and a day has elapsed since the previous application before reapplying, but I have been incorrect before.
Originally Posted by fromfall98
- You will not get the bonus again before complete 12 months.
- Yes, online registration is pretty accurate, it will tell you upfront if you are eligible / not. In fact you can try registering now and it will tell you, you can not get the bonus (at this time, since it is within 12 months)

Cheers!
Ah, so you can pull your money out after 9 months, but you still have to wait 12 months to reapply. Since I already pulled my money out after 9 months, I guess it will now be easy to follow the wiki's "recommendation" to wait more than 30 days before reapplying.
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Old Feb 25, 2016, 11:04 am
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My personal rule is to wait until 12 months after the last mileage deposit date.
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Old Feb 25, 2016, 11:34 am
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Originally Posted by josephstern
My personal rule is to wait until 12 months after the last mileage deposit date.
Certainly hard to complain about it being an annual cycle. If you're just parking cash (aka, a zero-risk strategy), has anyone figured out the best current return you can make in the 9-month period? Like a CD perhaps?
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Old Feb 25, 2016, 11:36 am
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Originally Posted by iahphx
Certainly hard to complain about it being an annual cycle. If you're just parking cash (aka, a zero-risk strategy), has anyone figured out the best current return you can make in the 9-month period? Like a CD perhaps?
I just bought some CDs for 9 months. They pay 0.70% annually, so not much worse than my 1% bank account.
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Old Mar 4, 2016, 12:18 am
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Maximum Fidelity Mile Award - $100,000 + for 50K Miles.

Have access to $500,000 is there any way to get more than 50K Miles from Fidelity in a 12 month period?

Fidelity only allows ONE promotion per 12 months period and the chart of Fidelity.com says $100,000 or more only gets 50K miles.

Any ideas on how to get more than 50k miles?
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Old Mar 4, 2016, 8:11 am
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Originally Posted by euromannn
Maximum Fidelity Mile Award - $100,000 + for 50K Miles.

Have access to $500,000 is there any way to get more than 50K Miles from Fidelity in a 12 month period?

Fidelity only allows ONE promotion per 12 months period and the chart of Fidelity.com says $100,000 or more only gets 50K miles.

Any ideas on how to get more than 50k miles?
Are you married? If so, you can open one account for you and one account for your spouse. Of course that means miles will go into your respective airline accounts.
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Old Mar 6, 2016, 8:33 am
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Originally Posted by josephstern
Amazed to say that I did this again and got the miles again. I think this was my fourth.

Like the above posted, I was ineligible for a while, but I became eligible again earlier this year. Thanks Fido!
How do you know if you're eligible? If the signup doesn't get a rejected email?
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Old Mar 6, 2016, 9:08 am
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Originally Posted by yoshapman
How do you know if you're eligible? If the signup doesn't get a rejected email?
Right on the site, you choose Fund an Existing Account and it tells you once you log in.
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Old Mar 6, 2016, 9:41 pm
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Originally Posted by josephstern
Right on the site, you choose Fund an Existing Account and it tells you once you log in.
I put 100K in an account about 2-3 years ago, then took out most of it but left some. I logged in and now and it said my account was eligible. That means that I'll have no issues as long as I fund my account within 60 days?
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