Go Back  FlyerTalk Forums > Miles&Points > MilesBuzz
Reload this Page >

Fidelity Bonus offers for airline miles & hotel points [EXPIRED March 31, 2017]

Community
Wiki Posts
Search
Old Nov 19, 2013, 6:07 pm
FlyerTalk Forums Expert How-Tos and Guides
Last edit by: TravelinSperry
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.
Print Wikipost

Fidelity Bonus offers for airline miles & hotel points [EXPIRED March 31, 2017]

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
Old Jul 21, 2016, 9:14 am
  #2281  
formerly known as daveland
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: NY, NY, USA
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Marriott LTP, Delta Platinum, Hilton Honors Diamond, Wyndham Diamond
Posts: 2,969
Originally Posted by schrute
Good thing they have their own SSNs and AAdvantage accounts. Anything else? Mostly concerned about the IRS being alerted about the moneys.
If the accounts earn enough interest for Fidelity to send 1099s, then they will. Different companies use different thresholds. Citi uses $10. Not sure about Fido.
MilesTalk is offline  
Old Jul 21, 2016, 10:46 am
  #2282  
 
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: New York
Programs: Navy A-4 Skyhawk, B727 FE/FO, S80 FO, B757/767 FO, B737 CA
Posts: 1,342
What is the usual time frame for these offers to get extended? As of now AA's expires end of Sept, UA end of Oct, and Delta end of Dec. Just curious when we'll have definitive knowledge these offers will be good for next year.
fredc84 is offline  
Old Jul 22, 2016, 10:17 am
  #2283  
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Programs: AA, UAL
Posts: 545
Originally Posted by fredc84
What is the usual time frame for these offers to get extended? As of now AA's expires end of Sept, UA end of Oct, and Delta end of Dec. Just curious when we'll have definitive knowledge these offers will be good for next year.
Well, these offers have been going on since (I think) 2012 or even earlier, so I think it is safe to assume come September, you will see if extended till Sep 2017

Cheers!
fromfall98 is offline  
Old Jul 22, 2016, 6:31 pm
  #2284  
 
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: New York
Programs: Navy A-4 Skyhawk, B727 FE/FO, S80 FO, B757/767 FO, B737 CA
Posts: 1,342
Deleted
fredc84 is offline  
Old Jul 22, 2016, 6:36 pm
  #2285  
FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador: World of Hyatt
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: NJ
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Fairmont Lifetime Plat, UA Silver, dirt elsewhere
Posts: 46,919
Question..

I funded my account on Nov 24... I have to wait 9 months before withdrawing... is that Aug 24 or Sept 24? I know I have to wait until Nov 25 to fund it again.
Mary2e is offline  
Old Jul 23, 2016, 7:50 am
  #2286  
 
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: mountains of western NC
Programs: Life, Love and Laughter
Posts: 8,533
Originally Posted by fredc84
What is the usual time frame for these offers to get extended? As of now AA's expires end of Sept, UA end of Oct, and Delta end of Dec. Just curious when we'll have definitive knowledge these offers will be good for next year.
This thread started in 2010, and I am sure these offers began before that. They get extended regularly, though from time to time there are changes in what is offered (though no changes in the last 3-4 years).
onthego15 is offline  
Old Jul 24, 2016, 6:03 pm
  #2287  
FlyerTalk Evangelist
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Benicia, California, USA
Programs: AA PLT,AS,UA PP,J6,FB,EY,LH,SQ,HH Dmd,Hyatt Glbl,Marriott Plat,IHG Plat,Accor Gold
Posts: 10,820
Question Do AA, DL and UA at once?

I'm sure the answer is in here somewhere, but in searching I can't find it.

Is it possible to transfer funds to open up three new Fidelity accounts, one each with miles credited to AA, DL and UA, and get the mileage bonuses for each? Or is it only one account at a time?

Thanks for any help.
Thunderroad is offline  
Old Jul 24, 2016, 6:13 pm
  #2288  
 
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: mountains of western NC
Programs: Life, Love and Laughter
Posts: 8,533
Originally Posted by Thunderroad
I'm sure the answer is in here somewhere, but in searching I can't find it.

Is it possible to transfer funds to open up three new Fidelity accounts, one each with miles credited to AA, DL and UA, and get the mileage bonuses for each? Or is it only one account at a time?

Thanks for any help.
One at a time only
onthego15 is offline  
Old Jul 24, 2016, 8:04 pm
  #2289  
FlyerTalk Evangelist
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Benicia, California, USA
Programs: AA PLT,AS,UA PP,J6,FB,EY,LH,SQ,HH Dmd,Hyatt Glbl,Marriott Plat,IHG Plat,Accor Gold
Posts: 10,820
Thanks. Good to know.
Thunderroad is offline  
Old Jul 31, 2016, 11:29 am
  #2290  
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Programs: Marriott Plat
Posts: 944
Scottrade is going to charge me $75 to transfer out my securities. Has anyone had any luck getting Fidelity to reimburse this?
amejr999 is offline  
Old Aug 1, 2016, 8:21 pm
  #2291  
 
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Northern California
Programs: Inf Elite CO, lifetime AA Platinum
Posts: 1,937
cost to transfer

Originally Posted by amejr999
Scottrade is going to charge me $75 to transfer out my securities. Has anyone had any luck getting Fidelity to reimburse this?
You are already getting a significant number of miles for the transfer.

And is that for the entire account? Can you move over part of it to save on the transfer?
freakflyer is offline  
Old Aug 24, 2016, 5:35 pm
  #2292  
 
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 599
Originally Posted by RLG
This question is answered up-thread, but I'll be a broken record and repeat. You DO NOT want to sell your vanguard shares if you would recognize a capital gain. You can simply transfer them to fidelity. Fidelity has a form for a partial account transfer to move the shares your new account there. The worst case is that they'll convert them to a slightly more expensive class of vanguard share. If that happens, you can go back to the lowest cost share class once you've left them in fidelity long enough to meet holding period requirement for the miles bonus.
I called Fidelity and 2 different reps said its not possible, that I will have to sell vanguard first and realize gains, and then buy whatever Fidelity shares I want.

In my case I was going from a taxable non-IRA to another taxable non-IRA account (basically just a simple brokerage account).

So realizing gains was a no-go here to use Vanguard funds. Maybe if there is a downturn.
nomii is offline  
Old Aug 24, 2016, 6:08 pm
  #2293  
 
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Miami, FL
Programs: UA 1MM, AA Plat, Marriott LT Titanium, Hyatt Glob, IHG ♢ Amb, Hilton ♢, Hertz Pres
Posts: 6,015
Originally Posted by nomii
I called Fidelity and 2 different reps said its not possible, that I will have to sell vanguard first and realize gains, and then buy whatever Fidelity shares I want.

In my case I was going from a taxable non-IRA to another taxable non-IRA account (basically just a simple brokerage account).

So realizing gains was a no-go here to use Vanguard funds. Maybe if there is a downturn.
That is absolutely false. You can do an "in-kind" transfer. It's even an option after you register and sign up for the promo. Just click the radio button for
"Fund your account
Select the eligible account you want to fund for this offer and from where the money will be transferred.
Transfer from,
* Another financial institution"

And then upload a copy of Vanguards statement. That's it. Takes about 5 days to transfer. Be SURE to record your cost basis as sometimes this info is lost in transfer (especially for shares older than 2012).

You should note the T&C's state the promo isn't eligible for retirement only accounts - although it would be my guess that if they let you sign up for the promo and transfer that they will give you the miles. i.e., they'll likely block you from registering if you're not eligible.

T&C's:
The promotion is not available for the following account types/products: business accounts (including those opened by union officials); trust accounts; fiduciary accounts (including custodial accounts, estate accounts); college investment trust accounts; 529 college savings plan accounts; annuities; 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; 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. Offer is not valid for non-U.S. residents; persons employed by FINRA or a securities organization in a regulatory capacity; employees of Fidelity, its affiliates, and members of their immediate families and households, or the media who cover financial services.
TravelinSperry is offline  
Old Aug 24, 2016, 6:20 pm
  #2294  
RLG
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Kamuela, Hawaii
Programs: Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond, AA Plat, UA Silver, AS MVP, HA premier
Posts: 509
Originally Posted by nomii
that I will have to sell vanguard first and realize gains, and then buy whatever Fidelity shares I want.
I think there's a failure to communicate somewhere.

You definitely aren't limited to just buying fidelity funds if you have cash in your account. You can, for example, buy vanguard funds.

If the rep gave the response you quoted, then they thought you were asking how to BUY fidelity funds and the advice they gave you would have been correct.

What you want to do is called a "partial ACAT transfer". Request the form for that and send it in to Fidelity.
RLG is offline  
Old Sep 2, 2016, 9:10 am
  #2295  
 
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Miami, FL
Programs: UA 1MM, AA Plat, Marriott LT Titanium, Hyatt Glob, IHG ♢ Amb, Hilton ♢, Hertz Pres
Posts: 6,015
Originally Posted by chintanshah123
For those of you wondering how to park the $100k that you transfer to FIdelity, they offer brokered CDs that are issued by FDIC issued banks. You can buy 9-month CDs from them and essentially get interest payments comparable to online savings accounts. Since these CDs are FDIC insured, they are as good as keeping the cash in a savings account.

Hope this helps someone.
Interesting idea. I've previously used ACAT (in-kind) transfers to park monies. But I do have CDs as well - and if Fidelity's are competitive (doubting that) I would do a CD next time. Will they show rates online or must we call to find the rates?
TravelinSperry is offline  


Contact Us - Manage Preferences - Archive - Advertising - Cookie Policy - Privacy Statement - Terms of Service -

This site is owned, operated, and maintained by MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. Copyright © 2024 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks are the property of their respective owners.