New Credit Card Details (Comenity Capital Bank)
Jan 6, 2014, 4:34 am
#46
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Atlanta, GA
Programs: AA Gold,DL Gold
Posts: 858
Legitimate, don't make me laugh, all of the banks (BofA, Citi, etc) have been in trouble with the law and been investigated numerous times.
Jan 6, 2014, 3:50 pm
#47
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: SF
Programs: UA, VX, QF, EY, VA
Posts: 756
Edit: Have a look at the T&C: https://d.comenity.net/virginamerica...nditions.xhtml
What's appealing about that?
Compare the latest Barclays HA WEMC to this offering by VX.
Last edited by patrick.barnes; Jan 6, 2014 at 4:04 pm
Jan 6, 2014, 10:55 pm
#48
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 52
Application Link now on VA website
Looks like the application link is now live on the VA website. I will probably go for the $149 card. What are the chances they increase the incentive to sign up from 15-20K Elevate points anytime soon? I don't have a great sense of what card issuers do in this case. They presumably know a large number of affinity customers will sign up right away..so why goose the incentives early on?
Jan 7, 2014, 8:36 am
#51
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 52
Wait for the email
...I am an Elevate Silver member and had the old Barclays VA card. Today I jumped the gun and applied for the new Premium Card. Was awarded a $25k line and a 15.95% interest rate, with 15,000 Elevate points with $1,000 spend in first 90 days. about an hour after I applied, I received an email offering 25,000 Elevate points with same spend requirements..I called Comenity and asked for the extra...fingers crossed.
Jan 7, 2014, 8:52 am
#52
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 30
Will Comenity be able to add the extra points or will we have to go thru VX Elevate people directly? Was going to call VX (or Comenity) and see if they can take care of some extra points since I was a former card holder. Anyone have any ideas of whether VX or Comenity will be the ones to do this?
Jan 7, 2014, 8:53 am
#53
Join Date: Jun 2013
Programs: Virgin America Elevate Gold
Posts: 220
Wait for the email!...I am an Elevate Silver member and had the old Barclays VA card. Today I jumped the gun and applied for the new Premium Card. Was awarded a $25k line and a 15.95% interest rate, with 15,000 Elevate points with $1,000 spend in first 90 days. about an hour after I applied, I received an email offering 25,000 Elevate points with same spend requirements..I called Comenity and asked for the extra...fingers crossed.
...I am an Elevate Silver member and had the old Barclays VA card. Today I jumped the gun and applied for the new Premium Card. Was awarded a $25k line and a 15.95% interest rate, with 15,000 Elevate points with $1,000 spend in first 90 days. about an hour after I applied, I received an email offering 25,000 Elevate points with same spend requirements..I called Comenity and asked for the extra...fingers crossed.
Jan 7, 2014, 9:03 am
#57
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 30
Conversion of Miles to $$
By what algorithm are they converting miles into $$ with this slider: https://www.virginamerica.com/ads.do
2266 miles = $60 (37.8 miles/$)
74488 miles = $1612 (46.2 miles/$)
Why wouldn't they just use some linear method?
2266 miles = $60 (37.8 miles/$)
74488 miles = $1612 (46.2 miles/$)
Why wouldn't they just use some linear method?
Jan 7, 2014, 9:26 am
#58
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 91
For what it's worth, I haven't received an email yet. I was a Barclay's card holder and am a silver elevate member. I don't know what process they're using to go through the solicitations, but I figure I'm likely to be midway or so. (My surname begins with "K" and my statement date was the 12th).
Jan 7, 2014, 9:36 am
#59
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 52
To clarify, I called the service number on my newly-opened VA Visa Premium Card account. 855-871-9842. The first call, the lady was very nice, but transferred me to Virgin Elevate, and nobody picked up. The second call (9842number) to a different lady (also very nice, and maybe a little more confident) sent an email/ noted my account. She completely understood my situation and was going to try and get me the extra 10k elevate points. She said she would call back in 48 hrs. As a first call, I would say friendly custiomer service...Better than Barclays.
Jan 7, 2014, 9:46 am
#60
Join Date: Jun 2013
Programs: Virgin America Elevate Gold
Posts: 220
By what algorithm are they converting miles into $$ with this slider: https://www.virginamerica.com/ads.do
2266 miles = $60 (37.8 miles/$)
74488 miles = $1612 (46.2 miles/$)
Why wouldn't they just use some linear method?
2266 miles = $60 (37.8 miles/$)
74488 miles = $1612 (46.2 miles/$)
Why wouldn't they just use some linear method?