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I Love to Travel
I went to my local branch here in LA and had no problem opening both accounts. There was a slight problem getting my Onepass # entered for the biz account. She made a call to their dept that handles these promotions and was able to get it resolved. I got the confirmation pages showing the miles to be deposited. While setting up the accounts, her system showed I was preapproved for a Chase Continental credit card with 25K bonus. I said sure and it was instantly approved. Took about an hour, but I left with $75K Onepass miles (OK – once I make the actual purchases).
My thought is that since this offer was setup in July (says offer valid July 1 - Dec. 31, 2009), that California branches were originally excluded because their systems had not yet been integrated. Maybe now that the integration is complete, the bank forgot to remove the exclusion from the wording.
I also just opened my account today at a local branch here in San Francisco. It was for personal checking account and continental debit card. He was able to do it and even showed me the screen where it says 10,000 miles bonus for opening an account along with 5 debit card purchase by 1/24/10 (60 days) and 15,000 miles bonus for first purchase on Continental debit card.
I also got the confirmation page with the tracking number in case my account does not get credited with the miles.
I used the certificate with the same wording (excluding California). I was assured it was not an issue now the formerly WAMU-branded branch is integrated into Chase.