Originally Posted by
MDtR-Chicago
Bronze is no annual fee but only earns 1 mile per $2 of charges.
(But it's a way to preserve open credit line and extend mileage expiration.)
Originally Posted by
badgerW
Interesting, thanks for the info. I've never seen those marketed, and I don't think they're anywhere on Citi's site -- at least, they weren't the last time I looked.
Bronze cards are not generally marketed to new customers. Anyone who has a pulse can easily apply for a regulard Citi AA card that has the annual fee waived for the first year, thus no reason to apply outright for a Bronze card.
Bronze cards are typically marketed primarily to people who want to cancel an annual-fee card after a year because of the annual fee (and can't be talked into one of the plenty retention bonuses -- including often something like a credit equal to the annual fee for a small number of purchases with no minimum threshold! -- or else for whatever reason the system doesn't offer that person retention bonuses), and then are offered the Bronze card as a no-annual-fee-ever alternative.
Originally Posted by
barelyelite
Having said that, the mileage rebate is enough to justify the annual fee whereas I was otherwise planning to cancel it. Still no reason to actually put any spending on it, though.
You may still want to "try to" cancel it (hesitantly, by phone, so they can "talk you out of it").
That's how you get retention offers (like the one I just described that my give you a credit equal to the annual fee for not that much work):
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/credi...all-cards.html