Originally Posted by
Happy
Also it seems you should also have transaction in the cycle the AF is billed. Else you risk not getting the bonus at all. There is a poster suffered this but we are not sure whether it is due to him stupidly charged only $0.50 on 1st cycle when the AF billed on 2nd cycle and he did not charge anything - Barclays told him it was because he did not make charge in the cycle AF billed, and Barclays did not consider the $0.50 a charge. He claimed per Wiki he was right as it was 1st purchase so he just made $0.50 charge ... there is 0 common sense in such behavior - wasted a HP to get the card, paid the $89 fee and got nothing - all because being so cheap to put only $0.50 on the card, and when there was no bonus, did not follow up to put another buck or so to the card ... talk about being penny-wise pound-foolish...
Couldn't he/she just make another charge today and get the 40K ? I don't see a time table like with other cards to make the purchase so it seems as if Barclay is saying his "first" purchase didn't count he could just buy something else.
I agree spending 50 cents was kind of dumb. The wording is a bit tricky and I suppose it could mean you have to buy something in the cycle in which the AF posts.
"Get 40,000 bonus miles after your first purchase and payment of the $89 annual fee '
"Bonus Dividend Miles: Forty thousand (40,000) bonus miles will be
awarded in the first billing cycle in which you have made a purchase or balance transfer (that is not later returned or rescinded) and your Annual Fee has been paid if applicable.