Originally Posted by
heraclitus
MBNA will know if the bonus points have been deposited yet. Ask them if they have been deposited yet (perhaps they set up a new BW Rewards account?)
If not, I'd recommend setting up your own BW Rewards account, then call MBNA and tell them you want to link it to your credit card. It should work. I recently got a MBNA BW that for some reason wasn't associated with my BW Rewards... I had to call in and link the two accounts and the bonus points were promptly deposited by MBNA.
Good luck, let us know how it goes.
I called MBNA back and got my Best Western account # added to the account. As strange as it sounds, they open up a Best Western affiliated credit card without asking for (or creating) a Best Western rewards account from the cardholder.
It's going to be a couple of months, or longer, before know whether the bonus points posted. But once they post, I will report back here - maybe by April.