[QUOTE=ecatalina;30924384]Interesting, can you link to DPs of the above not working? I haven't heard of this for BoA yet.
No DPs, sorry. I'ts just common sense. If you want to ignore it at your possible peril (in which case if you report back you'll maybe be the first datapoiint), be my guest.

There are unfortunately not enough datapoints about anything BofA generated fast enough to keep with how fast BofA seems to changing policies the last year or two. That's evident for poor rates of detailed datapoints about applications, and there are way fewer datapoints about spending. than about applications.

BofA is continuing to adopt various policies that seem patterned after other banks, with no warning and no announcement. And since some other banks to put red flags on "excessive" gift card buying, how do you know that BofA won't do that tomorrow (or didn't already do it since any last possible datapoint)?

Meanwhile, there have been some datapoints in the past about Alaska locking accounts with only credit card signups, no other earning. So I would recommend if someone isn't dong any paid Alaska flights, they might want to sign up, for example, for Alaska MileagePlan Dining and use that a bit their new card, just to make it seem to Alaska that they're not earning Alaska miles solely from credit card signups. (Or any other way of creating "other" earnings on their Alaska account should be fine also.)