Originally Posted by
joe_miami
This entire ordeal boils down to people who were well aware of Citi’s AA bonus restrictions doing things to evade said restrictions. For at least the past two years, which seems to be the timeframe being used by AA, nobody innocently clicked links they saw at AA or Citi, got bonus after bonus for the same card, and then suddenly woke up one day to find their AA account locked or terminated.
This thread is two months old and over 2,000 comments long, and there still hasn’t been a single claim of someone being shut down by AA without having gotten duplicate bonuses for the same card.
But what's the big difference between innocently clicking links they saw at AA or Citi, versus innocently using a mailer
directly addressed to them?
(Or to be more specific, innocently clicked one link at AA or Citi, got one bonus,
then got two mailers
directly addressed to them, applied for both, and got a bonus on both. And thus actually a "mix" of these two "innocent" behaviors.)
Because there is at least one (if not more?) datapoints of this "mix".