Originally Posted by
Stgermainparis
I have a new UA card and have a question about the SUB. I've got 3 months to spend $4k, which is not a problem. But I was about to use the card to book a hotel room that's $1k that I may end up canceling in July. As long as I've spent an additional 1k+ by the time I got that 1k refund, am I good? I know I need to keep it over 4k to be safe, but just trying to figure out if it matters that the refund would be for something in the first 3 months (even though I eventually spent another 1k). Hope this makes sense.
The best advice in a situation like is to "show good faith". Ie, do the extra 1k spend as soon as you can, but yes, of course, hopefully no later than the refund might happen.
Since this is what seems to be recommended to everyone on FT who asks, but we don't typically get datapoints about whether people followed that advice (and later reports of what did and didn't happen), all we can say is presumably most people do that, and presumably that's why we don't have constant reports of SUBs getting clawed back because of refunds. So presumably "good faith" efforts work well enough.