Just got an e-mail from Aeroplan re CIBC promo. Fine print says PC does not qualify.

Quote:
(iv) While the account from which you will transfer PATs and the Old Account can be two different accounts, neither can be a CIBC or CIBC affiliate account (e.g., President's Choice FinancialTM1 accounts are excluded); they must also be traditional branch-based personal bank accounts from which CIBC Express Switch can transfer PATs and account balances.

TD told me ING doesn't qualify because they don't consider it their competition.

More to the point, I think, they don't offer chequing accounts (and the iPod offer is specific that you have to close a Personal Chequing Account). So the same would apply for Amex Bank of Canada.

PC Financial would probably qualify because it's a chequing account and because it's not owned/run by TD.

Although the Shuffle is easy to get (close and transfer a PCA and set up 2 auto-payments) I'm not going to bother. In fact the internal cheatsheet I saw says that they would recognize two existing auto-payments from a TD account!

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Has anyone tried icici Bank (www.icicibank.ca)? They're offering a no-fee PCA for 4.5% which is better than ING's 4.25% and PCFinancial's 4.0%.

They also offer no-fee business accounts which are paying 4.0% right now, better than ING at 3.5% (ignoring the 4.25% rate at ING until Aug 31/07).

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Anyone know...
 

..how long u need to keep the account open to qualify...couldnt find it in T&C's, and one poster says 3 months another says 4...please help.