8,000 Points Chase AGR Credit Card Offer
Sep 22, 2007, 7:20 am
#46
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 11,377
Thanks for this number. I applied on the 10th, got the 30 days message like other people are reporting, and, as of today, I'm 'approved'. (Though it was still pending when I called on Thursday--and I applied on the 10th.)
Sep 22, 2007, 5:25 pm
#47
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: FLL
Programs: AA Gold 1MM
Posts: 1,212
Received the card today. The activation sticker did not want to come off. Left lots of sticky residue and some of the paper on the card. No AGR number, either.
Interestingly, I received new cards with new account numbers for my other MasterCard today as well. It seems my card number "was involved in a merchant data breach" but they are not allowed to disclose the merchant for "security reasons."
If I had pressed the guy I'm pretty sure either DHS or TSA would have come up as the "security reason."
Interestingly, I received new cards with new account numbers for my other MasterCard today as well. It seems my card number "was involved in a merchant data breach" but they are not allowed to disclose the merchant for "security reasons."
If I had pressed the guy I'm pretty sure either DHS or TSA would have come up as the "security reason."
Sep 22, 2007, 8:15 pm
#48
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 11,377
The ever-increasing practice of citing nebulous "security reasons" is most annoying.
Sep 22, 2007, 8:55 pm
#49
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: FLL
Programs: AA Gold 1MM
Posts: 1,212
All I wanted to know was which merchant so I could ponder what other data they might have had that could be in the hands of less-than-reputable people. The customer "service" rep kept insisting the only database affected was the one containing credit card numbers. No way my name, address, phone number could have possibly been involved. sigh.
Sep 25, 2007, 2:12 pm
#51
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 3,072
Oct 2, 2007, 1:30 pm
#52
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: PDX
Programs: United MP (Platinum), AS (75K), AA (GM)
Posts: 223
What's really bad/tacky is that there is actually a field for "member number" that is blank on the card. How hard could it have been to get the AGR number on it like they do for their other airline cards (e.g. Chase Mileage Plus Visa)?
Oct 4, 2007, 1:22 pm
#53
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: SFO
Programs: AC SE, AA EXP MM, UA Gold MM, Hyatt Glob, Marriott Titanium, HH Dia, IHG Plat
Posts: 4,777
I think the old MBNA card had the AGR number on it. Not impressed at all with the current lack of it, or with the 9-month gestation time for this new credit card.
Oct 7, 2007, 9:40 am
#54
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Washington, DC
Programs: UA Plat MM, AA Gold, Hyatt Explorist, Hilton Gold, IHG Plat, Marriott Titanium Elite
Posts: 5,015
Applied for my card on 9/13 and received it on 9/27 with no AGR number. But the sticker easily peeled off with no residue at all.
Oct 8, 2007, 8:42 am
#55
Suspended
Join Date: Nov 1999
Posts: 24,153
I applied for this CC months ago when AGR emailed me about the 8k and preapproval for it. As of yet I havent received it nor heard anything about it.
Has anyone who also signed up back when received their CC? As a fee free CC and a World CC to boot, it should cover my CDW in a few countries where only a World MC CC will.
Has anyone who also signed up back when received their CC? As a fee free CC and a World CC to boot, it should cover my CDW in a few countries where only a World MC CC will.
Oct 8, 2007, 9:40 am
#56
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: MSY
Programs: BA GfL
Posts: 5,926
As far as I understand, the e-mail you received way back then was not an actual application, just a sign-up form to "pre-register", whatever that means. I only got an e-mail asking me to officially apply for the card in mid-September--I did this online and have received the card already.
Oct 8, 2007, 9:46 pm
#57
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: NYP forever
Programs: Amtrak Guest Rewards SelectPlus
Posts: 89
What good exactly does it do us to have the number on the card? Select and Select Plus membership can change from year to year, so you still need the regular AGR card. Amtrak's database knows when you use the credit card what your number is. What's so important about having the number on the card?
Oct 9, 2007, 8:58 am
#58
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: FLL
Programs: AA Gold 1MM
Posts: 1,212
What good exactly does it do us to have the number on the card? Select and Select Plus membership can change from year to year, so you still need the regular AGR card. Amtrak's database knows when you use the credit card what your number is. What's so important about having the number on the card?
He was OK looking at the MBNA credit card already in his hand with the number printed on it. If he had still refused I just would have called reservations immediately after ticketing and asked them to put it on the record, hopefully within earshot of the guy. 
Oct 9, 2007, 9:14 am
#59
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: PDX
Programs: United MP (Platinum), AS (75K), AA (GM)
Posts: 223
What good exactly does it do us to have the number on the card? Select and Select Plus membership can change from year to year, so you still need the regular AGR card. Amtrak's database knows when you use the credit card what your number is. What's so important about having the number on the card?
Oct 9, 2007, 2:58 pm
#60
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: NYP forever
Programs: Amtrak Guest Rewards SelectPlus
Posts: 89
Ticket agents not infrequently forget to put my number on my ticket even when I put the AGR card right into their hands, and sometimes even when I mention it to them. I don't know what the answer is...