Beware Best Western Rewards credit card bonus points promotion
Feb 8, 2022, 2:47 pm
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Beware Best Western Rewards credit card bonus points promotion
On their website First National Bank of Omaha indicates when you use their co-branded Best Western Rewards card to meet a $5,000 spending threshold during the qualification period (first 12 billing cycles) you will receive 40,000 bonus points. After meeting the spending threshold during the first three billing cycles, I telephonically contacted the bank when these points did not post. I was advised that the fine print in the "Summary of Credit Terms" indicates that the bonus points would only be posted at the end of the qualification period (12 months) and the account must be open. In order for the account to be open at that point an additional $89 annual fee would have to had been paid. In effect to receive the additional 40,000 bonus points one would have to pay an additional $89 annual fee, this is not mentioned/stated anywhere on the bank's website. The bank's failure to state this material requirement needed to receive the bonus points is deliberate false advertising.
Mar 30, 2022, 6:03 pm
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On their website First National Bank of Omaha indicates when you use their co-branded Best Western Rewards card to meet a $5,000 spending threshold during the qualification period (first 12 billing cycles) you will receive 40,000 bonus points. After meeting the spending threshold during the first three billing cycles, I telephonically contacted the bank when these points did not post. I was advised that the fine print in the "Summary of Credit Terms" indicates that the bonus points would only be posted at the end of the qualification period (12 months) and the account must be open. In order for the account to be open at that point an additional $89 annual fee would have to had been paid. In effect to receive the additional 40,000 bonus points one would have to pay an additional $89 annual fee, this is not mentioned/stated anywhere on the bank's website. The bank's failure to state this material requirement needed to receive the bonus points is deliberate false advertising.
I got the 40,000 points, they posted before the next annual fee hit.