May 17, 2013, 11:04 pm
Last edit by: beltway
- What are the most current working links?
- Is this card churnable?
- How frequently can I apply for these cards?
- Do I have to close my previous card before reapplying?
- I got the 60K card and bonus but when I finished the spend on my second 60K card I did not get the bonus. What happened?
[1] What are the most current working links?
There is a standard offer for 50K points after $1K spend in 4 months. (No landing page is available for this offer; lnik taken from wiki for http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/citi-...amex-citi.html.)
There are no known 60K offers available. The most recent one expired in late September 2014.
[2] Is this card churnable?
In the past, this card has been easily churnable. However, in December 2014 Citi began inserting language into some applications and landing pages disqualifying current Hilton Visa cardholders & requiring an 18-month wait from the date of the previous card's cancellation. The application link listed above does not include this restriction, and FTers have confirmed that they have been approved through this application despite being current or recent holders of another Citi Hilton card.
[3] How frequently can I apply for these cards?
You can only apply for ONE Citi card in a week or TWO in two months (60 days). To be safe, it is frequently suggested to wait 8+ days between ANY two Citi applications and 65+ days until your third Citi application of ANY kind. These are rolling dates, so you have to wait at least 60 days (65+) from your second application to your 4th applications, and so forth.
If math is not your strong suit, you can use: http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html.
Example:
Day 0 - Citi HHonors Card #1
Day 8 - Citi AA Personal Card
Day 65 - Citi AA Business Card
Day 73 - Citi HHonors Card #2
Day 130 - Citi TY Card
[4] Do I have to close my previous card before reapplying?
Not if you use the application link above. As stated above, in December 2014 Citi began introducing new application pages requiring an 18-month wait since cancellation of the prior card.
Note that when you close an account, Citi may not "free up" the credit limit from that card for as long as 6 months. So if you're going to apply within 6 months, it's better to not cancel beforehand.
[5] I got the 60K card and bonus but when I finished the spend on my second 60K card I did not get the bonus. What happened?
There appears to be a problem with Citi crediting you with both bonuses but Hilton not crediting the second bonus because their system sees it as a duplicate.
You need to open up a case, preferably with Hilton, and explain that you have two separate cards (feel free to explain one is for business and one for personal if they ask why you have multiple cards and you feel like explaining). You also need to diligently check back with them and make sure that they do not close the case as you already got the bonus.
This is very much a YMMV situation. Depending on who you talk to and where, this can be a relatively short process or a particularly unpleasant and long one. Best advice: Be nice to the CSRs and get them on your side or HUACA until you find someone useful.
For some people it may be worth getting the 50K card instead, possibly trying to "bump the bonus" to 60K and getting it as a 10K adjustment instead.
Citi Hilton HHonors Visa [2011-2014]
Oct 2, 2012, 1:21 pm
#916
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: NYC
Posts: 186
Called 866 606-2787 this afternoon. I was only asked one question -- why I was applying for 2 cards. I told him one was mostly for purchases for my wife, the other for me. Both were approved on the spot.
Oct 2, 2012, 7:23 pm
#917
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,933
This is not necessarily true. Here is a hypothetical scenario:
My suspicion is, something like that happens for the rare occasions when people swear they opened the higher offer but later receive the lower offer.
Just closing the browser and reopening it won't generally clear a cookie. But InPrivate will explicitly ignore anything from previous sessions.
- The best offer is 40k. You open it in IE thinking you'll apply. This saves the "cookie" in your browser.
- At the last second, you decide to wait and close the browser.
- Then you see a 50k offer and open it in IE.
- The cookie from your original visit is still in memory, and for some reason it overrides the higher application amount.
My suspicion is, something like that happens for the rare occasions when people swear they opened the higher offer but later receive the lower offer.
Just closing the browser and reopening it won't generally clear a cookie. But InPrivate will explicitly ignore anything from previous sessions.
So my question is:
How can you use InPrivate to do two apps at the same time (filling them out concurrently), keeping them both independent of each other, and keeping both of them independent of your previous sessions? The previous poster only suggested InPrivate as a method to keep the cookies out of the non-InPrivatge session. If you open InPrivate, and then open another tab in the InPrivate window, are the cookies from the two InPrivate tabs in the same window kept from each other? (That is what using two completely different types of browsers does.) Or do you have to go back to the original browser and open a second InPrivate window to accomplish this?
(In my case, I tend to my app page research at work, and the actual apps at home, so I tend not to have visisted other app pages on either of my browsers at home before applying for whatever I really want to apply for.)
Oct 2, 2012, 11:25 pm
#918
Moderator: Chase Ultimate Rewards
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: SFO
Programs: UA 2P, MR LT Plat, IHG Plat, BW Dia, HH Au, Avis PC
Posts: 5,454
If you handle the situation that way, it may take a little more effort, but you have the best chance of success.
Oct 5, 2012, 9:20 am
#919
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 1
Could you share your experiences on how long it took for the 50,000 points to post to your Hilton Honors account once you completed your $1500 spend?
Oct 5, 2012, 10:26 am
#920
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 1,433
Open two inprivate windows (not tabs). Go back to your non-inprivate window and repeat the same process as you used to open your first one, to open a second one. tools ->inprivate browsing.
Now you have two windows that are independent of one another.
It's easy to test. Login to your gmail account on one, and click remember password. Go to gmail.com on the other. It will have no clue who you are.
On the other hand, you can do one app in inprivate and on app out of inprivate too. That was the original objective -- to separate the apps. If you have a reason you want two inprivate apps instead, you can follow the above.
Now you have two windows that are independent of one another.
It's easy to test. Login to your gmail account on one, and click remember password. Go to gmail.com on the other. It will have no clue who you are.
On the other hand, you can do one app in inprivate and on app out of inprivate too. That was the original objective -- to separate the apps. If you have a reason you want two inprivate apps instead, you can follow the above.
But the person who suggest InPrivate was only suggesting for the second app. So in their scenario (open IE, do the first app normally, open InPriveate, do the second app), the same potential issue you suggested would happen for the first app.
So my question is:
How can you use InPrivate to do two apps at the same time (filling them out concurrently), keeping them both independent of each other, and keeping both of them independent of your previous sessions? The previous poster only suggested InPrivate as a method to keep the cookies out of the non-InPrivatge session. If you open InPrivate, and then open another tab in the InPrivate window, are the cookies from the two InPrivate tabs in the same window kept from each other? (That is what using two completely different types of browsers does.) Or do you have to go back to the original browser and open a second InPrivate window to accomplish this?
(In my case, I tend to my app page research at work, and the actual apps at home, so I tend not to have visisted other app pages on either of my browsers at home before applying for whatever I really want to apply for.)
So my question is:
How can you use InPrivate to do two apps at the same time (filling them out concurrently), keeping them both independent of each other, and keeping both of them independent of your previous sessions? The previous poster only suggested InPrivate as a method to keep the cookies out of the non-InPrivatge session. If you open InPrivate, and then open another tab in the InPrivate window, are the cookies from the two InPrivate tabs in the same window kept from each other? (That is what using two completely different types of browsers does.) Or do you have to go back to the original browser and open a second InPrivate window to accomplish this?
(In my case, I tend to my app page research at work, and the actual apps at home, so I tend not to have visisted other app pages on either of my browsers at home before applying for whatever I really want to apply for.)
Oct 5, 2012, 10:39 am
#921
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 361
I want to apply for two of these cards, but I need some help.
I currently have 4 Citi personal cards (2 AA, 1 Forward, and I'm an AU on another) and 1 Citi AA Business card. I think if I apply for these two, I'll get denied for having too many Citi cards.
What do you think my best course of action would be? Should I close my AA personal AMEX or the AA Business card? Or do you think they will just let me shift credit around?
I currently have 4 Citi personal cards (2 AA, 1 Forward, and I'm an AU on another) and 1 Citi AA Business card. I think if I apply for these two, I'll get denied for having too many Citi cards.
What do you think my best course of action would be? Should I close my AA personal AMEX or the AA Business card? Or do you think they will just let me shift credit around?
Oct 5, 2012, 1:36 pm
#923
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: ECP
Programs: DL Diamond
Posts: 1,658
Will 2 Citi Apps of different kinds (AA biz and HH personal) consolidate to 1 inquiry or only 2 of the same type?
Oct 5, 2012, 2:24 pm
#925
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 4,431
I applied for 2x Citi HH cards via OP's link last week and was instantly approved for both. The site linked doesn't explicitly say 50K pts for $1500/6 mo spend, but people seem to be confirming this. Anyway, When I log into my HH website, there's an icon with "my" Citi HH card saying that I can get 40K pts with it. I haven't gotten my physical CC yet, but I'm worried that my card will only get me 40K rather than 50K pts. Anybody else notice this on their HH account?
Oct 5, 2012, 5:16 pm
#926
Moderator: Chase Ultimate Rewards
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Keep in mind, if you close an account, that credit line does not necessarily become available for another card immediately. So you might cause as many problems as you solve, if you cancel proactively.
Oct 7, 2012, 2:56 pm
#927
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 361
Edit: I tried and MDtr-Chicago, you were right. I was approved for my first one and then the CSR had to reallocate some of my credit from another card. Thanks for the help!
I read that these Hilton cards are churnable every 90 days. Is that still true or are they like the AA cards and I need to wait ~18months?
Last edited by fr33b13; Oct 7, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Oct 8, 2012, 9:58 am
#928
Join Date: May 2011
Location: North California
Programs: DL
Posts: 9
I am trying to figure out the best offer available for both the Amex and Citi brand of the Hilton Honors credit card. Can someone post the links to the very best offers one can get for these cards? Some sort of link consolidation would be great, I think. Thanks.
Oct 8, 2012, 10:05 am
#929
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Posts: 2,998
Did you look at the initial post in each of the 2 threads?
Oct 8, 2012, 10:10 am
#930
Join Date: May 2011
Location: North California
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Posts: 9
I actually did. But, in this thread, for example, the link given in the first post:
https://www.citicards.com/cards/acq/...BN3dPJB8bEAPl2
takes you to an application with no mention of any sort of bonus in it. It would be a big leap of faith for me to apply for a credit card where I don't even see the bonus in the application.
https://www.citicards.com/cards/acq/...BN3dPJB8bEAPl2
takes you to an application with no mention of any sort of bonus in it. It would be a big leap of faith for me to apply for a credit card where I don't even see the bonus in the application.