Dec 11, 2015, 9:31 am
Last edit by: IAD_flyer
Citi No Longer Allows Funding New Checking Accounts by CC as of 08-Feb-2016. Below information is historic.
1-800-745-1534 TO FUND
Cards that have been reported to NOT WORK
CitiBusiness® / AAdvantage Platinum Select World MasterCard - Will not load and loads as cash
Capital One
Barclay Priceline
Chase
Cards that have been report to WORK
Barclay Aviator
Citi AAdvantage
Citi Thank You Premier
BofA Travel card
BofA Alaska
1-800-745-1534 TO FUND
Cards that have been reported to NOT WORK
CitiBusiness® / AAdvantage Platinum Select World MasterCard - Will not load and loads as cash
Capital One
Barclay Priceline
Chase
Cards that have been report to WORK
Barclay Aviator
Citi AAdvantage
Citi Thank You Premier
BofA Travel card
BofA Alaska
Funding CitiGold (or other) account with credit card?
Dec 2, 2015, 9:33 am
#391
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 508
To meet the AA $1000 debit card requirement, has anyone just bought a $1000 MO and had that work fine and gone on to receive the Bonus? I finally got my Debit card today (after a month) so I bought a money order at Walmart, strange the terminal required a signature but not my pin number. I have already done my bill pays. Think I am good to go?
Dec 2, 2015, 10:18 am
#392
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 35
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I don't think I'll meet the Citigold minimum balance of $50K x 4 accounts to wave $30/mo fee, so how long does it take for the bonus miles to post? I believe a minimum of 2 months to meet the requirement and another 90 days or less after meeting the requirement. So that's $30x5=$150 per account. I read somewhere that the fee for the first 2 months are waved, but I don't that's really the case.
Did I get this right? Any suggestions?
TX
I don't think I'll meet the Citigold minimum balance of $50K x 4 accounts to wave $30/mo fee, so how long does it take for the bonus miles to post? I believe a minimum of 2 months to meet the requirement and another 90 days or less after meeting the requirement. So that's $30x5=$150 per account. I read somewhere that the fee for the first 2 months are waved, but I don't that's really the case.
Did I get this right? Any suggestions?
TX
So I am looking at minimum of 3 months fees, 3 x $30 = $90. Right?
Thanks
Dec 2, 2015, 10:25 am
#393
Community Director Emerita
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Anywhere warm
Posts: 33,745
This might be obvious to everyone but me. I learned I did the bill payments incorrectly. I used the ATM card number to do payments online. Oops, that was wrong. I was supposed to go into the checking account "payment and transfers" . On the right hand side, it says "add a bill pay payee". Once done, then the bill can be paid. This is the activity that has to be done on two consecutive months.
Dec 2, 2015, 10:48 am
#394
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 4,166
This might be obvious to everyone but me. I learned I did the bill payments incorrectly. I used the ATM card number to do payments online. Oops, that was wrong. I was supposed to go into the checking account "payment and transfers" . On the right hand side, it says "add a bill pay payee". Once done, then the bill can be paid. This is the activity that has to be done on two consecutive months.
Dec 2, 2015, 11:21 am
#395
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: ATL
Programs: DL, Marriott
Posts: 728
Lot of questions popping up about meeting $1000 spend. I haven't seen anything recently regarding if $1000 load via Serve at Walmart counts. I did this myself, and am waiting until my 2nd billpay hits tomorrow/this week before asking if I've met all the requirements, including the $1000 spend from loading my Serve account from my CG debit card. Will keep posted.
Dec 2, 2015, 2:23 pm
#396
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 236
Phone Rep Suggests Citi Credit Cards Now Coding As Cash Advance
I just got off the phone with CitiGold New Accounts to check the status of the credit card funding for my account. I attempted to fund with my AA Platinum Mastercard after lowering the cash advance limit to $0 and placing a large purchase notification on the account. The rep informed me the transaction failed and further stated that CitiGold always run the transaction as a purchase, but that multiple customers have recently reported Citi credit cards are now coding as cash advances and not purchases as before. She then suggested I not use a Citi credit card because of the cash advance. It's worth noting that the rep brought this up on her own without my prodding.
Can anyone else provide a data point from this week when attempting to fund with their Citi credit card (specifically mastercard)? Hopefully I was just unlucky and I'll have success on a second attempt.
Can anyone else provide a data point from this week when attempting to fund with their Citi credit card (specifically mastercard)? Hopefully I was just unlucky and I'll have success on a second attempt.
Dec 2, 2015, 2:27 pm
#397
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: SNA
Programs: AA EXP, Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Globalist, IHG Plat, Marriott Gold, National EE
Posts: 1,204
Did you talk to the Citi CC fraud dept? It is a totally different department than Citigold new accounts and it helps to pretend that they are two totally separate companies for the purposes of this offer.
Dec 2, 2015, 2:53 pm
#398
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 236
So you successfully funded your CitiGold account this week with a Citi mastercard? Was your cash advance limit set to $0 and not $1 or higher? I recall data points in this thread had indicated problems funding with Citi visa cards with the cash limit set to $0, but not mastercards.
Dec 2, 2015, 5:19 pm
#400
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: ORD
Posts: 835
This might be obvious to everyone but me. I learned I did the bill payments incorrectly. I used the ATM card number to do payments online. Oops, that was wrong. I was supposed to go into the checking account "payment and transfers" . On the right hand side, it says "add a bill pay payee". Once done, then the bill can be paid. This is the activity that has to be done on two consecutive months.
Dec 2, 2015, 6:41 pm
#402
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: STL
Programs: Hyatt Platinum, Hilton Gold
Posts: 521
This might be obvious to everyone but me. I learned I did the bill payments incorrectly. I used the ATM card number to do payments online. Oops, that was wrong. I was supposed to go into the checking account "payment and transfers" . On the right hand side, it says "add a bill pay payee". Once done, then the bill can be paid. This is the activity that has to be done on two consecutive months.
Dec 2, 2015, 7:05 pm
#403
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 476
Note- we tried twice with Thank you premier and both times didn't go through.
Dec 3, 2015, 6:19 am
#405
Join Date: Dec 2004
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titanium, UA Silver, Hilton Gold, Hertz Pres Circle
Posts: 1,509
Called Prestige card yesterday, advised them of incoming charge to fund account from Citi of 19k. Cash advance had already been set to 0 previously.
Called Citibank to fund card, got boilerplate spiel about how it could be coded as CA. Rep advised credit card transaction would take place between 0500-0530 this morning.
Checked this morning, I have pending 19k charge on my prestige card, no money in citigold account.
Will update when I know more.
Called Citibank to fund card, got boilerplate spiel about how it could be coded as CA. Rep advised credit card transaction would take place between 0500-0530 this morning.
Checked this morning, I have pending 19k charge on my prestige card, no money in citigold account.
Will update when I know more.