Anyone activating a recently received emailer card and or applying for another before the Dec 11(actually10th) apply by date?

I just received a mailer for an AA biz card with a 9 digit code and 48 month language. Is this really enforced? Was anyone successful in receiving the bonus on this card?

Data points suggest they do enforce the 48 month rule on these.

Anyway to see when a past card was opened? I have a CitiBiz card still open, but I can't remember when I opened it.

I got one in early Nov. Was approved with another emailer in early Oct, and just now hopped on the train again with instant approval.

The shutdown rumors were about aadvantage accounts not Citi cards. Citi is a pita with in store purchases, won't even let them through if you pre-warned them.

Citi keeps a running account of where they experience the most fraud. If you think they were paranoid about a purchase at Crate and Barrel, just try buying $1K in VGCs from CVS, You'll be on the phone with their fraud department for at least half an hour. And even then, when they tell you the purchase has been approved, and try to redo it right away, you have a 50% chance of having the purchase denied again. :(

I know - there's a reason I'm doing my citi MS exclusively at GC.com. 2K online with a brand new account in one txn - no problemo.

"you have a 50% chance of having the purchase denied again" in my experience (although it's been a few years) - more like 100%
If Citi ever moves like Amex to not counting online GC purchases towards the SUB MS, I'm out. Amex I can do several K at my Safeway 500 at a time without a glitch.

First of all, doesn't it say 48 months since the last sign-up bonus, rather than 48 months since opened (like the public offers now do)? If so, then you need to wait closer to about 52 months since it was opened. (And in case you had to fight for your bonus for some reason, it might have taken even longer! :eek:)

Second, you can see when a past card was opened or when you got the signup bonus that far back if you have something you kept about it: statements, emails, etc. If you kept absolutely nothing, since you still have it open, you can try calling up Citi and asking them. (Citi is not likely to tell you over the phone about when closed cards were opened, but it is more likely to tell you over the phone when a still-open card was first opened.)

AA itself only lets you see your activity (including signup bonuses) going back 2 years, so it doesn't help if your bonus was further back and you never kept captures of those activity reports before. If you think your bonus may have been less than 2 years ago, go to AA.com right now, and capture all your activity for the past two years, and if it's there.

And, obviously, from on, keep track of all of this stuff yourself, since you never know what the rules may be in a few more years.

What's the latest DPs on offer matches? I just got approved on a 50k emailed code, and USPS daily digest says I have a 75k offer coming in the mail....of course addressed to one of my dogs :) Anyone got a match from this recently?

I got a written rejection in the mail stating that the offer I will receive can not be substituted.

Matching is dead.

That 75k offer is for a business card. And matching has been dead for many months.

Ok thanks. I'll give it a go anyway we'll see what the paper mailer looks like anyway. It could be a 48mo language type of deal.

NVM, it turned out to be a crappy biz offer with 48-mo language.