Citi AAdvantage - targeted offer
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Citi AAdvantage - targeted offer
I received email with a targeted offer for 60,000 miles for a new card. Problem is that I applied for the card and got a bonus a little over two years ago and closed the card a bit over a year ago. The offer said bonus miles not available if you received them in the last 48 months.
So I am pretty sure I am not eligible for the miles, but wondering if I am reading something wrong. Why would they send it if I am not able to get the miles?
So I am pretty sure I am not eligible for the miles, but wondering if I am reading something wrong. Why would they send it if I am not able to get the miles?
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Does the offer include a unique code to enter during the application process? If not, I think it is just an advertisement, not a targeted offer.
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Earn 60,000 American Airlines AAdvantage® bonus miles after making $3,000 in purchases within the first 3 months of account opening with the Citi® / AAdvantage® Platinum Select® World EliteTM Mastercard®.* The annual fee of $99 is waived for the first 12 months.†
Apply today using your non-transferable, exclusive invitation number #########. This number can be used one time to apply for this credit card offer. Offer expires 6/4/2020.
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Yes, it does contain an offer code. Which is what really baffles me... If it is really targeted they should know I am not eligible due to the 48 month limit on bonus miles.
Earn 60,000 American Airlines AAdvantage® bonus miles after making $3,000 in purchases within the first 3 months of account opening with the Citi® / AAdvantage® Platinum Select® World EliteTM Mastercard®.* The annual fee of $99 is waived for the first 12 months.†
Apply today using your non-transferable, exclusive invitation number #########. This number can be used one time to apply for this credit card offer. Offer expires 6/4/2020.
Earn 60,000 American Airlines AAdvantage® bonus miles after making $3,000 in purchases within the first 3 months of account opening with the Citi® / AAdvantage® Platinum Select® World EliteTM Mastercard®.* The annual fee of $99 is waived for the first 12 months.†
Apply today using your non-transferable, exclusive invitation number #########. This number can be used one time to apply for this credit card offer. Offer expires 6/4/2020.
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Yep - I put that in the original post - the fine print says 48 months. I am just wondering why they are "targeting" someone who is clearly not eligible.
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Yet another possibility is that Citi used to have no "months' language in their mailers but now have added it, and they decided to target you before they made the change to the mailer wording. Targeting often happens months before you actually get the targeted notice. I have had many cases at different banks where I got a targeted offer that was mailed a while after I had applied for a public offer for the very same card; that's because the targeted offers are put together well before they're mailed, so they decide to target me before I applied for the public offer, and they didn't check again when they were to mail me the targeted offer.
The point is, banks do lots of things which can make certain targeted offers make little sense to you. The banks only care about the aggregate, that a certain percentage of their targeted offers work. They don't care that much whether some subset of their targeted offers made no sense to the applicant. They don't care whether it wastes your time or my time, if it saved them some time in the back office to do less checking.