Citi Advantage and VR
 

I went through many posts and I couldn't find anything relating to Citi Advantage MC and VR. I want to use this card to buy a $500 VR to meet a 1000 spend.Will Citi allow using the card to buy the VR?

Citi Platinum Select Mastercard. 30,000 miles after $1k spend in 3 months. $95 annual fee, waived 1st year.

If it's just one 500 VR, the only problem I can see is the fraud alert/block if it's a brand new card with no or few transactions. I had no problem with the visa or amex version.

Depends on your CL, citi might not approve if they feel the transaction is risky.

How would they 'not allow it'?

no problems with my new AA Visa, multiple VRs, only the citi stepped in quite quickly to close my first statement (2 day range) as I was ramping up my spend to get to $2.5k, spend met within a week, statement generated with $1.5k

Spent over $20K in VRs using my Citi AA Visa, MC, Amex and Citi Biz cards..
No issues...

20 on each or all?

Citi Advantage MC
 

I just got it a week ago already put over $200,I figure to use the VR to achieve my early spend .I'm looking to get the spend within the first month of the 3 month requirement .

I've used both Citi AA Visa and AMEX cards to buy VRs (2 each per month) for the past 3 months. The only issue I had was the first time, when I received a fraud alert on each card. After that was resolved, there have been no problems.

I have the Citi AAdvantage Premium card (bonus of 50k) - i put about 3-5k each month on it using VRs. Have yet to hear from anyone.

Over 10K on each card...

citi advantage mc and a VR
 

I purchased a VR with my Citi and was denied (fraud alert) I called Citi and spoke to a live operator .She apologized for the trouble.She asked me some security questions and recent purchases and reset the card. I went back into
CVS and everything is good .Yeah!

Just remember that 2 or so months ago, you could have got lots of similar reports of success from Thank You Preferred (5x) users on all their VR/GC spend!

It might be that Citi cares less about this, because the cost is shared with AA, and it's 1x rather than 5, or it might be that THEY (whoever they are) haven't started paying attention to this yet.

Citi does not share the costs of issuing miles with AA; banks purchase miles from airlines in billion dollar contracts upfront. Most issuers don't care about manufactured spending. The concern is that your card might have been stolen and the thief is trying to buy VRs before the card is shut down. Fraud costs way more than manufactured spend.

OK, but Citi is closing lots of the TYP accounts (along with all other Citi cards the cardholder has) so clearly, at least in that instance, they do care.