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Old Nov 19, 2013, 6:07 pm
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All offers are expired/dead as of March 31, 2017

AA: https://scs.fidelity.com/other/offer...shtml?MSC=AA01

United: https://scs.fidelity.com/other/offer...shtml?MSC=UA01

Delta: https://scs.fidelity.com/other/offer...on_delta.shtml


Update as of May 21, 2014 - in recent weeks some people have reported being told that they are no longer eligible for this offer, in spite of meeting the previous terms and conditions. Some Fidelity representatives are saying that these offers are targeted. Note the bold words in the the terms and conditions below - "Other terms and conditions may apply."

The funds or securities must stay in the account for 9 months
The offer may be repeated every 365 days if the terms were met (rolling 12 months)
The funds may not already be in a Fidelity account, but must be sourced from elsewhere

If you are moving funds or securities out of Fidelity, with intent to move it back to claim this bonus, members have recommended to keep the funds/securities out for at least 3 months to avoid risk of losing eligibility for the deposit. Some have been told unofficially by advisers 30 days. YMMV.

Members who have pulled funds/deposits out within 9 months have reported they were allowed to keep the miles, but were banned for life from being able to repeat the offer.

Added September 26, 2016:

Any withdrawals from the account during the qualification period will count against the total deposited. This includes dividends upon you may dependent to live. So be sure to transfer assets whose value covers the minimum you need plus any you might withdraw during those 60 days.

It is strongly suggested you register for the offer you want by calling Fidelity's Promotion Department at (800)544-5315, as the online registration has been flaky in the past. Also, if you have high net worth, a "High Net Worth supervisor" may be able to help - simply call the Premium Services number on your account statement to find someone who has the power to do most anything. Get the name and phone number of the person you spoke with and ask him or her to note in your account that you have been approved, and by whom. Then, if after you transfer assets you get an email saying you are not eligible for the offer for which you registered (yes, this has happened), call the rep again, asking to read the notes on your account. You will probably be told that the email was automated and was sent in error and that they will hand babysit the funding and resultant miles.

If the registration page tells you are not eligible because you have had the offer before, call one of the above numbers. You are eligible after on year. That year probably starts counting when the miles are awarded, not when you register or when you add assets.

Trusts require extra caution on their part. Sometimes they require that you give them a lot of paperwork for trusts. If you have a local Fidelity office, just bring in everything required and they will copy and mail it for you. Easy. Otherwise, just mail it in. If upon trying to register online you are informed that your Revocable Living Trust account is not eligible, well, just call one of the above numbers, because it is eligible. They just have to verify a few things and then override the system. They want to know that you are the only trustee and the only beneficiary.


From the Terms and Conditions page:

Promotional Offer Rules:

This promotional offer is only available to new or existing Fidelity brokerage account customers opening or depositing net new assets into a joint or individual nonretirement Fidelity Account®. Net new assets are defined as an individual’s external new money in minus money out, including distributions and transfers.

This offer expires September 30, 2014, and is not transferable or valid in conjunction with any other Fidelity promotional offer. Fidelity Investments reserves the right to modify, change, or alter the terms and conditions of the promotional offer in its sole discretion at any time. Fidelity Investments may terminate this promotional offer at any time. Other terms and conditions may apply.

Promotional offers are limited to one per individual per rolling 12 months.
The promotion is not available for business accounts; trust accounts; mutual fund only accounts; retirement accounts, including, among others, Fidelity IRA, Roth IRA, SEP, and SIMPLE accounts; 401(k) and 403(b) workplace retirement plans; fiduciary accounts (including custodial accounts, estate accounts); 529 college savings plan accounts (i.e. college investment trust accounts); Fidelity accounts managed by Strategic Advisers, Inc. (for example, Portfolio Advisory Services); Institutional Wealth Services (IWS) clients; clients of registered investment advisors working with Fidelity Investments; annuities; and Stock Plan Services accounts. Offer is not valid for non-U.S. residents; persons affiliated with FINRA, a securities exchange or its members; employees of Fidelity, its affiliates, and members of their immediate families and households; or the media.

Certain states and local jurisdictions have laws that limit or restrict public employees from accepting items of value from vendors such as Fidelity that provide services to public institutions. Some public entities such as governments, state universities, health care organizations, etc., also have internal policies that may contain similar restrictions. If you are a public official or employee, you should determine if one of these laws or internal policies applies to you. By accepting this incentive, we assume that you are in compliance with your jurisdiction's laws and institution's internal policies.

Transferred assets will be valued, for the purposes of determining eligibility for this promotional offer, at the close of business Eastern time on the business day or next business day, if on a weekend day or holiday, following receipt by Fidelity Investments of the assets into the account that is eligible for the promotional offer. Funding must come from an external, non-Fidelity source via any standard monetary transfer method (a standard Transfer of Assets form, check, electronic funds transfer, ADM deposit, etc.). Please allow eight weeks from the funding of the eligible account, with the qualifying dollar amount of assets, for American Airlines AAdvantage® miles to be posted to your AAdvantage® account. Your Fidelity Account® must remain open with the qualifying funding for six months from the date that the qualifying assets are first received in the eligible account.

New accounts must be opened within 30 days of registering for the offer. Additional deposits to the eligible Fidelity account may earn you a higher mileage award provided the result is that the cumulative assets meet or exceed the next eligibility tier (up to a maximum of 50,000 AAdvantage® miles). For new accounts, initial and subsequent deposits must be made within 60 days of Fidelity account opening. For new money deposited into existing accounts, all deposits must be made within 60 days of registering for the offer.
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Old May 7, 2012, 3:36 pm
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HELP. I am battling it out with Fidelity but I want your opinion. I had extra cash lying around in the Fidelity account, I withdrew some and then deposited $100K for the UA bonus. Now they are saying they will deduct the withdrawal from the deposit. Why? It was my extra money lying around. If not for the bonus I wouldn't give them the $100K. Thoughts?
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Old May 7, 2012, 3:49 pm
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Originally Posted by ferrarifan77
HELP. I am battling it out with Fidelity but I want your opinion. I had extra cash lying around in the Fidelity account, I withdrew some and then deposited $100K for the UA bonus. Now they are saying they will deduct the withdrawal from the deposit. Why? It was my extra money lying around. If not for the bonus I wouldn't give them the $100K. Thoughts?
Uh, could you sketch out a brief timeline by date (including when you signed up) as well as what caused you (or them) to inititate the contact?

Were you patient with waiting after sign-up a few weeks for additional points to stagger in, or did you violate Rule #1 and attract persional attention to your account?
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Old May 7, 2012, 3:54 pm
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post 123

I don't believe that Post 123 proves cycling is dead. There could have been other reasons for the e-mail, including putting in the wrong FF#, accidently saying you worked in an excluded sector on the application page, etc. And as others have pointed out, sometimes that e-mail means nothing and the miles will post.

Take anything a CSR says with a grain of salt for those who insist on contacting a CSR. Reading the rules to a customer on the phone (and talking out of your *** to them), and understanding the mysterious ways of Fido's coding are two tottaly differnet things.

Folks, you have MONTHS to meet the terms of the airline promos-- be patient on miles posting in a delayed manner and not all at the same time for a bit before calling a CSR and ensuring your account is going to get "individualized" attention.
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Old May 7, 2012, 5:55 pm
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Originally Posted by Ducati
See Post #123 above.
This is addressed in my post which you quoted. A few people have been receiving the "there was a problem crediting your account" email for months now. This is nothing new. The bottom line is that Fidelity never intended for funds to be cycled to meet the bonus thresholds, but their system allowed it nonetheless. It does seem that accounts which have been signed up for a bonus are receiving additional scrutiny, however, I have seen no indication that the system has been re-programmed to not allow cycling. That includes post 123.
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Old May 7, 2012, 7:36 pm
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Originally Posted by ferrarifan77
HELP. I am battling it out with Fidelity but I want your opinion. I had extra cash lying around in the Fidelity account, I withdrew some and then deposited $100K for the UA bonus. Now they are saying they will deduct the withdrawal from the deposit. Why? It was my extra money lying around. If not for the bonus I wouldn't give them the $100K. Thoughts?
Don't the T & Cs specify that the bonus is for adding new money to an existing account? I think that's the issue. I bet it has nothing at all to do with your earlier bonus. They want a net addition of 100K to justify giving out the bonus, not money they already had from you that you pulled to re-add. If you could show them that you had moved the money out with plans to invest it permanently elsewhere before you learned about this bonus, you might have a shot. They want to know they are getting 100K they would not have otherwise had.
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Old May 7, 2012, 7:43 pm
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I received my apple GC triple dip !!!

Dear flyertalkers,

I bring with me some good news regarding whether apple GC double\triple dip is still available. Below are my data points:

03/23 Received 50 UA points after funding 100K
03/28 Funded my account with 50K to a total of 150K
03/31 50K Delta points credited (transaction date)
04/02 50K Delta points appears on my delta account
04/02 Applied for the apple offer with no futher funding
05/07 Received $300 apple GC today in UPS express envelope

So my triple dip was a success eventhough I signed up for the apple offer on 04/02 after Fido changed their terms. Now, I must say my experience might be a little different from other flyertalker in which I didn't get an ineligible email from fidelity nor did I get an email notification from Fido that I will soon receive my apple GC. There was absolutely no communication from Fido regarding the apple GC offer.

I have another account where I have done the double dip with apple (sign-up date 04/16. I will report my data point if I receive my apple GC for that account.
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Old May 7, 2012, 8:01 pm
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I signed up april 4th with UA then same day added delta. I received the invalid offer for UA. So far cycled 40k , didnt receive anything?

Does anyone know if I will get anything?
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Old May 7, 2012, 8:17 pm
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Originally Posted by ascg
I signed up april 4th with UA then same day added delta. I received the invalid offer for UA. So far cycled 40k , didnt receive anything?

Does anyone know if I will get anything?
After April 1st, you can't double dip on airline points anymore. If you sign up for UA only then you will get UA points. In your case, you signed up for UA and Delta offers too close to each other and it seems like your delta offer has "overtaken/encroached" on your UA offer. My best guess is you will receive your delta points and not your UA points. If you don't know what the so called "overtaken/encroached" is, there's plenty of example of this in the previous Fido thread.
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Old May 7, 2012, 10:11 pm
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Originally Posted by windcloud5
Dear flyertalkers,

I bring with me some good news regarding whether apple GC double\triple dip is still available. Below are my data points:

03/23 Received 50 UA points after funding 100K
03/28 Funded my account with 50K to a total of 150K
03/31 50K Delta points credited (transaction date)
04/02 50K Delta points appears on my delta account
04/02 Applied for the apple offer with no futher funding
05/07 Received $300 apple GC today in UPS express envelope

So my triple dip was a success eventhough I signed up for the apple offer on 04/02 after Fido changed their terms. Now, I must say my experience might be a little different from other flyertalker in which I didn't get an ineligible email from fidelity nor did I get an email notification from Fido that I will soon receive my apple GC. There was absolutely no communication from Fido regarding the apple GC offer.

I have another account where I have done the double dip with apple (sign-up date 04/16. I will report my data point if I receive my apple GC for that account.
Ok. Congrats on your gift card. But this thread is about miles. You should post your experience in the other Fidelity thread in the SPAM forum:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/s-p-m...rds-etc-2.html.
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Old May 7, 2012, 10:24 pm
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Originally Posted by Manila Flyer
This is addressed in my post which you quoted. A few people have been receiving the "there was a problem crediting your account" email for months now. This is nothing new. The bottom line is that Fidelity never intended for funds to be cycled to meet the bonus thresholds, but their system allowed it nonetheless. It does seem that accounts which have been signed up for a bonus are receiving additional scrutiny, however, [b]I have seen no indication that the system has been re-programmed to not allow cycling./b] That includes post 123.
Post 123 explicitly explains why Mrs. OP didn't get the miles. How much clearer can it get? Acct created in mid-April; money cycled; received disqualifying notification in May; and the CSR explains the situation.
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Old May 7, 2012, 11:12 pm
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Originally Posted by Ducati
Ok. Congrats on your gift card. But this thread is about miles. You should post your experience in the other Fidelity thread in the SPAM forum:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/s-p-m...rds-etc-2.html.
Actually his post is also about miles. And there are other people interested in his experience, you are not the only person reading this thread.
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Old May 7, 2012, 11:31 pm
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Originally Posted by Ducati
Post 123 explicitly explains why Mrs. OP didn't get the miles. How much clearer can it get? Acct created in mid-April; money cycled; received disqualifying notification in May; and the CSR explains the situation.
Are you aware that there have been cases of exactly this happening previously prior to the recent changes in the terms of these offers? This is nothing new and doesn't prove anything one way or another re: cycling of funds.
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Old May 8, 2012, 12:33 am
  #148  
 
Join Date: Mar 2012
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Originally Posted by windcloud5
After April 1st, you can't double dip on airline points anymore. If you sign up for UA only then you will get UA points. In your case, you signed up for UA and Delta offers too close to each other and it seems like your delta offer has "overtaken/encroached" on your UA offer. My best guess is you will receive your delta points and not your UA points. If you don't know what the so called "overtaken/encroached" is, there's plenty of example of this in the previous Fido thread.
thats what I think happened. Should I call them because I rather united points
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Old May 8, 2012, 9:43 am
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Originally Posted by ioananv
Actually his post is also about miles. And there are other people interested in his experience, you are not the only person reading this thread.
Really? Where do you see that his post is about miles? The poster does mention receiving UA/Delta miles in March (no longer relevant since double dipping of miles is no longer feasible), but that wasn't the point of his post.

Originally Posted by windcloud5
Dear flyertalkers,

I bring with me some good news regarding whether apple GC double\triple dip is still available. Below are my data points:

03/23 Received 50 UA points after funding 100K
03/28 Funded my account with 50K to a total of 150K
03/31 50K Delta points credited (transaction date)
04/02 50K Delta points appears on my delta account
04/02 Applied for the apple offer with no futher funding
05/07 Received $300 apple GC today in UPS express envelope


So my triple dip was a success eventhough I signed up for the apple offer on 04/02 after Fido changed their terms. Now, I must say my experience might be a little different from other flyertalker in which I didn't get an ineligible email from fidelity nor did I get an email notification from Fido that I will soon receive my apple GC. There was absolutely no communication from Fido regarding the apple GC offer.

I have another account where I have done the double dip with apple (sign-up date 04/16. I will report my data point if I receive my apple GC for that account.
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Old May 8, 2012, 11:33 am
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Originally Posted by ascg
thats what I think happened. Should I call them because I rather united points
I don't think you will be able to convince them otherwise. But that's only my opinion.
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