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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 Dec 14, 2016, 4:44 pm
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Originally Posted by fredc84
Oh. gotcha. I would think that if the accounts are separate, then withdrawing from one should not affect the other. The fine print talks about the account, not accounts. Hopefully, someone around here has experienced exactly that and can verify.
Thanks - perhaps when I really need to pull the money, I will call CS to get an official answer.
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Old Jan 7, 2017, 12:24 am
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I have done this four times already but now the language has changed Can we start a wiki so we get some feedback

Sign up date:
Fund date:
Miles post date:
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Old Jan 7, 2017, 4:59 pm
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Originally Posted by Centurion
I have done this four times already but now the language has changed Can we start a wiki so we get some feedback

Sign up date:
Fund date:
Miles post date:
How has the language changed?

Thanks.
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Old Jan 7, 2017, 5:19 pm
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90 day rule and not verbal ban. I went through every offer they Fido had with 100,000k each time
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Old Jan 7, 2017, 8:17 pm
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90 day rule ?
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Old Jan 26, 2017, 10:38 am
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Any data points or insight as to whether transfering funds into Fidelity Account A, but later moving funds to a linked Fidelity Account B (under the same user profile) within the first 9 months results in a violation of the 9 months no withdrawal rule?
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Old Jan 26, 2017, 1:25 pm
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I suggest you call Fidelity's Promotion Department at (800)544-5315. Please let us know what they say. Thanks.
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Old Jan 31, 2017, 1:48 pm
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I took advantage of this promo for the first time this year and just received a 1099-B. I made it explicitly clear a dozen timess to Fidelity that I would only do this promotion if it avoided any taxable events and if my money would end up in funds that had identical expense ratios to the Vanguard funds they originally sat in.

Here is what happened, please tell me if I'm crazy.

My money was originally at Vanguard in admiral class funds. Fidelity told me they couldnt receive admiral class funds, so I had to convert my Vanguard admiral funds to 'standard' shares (that have a higher expense ratio). As far as I'm aware, changing share classes was not a taxable event, as confirmed by Fidelity this morning on the phone. After converting, I then transferred in kind to Fidelity. Once again, Fidelity confirmed to me today that this was not a taxable event.

After transferring to Fidelity, my money was sitting in higher fee funds than they were originally in Vanguard. So Fidelity changed what funds I was in, from 'standard' Vanguard shares to Fidelity premium shares. Apparently this triggered the taxable event, since it was a standard sale of one fund and buy of another. That leaves me with a good chunk of realized short and long-term gains.

Needless to say, I'm very angry, considering I was told a dozen times by Fidelity that none of this would result in taxes. They told me I needed to write and mail them a formal complaint letter so that they could investigate. They won't give me a copy of my various recorded phone conversations (which would show the Fidelity rep saying none of this is taxable) unless they were sent a subpoena.

Argghhhhhhhhhhhhh

So does everyone here who transfers money back and forth between Fidelity and another brokerage every year just not put their money in Admiral/Premium share classes? The miles you get don't seem worth the higher expense ratios.
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Old Jan 31, 2017, 1:55 pm
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I only move cash from one institution to another. I emptied my fidelity account of nearly all cash and then just put it all back after signing up.

I don't have the patience to deal with moving securities around just for 50k miles.

Or do it with IRA accounts between institutions.

Sorry you've had to deal with this.
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Old Jan 31, 2017, 3:37 pm
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I've been depositing cash and then buying a 9 month CD so I don't have to keep track (too closely) on when it's safe to take the funds out.
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Old Jan 31, 2017, 4:23 pm
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Originally Posted by goldenad
I took advantage of this promo for the first time this year and just received a 1099-B. I made it explicitly clear a dozen timess to Fidelity that I would only do this promotion if it avoided any taxable events and if my money would end up in funds that had identical expense ratios to the Vanguard funds they originally sat in.

Here is what happened, please tell me if I'm crazy.

My money was originally at Vanguard in admiral class funds. Fidelity told me they couldnt receive admiral class funds, so I had to convert my Vanguard admiral funds to 'standard' shares (that have a higher expense ratio). As far as I'm aware, changing share classes was not a taxable event, as confirmed by Fidelity this morning on the phone. After converting, I then transferred in kind to Fidelity. Once again, Fidelity confirmed to me today that this was not a taxable event.

After transferring to Fidelity, my money was sitting in higher fee funds than they were originally in Vanguard. So Fidelity changed what funds I was in, from 'standard' Vanguard shares to Fidelity premium shares. Apparently this triggered the taxable event, since it was a standard sale of one fund and buy of another. That leaves me with a good chunk of realized short and long-term gains.

Needless to say, I'm very angry, considering I was told a dozen times by Fidelity that none of this would result in taxes. They told me I needed to write and mail them a formal complaint letter so that they could investigate. They won't give me a copy of my various recorded phone conversations (which would show the Fidelity rep saying none of this is taxable) unless they were sent a subpoena.

Argghhhhhhhhhhhhh

So does everyone here who transfers money back and forth between Fidelity and another brokerage every year just not put their money in Admiral/Premium share classes? The miles you get don't seem worth the higher expense ratios.
I've moved in-kind transfers for years and never got a 1099-B.

It seems like the event that caused you to get one was not your downgrade from VG Admiral but the fact that fidelity upgraded you to a premium fund from the standard you got when you transferred in-kind.

I only transfer non-fido non-vg funds (from other fund families) into Fidelity. Didn't realize it at the time, but based on your experience I'm glad that's all I do.
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Old Jan 31, 2017, 4:25 pm
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Originally Posted by Mary2e
I only move cash from one institution to another. I emptied my fidelity account of nearly all cash and then just put it all back after signing up.

I don't have the patience to deal with moving securities around just for 50k miles.

Or do it with IRA accounts between institutions.

Sorry you've had to deal with this.
Patience? An in-kind transfer takes no more time than an online ACH transfer of cash between institutions and for it I get 50,000 miles or just about a one-way free business class flight. I'd say that it quite worthy of anyones time.
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Old Jan 31, 2017, 10:07 pm
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Every time I've done this promo I've transferred securities from my ML account to my Fidelity account. Every time I receive 50,000 miles and no 1099-B.
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Old Feb 1, 2017, 6:25 am
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Originally Posted by TravelinSperry
Patience? An in-kind transfer takes no more time than an online ACH transfer of cash between institutions and for it I get 50,000 miles or just about a one-way free business class flight. I'd say that it quite worthy of anyones time.
I would rather not be bothered and just move cash. Same 50k miles. Everyone values things differently.
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Old Feb 1, 2017, 7:54 am
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Originally Posted by TravelinSperry
It seems like the event that caused you to get one was not your downgrade from VG Admiral but the fact that fidelity upgraded you to a premium fund from the standard you got when you transferred in-kind.
Agree, the issue is I was told multiple times by the representative that this wouldnt trigger a taxable event. Fidelity told me I have to write in a formal complaint for them to investigate, which is what I've done.
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