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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 Jul 2, 2012, 4:26 pm
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Originally Posted by loverofpeace
Will you be doing the Delta one as well now? I think you're eligible...
I don't think so. From Fidelity's Delta offer:

Promotional offers are limited to one per individual per rolling 12 months.
While you could argue that this implies it's regarding the Delta offer only, I think common sense and the other experiences here suggest that the situation has definitively changed, and that you must wait 12 months for going again.
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Old Jul 2, 2012, 6:23 pm
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Originally Posted by josephstern
I don't think so. From Fidelity's Delta offer:

While you could argue that this implies it's regarding the Delta offer only, I think common sense and the other experiences here suggest that the situation has definitively changed, and that you must wait 12 months for going again.
Agree. And now the language has changed to "individual" - and we also have a lone data point that someone got BOTH husband and wife earning the bonus by a JT Account with 2 x $100K (no cycling if I remember it correctly.)

It is actually a better and more fair practice now. Too bad TD is no longer in the game.
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Old Jul 2, 2012, 6:47 pm
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Originally Posted by teammjs
As to prior funding patterns last yeat, yes I cycled last year and the money didn't stay there long. Nobody brought it up at Fido, so I don't think they cared, but YMMV. Hince, why I think better to minimize contacts as much as possible this time. I don't think they can deny based on T&Cs, but if there is manual review, they may hold off on posting the miles on purpose if you get a nosy rep.
Perfect. thanks for replying and for the data point!
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Old Jul 2, 2012, 9:36 pm
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I did $75K back in April, and received 25K AA miles. I needed the money for a refinance back then, so I didn't have $100K for the entire 50K AA miles. I was able to add up to $100K on June 4th, and the money has been sitting there for a month, still haven't seen the other 25K miles, should I give them a buzz? This is the only offer I took, and I think it's legitimate, doesn't seem to hurt anything to call?

Before I do that, anybody has any idea about what's going on?

Thanks!
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Old Jul 2, 2012, 9:43 pm
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Originally Posted by mrclemson
I did $75K back in April, and received 25K AA miles. I needed the money for a refinance back then, so I didn't have $100K for the entire 50K AA miles. I was able to add up to $100K on June 4th, and the money has been sitting there for a month, still haven't seen the other 25K miles, should I give them a buzz? This is the only offer I took, and I think it's legitimate, doesn't seem to hurt anything to call?

Before I do that, anybody has any idea about what's going on?

Thanks!
Did you pass 90 days when you added the amount to $100K? I believe you have 90 days to send in the new money.

If you have the full $100K sitting in the account, I would suggest you contact Fido to find out when would the balance 25K would post. They may give you the 6 to 8 weeks song and dance but at least you would get an answer and then you can decide whether to pursuit further or pull your money out.
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Old Jul 2, 2012, 10:01 pm
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Did you pass 90 days when you added the amount to $100K? I believe you have 90 days to send in the new money.

If you have the full $100K sitting in the account, I would suggest you contact Fido to find out when would the balance 25K would post. They may give you the 6 to 8 weeks song and dance but at least you would get an answer and then you can decide whether to pursuit further or pull your money out.
Thanks Happy. I opened my account on April 8th, so no, it's not 3 months yet, not even today. Guess I will give them a call tomorrow. Again, thanks a lot for the help.

The initial 25K took like 10 days - I received it on 4/20.
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Old Jul 3, 2012, 8:57 am
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UA / AA

So just to confirm. Let's say I fund an existing account with $100k for AA and I get the bonus miles.

Can I then sign-up for UA -- and put in an additional $100k to get those bonus points?

Or is it just one carrier? I didn't cycle or participate in anything before with Fidelity offers. Thanks.
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Old Jul 3, 2012, 9:00 am
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Originally Posted by incognitius
So just to confirm. Let's say I fund an existing account with $100k for AA and I get the bonus miles.

Can I then sign-up for UA -- and put in an additional $100k to get those bonus points?

Or is it just one carrier? I didn't cycle or participate in anything before with Fidelity offers. Thanks.
It will not work. 1 promotional offer per rolling 12 months period.
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Old Jul 3, 2012, 11:13 am
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I am >12 mos from last airline promo but <12 mos from apple one.
1) Do we know for sure if we must wait 12 months from just our last airline promo or from any promo (Apple, etc)?
2) do we know if I try for UA miles now anyway and get denied, will that reset the 12 mos so I must wait till July 2013 to get any promo or will I still be okay to get my next promo 12 mos from when I got Apple?
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Old Jul 3, 2012, 11:21 am
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I updated the first post in the thread to reflect the direction this offer is taking.

I know I'll get some responses about the cycling issue, but my hunch is that cycling is truly over, so I can only recommend against it.

If someone has some good and recent data to support its success, I can edit again.
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Old Jul 3, 2012, 11:29 am
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Originally Posted by gv111
It will not work. 1 promotional offer per rolling 12 months period.
Originally Posted by greek2me
I am >12 mos from last airline promo but <12 mos from apple one.
1) Do we know for sure if we must wait 12 months from just our last airline promo or from any promo (Apple, etc)?
2) do we know if I try for UA miles now anyway and get denied, will that reset the 12 mos so I must wait till July 2013 to get any promo or will I still be okay to get my next promo 12 mos from when I got Apple?
Is AAPL GC a promotional offer?
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Old Jul 3, 2012, 11:34 am
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Originally Posted by Happy
Is AAPL GC a promotional offer?
Consider the terms on the Apple page:

This promotional offer is only available to new or existing Fidelity brokerage account customers opening or depositing new assets into a nonretirement Fidelity Account® (individual or joint).
and

Promotional offers are limited to one per individual per rolling 12 months.
So I can't see how you could conclude otherwise.
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Old Jul 3, 2012, 11:54 am
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Hence my rhetoric question

I cannot understand how it is not clear to folks who keep asking whether they can sign up DL because they have only done AA, or since AAPL is not airline miles, can they sign up airline miles now because their last airline miles bonus was over 12 months...

The language is so clear in plain English as josephstern quoted the T&C, why there is still any doubt that the current program is ONE Promotional Offer per individual for EVERY Rolling 12 months?

Those who still dont want to interpret such way, could go ahead and sign up again, then report back to the community of the outcome as a payback (valuable data points) to the community of all the helps they have gotten from this thread.
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Old Jul 3, 2012, 12:23 pm
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Ditto, Happy.

I'm starting to wonder how some folks have $100k liquid, but can't interpret pretty simple terms .

I guess if you get rich enough you just have subordinates do that and just focus on "vision"!
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Old Jul 3, 2012, 12:33 pm
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Originally Posted by Happy
Is AAPL GC a promotional offer?
Originally Posted by josephstern
Consider the terms on the Apple page:
and So I can't see how you could conclude otherwise.
Originally Posted by Happy
The language is so clear in plain English as josephstern quoted the T&C, why there is still any doubt that the current program is ONE Promotional Offer per individual for EVERY Rolling 12 months?
Originally Posted by teammjs
I'm starting to wonder how some folks have $100k liquid, but can't interpret pretty simple terms
Thanks for the replies. We all know that the way these are written is not always the way they work, so I was looking for any actual experiences to see if in practice these T&C were being strictly enforced as written.
(Hope we can all still be friends )
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