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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 5, 2012, 10:30 am
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Originally Posted by PETERPNYC
After gettng the DL promo and a few months later the Apple promo I regsitered for the UA promo. Got the " call us Email " because I was ineligble and did so . They said I have to wait one year from my Dec 2011 Apple promo registration.
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks so much for posting. ^
I will not bother to follow through on my planned experiment of trying the same thing.
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Old Jul 5, 2012, 1:47 pm
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I deposited a threshhold amount, and I contacted Fidelity via online chat to find out if the miles were going to post. Their rep told me that miles would only post once the funds were in the account for six months. Has anyone else had this happen? Should I just try and talk to another agent?
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Old Jul 5, 2012, 1:54 pm
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Originally Posted by Mindray
Still new to the workforce and do not have $100K lying around. I know the 1st page of this thread says that they believe cycling is dead, has anyone recently been able to do this?

Ideally, I'd like to do this in $10K increments. Would appreciate some thoughts.
You can just read a few posts above yours - namely post 429 and post 432.

If you still cannot come up with a conclusion especially based on the data point posted in post 429, then you can either spend some more time to comb thru posts since April, or experiment the mechanism yourself. Do report back what you find out should you decide to experiment it. This would add one more data point to confirm or debunk the consensus thus far.
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Old Jul 5, 2012, 2:07 pm
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no luck yet cycling here

I successfully cycled in March. However on April 20th, for my wife, I deposited $50K and got my 25k UA miles within two weeks. Cycled additional $50k over three weeks for a combined $150k ( in hopes of apple card-which did not work) by May 10th. So, it's been about 8 weeks and no additional miles have posted...I've kept $500 in the account now..
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Old Jul 5, 2012, 3:13 pm
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Anyone know whether I can open a joint fedelity brokerage account to qualify this promotion again when both wife and I already have individual account? If yes, whose AA # or UA # I should use? Thanks!
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Old Jul 5, 2012, 3:14 pm
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Originally Posted by sunnyface2011
Anyone know whether I can open a joint fedelity brokerage account to qualify this promotion again when both wife and I already have individual account? If yes, whose AA # or UA # I should use? Thanks!
Someone posted about JT account upthread. He did both husband and wife in a single JT account. Find the post and send a PM to the poster for more info such as what procedure he had gone thru, etc.

However if you already earned bonus under individual accounts in the past, I am pretty sure a JT account would NOT help you to circumvent the One per every 12 months rule, especially apparently JT account requires even more manual handling.
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Old Jul 8, 2012, 11:17 am
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I am a Fidelity customer for many years, can I sign up for the AA offer?
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Old Jul 8, 2012, 5:12 pm
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Originally Posted by JCary
I am a Fidelity customer for many years, can I sign up for the AA offer?
Please read the terms before asking basic questions. Yes, this offer is open to existing customers - but you have to add new money (ie money from a non-Fidelity source).
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Old Jul 9, 2012, 11:12 am
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OK so I did this last year and the final miles on Delta posted 7/9/2011. So from what I read here I can do this again tomorrow, I'll likely get "dinged" but if I call I'll get the miles. Is that the general understanding?
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Old Jul 9, 2012, 5:39 pm
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Originally Posted by Robl
OK so I did this last year and the final miles on Delta posted 7/9/2011. So from what I read here I can do this again tomorrow, I'll likely get "dinged" but if I call I'll get the miles. Is that the general understanding?
Pretty much.

I called on my account after I deposited the funds. No problem.

I emailed on my wife's, and they told me to deposit the funds and get back to them. Again, no problem.
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Old Jul 9, 2012, 5:54 pm
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For those who are getting "repeat" promos - did you close out the "old" account and reopen or redeposit into the "old" account. Just kind of planning for later this year - opened an account at the end of 2011 - got the AA & DL promos - removed the last $500 in the account about a month ago - but account still open - was wondering if I should close it.
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Old Jul 9, 2012, 5:56 pm
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Originally Posted by peteropny
For those who are getting "repeat" promos - did you close out the "old" account and reopen or redeposit into the "old" account. Just kind of planning for later this year - opened an account at the end of 2011 - got the AA & DL promos - removed the last $500 in the account about a month ago - but account still open - was wondering if I should close it.
I re-funded old accounts.
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Old Jul 9, 2012, 6:03 pm
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Originally Posted by josephstern
I re-funded old accounts.
Thanks for the quick response!!!
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Old Jul 10, 2012, 8:08 am
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Cycling did not work for me for the AA promo. For history, I got the 25k miles for the 50k funds. Tried cycling to 100 with no luck - it's been about a month. I'm pulling it out. I considered trying to add 50 again in one chunk, but I don't think I'm going to bother - just wait to do it again next year.
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Old Jul 10, 2012, 8:49 am
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Originally Posted by napilimom
Cycling did not work for me for the AA promo. For history, I got the 25k miles for the 50k funds. Tried cycling to 100 with no luck - it's been about a month. I'm pulling it out. I considered trying to add 50 again in one chunk, but I don't think I'm going to bother - just wait to do it again next year.
So will you be bringing your account balance down to zero?

If so, please post back. I'm very interested to see if Fidelity has also changed the rules on potential clawbacks for not keeping the money in the account for a certain period.
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