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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 Aug 7, 2012, 7:16 pm
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Has anyone had issues with miles delivery? Fidelity tells me that they sent 25K miles to United, but United has no record of them.

I'm worried that like so many other things this was eaten up by United's fabulous computer upgrades.
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Old Aug 8, 2012, 8:29 am
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Originally Posted by leland
Has anyone had issues with miles delivery? Fidelity tells me that they sent 25K miles to United, but United has no record of them.

I'm worried that like so many other things this was eaten up by United's fabulous computer upgrades.
YES. I had a bit of an ordeal for my miles to post to my UA MP account. I opened and funded my Fidelity account back on 5/1. I decided I wouldn't stress about them posting until after the 8 weeks allowed for in their T & C, but when 7/1 passed and the miles still hadn't posted, I contacted Fidelity customer service and they said they had requested them to UA. MP says there's no record of a request for them. Fidelity then says to wait a couple of weeks more. I waited just a week and contacted Fidelity again, where they say to wait until the end of the month.

7/31 passes, I contact Fidelity again, whereupon they finally seem to take this seriously and apologize profusely. After 5-10 minutes on hold, they tell me there was a computer error on their end and the miles will *definitely* post within two weeks. Six days later, the miles post.

A headache, but this pushed me over the line for two J tickets to Australia, so probably worth it. Not sure if I'll try it again when my 12 months pass (assuming the promotion still exists).

BTW, I've been lurking on FT for six months now and am very thankful for this fantastic resource.
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Old Aug 8, 2012, 8:49 am
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Originally Posted by leland
Has anyone had issues with miles delivery? Fidelity tells me that they sent 25K miles to United, but United has no record of them.

I'm worried that like so many other things this was eaten up by United's fabulous computer upgrades.
Opened account and deposited the money 3 weeks ago and my miles just posted the other day. No problems here.
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Old Aug 8, 2012, 11:58 am
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Originally Posted by SeatacRefugee

A headache, but this pushed me over the line for two J tickets to Australia, so probably worth it. Not sure if I'll try it again when my 12 months pass (assuming the promotion still exists).
Let us know if you get lucky scoring these seats. They're hard to come by.

Welcome to Flyertalk SeatacRefugee.
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Old Aug 8, 2012, 12:27 pm
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Fido just informed me of another Promo. Refer a friend who funds a new account ( I assume they have to be entirely new customer ) with $2500 and get 5,000 UA or maybe any of the 3 airlines for the referral

Sound great to me
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Old Aug 8, 2012, 12:42 pm
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Originally Posted by PETERPNYC
Fido just informed me of another Promo. Refer a friend who funds a new account ( I assume they have to be entirely new customer ) with $2500 and get 5,000 UA or maybe any of the 3 airlines for the referral

Sound great to me
This is a good promotion. Easy 5k, do you have any links?
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Old Aug 9, 2012, 5:56 am
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Originally Posted by tsukidayo
This is a good promotion. Easy 5k, do you have any links?
Posted elsewhere but just call and ask a CSR about the refer a friend promo.

Works for AA ,DL, and UA .
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Old Aug 9, 2012, 3:16 pm
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For those of you that got miles more than a year ago and are starting a new account, do you close the old account before you apply again? are you applying under a new account login?
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Old Aug 9, 2012, 3:19 pm
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Originally Posted by jasonz9238
For those of you that got miles more than a year ago and are starting a new account, do you close the old account before you apply again? are you applying under a new account login?
Existing customers are eligible for the current offer. Hence the 12 months period restriction in place.

Also Fidelity tracks accounts by SSN.
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Old Aug 10, 2012, 8:46 am
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Join Date: Aug 2012
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Opened my acct and wife's acct on July 16 and 17 respectively.
Fully funded $100K into both accounts by July 26.
50K AA miles posted to each account on August 3.

Should I bother trying for the Apple gift card(s)? I thought about pulling wife's $100K out and signing my acct up for the Apple promo and transfering that $100K into my acct....new funds and no cycling. Worth a shot?

Also, is there a "too soon" to pull the money out after miles post or am I all clear?
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Old Aug 10, 2012, 9:20 am
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Originally Posted by leland
Has anyone had issues with miles delivery? Fidelity tells me that they sent 25K miles to United, but United has no record of them.

I'm worried that like so many other things this was eaten up by United's fabulous computer upgrades.
my experience thus far with fidelity has not been sterling. zero for 10 or so on answer telephone. submitted documents 3 times to get a start. their system refused to accept a pdf from an imac. and from another imac. accepted from a pc. has taken them 10 days to contact etrade to start transfer. they asked for my portfolio, which is not necessary, and just nosy. i sent it to them. now the phone gets answered very quickly. .....big portfolio.
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Old Aug 10, 2012, 12:50 pm
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Originally Posted by SeatacRefugee
YES. I had a bit of an ordeal for my miles to post to my UA MP account. I opened and funded my Fidelity account back on 5/1. I decided I wouldn't stress about them posting until after the 8 weeks allowed for in their T & C, but when 7/1 passed and the miles still hadn't posted, I contacted Fidelity customer service and they said they had requested them to UA. MP says there's no record of a request for them. Fidelity then says to wait a couple of weeks more. I waited just a week and contacted Fidelity again, where they say to wait until the end of the month.

7/31 passes, I contact Fidelity again, whereupon they finally seem to take this seriously and apologize profusely. After 5-10 minutes on hold, they tell me there was a computer error on their end and the miles will *definitely* post within two weeks. Six days later, the miles post.

A headache, but this pushed me over the line for two J tickets to Australia, so probably worth it. Not sure if I'll try it again when my 12 months pass (assuming the promotion still exists).

BTW, I've been lurking on FT for six months now and am very thankful for this fantastic resource.
This reminded me of issue with Amex and Delta last year. I transferred my Amex MR points to Delta for 50% Skymiles bonus, but I didn't get th 50% bonus. Amex and Delta kept telling me to wait 6-8 weeks. After multiple calls, they had to manually added bonus miles for me.

There was a computer glitch, as I registered for the promotion a little after 12 midnight with Amex, then transferred my MR points to Delta a few minutes later. But Delta claimed I transferred the day *before* I registered for the promo. It seemed like there was a time zone different between Amex and Delta's computers.
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Old Aug 13, 2012, 2:46 pm
  #553  
 
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Originally Posted by gocanesMIA
Opened my acct and wife's acct on July 16 and 17 respectively.
Fully funded $100K into both accounts by July 26.
50K AA miles posted to each account on August 3.

Should I bother trying for the Apple gift card(s)? I thought about pulling wife's $100K out and signing my acct up for the Apple promo and transfering that $100K into my acct....new funds and no cycling. Worth a shot?

Also, is there a "too soon" to pull the money out after miles post or am I all clear?
Similar question on pulling out money: Fidelity claims money needs to stay in account for 6 months. My 50k DL miles already posted and UA miles supposedly also approved.
What can they do if I withdraw money before 6 month period over? Not like they can get miles back...
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Old Aug 13, 2012, 2:51 pm
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Join Date: Jan 2012
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Originally Posted by anandrag
Similar question on pulling out money: Fidelity claims money needs to stay in account for 6 months. My 50k DL miles already posted and UA miles supposedly also approved.
What can they do if I withdraw money before 6 month period over? Not like they can get miles back...
For the most part seems they do not claw back. I did it with my account and my wife's account and historically thru this thread no one ever had them clawed back. Just leave a bit of cash in the account and dont close it and enjoy the miles.
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Old Aug 13, 2012, 8:16 pm
  #555  
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
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Look back

so if you transfer money OUT of Fidelity well BEFORE you sign up for the promo, they apparently do a "look back" and net that out of your inbound transfer. I w/drew a negligible amount (10k) from Fidelity (for another purpose). A week or so later, read about the promo, signed up and transferred 100k in. They only counted it as 90k. Their own rules define net asset value as of close of business eastern time and doesn't mention an arbitrary look back. Sadly, I have had my Fidelity accounts since the 80's! (YES, over 25 years, and this may have me think twice about keeping open after 6 mos).
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