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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 13, 2012, 9:52 am
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Originally Posted by troyhouse
Need help, is there a Fidelity Starwoods points offer, I am not able to find the link for it. Can someone help?
There is NONE.
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Old Dec 13, 2012, 9:56 am
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Originally Posted by wcoeqpk862
Churning is obviously long dead, but has anyone tried pulling their $$ out before 6 months? Did they let you keep the miles, take them back, what? Thanks!


P.S. I didn't see 6 months in the T&C, am I just blind?

I have done it twice. once for myself. funded jan 12. took out after the miles posted in march.(united miles). opened acct for spouse. funded in may.(American) got the miles, in July right before the partnership ended. funds were taken out in aug '12.
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Old Dec 13, 2012, 9:59 am
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Originally Posted by macheeko
I have done it twice. once for myself. funded jan 12. took out after the miles posted in march.(united miles). opened acct for spouse. funded in may.(American) got the miles, in July right before the partnership ended. funds were taken out in aug '12.
key words in case others gloss over in their readings.

As long as one does not intend to have a repeat next year, this can be done as a one-time deal.
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Old Dec 13, 2012, 7:42 pm
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Unfortunately, it looks like I will have to pull funding from my account, opened about 6 or 8 weeks ago. My miles posted several weeks ago.

Anybody know if they show mercy for slow, gradual account depletion? In other words... if I put in 100K, pull out 20, pull out another 20 or so, leave the rest in the account for a few more months, any chance of not being blacklisted for a bonus next year?
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Old Dec 13, 2012, 11:24 pm
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Originally Posted by StartinSanDiego
Unfortunately, it looks like I will have to pull funding from my account, opened about 6 or 8 weeks ago. My miles posted several weeks ago.

Anybody know if they show mercy for slow, gradual account depletion? In other words... if I put in 100K, pull out 20, pull out another 20 or so, leave the rest in the account for a few more months, any chance of not being blacklisted for a bonus next year?
I believe you can. People have emergency needs so a slow gradual withdrawals at least show you are not a hit and run type.
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Old Dec 17, 2012, 3:09 pm
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My 15,000 miles posted today, only 1 month after moving the money in (Nov 17 was the deposit date). In case this information is useful to someone, almost immediately after I moved the $25K in, I used 10K to make this year's contributions to spouse and my fidelity IRAs. I assume that the miles wouldn't have posted if this was impermissible, given I moved the money within a week. I'll move another 10K into our IRAs in January for our 2013 contribution.
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Old Dec 17, 2012, 8:06 pm
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Originally Posted by pinks
My 15,000 miles posted today, only 1 month after moving the money in (Nov 17 was the deposit date). In case this information is useful to someone, almost immediately after I moved the $25K in, I used 10K to make this year's contributions to spouse and my fidelity IRAs. I assume that the miles wouldn't have posted if this was impermissible, given I moved the money within a week. I'll move another 10K into our IRAs in January for our 2013 contribution.
Which airline?
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Old Dec 18, 2012, 9:08 am
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Originally Posted by Happy
Bond funds do their buys and sells all the time. The NAV fluctuates.

Below is a very simplified explanation.

If interest rate shoots up (unlikely, at least not in a rapid speed), the NAV would fall like a rock. And you cannot expect to get back the full investment even by holding and holding and holding unless the interest rate drops back down to when you put money in. An ACTUAL Bond has a FACE VALUE that is how much you would get back at Maturity. Unless the issuer defaults, you would get back 100% of your investment by holding the bonds till maturity.

If I invest in bonds, I would pick individual bonds instead of a bond mutual fund. period.
Can you invest in a CD then, for the purposes of this promotion?
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Old Dec 18, 2012, 9:48 am
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Originally Posted by michael_v
Can you invest in a CD then, for the purposes of this promotion?
You can invest in Frgxx Fildeitys Goverment guaranteed money market fund

You won't get much interest but you will get your money back and it has been
At $1 for 15 years or more.
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Old Dec 18, 2012, 2:05 pm
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Originally Posted by michael_v
Can you invest in a CD then, for the purposes of this promotion?
Yes you can but the interest is pitiful anyway. I am not even sure they have 6 months CD these days. (All CDs are 2ndary market CDs and not CD offered by Fidelity which is NOT a bank.)

It is better to view this as 50K miles as your "investment income" for 100K worth of whathaveyou, parked at Fidelity. You can determine the "worth" of the 50K.

Interest rate is near 0, so any "guaranteed" instrument would yield near nothing.
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Old Dec 18, 2012, 3:59 pm
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Originally Posted by Travel22
Which airline?
15,000 miles on United.
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Old Dec 18, 2012, 9:36 pm
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Ugh. I invested in fidelity tax free bond at the wrong time. Anyhow I got the united points about a month after transferring funds.

I just tried to sign up for delta points last week. Got an email that same account was not eligible. Guess I will try next year for delta points.
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Old Dec 26, 2012, 4:12 pm
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Looks like I encountered the first case of clawback...

Created an account and deposited money into my account: 10/31/12
Miles received: 11/14/12
Withdraw 99% of the balance: 12/14/12
Got a call from fido about missing funds regarding promo: 12/18/12

I just checked my UA account and all of the miles added were deducted away.

Now I have to put the money back in. I wonder how long I have to keep it inside to not trigger a clawback again.
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Old Dec 26, 2012, 4:18 pm
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Originally Posted by reaper99999
Looks like I encountered the first case of clawback...

Created an account and deposited money into my account: 10/31/12
Miles received: 11/14/12
Withdraw 99% of the balance: 12/14/12
Got a call from fido about missing funds regarding promo: 12/18/12

I just checked my UA account and all of the miles added were deducted away.

Now I have to put the money back in. I wonder how long I have to keep it inside to not trigger a clawback again.
Did they even give you a chance to put back the money to keep your bonus?

And you still want to test the limit?
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Old Dec 26, 2012, 4:39 pm
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Originally Posted by reaper99999
Looks like I encountered the first case of clawback...

Created an account and deposited money into my account: 10/31/12
Miles received: 11/14/12
Withdraw 99% of the balance: 12/14/12
Got a call from fido about missing funds regarding promo: 12/18/12

I just checked my UA account and all of the miles added were deducted away.

Now I have to put the money back in. I wonder how long I have to keep it inside to not trigger a clawback again.
They require 6 months.
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