Code for Citi/fi AA miles promotion from last summer
 

Anybody still have the code that was used for the 5,000 mi. AAdvantage miles bonus from last year for opening up a Money Market account with Citi/fi?

Did a search on citi/fi but couldn't come up with that thread..

I complained to Citibank last week about never getting those miles for my Citi/fi MMA and they sent back a letter saying it was for opening a Checking Account (promo code C3) so I would be getting nothing..huh?

So I need to find out which code applied to the 5,000 miles for the Money market account..

the promo code that I have for opening and funding a money market account by 2/29/00-(which was extended to 4/29/00) was DW. I have the original promotion material if you need it. After we opened our accounts Citifi sent us a letter requesting our advantage account #-- even though I wrote it all over our applications. Hope it helps- Good luck. ( I can fax you the promo if you need it- let me know)

Elaine, Thanks. It must have been another code though as the one I signed up for was effective through 5/31/00. Most likely they'd shoot me down again with your code as I didn't sign up till late May 2000.

Anybody else with the later promotion code?

I don't want to rain on anyone's (almost) parade. But I seem to remember having to open a checking account and then opened a money market account to which I transferred all my money except a few dollars. That was how I was eligible for the promo and did not sacrafice earning intest. But it did require me to open a checking account. I just opened BOTH and transferred the money in a few days. Sorry but that's what I remember. Maybe I'm wrong and there was a different code just for the money market.

This promotion brings up lots of bad memories for me. I set it up using available the option of using my AAdvantage Mastercard to open the new CitF/I account.

About 4 weeks later, having forgotten about the promotion, I received a call from the AAdvantage Mastercard security saying that a Las Vegas bank was trying to draw $5000 cash from my account.

My only option to protect myself was to cancel my card. I was travelling with only that card and couldn't do it. They were going to involuntarily cancel the card so I falsely told them I knew what the charges were.

Then I started fretting and thinking and finally remember this ill conceived promotion. I called CitiF/I and they blamed AAdavantage, AAdvantage blamed CitiF/I.

As the charge had been cancelled thinking it was a Las Vegas Bank charge I lost the promotion. There was no Las Vegas bank- it was 2 branches of Citibank acting like enemies with me caught in the middle.

I always wondered if anyone else was caught in this foul web of corporate incompetence.

My complaint to customer service in an attempt to warn others lso brought no results.


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Best Regards
arcticchar

[This message has been edited by arctichar (edited 02-15-2001).]