Sosafan, Can you elaborate? Is this the same card or a different, student, card? do you still get 1 mile per $$? Do you still get the 15k signup bonus?

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Thanks.

[This message has been edited by wannabe (edited 11-14-2002).]

The student card is one mile/2 $ spent.No annual fee. When I had enquired, they told me that 15000 bonus does not apply to this card. So I got the card paying annual fee this year and Iam planning to downgrade to the student card next year...
BTW,sign up for the student plus program in the mileage plus[if you are a student],they have a 10,000 mile bonus upon graduation and that combined with the 15K bonus you are getting now with this card offer, makes a nice free ticket...



[This message has been edited by bertie_jeeves (edited 11-14-2002).]

The card with no annual fee is not restricted to students. I have one, after years of having the other one - once I got the Starwood Amex I only use the MP card when I can't use the Amex - so it wasn't worth the annual fee. I actually ended up getting 1 mile per dollar for a long time before they finally updated it to 1 mile for 2 dollars.

bertie_jeeves beat me to it.

I got the card
no annual fee
15K bonus
1$=1 mile

Which card?
How did u manage no annual fee???

FUSA refused to give me ANY bonus for the student card point blank!

[This message has been edited by bertie_jeeves (edited 11-15-2002).]

I sure would like advise to get my fee waived. I too took advantage of a "no fee transfer" and spoke with two supervisors and had no luck. Unless I coud prove in writing it was no fee then they said tough toenails.
Any help is appreciated

FUSA is the pits...but the deal is too good to pass up. Get the card, get the miles, cancel the card.

Yes,thats why I took the offer. My *A accrual is in LH, but 15K miles was too good to pass up!!!

I tried to apply for it. I had a FirstUSA card a while back and all the horror stories are true. They are a major pain in the behind and will attempt to do about anything to screw their customers. But, the miles thing was a good deal.

After two months and sending them a copy of my ss#, they denied my application. They said they could not verify my address (like, the one they were sending me mail at!) and insisted on an original utility bill to prove it.

I talked to a random CSR on the phone about this and there were no other options, *only* a utility bill would do. Which would be fine, if I had one. My utilities are paid by the landlord, so I never get a bill.

This is probably related to the fact that I have a fraud alert on my credit file. Possibly also because I use a private mail box service for my mailing address. But the fraud alert specifically instructs to *call a telephone number* and gives my number to verify credit applications. But they won't call. They can't even get my address right, they keep leaving the box number off.

I would like to get the miles deal, but between this and my previous experience with FirstUSA, I am giving up. I told them since they obviously didn't want me as a customer, I will continue to send my thousands of dollars a month to American Express. Unfortunately, they don't give a rat's ....

Oh, and I forgot the best part! After all this, in the final rejection letter, they say that I could have sent them a bank statement instead of the utility bill. UA miles or not, I am not wasting any more of my time with these idiots.

[This message has been edited by Feorlen (edited 11-17-2002).]

Not that I want to help FUSA get a customer, but I hate to see someone lose out on miles. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I was in a similar situation as yours, and my parents address worked as "verifiable".

Let me second the motion about FUSA having the worst customer service in the world. I got this card for UA miles, but calling them was such hell that I canceled it.

Half the time, I couldn't even reach them. The message would say "We are exceptionally busy now so call again later" and hang up. At 2am? If you do get through, you have to deal with their customer disservice agents who never once said "yes" to even my most trivial request.

I never missed a deadline on a single payment, so that wasn't the reason.

Maybe I'm the exception?

I've had the card for over a year now and haven't had any problems whatsoever.

Of course, I have not had any reason to contact customer service. So far, every statement has been exactly right.

Ed

Just wait, someday you'll have to call for something non-routine....they're out there....

A friend received this card a few months ago basically for the UA miles, made a purchase then called to cancel it after paying the annual fee. They offered him another 5,000 miles to keep it! Unbelievable making it a total of 20,000 miles for $60.