1- the statement you quoted from Chase does say a repeating dd SUCH as.. it doesnt state it Must be! I told him PP was the means that my employer chose to do the DD, you never said it had to be Directly set up with Chase, of cause thats what they meant. and last week my July statement also said "fees waviered due to 5 debits (didnt have even 1) or a DD. The only DD/s were from PP

Now if anyone is opening or opened an acct after March when I did , I dont know if they changed any of the language being used. If should state that PP is NG then thats a horse of a different color.

the problem is the 1st few months 2 I think Chase wont ding you for the fee, so until statement #3 you wont know if it will say as mine does that the Fee is waviered. If you use PP and got dinged for the fee , you can always go in and get it removed but then either need a real DD or 5 uses of the debit card per month. But thats only in order to avoid being Hot with the monthly fees, it wont help get you the CO or UA miles, which you probably wont get then.

paypal as payroll
 

You do not need to initiate a repeating dd. One will do. However, if it is coming from paypal, chase will not give you credit for the miles, unless it really looks like you are getting paid through paypal as payroll. If it is going in at least twice a month and for amounts that look like a paycheck, not for $10 here and $10 there. At that point, you can ask an employee about it, but it will require them to still fight it for you. So, just a warning, you will pay for using paypal. It'll cost you the bonus in your time it takes to fight it. They took enough people ripping them off i'm sure by people sending $10 from paypal to get the bonus. Chase is smarter now.

actually the CSR at my Branch suggested to me that its enough if my Employer sent just $10 once a month into my acct.When I said I was told its done only via PP, she then suggested I open an acct with the likes of ING and send $10 once a month from that acct into my Chase acct.

Thats before I saw the sentence on my statement that arrived in the mail when I was at the Branch, that the Fee was waivered due to 5 debit charges or a DD. Chase wouldnt have had a leg to stand on in court in my case as any Judge would have been able to see I didnt have the 5 Debit charges and the only activity was the Inbound transfer from PP of $100 or less.

So unless Chase recently redid all the T&Cs Once a month should suffice, as usual YMMV

I just rechecked my 7/25 statement from Chase

it shows 2 PP deposits for $xx & $xxx and 2 withdrawls to 2 CCs that were done from the CCs side and not that I sent the $$ from my Chase acct $xxx.xx total

there was no other charges or fees deducted from my acct total.

again I opened the acct at the end of March so that may be the reason they wont Ding me as the T&Cs might have been different then.

Im not to worried as I only have 2 more periods to go to reach my 6th months with them B4 Closing up the acct

I actually happen to like Citi and just might keep that once I pass my 9th month and have the 2 10ks in my AA acct.

Chase 21k Offer
 

well I work there and I'm just giving you a heads up that they are tougher on it now. You should be able to get it if you put up a fight for it. But they also will fight it. How does this citi offer work? The one for the 2 10k points for AA?

Thanks for the headsup!

Here's the threads for the Citi Checking with AA 20K/10K Bonus offers:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=663077 (2007)

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=527759 (2006)

I am quoting from the new 21k offer (since July 1st). This language is new and more restrictive than the 20k offer from before...

If you have a CITIBANK account you can do transfers to other banks (ie Chase) FREE OF CHARGE. I have opened 3 Chase checking accounts( 2 last year and 1 this year in May) for both myself and my wife (so 6 accounts in total).

For each account I arranged a $10.50 DD each month (give or take a few cents).

All miles posted to CO without any problems - No fees charged from Chase.

Which type of account is it with Citi?

The Citi deal Expired. Mine was sent to me by Citi/AA targeted got it the last day 6/30. Citi did have it for anyone but was told it expired in the branches 2 weeks before the date on my letter.

Im sure it will be back at soem pt

Citi is better and worse then Chase

Better: either 1 DD per month or use pay Online to pay 2 bills every month, so pay $10 to 2 different Non-Citi CCs and your home free. Chase will send 17.5 within a month of fulfilling the requirements (Maybe)

Worse: with Citi you need to keep the acct for at least 9 months and have teh DD or 2 Pays every month. Citi gives you 10k after the 1st month some time and the last 10k after teh 9th month

Since I first referenced this thread before going ahead with this offer, I thought I would share my results. I opened my account on 7/28/08 for the 21K miles offer. To date I have received 20,000 miles.

Anyone else have the last 1,000 show up yet to get the full 21K?? Not sure if the other 1,000 will just show up on its own or if I will need to call. Here is the history in chronological order so far:

7/28/2008 Opened account (and initiated DD from my work)

8/25/2008 Chase Checking Enrollment Bonus 7,500
** Note that I believe this was supposed to be for the Debit Card Bonus, but I listed how it came out on my statement

9/6/2008 Chase Debit Card Enrollment Bonus Miles 2,500

9/8/2008 Chase Checking Enrollment Bonus 10,000

I just received my last 10,000 miles for the debit card bonus on 9/2. I opened the account at the end of May under the original 20K offer with a ING direct deposit. I now have all received all 20,000 miles.

Since, Wamu is now JPMorgan Chase does that mean that those on the west coast(and FL) will get a chance to get in on this deal? :)
That is assuming the deal is still alive?

I was thinking the same thing!

Alas, Wamu is not yet Chase, and it will be at least 6 mo to a year before WaMu is fully integrated and rebranded (the Wamu brand will disappear). So our best bet is to hope Chase extends this offer into 2009. There is reason for optimism because it has now run for 2 years. :)

I have no knowledge of future promo. However, according to Chase: (link here)