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The woman who sat down with me asked my income and rent and then put my info in a form on a computer, just like you would if you were doing it yourself online, then hit the submit button, and it came back approved. That was it. I spent awhile after that explaining that she approved me for the wrong card and getting everything fixed, but there were no questions asked about my credit.
@heirophant wrote:
@DaveSignal wrote:According to the rep on the phone, All of the Bankamericard Travel Rewards cards have a chip.
I can confirm that I do not have a chip in my card and it was received last Monday.
Is this what your card looks like? :
@DaveSignal wrote:
@heirophant wrote:
@DaveSignal wrote:According to the rep on the phone, All of the Bankamericard Travel Rewards cards have a chip.
I can confirm that I do not have a chip in my card and it was received last Monday.
Is this what your card looks like? :
Now that you mention it....no. In fact, the card I have, the Signature Visa, appears to not be available anymore. When I app'd, it said in the terms that you are applying for the Travel Rewards Visa Signature, but if you are not approved, this is a de facto application for the standard Travel Rewards. I wonder if they got rid of the Visa Signature or if I am just missing it somewhere. Very weird, though, considering I just got this card.
EDIT: Glad I applied when I did. If I go anywhere but Canada in the near future, I will call BOA and ask if I can get the chip added to my card for free. Since they are offering it on this card, I would think that wouldn't be a problem.
Ha, look here:
https://www.bankofamerica.com/credit-cards/travel-credit-cards.go
It appears what they have done is made the one with the annual fee the only one that is Signature, the BankAmericard Travel Privelages. I really am glad I applied when I did.
@heirophant wrote:
It appears what they have done is made the one with the annual fee the only one that is Signature, the BankAmericard Travel Privelages. I really am glad I applied when I did.
Yeah, good deal. It looks like the Travel privileges comes with a chip too though. You missed out on the chip, which was the most important thing in my case. I suppose it doesn't matter so much for Canada though.
I don't care for BofA as a matter of principal - maybe all the banks for that matter lol. But congrats and safe travels!
@OptimalFICO wrote:I don't care for BofA as a matter of principal - maybe all the banks for that matter lol. But congrats and safe travels!
I would never open a bank account at Bank of America. As far as credit cards go, however, they are 1 of 2 financial institutions in the USA that offer a credit card with EMV chip that has $0 annual fee and 0% foreign transaction fee. The other is State Department Federal Credit Union with whom I submitted my first app and they requested a recon in writing so I am still waiting to hear on that.
SDFCU called me and told me they approved my recon. Now I wish I hadn't applied for the BoA card as the SDFCU is even better. Oh well. I will try to use both of them, I guess.
I started this thread stating that I couldn't get approved anywhere, but was actually ultimately approved for both of the two cards I applied for and only didn't get membership in Andrews FCU, which I no longer want or need, as the SDFCU card is a superior chip and pin card. heh.
I haven't recieved it. I was only approved and BoA told to expect it in the mail in approx 14 days. SDFCU told me 8 days.
When I was applying, BoA told me that I could request a chip for many of their cards, but most of them have a 3% foreign transaction fee... and considering that most of the time you would be using the benefits of the chip would currently be in a foreign country, you would end up paying a lot of fees. The travel rewards, however, has 0% foreign transaction fee, so it is the best chip card BoA offers with no annual fee. If you travel, I would request a PC rather than a chip for your current card. BoA is chip + signature, however, so you would still occasionally encounter situations where only chip + pin is accepted and you cannot use the card.
If you don't mind applying for a new card, SDFCU has the best chip + pin card available today.