Unofficial Data Thread for Bonuses

[Anonymous]

I wanted to start this to see what bonuses members are currently working on and also how many at a time.

Here is what I'm currently working on for the next 90 days (May 15th to August 15th).

Completed

1. Citi DC - Spend $500 get $100 - Done - Received $100 bonus.

2. AMEX EDP - Spend $1k get 20k MRs - Done - Received MRs.  Also did 30 transactions.

3. Charles Schwab Checking - Deposit ANY amount & get $100 - Done - Waiting on bonus.

 4. Spirit Airlines WMC - Make ANY transaction and get 15,000 miles. Done. Waiting on miles.

In Progress

1. NavyFed More Rewards - Spend $3k get 25k points ($250) - In progress.

2. Charles Schwab Investor Card - Spend $1k get $100 statement credit. In progress.

3. BOA Cash Rewards - Spend $500 get $150 - In Progress.

In total, I'm looking at $700, 22k MRs and 15k Spirit miles.

Share yours :-)

[wasCB14]

Finished SPG retention spend (miscellaneous). $1k for 7k SPG. Points posted quickly.

Midway through Prestige retention period (price rewind stuff). $50 for each statement I spend $1500+. Runs for 7 statements.

Early in CSR minimum spend (travel and other). 50k URs for $4k spend.

[outofcredit]

Chase AARP....spend 500 within 90 days...200 bonus/completed/received

Chase Disney...spend 500 within 90 days...200 statement credit/completed/ waiting on bonus

Chase................Total Checking...Direct Deposit any amount within 60 days...300 bonus/completed/received

Chase has become my new best friend this year..lol.  Numerous bank account bonuses in 2017.  Resting from new checking account signups for at least a year. Gardening from credit card apps for who knows how long.  Not a churner but I like free money.

[wasCB14]

TD Ameritrade sent me a pretty nice targeted brokerage promo. $1,300 and two years of free trades for moving $250k. I might do that.

[AverageJoesCredit]

Bonus chaser Joe ,more like Slo Mo Joe.

Got the Navy Amex 25k for 3k spend, no way I'm hitting that even with an expensive car ac repair today. Other than I did complete a WF Cashwise $200 SUB for 1k in 3 months, no clue when I'll see that

[Anonymous]

Just completed the chase fu 500 in 3 months for 150 plus added the au for 25 more now trying to get my daughter to apply for the fu to get the 100 for recommending a friend

Also working on the cash+ sub of I think 100 or 15o for spending 500 in 90 days I have about 250 left to spend

Just opened a checking account with a local bank that offers 300 cash for opening a checking account should get the 300 around Christmas I believe

My Fico is killing me, I just opened a dcu account and they gave me the pre approval for their platinum card over the phone and I asked the csr what the sub was for accepting the card. Haha

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:
Just completed the chase fu 500 in 3 months for 150 plus added the au for 25 more now trying to get my daughter to apply for the fu to get the 100 for recommending a friend

Also working on the cash+ sub of I think 100 or 15o for spending 500 in 90 days I have about 250 left to spend

Just opened a checking account with a local bank that offers 300 cash for opening a checking account should get the 300 around Christmas I believe

My Fico is killing me, I just opened a dcu account and they gave me the pre approval for their platinum card over the phone and I asked the csr what the sub was for accepting the card. Haha

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LOL, nice! So hard to let those offers get by...

[K-in-Boston]

Awww, we couldn't have this conversation in 2017 when DW and I were doing 1 or 2 big SUBs every month?  

Usually I can hit a SUB in a matter of days or at most weeks.  I'm irritated with the SL on my latest acquisition, Citi ThankYou Premier.  Totally not the norm for me to try to get a SUB for $4k spend with a tiny $3k limit.  To keep it interesting since I can't really just throw a $4k bill on it one month, I've challenged myself to hit the SUB using only the 2x and 3x categories on the card.  The SUB is $4k spend for 50,000 TYPs which I'll be moving to Virgin Atlantic for Premium (possibly Upper Class) for 4 r/t tix to London next year.

I got a congratulatory letter from NFCU yesterday on my auto CLI, offering me a $200 statement credit for spending $3,000 by sometime in July.  Tempting, but a.) I have a big 0% BT on there and there would be no grace period for the new purchases, and b.) the Citi card is already eating into my timeline for hitting $75k spend on SPG for my race to Marriott Platinum.

Edit: Speaking of SPG, I suppose I should have mentioned that I did recently complete a targeted "Spend $10,000 and get 7500 bonus Starpoints" twice (the maximum) that I got back in March.  I guess that counts for a recent bonus, particularly as it has not yet been credited to my account.

[sdsoccerdad]

I didn't have much to report for this year:

Chase Mariott Business - 75K in points for 3K spend back in April. Met the minimum spend the same month with a few big purchases we already had planned.  Received the bonus right after my statement cut.

Amex Platinum - 100K in points w/ a 5K spend last month.  Met the minimum spend in one month since we had a few trips I booked.  Received bonus right after I hit the 5K way before my statement cut.

Amex Everyday - 10K in points for 1K in spend.  Just got this card but had to buy a new camera so I was able to hit the minimum spend pretty quickly.  Points posted few days after that.

[UpperNwGuy]

No new cards in the last 9 months, so I'm not working on any bonuses at present.  I'm thinking of opening a Charles Schwab brokerage account soon, so that would yield a checking account bonus and a credit card bonus, but the bonuses would not be my primary motivation for opening the account.