Get up to $200 with free Online Cash Services when you make 4 purchases and pay 4 bills with bill Pay- TD Ameritrade

Is this open to all the TDA brokerage account holder or is this a targeted offer?

adodotnet said:   Is this open to all the TDA brokerage account holder or is this a targeted offer?

It's right on their website. I don't think it's targeted.

Thanks OP - just opened a TD Ameritrade account today and got this going. Much appreciated.

johnnybs said:   drsauce said:   adodotnet said:   Is this open to all the TDA brokerage account holder or is this a targeted offer?

It's right on their website. I don't think it's targeted.

Targeted to only those who DON'T have a debit card or have used Bill pay in the past.

Haha. Fair enough.

I did the bill pay, but it is not taking the money out of my total balance, did anyone else have this happen?

had some trouble so far, got an email this morning saying they could not open the checking account for the debit card. Called up and found out my account was locked and they wanted my bank to verify the funds did go through and I owned account, this cost me about an hour playing phone tag with chase and ameritrade finally Ameritrade did conference in chase and everything got fixed. Also found out I had to reset up my bill pays, make sure you leave 4 days at least between funds posting and your first bill pay. Hopefully they figure out the debit card part, I am starting to get frustrated with the entire thing honestly. Everytime I call I feel like I am talking to a 19 year old stoner in southern California or British Columbia.

Why would they hard pull to let you use your own money?

ziffy said:   We have been getting frequent phone calls from TDAmeritrade on getting to know us, wanting to learn our need, etc. One time is ok, two time is still tolerable, the third and fourth phone calls start to get our head spinning. We're getting both the phone calls from the 800 numbers and their local branches.

For those long timer TDAmeritrade Customers, any tips to opt us out of the phone calls? Any advise is appreciate.
Thanks.Perhaps send them a secure email? I've found them to be quite responsive.

Google Voice will solve telemarketing/"getting-to-know-you"/welcome call problems. When signing up, I gave them my Google Voice number. I program my GV account to only ring me on "preferred" numbers in my address book. Saved me tons of hours from dealing with their junk calls from the 20K Delta SkyPeso promo with Bosley from a few years ago. Yeap, ever since their hundreds, if not thousands of telemarketing sales calls, have gone straight into my Spam box!

sunspotzsz said:   Man, this caused a lot more trouble than I thought.

TD wants to verify with my bank for initial deposit. They want a letter from bank with bank's letter head. Pain in the ass!

Yep, I just posted about this. Also your bank wont give it to them, next they will 3 way call your bank.

ALSO!!!!

!!!THEY DO A HARD PULL ON YOUR CREDIT!!!!!!

It posted today, I see the hard pull on transunion, not sure about the other 2 because I only monitor Transunion!

Cmoz said:   Google Voice will solve telemarketing/"getting-to-know-you"/welcome call problems. When signing up, I gave them my Google Voice number. I program my GV account to only ring me on "preferred" numbers in my address book. Saved me tons of hours from dealing with their junk calls from the 20K Delta SkyPeso promo with Bosley from a few years ago. Yeap, ever since their hundreds, if not thousands of telemarketing sales calls, have gone straight into my Spam box!

Thanks for polluting their spam training filters. This is why I had to disable gmail spam filters; it flags way too many false positives.

The better way would be to give certain numbers to certain groups of people. Ideally, one number per contact would be best, but it's not really practical for POTS.

rickt86 said:   INQUIRIES You have a new credit inquiry on your credit report submitted by ADV CLERING. Show More Feb. 10, 2012


02/09/2012 ACH Debit ADV CLEARING SEC TR 999624950000120 WEB ID: Y470533629 $500.00

yep matches!! Thats my funding of the account from my Chase account

I have a freeze on all of my reports i wonder if theyll prevent me from opening an account.

Thanks, Completed by Bill Pay, Now waiting for the Debit card. Its been a week and there is no response to Fax. Time to check with debit card application

umafuaba said:   This is not working for me. Twice I have had my billpays cancelled on the day of the transaction due to insufficient funds. My money market balance has enough to cover the funds, but my cash balance says $0.00. I cannot find a way to transfer the money from Money Market to cash.
Works for me. Even though cash balance is initially 0, bill payments get sent, cash balance becomes negative, and money gets moved from MM the next business day to cover. I don't expect to see any margin interest for the day of the negative balance. I wonder, is your account setup for margin? What do you see under the "Cash Sweep Vehicle" tab in "Online Cash Services" -- is your MM setup as the "Cash Sweep Vehicle"?

foeplay said:   I did two BillPay on Monday and they haven't cleared. I guess I need to wait until it reaches the payee before it withdraws my funds.
Were those payments made by check? My electronic payments get deducted on the day of the payment.

olegos said:   umafuaba said:   This is not working for me. Twice I have had my billpays cancelled on the day of the transaction due to insufficient funds. My money market balance has enough to cover the funds, but my cash balance says $0.00. I cannot find a way to transfer the money from Money Market to cash.
Works for me. Even though cash balance is initially 0, bill payments get sent, cash balance becomes negative, and money gets moved from MM the next business day to cover. I don't expect to see any margin interest for the day of the negative balance. I wonder, is your account setup for margin? What do you see under the "Cash Sweep Vehicle" tab in "Online Cash Services" -- is your MM setup as the "Cash Sweep Vehicle"?

foeplay said:   I did two BillPay on Monday and they haven't cleared. I guess I need to wait until it reaches the payee before it withdraws my funds.
Were those payments made by check? My electronic payments get deducted on the day of the payment.

Current Cash sweep vehicle: FDIC INSURED DEPOSIT ACCOUNT IDA02 NOT COVERED BY SIPC

Available cash sweep vehicle options: TD Ameritrade Cash and FDIC INSURED DEPOSIT ACCOUNT IDA

My account is not a margin account, but I didn't realize it had to be in order to enroll in billpay or qualify for the promotion. I think those that are receiving a hard pull have signed up for a margin account.

olegos said:   umafuaba said:   Current Cash sweep vehicle: FDIC INSURED DEPOSIT ACCOUNT IDA02 NOT COVERED BY SIPC

Available cash sweep vehicle options: TD Ameritrade Cash and FDIC INSURED DEPOSIT ACCOUNT IDA
This is what I have too. I too wouldn't think margin would be necessary to pay bills from available funds. One more thing to check, on "Deposit/Withdraw" screen (under "Accounts" tab), check what it shows as "Available cash for withdrawal". It should include your MM balance, and this amount should be available for bill pays. If your bill pays are within that, and don't go through, give them a call and see what's wrong. (My guess is there's a hold on initial deposit so it wasn't available for withdrawals when you tried your bill pays.)I ran into this problem as well when trying to use billpay for the first time. The response to my secure email was that the funds were held for 3 biz days.

was a new account i opened and got hard pulled on

adodotnet said:   can anyone confirm there is no hard pull to the existing TDA brokerage account holder?

I had an existing margin and option account, so far no hard pull.

I've had that happen to me a few times. It seems TD requires verbal confirmation for an outgoing transfer to a new outside bank the first time. Call TD's customer service and they will take care of it for you. After that future transfers should go off without a hitch.

I got the debit card in the mail today and you need the pin to activate. I assume that one will come in the mail soon after.