tooshy said:Good advice SIS

Does anyone know how the January 20.05% promotion work? Why such an odd percentage? It seems like they will pay 20.05% on all purchases made in January EXCEPT the everyday double category. Am I correct?

Also the 10K skymile promotions for all the cards seem to end 12/31. Just a few more days....

The odd percentage comes from the year "2005"

SUCKISSTAPLES said:... It doesnt matter whether it "makes sense" to you, the rep is wrong.
Perhaps. Worst comes to worst, as the article says, the info can be removed by the "authorized users" from their own reports.

Can I use my skymiles to redeem a ticket to another person?

scripta said:SUCKISSTAPLES said:... It doesnt matter whether it "makes sense" to you, the rep is wrong.
Perhaps. Worst comes to worst, as the article says, the info can be removed by the "authorized users" from their own reports. yeah, and im sure they will be thrilled that you added this info to their credit reports w/o their knowledge , and especially if it causes them to get higher loan rates or denials for a car/home loan.

SUCKISSTAPLES said:... yeah, and im sure they will be thrilled that you added this info to their credit reports w/o their knowledge , and especially if it causes them to get higher loan rates or denials for a car/home loan.
I never said anything like that and I'd never do this without their knowledge. I highly advise anyone going through with this to let the authorized persons know.

ahearnb said:Well, WTF. I just called to activate and the guy offered to add people to my account, but not the 2500 skymiles per person! Man, I'm not very happy about that. I asked him about it and he didn't know anything. I signed up through the link that only gave me 10,000 miles for the card so I would be SURE to get offered the 2500 miles per user.

....and I was SO looking forward to getting a free plane ticket....

dammit!

Call again. I added 4 AUs yesterday but before doing so I asked a few questions. I said I'm calling because I recently received my Delta card and wanted to be sure the first year fee is waived for my account and that I would be able to add authorized users to my account and earn additional 2500 miles for each person added. The CSR said yes about the fee waiver immediately but said she'd have to check about the 2,500 miles. She took the longest time, but then came back and said yes. We'll see....

There are several different offers it seems. Some don't waive the first year fee for their 10,000 promo. I applied with the FW Cash Back link instead of OP's so I couldn't recall exactly if I read that the fee was waived. I called to clarify this and ask about the 2,500 miles at the same time hoping not to cause a FW effect.

Tooshy, thanks for the advice, but it didn't work. CSR put me on hold for a couple minutes and came back and said that he checked with his supervisor and it was a promotion that ended.

BAH!

Has anybody actually received the 2500 miles per AU?

I got the Delta AMEX card, and added four authorized users when I activated. So far I have been credited the 10,000 miles for signing up (argh, i signed up with a 12,000 mile offer, so i'll have to call in about that), but haven't seen the 2500 x 4 miles for the AU's yet.

When are the AU miles supposed to post? Anybody received theirs yet?

khorne is the OP though. Anybody who tried this deal after it was posted get their 2500 miles per additional authorized user yet?

Spoke to AMEX on the phone, and the CSR was adamant that I would only get 2500 miles once, for the first AU that was added. I didn't have any proof otherwise that I could show him, but just kept arguing my position. Nothing was resolved.

I'm just wondering what is the best approach to make sure we get the miles.

My statement cycle ended 1/18 and I was charged $85 for membership fee...check your statements. They finally waived it but said I didn't sign up for the fee waiver offer (I signed up with FatCash link, so that may be why). No bonus points 10K or 2,500 per AU either. They said it will take 6-8 weeks for that to show up. I clearly saw the 10K bonus offered

The CSR mentioned that if you applied online this might be why. She said if I used the mailer to apply there would have been no problem. Is there a promo code that should have been used to get the first year fee waived?

Another interesting thing is the CSR now says there is nothing mentioned on my account that says the first year fee is waived, yet I called specifically about this several weeks ago. Very fishy/funny....