craig10x said:I have to be concerned whether Citi will be willing for the long term, to stay with the 5% rewards program on my card....You have to be concerned whether your new owner, US Bank will be willing to continue the program after it takes over your account....This is what we will have to wait to see what happens.....

My understanding is that the Associated Bank credit card is similar to Charles Schwab or Fidelity 2% card. I mean, Associated Bank owns the name of the card, but they ask Citi Bank to manage and run the card. My guess is, the 5% CashBack should come from Associated Bank, not Citi Bank, just like the 2% CashBack of Schwab or Fidelity card. So in this case, it is still Associated Bank credit card, except that U.S. bank will manage the card instead of Citi Bank after 6 months. So hopefully, the 5% CashBack will be alive, if the 5% CashBack DOES come from Associated Bank, like I guessed.

Now that my Associated Bank card is transferred to Citi and closed, I decided to reapply for the card using the phone application process.

Stupid? Perhaps. I guess I'll see what the result is in a week or so

That has always been a question in my mind...who is it that actually paid the 5% rewards...was it Associated Bank itself or was it Citibank?
Because if we had the answer to that...it might give one a clue to what the eventual outcome will be for the "two seperate roads" this card has taken now (lol)

So I got approved for the Associated Bank card with a $15,000 credit line, yay.

bluechalk said:I have an Associated Bank 5% card that auto-converted to a Citi Dividend card. I received the letter stating that the account would be closed on November 1. The account is still listed on the Citi website. The only change that I see is that the "Earned dollars" have disappeared. It doesn't say zero, it just totally missing. I'm hoping that this indicates that they have sent me a check for the accumulated cash rewards.If I were you I would call to
1. See if you can have your rebate check sent ( I did 10 days ago)
2. Find out the status of your account. As I indicated above, its not obvious, however you can try the contact by secure email option. If you get a "general error" I suspect your account is closed

Well, here is my experience, called Assoc Bank CS today to check on when my rewards would be sent out. I'm told tough luck, rewards are cancelled ($200.00+) and that they sent a letter out stating my card was cancelled and rewards are forfitted. No such letter have I seen. So, after speaking with their CS top person and exchanging arguements and threats, no rewards. They will foward my case to ??? for further consideration. If this plays out against me it surely will be the same for others. Looks like a Citi has taken to stealing, a new low for CC providers. Will keep you all posted.

On Sept 30, ellory said:Look, none of us know what is going to happen - not even the CSRs given the changing answers we get. So, the proper course of action is
1a. If you can spend enough (including buying grocery cards) to get to the $50 award level, then do so and cash out before 10/31
1b If you can't, call in and plead your case to a CSR and see if you can cash out at less than $50. Seems like they have lots of discretion, so just be nice
2. Wait until after 10/31 to see what happens

In the meantime we can seek more clarification, but, as my goal is maximizing rewards and minimizing risk, I can't foresee that any new information would change my behavior (with the exception of - that if I knew the card was not being closed and the rewards were being maintained under (1a) above I would not buy grocery cards and I could skip (1b) above

watssion said:my account still under Associated bank, but when I clicked reward it took me to a travel reward site.
https://www.travelermiles.com/
I hope they tell us what will happen.Call them

Here's an update on my Associated Bank card that I recently received.

-the card is green and silver and only says "Associated Bank" and "Cash Rebate" on it
-I googled "Assocated Bank cards" and went to http://www.associatedbank.com/Personal/CreditCards.asp from there I clicked Sign-On which took me to the co-branded Citi/AB site https://www.accountonline.com/cards/svc/Login.do?groupId=CBDE&siteId=ASSOCIATED&NEXT_SCREEN=/AccountSummary&langId=EN
-I registered my account and now have Associated Bank Visa® Platinum listed on the site, the card is all silver and looks a little different from the card I have. It has a link for Earned Rebates which just reloads the page, says I have $0.00 in cash rebates, and has a link for See Details which takes me to an error page.

Looks like I'm in the clear so far.

Also, I tried to add the card to thankyou.com, assuming maybe it would work and of course it didn't.

PhrostByte said:Here's an update on my Associated Bank card that I recently received.

-the card is green and silver and only says "Associated Bank" and "Cash Rebate" on it
-I googled "Assocated Bank cards" and went to http://www.associatedbank.com/Personal/CreditCards.asp from there I clicked Sign-On which took me to the co-branded Citi/AB site https://www.accountonline.com/cards/svc/Login.do?groupId=CBDE&si...
-I registered my account and now have Associated Bank Visa® Platinum listed on the site, the card is all silver and looks a little different from the card I have. It has a link for Earned Rebates which just reloads the page, says I have $0.00 in cash rebates, and has a link for See Details which takes me to an error page.

Looks like I'm in the clear so far.

Also, I tried to add the card to thankyou.com, assuming maybe it would work and of course it didn't.

exactly what I have, except I've got mine back in July. No notices yet.