markkundinger said:I got the identical email. However, since I had $0 in the account at the current moment, I decided to transfer in a buck, just in case.

Jack, do you currently have a balance in the USA?I have $6k in the account (to avoid the 12.50 monthly servicing fee**).

I've read that my credit card balances can count toward the "minimum-balance-to-avoid-the-fee." I am playing it safe and keeping some A0R cash in the account.

**not all Citi customers need to maintain this combined balance requirement - your minumum balance requirement may be different depending on which package you signed up for.

So... has anybody actually received the 40K TYP yet?

I just completed all requirements -- 2 billpays per month in each of the first 3 months (March/April/May). My latest statement just cut on 06/05 and I haven't seen the 40K TYP yet.

I know the terms say something like "within 120 days after completing requirements"; just curious if anybody had an actual data point to share.

I also had failure. I never tried linking to it with a trancode of "checking" instead of "savings" though.

There's also a chance that Citibank may just block outide ACH links or something.

Updated my timeline here to say:

6/14 - Received Citi CashReturns bonus check, which included the 5% Cash Back from the 38K and 34K funding of my USA and my wife's USA. There are still a few months (three, I think) of bill pays from our EZ Checking Accounts to go before we know if we'll each receive the 20K TYP.

Then we'll have closure.

wxl31 said:Anybody else having trouble setting up external accounts linked to Citibank's Ultimate Savings account? I've tried to set up an external account on WAMU, Countrywide Bank, and HSBC to link to the Ultimate Savings account but all of them bounced back and no trial deposits ever showed up in the Ultimate Savings account. I double-checked to make sure the account number was right. Strangely enough, I had no problems setting up external accounts linked to Citibank's checking account. Is this just a quirk of Citibank or is something screwy with my Ultimate Savings account?

So the only way is to transfer $2,000 at a time? Great. Within Citi, I setup a link to Countrywide without any problems but I haven't seen the trial deposits in Citi to able to pull from Countrywide. I have a feeling it won't work because in the past, I tried to the same thing when I moved from Emigrant to Countrywide.

2cheap4ebay said:wxl31 said: I've tried to set up an external account on WAMU, Countrywide Bank, and HSBC to link to the Ultimate Savings account but all of them bounced back and no trial deposits ever showed up in the Ultimate Savings account.

Try sending trial deposits from your non-Citi accounts to the Citi checking account instead. I'm having no problems pushing or pulling from GMAC or ING.

To clarify - I had no problems setting up an external push or pull from my Citi checking account. I was unable to set up an external push or pull from my Citi ultimate savings account. Really does not make a tremendous difference, as I could just easily transfer whatever is in my ultimate savings account to the regular checking account before pulling it out, but just rather prefer the elegance of pulling from an interest-bearing account to another interest-bearing account.

shan11 said:Can we apply for this Citi Account (i.e checkings + savings) again even if we already have one? I am not interested in the ThankYou points, but interested in funding with my 5% citiCashReturns card.
I've not heard of any problems doing that. I'm not quite ready to take that step though. My wife and I have checking (unfortunately before we received the CashReturns card), the USA (both our accounts funded with my CashReturns card), and one Ultimate Money Account (UMA) for me (funded with my CashReturns card). The next step is a UMA for her, and then I'll think about opening an additional USA or UMA with the CashReturns card.

where will you put your money instead? i thought 5% was pretty good....

kgkg said:Is it confirmed that we can withdraw the $25000 put in and still get TYPs from this promotion? The APY is just too low with Citi.

diggydoggy said:where will you put your money instead? i thought 5% was pretty good....


kgkg said:Is it confirmed that we can withdraw the $25000 put in and still get TYPs from this promotion? The APY is just too low with Citi.
The 5% probably refers to the 5% Cash Back that has been offered with the Citi CashReturns card, not a current APY with a Citi deposit account. See the CashReturns Dying thread for more information.

empee said:So... has anybody actually received the 40K TYP yet?

I just completed all requirements -- 2 billpays per month in each of the first 3 months (March/April/May). My latest statement just cut on 06/05 and I haven't seen the 40K TYP yet.

I know the terms say something like "within 120 days after completing requirements"; just curious if anybody had an actual data point to share.

I completed the requirements too.. I think so? I paid 5$ to the same card twice a month. That counts right?? I also did ACH push to be safe. Wonder if it'll take the full 120 days or if we should call them...