Just logged into my AGR account, and it isn't showing any transactions since 12/22/22. The Amtrak tickets were purchased with the FNBO card on 1/6/23. The transaction appears in my FNBO account on their website, but no points showing yet from that transaction in my AGR account on that website - which is why I assume the points (including the bonus points) will post at the end of the current billing period.
Yes, they only post after the statement is “cut”.
Well here’s a fun fact…. I went to buy a bottle of wine and used the AGR card, which has been working fine since I received it in October. The card was declined as being “prohibited for this type of merchant” or language to that effect. So the card is a prude and won’t work in a NY liquor store. Go figure
ETA: Must be the specific store not taking reward cards, hubby said he recently used his card at a different liquor store and it worked fine.
WOW, they must not want to pay the % ( Vigorish) thar Card Companies charge Merchants for Credit Transactions.( there's places here that give Discounts for paying Cash, mostly Mom and Pops but Gas Stations do this too!)
Some places like our local roller rink are adding a surcharge for credit card purchases.
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I shop at Jewel often (1-2 times a week, at a city and a suburban location) using my AGR card. The machine usually gives a chip-misread error the first time, but I wipe it on my coat (sometimes reject-and-wipe twice) and it invariably goes through. It never occurred to me that it could be anything BUT a chip misread.
So there is a workaround to do as hubby has suggested, but with a little more work involved than booking tickets online by oneself. The only other alternative I can think of would be for our son to order the tickets online (with or without his own AGR account) and use our FNBO AGR credit card as the payment method. (Probably wouldn't do that, though, as it'll take long enough to pay off the charge for our own CZ tickets, even after doing a balance transfer to a 0% interest credit card.)
Jewel works fine for me by tapping my AGR card. I have never tried inserting to use the chip.I shop at Jewel often (1-2 times a week, at a city and a suburban location) using my AGR card. The machine usually gives a chip-misread error the first time, but I wipe it on my coat (sometimes reject-and-wipe twice) and it invariably goes through. It never occurred to me that it could be anything BUT a chip misread.
Thank you, Robert. I wonder if I can get the original points offer. Hmmm I'll have to call and see what they say.
I have my notifications set so I receive a text message when a charge is made without the card being present (phone, online, etc.). You can also be notified everytime the card is used.
I have all my cards set up to notify me via text each time a card is used, both when a charge succeeds or fails. I do not use the cards frequently enough for the messages to become a bother, and it tends to save a lot of hassle later when I can report a problem to the card issuer very soon after it is detected by me.
I discovered that the reason I had a charge declined without notification or delay is that FNBO did not have a cell phone number for me. The reason they don't have my cell number is that my home (where I am 95% of the time) is in an area with no cell service. I only turn on my cell phone if I am in town, or traveling.
I thought you could choose to get notified by email.
IIRC, at one time credit card companies had more power, and threatened to cancel credit card privileges to any merchant that did that.
You can opt to receive all kinds of account alerts by email, except fraud alerts. I called because I could not find any setting for fraud alerts, and this is what the agent told me: there is no setting for fraud alerts, because fraud alerts WILL come to your cell phone.
