AGR Mastercard New Enrollee Bonus Points

[AAARGH!]

Read this below from the AGR site terms and conditions for enrolling for the AGR Mastercard from Chase....

2 You will receive a total of 8,000 bonus points with this bonus offer. 4,000 bonus points will post to your Chase credit card account and appear on your Chase statement and an additional 4,000 bonus points will post directly to your Amtrak Guest Rewards account and appear on your Amtrak Guest Rewards statement. Amtrak is wholly liable for the 4,000 bonus points posted directly to your Amtrak Guest Rewards account. You will qualify and receive your bonus points after your first purchase/first use of the card. After qualifying, please allow 6 to 8 weeks for bonus points to post to both your Chase credit card and Amtrak Guest Rewards accounts.

So obvoiusly 4,000 goes to my AGR account directly. The other 4,000 appear on my Chase statement. What does that mean? Does it mean they will eventually become AGR points or what?

I assume any purchases become AGR points once a month. Is the second 4K put in with these and sent over to AGR at the end of the billing cycle? That is, the first 4K go immediately and the second 4K go at the end of the first billing cycle?

Thanks.

 

[rrdude]

Sounds to me like they are ONLY issuing 4K AGR points, and the other 4K are for Chase's "points program". Hope I'm wrong though, I'm sure you'd like all 8K as AGR........

 

[MrEd]

I think it says the other 4000 will come after you buy something using the card and will show at end of billing cycle.

 

[Bob Dylan]

Read this below from the AGR site terms and conditions for enrolling for the AGR Mastercard from Chase....

2 You will receive a total of 8,000 bonus points with this bonus offer. 4,000 bonus points will post to your Chase credit card account and appear on your Chase statement and an additional 4,000 bonus points will post directly to your Amtrak Guest Rewards account and appear on your Amtrak Guest Rewards statement. Amtrak is wholly liable for the 4,000 bonus points posted directly to your Amtrak Guest Rewards account. You will qualify and receive your bonus points after your first purchase/first use of the card. After qualifying, please allow 6 to 8 weeks for bonus points to post to both your Chase credit card and Amtrak Guest Rewards accounts.

So obvoiusly 4,000 goes to my AGR account directly. The other 4,000 appear on my Chase statement. What does that mean? Does it mean they will eventually become AGR points or what?

I assume any purchases become AGR points once a month. Is the second 4K put in with these and sent over to AGR at the end of the billing cycle? That is, the first 4K go immediately and the second 4K go at the end of the first billing cycle?

Thanks.

When I got mine in June (I only got 5,000! )2,500 posted from Amtrak and 2,500 as bonus from Chase and they posted @ the same time!If it still hasnt posted Id call and ask!

 

[AlanB]

All of the points are AGR points. Chase is paying for half the points, AGR is paying for the other half of the points. Once you get the Chase card and comply with the requirements, they'll issue 4,000 AGR points and send it over to your AGR account, and you will see those points in your AGR summary on the Chase bill. That summary will also include points for purchases made that month at whatever rate your purchases qualified at. Of course that's 1 point for regular purchases and 2 for Amtrak purchases.

When AGR sees those 4,000 points show up, they'll match it in another transaction giving you a total of 8,000 AGR points. Those 4,000 points from AGR will only show on your AGR account, Chase will not know about them and doesn't want to know about them not showing up either.

So if you don't get the first 4,000 from Chase, you complain to Chase. If you don't get the second 4,000 from AGR, you complain to AGR. And of course you can't complain about AGR's share of the points until the Chase points are sent over to AGR.

 

[IHC]

This IMO is all a big scam and not worth damaging your credit rating over...

 

[sky12065]

Read this below from the AGR site terms and conditions for enrolling for the AGR Mastercard from Chase....

2 You will receive a total of 8,000 bonus points with this bonus offer. 4,000 bonus points will post to your Chase credit card account and appear on your Chase statement and an additional 4,000 bonus points will post directly to your Amtrak Guest Rewards account and appear on your Amtrak Guest Rewards statement. Amtrak is wholly liable for the 4,000 bonus points posted directly to your Amtrak Guest Rewards account. You will qualify and receive your bonus points after your first purchase/first use of the card. After qualifying, please allow 6 to 8 weeks for bonus points to post to both your Chase credit card and Amtrak Guest Rewards accounts.

So obvoiusly 4,000 goes to my AGR account directly. The other 4,000 appear on my Chase statement. What does that mean? Does it mean they will eventually become AGR points or what?

I assume any purchases become AGR points once a month. Is the second 4K put in with these and sent over to AGR at the end of the billing cycle? That is, the first 4K go immediately and the second 4K go at the end of the first billing cycle?

Thanks.

I'm confused! You say that you got the quoted above directly from the AGR website, but that's not what I see there. Here is what I am seeing - copied and pasted directly from the website:

2 You will receive a total of 5,000 bonus points with this bonus offer. 2,500 bonus points will post to your Chase credit card account and appear on your Chase statement and an additional 2,500 bonus points will post directly to your Amtrak Guest Rewards account and appear on your Amtrak Guest Rewards statement. Amtrak is wholly liable for the 2,500 bonus points posted directly to your Amtrak Guest Rewards account. You will qualify and receive your bonus points after your first purchase/first use of the card. After qualifying, please allow 6 to 8 weeks for bonus points to post to both your Chase credit card and Amtrak Guest Rewards accounts.

As you can see your original quote indicates an 8,000/4,000 point base, but on the quote I just copied from the website indicate a 5,000/2,500.

Can anyone explain this discripency? :huh:

 

[PRR 60]

This IMO is all a big scam and not worth damaging your credit rating over...

You can believe that if you wish, but it is not true. If your credit rating is good, getting the AGR card will not hurt it. And then using the card and paying on-time will confirm your previous rating. Meanwhile, you get the bonus points, and the on-going use points with no annual fee - a rarity for travel cards. It's a pretty good deal, and I'm a hard sell for this kind of thing.

 

[PRR 60]

As you can see your original quote indicates an 8,000/4,000 point base, but on the quote I just copied from the website indicate a 5,000/2,500.
Can anyone explain this discripency? :huh:

AHR / Chase target different members with different offers. The targetted offers appear after you log in to the AGR home page. Some get the 5000 point offer. Some get larger offers, up to 16,000 points.

 

[sky12065]

This IMO is all a big scam and not worth damaging your credit rating over...

You can believe that if you wish, but it is not true. If your credit rating is good, getting the AGR card will not hurt it. And then using the card and paying on-time will confirm your previous rating. Meanwhile, you get the bonus points, and the on-going use points with no annual fee - a rarity for travel cards. It's a pretty good deal, and I'm a hard sell for this kind of thing.

I was simply going to ask HOW can using the card ruin your credit, but you did a good job in replying so I'll just second your post. All in favor, raise your right hand... all opposed keep your hand down! :lol:

 

[sky12065]

As you can see your original quote indicates an 8,000/4,000 point base, but on the quote I just copied from the website indicate a 5,000/2,500.
Can anyone explain this discripency? :huh:

AHR / Chase target different members with different offers. The targetted offers appear after you log in to the AGR home page. Some get the 5000 point offer. Some get larger offers, up to 16,000 points.

Thanks for your reply! The OP must have been directed to a special page rather than the one I can access.

 

[AAARGH!]

As you can see your original quote indicates an 8,000/4,000 point base, but on the quote I just copied from the website indicate a 5,000/2,500.
Can anyone explain this discripency? :huh:

AHR / Chase target different members with different offers. The targetted offers appear after you log in to the AGR home page. Some get the 5000 point offer. Some get larger offers, up to 16,000 points.

That is exactly what happened. I also saw the 'normal' 5K offer when I navigated to it via another method. But the link from the front AGR page (after i logged in) took me to the 8K page. Now I'm dissapointed that I don't get more. The inner Gordon Gecko comes out....... :mellow: