Yet another reason for me to cancel. Actually what I am looking for is an upgrade offer but seems to be hard to get one of these out of Citibank. Not convinced I actually need Select, Signature may be good enough but Platinum just isn't getting used, earn rate is not good enough and I also have the Citibusiness Gold.fyi; you need to have 'not been a customer' for 3 months before you can cash in on a signup bonus
Yet another reason for me to cancel. Actually what I am looking for is an upgrade offer but seems to be hard to get one of these out of Citibank. Not convinced I actually need Select, Signature may be good enough but Platinum just isn't getting used, earn rate is not good enough and I also have the Citibusiness Gold.
Just looked at the site as it's time for me to cancel the Plat card and noticed the 80K Select offer is back, will need to consider this carefully.
fyi; you need to have 'not been a customer' for 3 months before you can cash in on a signup bonus
The T&Cs of the current Select offer do say:
Current Citibank Credit Cardholders are not eligible to apply for this introductory offer. Offer ends 30 June 2012.
So I am not sure whether this plan could work.
It does make it sound that way, but the T&Cs of the offer when I signed up were the same (I saved a copy):
1. You have the choice of earning 50,000 Citibank Reward points or 50,000 Qantas Frequent Flyer points (if you enrol in the Citibank Qantas Rewards Program for an annual fee of $49 at the time of application) on the first spend of your Citibank Select credit card. All Rewards are subject to the terms and conditions of the Citibank Rewards Program. Citibank Reward points never expire as long as your account remains open. Current Citibank Credit Cardholders are not eligible to apply for this introductory offer. Offer ends 31 March 2012.
Maybe CitiBusiness is not considered Citibank?
And thanks for posting it; may give it go and see what happens.
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So I thought I'd try and be a little crafty as an existing Citi customer, and process a "new" application for Select rather than asking for an upgrade. A couple of days after I completed my application, I got a call from Citi advising me I was approved, but as I already had a very high limit on my other card, I'd need to divided it between the two. I said, no worries, I'm going to cancel the other card as I only want the Select and am looking forward to the 80K bonus points. I was quickly advised that I didn't qualify for them as I wasn't a new client. My response was - Fine, cancel the application, I"m no longer interested in paying 2 x the annual fee for no extra benefit (points wise).
The T&Cs of the current Select offer do say:
Current Citibank Credit Cardholders are not eligible to apply for this introductory offer. Offer ends 30 June 2012.
So I am not sure whether this plan could work.
Bugger... I was looking at replacing my Amex Plat Charge card with this, but I missed the offer by a few days (ended June 30th). Hopefully they bring out another similar offer in the next few weeks!