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The Offer
- Aven is offering a $5 weekly Starbucks if you have a Vantage 4.0 credit score of 700+ and you’re a home owner and you link one bank account via Plaid
Our Verdict
Fair bit of data to give over, but a $5 weekly gift card is nice. Make sure you don’t select the credit card option as that will sign up in one click. Feel free to share your referral invite codes in this linked post (click here), do not share them in the comments below.
In order to get referral bonuses you have to re-link through Plaid a second time by:
- Click User icon top right
- Payout History
- Link Plaid to bank account again
Hat tip to 007
Please remember you’re not allowed to share your referrals unless the post specifically states it’s allowed. I’ve removed all referrals now and will create a dedicated thread. Just because you see others doing the wrong thing doesn’t mean you should follow their lead.
Oops sorry 😬
I posted in the referral thread, and it claimed to be spam, even though I had not posted previously.
Sometimes posts go to moderation. Usually just have to wait 24 hours. If it doesn’t show up would email Will and Chuck
Sorry we don’t troubleshoot referral link issues due to the volume of requests. If it works, great! If it doesn’t just wait for the next opportunity and sorry it didn’t go through
I can’t get the submit button to be enabled. It seems you need to have the address validated to enable the submit button, but if I use the autofill feature, it nulls out my city. If I manually type the address, the validation fails. Anyone figure out a way around this?
I got a random text today about a heloc application from them
Check my comments below. It wasn’t random, you got scammed by Aven. Time to hit up your state attorney general, bbb and trustpilot to get them off of your credit report
Made clearer in post
Got a letter from the IRS 4506C which I assume is from this? LOL
Went to claim my weekly $5 and the first button that pops up is apparently a credit application. One single accidental tap and they hit me with a credit inquiry and issued me a new card. I’m freaking pissed.
Same exact thing happened to me!!! I received notification for inquiry but as far as I know there’s no card
I just checked for P2, apparently we just signed up for their credit card via one click. They just fucked up my 5/24, this is straight up predatory
Predatory is right. I called after going on the website. The app was useless for getting any kind of support. The lady seemed to know already that it was going to be related to the starbucks button. She said they’d close the account and remove the inquiry in 30 days, but I wonder how that would affect 5/24. Freaking sucks
I filed a complaint with BBB just now, perhaps you should do it as well so there’d be multiple complaints. They’re not listed on CFPB but I’m hoping the BBB will be enough for them to remove it off of my credit report altogether.
What’s worse is that there wasn’t even an email that says I was approved for the card, if I hadn’t used P2’s account to see what I even clicked on I still wouldn’t know they signed me up for a card. Perhaps this is the long game Aven was playing this whole time
Joe, Is this the company you used on the BBB site? https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/burlingame/profile/financial-services/aven-financial-inc-1116-931666
Address on their site is in San Francisco so close to what’s on the BBB site, but the same.
That is the one. Did you fall for it as well?
I filed complaints with BBB, trustpilot, and state attornery general and I got an email from them this morning that they’ve removed the inquiry and deleted the tradeline from my credit report. I just looked and while there’s was a notification from experian that a new account was opened it’s not on my report. You should do that as well if you’re having trouble with them, make sure to specific mention that you’d like the tradeline to be deleted, not just marking the account as closed.
was your credit report locked?
Just now got mine. Only one button (green and labeled buy me some coffee).
It wasn’t locked. I consulted with a lawyer and was informed that there was multiple victims. These bbb complaints probably got them to stop doing it
Went to check for myself and P2 and it now says “waitlist” and that the promotion is not available in our state. Tried with a few different US VPNs but no luck.
Same here. I got locked out for this week. I tried an address in MA with success for P2 though. I didn’t use a VPN…just updated the address in Account Information.
Edit: I went and changed my address as well and ended up receiving the gift card this week.
Just claimed my $5 and it says the next one is in 5 days. Same for P2.
Able to claim again today x2 and no credit card bait and switch for now.
For the $5 Starbucks card, the days of the week have been different last week and this week not until Tuesday morning. And I noticed this week I only had so many hours to claim it, not all week. I think this is a change…. Might not be lasting much longer
I did get a notice my $5 from signing up with a referral did finally get sent to my bank account. Took about 3 weeks
For P1-P3, I was able to claim our Starbucks gift cards for the week a day early, not sure why. Also, we got texts/app notifications that our referral money is on the way to our bank accounts, so hopefully we actually get it this time.
Thanks for note re referral money. First batch went out shortly after this was posted on DoC, but I was starting to wonder about second batch and did get texts finally on Friday. So they did pay that one time at least and seems they are doing it again now. They did have a note about a delay right after they paid the first batch but then it disappeared (well payout history stopped working on the app).
2nd this
Interestingly it just let me claim a $5 Starbucks card in app despite having claimed one this past Monday. Check your apps, everybody!
same
Does anyone know if there is a way to add that you own a house after signing up and saying that you don’t? I referred a friend who foolishly did not add it, and isn’t getting his coffee. Can he just create a new account with the correct info or will they flag it for being a duplicate user?