The Offer
- Use Bill Pay to pay 3 bills through Bank of The West by May 31st, 2017 and get $10.
- Each bill must be at least $10 and unique (unique party with a different mailing address from the Bill Pay subscriber)
The Fine Print
- Online Bill Pay offer is only available to new consumer checking accounts opened between January 21 and March 3, 2017. To qualify for this one-time $10 Bill Pay bonus, the Bill Pay subscriber must complete a minimum of three (3) qualifying transactions from one consumer checking account between January 21, 2017 and May 31, 201
- Each qualifying Bill Pay transaction must be at least $10 and must be sent to a unique party with a different mailing address from the Bill Pay subscriber. Payments to oneself are excluded. Offer is not available to existing Bank of the West customers with an open consumer checking account as of January 20, 2017.
- The bonus (maximum of 1 per Bill Pay subscriber) is a $10 non-transferable credit to the checking account and will be processed by June 30, 2017. If an eligible customer qualifies in multiple checking accounts, the account with the most recent bill pay activities will be credited the $10.
- To be eligible for the bonus, the checking account from which the Bill Pay transactions were made must remain open at the time of offer fulfillment. Any Bill Pay subscriber who meets the qualification requirements as of 05/31/2017 but whose checking account to be credited is no longer in open status when the credit is paid will not receive the bonus
- Required to pay taxes on this bonus
Our Verdict
Not useful by itself, but if you recently got the $150/$300 checking promotion it’s worth doing.
Hat tip to reader Teddi
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Bill Pay $10 offer popped up upon logging out. Three bill pays between July 8 to December 31st.
CORRECTION
the Bill Pay subscriber must complete a minimum of three (3) qualifying transactions from the new consumer checking account between July 8, 2017 and December 29, 2017
They extended the promotion through 12/29/17:
https://www.bankofthewest.com/campaigns/personal-banking/bill-pay.html?icid=olb-login-billpay-3for10-7242017
Offer is now only available to a new consumer checking account opened between July 8, 2017 and September 29, 2017.
Credited by March 30, 2018. That would suck.
I got the ten dollars today! At the same time as my bonus. I was told end of June, 06/16 was a nice surprise.
Sweet, I know it's just $10 but hey- that's 2 more Starbucks for me, for free!
Yup, not a huge bonus but every bit adds up.
"Each qualifying Bill Pay transaction must be at least $10 and must be sent to a unique party with a different mailing address from the Bill Pay subscriber"
Regarding the wording 'unique party': does that mean i have to have 3 different payees or can i also just pay my same credit card in 3 installments of >$10/each (so just 1 payee but 3 bill-pay transactions)?
3 different payees I imagine.
Opened Bank of the west checking account online and they closed it due to a freeze on my Experian. Called in and said they cannot revert decision. I put $500 initial deposit on my Double Cash and transaction posted. It's been over a month and Bank of the west still have not refund my $500 yet. Just filed CFPB and will not bank with them again.
When I opened the bank account March 2 the agent told me about this offer. So $100 for DD; $50 for debit card usage and now $10 for bill pay which is an easy $10. I appreciate all money.
$100 for DD?
yeah part of the $150 offer that's been on the best bonus pages. It's technically a $100 and a $50 bonus
pretty small bonus for a lot of work. i suppose they're looking for ways to stop the tide of cancellations after the actual bonus posts :D
Not really that much work, three bill pays takes about 3 minutes
haha true enough