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Frazz
Frazz (@guest_2003145)
February 12, 2025 12:41

(Failed) DP from Pennsylvania:

2024/10/10: “Business Checking” account opened.
2024/10/11: Opening deposit from Ally posts ($10).
2024/11/01: Transfer from Discover Checking to Bluevine posts ($2010).

2024/11/06: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$700).
2024/11/07: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$750).
2024/11/08: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$560).
2024/11/10: 30 days after account funding…needed to spend $2000 by now…completed.
2024/11/14: Cashed out CashApp to Bluevine ($2010).

2024/11/22: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$600).
2024/11/26: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$650).
2024/11/28: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$760).
2024/12/05: Cashed out CashApp to Bluevine ($2015).
2024/12/10: 60 days after account funding…needed to spend $2000 by now…completed.

2024/12/17: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$501).
2024/12/20: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$600).
2024/12/21: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$300).
2024/12/21: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$605).
2025/01/09: 90 days after account funding…needed to spend $2000 by now…completed.

2025/01/31: Reached out to customer service via email. They said “Please be advised, I see that you are eligible to receive bonus and same will get posted on 02/10/2025. Thank you for your time and patience.”

2025/02/10: Bonus should have posted by now (“Bluevine will deposit the bonus into their Bluevine Business Checking Account by the tenth day of the month that follows the month in which the last requirement was met”). No bonus.

2025/02/11: Reached out to customer service again via the same email thread from before.

2025/02/12: Received a reply email: “After review, you did not qualify to receive the $300 payout. I apologize, you were misinformed. I’ll be sure the agent you spoke with understands they provided the incorrect information.”

I requested elaboration on any requirement(s) I didn’t meet. They replied within 20 minutes:

Unfortunately, Cashapp transactions/deposits do not count towards the sign up bonus.
Transactions for peer-to-peer payments and those that use the Bluevine Business Debit Mastercard® and/or Bluevine Business Cashback Mastercard® as a funding source for payments made through a bank or other financial institution are excluded as well as transactions with the merchants listed below. https://www.bluevine.com/excluded-merchants-card-transactions

Interestingly, they made no mention of any new terms, etc. Bummer that this didn’t work out. Wondering if I can transfer out the remaining ~$11 I still have in the account and close without any fee since I never received the bonus?

favo🔗
favo🔗 (@guest_2002980)
February 12, 2025 05:35

Has anyone received the bonus after meeting the requirements with a different method after receiving the “Important Update on Bluevine Signup Bonus Eligibility Requirements” email in November?

JD
JD (@guest_2002987)
February 12, 2025 06:09

I did, but not sure how…
#1986441

favo🔗
favo🔗 (@guest_2002995)
February 12, 2025 06:58
  JD

Good to know, thank you. I messaged customer service but haven’t received any response.

JD
JD (@guest_2000503)
February 8, 2025 01:27

Most people here probably hate both these companies, but Fidelity + Bluevine can be a killer combo:

Fidelity’s free wire transfer to Bluevine scheduled before ~3:45 ET should hit BV by around 4:30.
Bluevine ACH DD scheduled before ~4:40 ET should transmit and be received by 6:00 ET. This is probably due to Coastal Community participating in the third same-day ACH window (4:45pm cutoff). I noticed One Finance which also uses Coastal exhibits the same behavior.

BV’s balance shown updates in real time, so you can just keep a window open and watch for your wire to hit. BV only allows one instance of a Payee name, but you can schedule a payment, edit the rtn/ach for that payee, and schedule another payment if you want. I was able to hit two banks same day this way. Note, my first payment was scheduled hours earlier, but still hadn’t processed at the time I scheduled the second. The changes to rtn/ach didn’t affect the first payment.

mothman69
mothman69 (@guest_2000552)
February 8, 2025 07:46
  JD

I add the name of the bank after the payee name to keep the list of payees separated. It’ll show up on the transfer description, but it doesn’t seem to cause any problems.

JD
JD (@guest_2000846)
February 8, 2025 17:12

Nice tip, thx

Mike
Mike (@guest_2000871)
February 8, 2025 17:59
  JD

Is this to earn an interest for the funds on that one day at both Fidelity and BV?

If you do with $50,000, for example, how much do you earn each time??

JD
JD (@guest_2000911)
February 8, 2025 19:01

No, just a fast way to get an emergency DD done if you suddenly realize you need one that day.
To earn double interest you need to pull into an account that credits you same day but doesn’t debit the other side until next business day.

Tom MacDonald
Tom MacDonald (@guest_2000398)
February 7, 2025 21:34

HOT TIP: BlueVine denying you the bonus for made up reasons?
Call 425-257-9000 (I think it was Option 2 for ‘FinTech’) during regular business hours.

Tell Coastal Community bank what has happened.
I did, and I told them I was contacting everybody, even the organizations listed on BlueVine’s site like Bloomberg CNBC Entrapreneur Forbes Inc. TechCrunch Tearsheet Inc. Magazine Nerd Wallet, and they contacted BlueVine to tell them what I said. I got an email from a supervisor at BlueVine the same day. I responded to him and I am currently waiting for reply. If it goes no where with him then I am pulling the trigger on all the official complaints.

Morris
Morris (@guest_2000081)
February 7, 2025 13:16

Has anyone actually received the $300 bonus yet?

JD
JD (@guest_2000131)
February 7, 2025 14:10

Some have…ironically, the most successful method seemed to be buying MOs despite a few people getting shutdown for doing that, lol.

Sexy_kitten7
Sexy_kitten7 (@guest_1993419)
January 29, 2025 10:35

Ridic! I asked for the bonus and they said I didn’t meet the terms. I said I met via debit card spend. They wrote back inter alia that I didn’t fund the account (would be pretty hard to make debit purchases!) and didn’t use the promo code? This is more than incompetent, it’s criminal. Will Cfpb, Ftc, etc.

vic torr
vic torr (@guest_1993420)
January 29, 2025 10:37

When did you open the account?

JD
JD (@guest_1993430)
January 29, 2025 10:53

You can search comments by username. Also, I blame you for jinxing this offer and spawning this shitshow, lol…

#1934371
#1934392

Sexy_kitten7
Sexy_kitten7 (@guest_1993433)
January 29, 2025 10:58

July

vic torr
vic torr (@guest_1993436)
January 29, 2025 11:08

The $2000 minimum funding definitely was not for account opened in July. Did you receive an email around November to re-do the qualification like many of us here?

Sexy_kitten7
Sexy_kitten7 (@guest_1993435)
January 29, 2025 11:08

NJ Reg BLUEVINE INC. 0101039386 Jersey City FR 12/21/2015

DE Reg BLUEVINE INC.  5362880 Incorporation Date / Formation Date: 7/8/2013

RA: FILEJET INC.
Address: 300 DELAWARE AVENUE, SUITE 210F
City: WILMINGTON County: New Castle
State: DE Postal Code: 19801

vc
vc (@guest_2000862)
February 8, 2025 17:46

Did they ever respond to your threat of legal action or pay the bonus?

Sexy_kitten7
Sexy_kitten7 (@guest_1993441)
January 29, 2025 11:13

X
X
X

January 29, 2025

Bluevine Inc.
30 Montgomery Street, Suite 1400
Jersey City, NJ 07302

Coastal Community Bank
5415 Evergreen Way
Everett, WA 98203

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
1700 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20552

Checking Account Promotional Offer

To Whom it May Concern:

On July 23, 2024, I applied online for a Checking account at Bluevine in response to an offer to “get your $300 bonus.” My application was approved and all terms of the promotion were met, namely to “Spend at least $2,000 with your Bluevine Business Debit Mastercard and/or Bluevine Business Cashback Mastercard” “every 30 days for the next 90 days from account funding,”

When my Checking bonus did not post, I contacted Bluevine for payment. Bluevine falsely claims that the terms were not followed and denied my request.

Please pay the $300 bonus. Otherwise this matter will proceed to trial.

Sincerely,

X

Morris
Morris (@guest_2000113)
February 7, 2025 13:54

I applied in October 2024, did the same thing. I have not received the bonus either. Thanks for this post.
But not sure if CFPB is the right place for a business checking account.

vc
vc (@guest_2000196)
February 7, 2025 15:27

Still worth sending to the CFPB, who will forward your complaint to the FTC.

This will be in the email that the CFPB sends:
“Here’s what we did with your complaint.
We entered the information you provided into the Consumer Sentinel Network, a secure online database operated by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC cannot resolve individual complaints, but civil and criminal law enforcement authorities worldwide, including Consumer Financial Protection Bureau investigators, use the Consumer Sentinel Network to identify questionable business practices that may lead to investigations and prosecutions.”

They also provide a link to legal services. “Or, contact your local legal aid office to see if free or low‐cost legal aid is available to you. Visit the Legal Services Corporation website http://www.lsc.gov/ to see what’s available in your area.”

Ostrich Rider
Ostrich Rider (@guest_1991331)
January 24, 2025 21:25

Time to file a complaint. I made contact with them to inquire about the bonus and I got a response that I didn’t qualify because I didn’t meet the terms for “possible reasons”, and they listed a few possibilities. I responded back with the screenshot of the terms and layed out why I DID meet the terms “every 30 days for 90 days”. No response back from them. So, I inquire again only to get a similar response with “possible reasons” why I ‘may not’ have met the terms.

Reading all of the posts on this tread leads me to believe they just decided to not pay out on the bonus for most accounts wether terms were met or not, for some reason. My last response to them I told them I would file a complaint if they didn’t award the bonus, and I have not heard back since. Time to file a complaint and see how that goes.

vic torr
vic torr (@guest_1991369)
January 24, 2025 22:47

Is your screenshot for the original terms when you signed up? Could you please share it? They have changed the offer page multiple times so yours would be helpful for many.

Aesop
Aesop (@guest_1987895)
January 18, 2025 18:00

fucked me out of the bonus with random changes in terms.  boooooo.

Jack
Jack (@guest_1987051)
January 17, 2025 04:59

I guess this bonus isn’t worth doing?

Ostrich Rider
Ostrich Rider (@guest_1991334)
January 24, 2025 21:27

Don’t do it!

Danny
Danny (@guest_1986221)
January 16, 2025 08:14

I checked and they did exclude PayPal transfers when they updated the terms. This is really getting to be too much work for the bonus

Maya
Maya (@guest_1986323)
January 16, 2025 10:42

“Beginning November 7, 2024, you can qualify for the bonus through credit or debit card spend on Eligible Transactions* or through either of the two other eligibility requirements.

a) receive at least $5,000.00 in deposits from eligible Merchant Services;
b) make at least $5,000.00 in payments through eligible Payroll Providers; or
c) spend at least $2,000.00 on Eligible Transactions with the Bluevine Business Debit Mastercard® and/or Bluevine Business Cashback Mastercard®. Eligible Transactions are transactions other than peer-to-peer payments or transactions that use the Bluevine Business Debit Mastercard® and/or Bluevine Business Cashback Mastercard® as a funding source for payments made through a bank or other financial institution.”

I do not see Paypal excluded in the email?

vc
vc (@guest_1986327)
January 16, 2025 10:43

PayPal is not on the vendor list. It used to be highlighted in the “Most Popular” list and was also on the main list, but it’s not there anymore. Hope that you still get your bonus, though.

Maya
Maya (@guest_1986334)
January 16, 2025 10:51
  vc

Ah. I didn’t check the list again when I received the email. I did three months of Paypal probably for nothing again. Frustrating.

JD
JD (@guest_1986441)
January 16, 2025 13:03

You never know…I did 2 months of PPBP before getting that email, then did 2 months of PP transfers. Somehow I got the bonus on 1/6 before starting the third month of transfers.

Maya
Maya (@guest_1986459)
January 16, 2025 13:19
  JD

I did 3 months of PPBP before getting that email (08,09,10), then did 3 months of PP transfers (11, 12,1), no bonus so far…

Ken
Ken (@guest_1986389)
January 16, 2025 11:51

Do you know when they updated the terms and excluded Paypal from the eligible merchant services?

I was denied for the bonus in November because I had been doing $2000 Paypal bill pay.
Then I have been doing $5000 Paypal transfer since November to try to qualify. Paypal was among the eligible merchant services at least in November.

I believe many people are on the same boat.

It’s frustrating that they keep changing T&C after people met the requirements and before the expected payout dates.

vc
vc (@guest_1986568)
January 16, 2025 15:39

Some of us got the email about the terms changing in early Nov.
I posted here a few wks ago that PP was on the list when I saved it on 11/15. So, at least a wk after they let us know that the terms changed, they removed PP from the list. Very sneaky. I have a feeling that they’re going to pay you guys just bc they have to know how much worse they’ll look after they don’t pay up after you did the promo twice. GL!