Offer at a glance
- Max Bonus Amount: $100
- Direct Deposit Required: No
- Additional Requirements: $10,000 deposit (new funds)
- Hard/Soft Pull: Soft pull
- Credit Card Funding: None
- Monthly Fees: None
- Availability: Nationwide, new or existing users
- Expiration Date: enroll by February 16, 2022 and fund within 10 days
- Insured: FDIC
The Offer
- New or existing Marcus by Goldman Sachs customers can enroll to be eligible for $100 bonus when depositing $10,000 in new funds within 10 days of enrollment and maintaining those funds plus your current balance for 90 days.
You must enroll first. Do not enroll until you are ready to fund since you only get 10 days to fund starting from enrollment date.
The Fine Print
- Offer valid from 1/19/22 to 2/16/22 (“the Offer Period”). To qualify for the $100 Cash Bonus (the “Offer”), you must enroll a Marcus Online Savings Account in this offer at https://www.marcus.com/us/en/savings/osa-savingsbonus or by calling Marcus at 1-855-730-SAVE (1-855-730-7283) by 11:59 pm ET on 2/16/22. Upon successful enrollment you will receive a confirmation of your enrollment via email or U.S. mail.
- After enrollment, you must deposit $10,000 or more in new funds (internal transfers won’t count) into your Marcus Online Savings Account within 10 days of enrollment and maintain at least $10,000 of those new funds in that account in addtion to the account to the account balance at the time of enrollment for 90 consecutive days from the date of reaching the required dollar amount. Multiple deposits are allowed to reach the required dollar amount and can be made by joint owners for a joint account.
- Offer available to new and existing customers. Each customer is limited to one bonus offer, which can only be applied to a single account. For eligibility purposes, each joint owner will be treated as a separate customer. For example, if you apply the bonus offer to a joint account, the remaining joint owner(s) may apply this offer to another account they own if they have not done so already.
- The bonus will be deposited into your account within 14 days after fulfilling the above requirements. To receive your bonus, your account must be open and in good standing at the time the bonus is deposited in your account. The bonus will be treated as interest for tax reporting purposes.
- We reserve the right to modify or revoke this offer at any time without notice. If we determine that you have engaged in or plan to engage in abuse or gaming in connection with this offer, you will not be eligible for this offer.
Our Verdict
Marcus offered a similar deal in March 2019, then in January 2020, then in January 2021, and now in January 2022; they also offered a $500 deal in July 2019. It’s worth holding a Marcus account as the bonuses all seem to be for new or existing customers.
Locking up $10,000 for 90 days and getting $100 is a APY of roughly 4%, added to their regular .50% interest rate (see Best Savings Rates) for a total 4.50% return. Pretty nice offer, especially if you already have a Marcus account open. I plan on doing this one. We’ll add this to our list of Best Bank Bonuses.
You can always get an extra .10% APY from Marcus if you are an AARP member, and new Marcus members can sign up with a referral link and get an extra .50% APY for 3 months for a total 1.00% APY; that stacks nicely with the $100 bonus (this can stack on top of the AARP deal as well for 1.10% APY). Do not leave your referral link in the comments below, you can find and leave links in this dedicated post (now closed to new comments).
Hat tip to reader Celia
Where is the 2024 bonus offer announcement?:)
Offer is back. When logged in you see “Special offer: $100 Cash Bonus
Get $100 when you deposit $10,000 or more in new funds into a new or existing
Online Savings Account. Enroll by 2/15/23. See full offer terms.” but links are messed up.
beaten to it. but, second is the best?
Maybe not a bonus with the GS announcement they are losing a ton of money.
Hope they have another bonus offer this year.
Me too! I’ve been waiting…
I’ve been seeing a bunch of articles saying Marcus lost a bunch of money on bad loans and customer acquisition, and Goldman Sachs is scaling back its plans for retail banking (e.g. dropped plans for checking). It looks like Marcus will keep going, but maybe they won’t spend more on promotions. They haven’t raised interest since the last hike yet, so maybe they’re not desperate for customers or deposits.
I like their savings account with unlimited withdrawals, and okay interest, and use it for a lot of transactions, but I wonder what the future of this bank is.
Where can I share my referral link?
At the end of Our Verdict is a link but it appears to be closed to new comments.
Marcus rate to 1.2% with referral you can get 3 months 1% extra which makes it 2.2% , I think it worth the transfer and rate chase if you have large amount staying in bank account
Update:
Offer enrolled 2/16/22
Deposit completed 10020.00 2/24/22
90 day eligibility 5/25/22
Account untouched since 2/24/22, Only activity was a deposit for amount stated on 2/24/22
No “Active Offer” tab.
Still waiting for bonus.
Sound like you need to contact them…did it ever track under your Active Offers? What was the expected payout date?
Will do. I do recall it tracking at one point in time, do not recall the payout date
Support says they do not know why. They are escalating.
Waiting until the last minute always runs the risk of things going south, but based on your dates you should be in the clear….good luck.
Escalation said an ACH withdrawl settled the same day I signed up for the promo, thus disqualified.
Ah, yeah…your balance as of 12:01am on your enrollment date is the baseline. Just keep that in mind when this offer comes around again next January.
What was the date of the ACH withdrawal on your statement?
DP from Pennsylvania:
02/15/2022: Account opened.
02/18/2022: $10005 transfer from Ally to Marcus posts.
05/20/2022: “Bonus Applied” of $100 posts.
Really nice savings bonus and interest rate when compared to other similar accounts. Thanks, Doc.
I found out from a rep today that Marcus does not allow credit card payments, utility companies, etc. to withdraw money from the savings account. Have any of you actually tried this in practice? If so, was it actually rejected?
Nonsense. Because of them not imposing the 6 withdrawal limit (i.e. it’s unlimited) I have switched to using this as my transactional account and have 20-30 withdrawals per month, including CC and other payments and withdrawals. So that rep was clueless.