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mothman69
mothman69 (@guest_1806562)
March 2, 2024 09:27

Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek Dominique Apparently AAFCU changed their cash back program in February. Now you earn 10% cash back on up to $250 in debit card transactions per month. This bumps the monthly earnings from $9 up to $25! It also reduced the spend requirement from $300 to $250. I earned $25 for my February Cash App loads. What a great change!

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Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek 🔗 (@guest_1806663)
March 2, 2024 13:19

Agreed. P1 kept the AACU account and noticed the change to $25 this month.

mothman69
mothman69 (@guest_1806764)
March 2, 2024 16:51

I’d like to re-open an account for P2 to take advantage of this. However, the link for their account application seems broken at the moment.

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Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek 🔗 (@guest_1806767)
March 2, 2024 16:57

LoL. Next week they will probably end the program, and grandfather us.

Did you try this link? https://eaccountopen.aafcu.com/index.html

mothman69
mothman69 (@guest_1806771)
March 2, 2024 17:09

Yes, but it gives me a connection error.

This site can’t provide a secure connection

eaccountopen.aafcu.com uses an unsupported protocol.

ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

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Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek 🔗 (@guest_1806848)
March 2, 2024 21:44

I tried the link a couple of times today… and it was intermittent giving errors.

If you are looking for a newer discussion on this CU, see the DoC AACU (CU name changed) page.

https://www.doctorofcredit.com/co-only-air-academy-credit-union-250-checking-bonus/

mothman69
mothman69 (@guest_1806965)
March 3, 2024 09:09

Ah thanks, didn’t even know there was a newer page.

Dominique
Dominique (@guest_1806761)
March 2, 2024 16:40

Yes, it was a great surprise this month! I completed my normal $300 worth of Apple Cash debit card spend spread over 12 transactions, and was surprised to see that I earned $25 instead of $9 for it. I maintain several cashback debit card checking accounts for 3 players in my household, and earn an extra almost $300 a month from it. A bit tedious, but you earn more than what a 5% HYSA would yield for the small amounts of money that you need for these cashback debit card checking offers monthly. Never seen a bank/credit union offer this much though, I hope the others start increasing their monthly rewards as well!

Acid Bath
Acid Bath (@guest_1819078)
March 24, 2024 09:39

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Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek 🔗 (@guest_1724868)
October 27, 2023 20:07

AACU Snail Mailer arrived today. (FYI: They dropped the FEDERAL portion of their name and no longer go by AAFCU)

Make 20 or more qualifying debit purchases that post and clear in November and you will get to “enjoy a $5 Grocery Gift Card”.

Mailer shows Kroger (family), Safeway (family), and Walmart as your choices. The gift card PIN code will be snail-mailed by January 31st.

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Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek 🔗 (@guest_1779389)
January 17, 2024 00:06

The code arrived today, 01/16.

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Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek 🔗 (@guest_1644907)
June 30, 2023 17:37

AACU Snail Mailer arrived today. (FYI: They dropped the FEDERAL portion of their name recently and now going by AACU)

Make 20 or more qualifying purchases that post and clear in July and you will get you “your favorite $5 Reward”.

Mailer shows Domino’s, Buffalo Wild Wings, Panera Bread, and Subway as your choices. The gift card PIN code will be snail mailed by September 30th.

Davis
Davis (@guest_1697532)
September 19, 2023 13:19

Got my PIN today, Papa John’s also an option for redemption

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Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek 🔗 (@guest_1697533)
September 19, 2023 13:20

Yep, got mine yesterday.

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Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek 🔗 (@guest_1588796)
March 30, 2023 22:18

AAFCU Snail Mailer arrived today. 20 debits that post and clear in April will get you a downloadable $5 towards “Delicious Delivery”. (DopeDash, Goober Eats, or GropeHub, err… GrubHub, Uber Eats, and DoorDash)
The gift card PIN code will be snail mailed by June 30th. Personally, a new reward all-time low, and I use none of these services.

Davis
Davis (@guest_1354551)
March 28, 2022 12:54

Got another targeted mail offer for a $5 Papa John/Subway/Panera gift card for making 15+ purchases in both April and May. Fine print says 30 total but I’d do 15 each month. Reward will be mailed by 7/31

AllenW
AllenW (@guest_1336842)
February 23, 2022 11:22

Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek is there a 1099 for the $100 Bonus?

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Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek (@guest_1340286)
February 28, 2022 14:34

I haven’t seen one.

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Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek (@guest_1291535)
November 29, 2021 19:26

AAFCU Snail Mailer arrived today. 15 debits that post and clear in December gets you a downloadable $5 reward card. (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, or Apple) ShawntheShawn

mothman69
mothman69 (@guest_1291559)
November 29, 2021 19:42

Nice. I haven’t received anything in the mail yet but I’ll try and see what happens.

ShawntheShawn
ShawntheShawn (@guest_1291708)
November 29, 2021 23:41

Nice! I did not receive it. Hopefully I will be targeted for the same promotion. Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek

Dominique
Dominique (@guest_1291766)
November 30, 2021 02:17

I got this for P1-P3 in my household. I did this promo before, and the debits stack nicely with their monthly Kasasa cashback, so you just need to do 15 debits total to get the $5 and the $9 cashback.

mothman69
mothman69 (@guest_1291798)
November 30, 2021 07:35

Dominique Do the debits need to be actual spending for the monthly cash back?

Dominique
Dominique (@guest_1291801)
November 30, 2021 07:48

Cash app works for me every month without fail. I wouldn’t bother with Amazon reloads or Venmo because Air Academy likes to block a lot of those transactions with fraud alerts for some reason. However, Cash app debit transactions always go through smoothly, so I would definitely recommend Cash app for the debits.

mothman69
mothman69 (@guest_1291805)
November 30, 2021 07:55

Thanks! I’ll give it a go. I’ve been sitting on this account for over two years and never thought to try that.

Dominique
Dominique (@guest_1294542)
December 4, 2021 02:22

Awesome! Make sure that for the $9 cashback, you also receive a direct deposit (any ACH should work of any amount), sign up for e-statements, and make sure your debit card transactions total at least $300 for the calendar month.

Davis
Davis (@guest_1340223)
February 28, 2022 13:57

Got it today on the last day possible

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Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek (@guest_1340290)
February 28, 2022 14:35

Per Informed Delivery, I have something from AAFCU via snail mail today too.

Dominique
Dominique (@guest_1340703)
March 1, 2022 00:05

Got the codes in the mail today. Redeemed on the website and they arrived in my email instantly. I picked Amazon.

zeer0
zeer0 (@guest_1170770)
April 4, 2021 18:35

Filing an NCUA complaint as I still haven’t been paid out. Would love to take these guys to the cleaners. Slimiest bank I’ve dealt with in a long time.

Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek
Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek (@guest_1169919)
April 2, 2021 11:37

Here we go, one of those “don’t call the bank” scenarios.

I assume this is for everyone, but the $9.00 Cash Back Checking bonus did not post on April 1st for last month. Betting either the “Core Conversion” didn’t calculate past transactions for the monthly bonus, or, DD is harder to trigger, or, Cash App “transfers” might be dead. TBD. DP’s welcome. ShawntheShawn

ShawntheShawn
ShawntheShawn (@guest_1170192)
April 2, 2021 21:52

Same here. I think it is because of the core conversion. If you look at your e-statements, you will notice that you now have two statements for March: one from 1st to 19th, and the other from 20th to 31st. This probably messed up the cash reward issuing date. Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek

ShawntheShawn
ShawntheShawn (@guest_1170352)
April 3, 2021 10:44

I already completed all the requirements for this month including 12 debit card purchases, but the online tracker says yes with 18 debit card transactions! This is another sign that the system is kind of in a messed-up state. I took a screenshot of qualifications met in early March, and I also noticed that the qualification status was yes towards the end of March. So I think it is the split of March into two statements due to the Core Conversion that led to the cash reward not being issued. I am optimistic about them noticing or hearing it and fixing it, and I will wait and see. Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek Erik

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Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek (@guest_1170432)
April 3, 2021 13:30

Thanks for the responses/update ShawntheShawn Erik . Yeah, I know prior to conversion it said I qualified… and pretty sure the tracker did not reset post-conversion. However, I did not take screenshots, but I doubt they would accept captures as truth.

I imagine enough people are going to contact them that did real usage that they will be posting the $9 for many. However, if they will be going from account to account and manually posting, I bet they skip over us. CSR’s like to make their own rules like to say sorry, but you cheated and we aren’t giving you the bonus.

I will probably just ignore it and see what happens next month. At least we still have a tracker.

Dominique
Dominique (@guest_1170874)
April 5, 2021 02:04

Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek I received the full $9 reward for this month, but it was given to me in 2 batches. One reward was for $4.59 on 3/31, and one was for $4.41 on 4/2. I did all cash app transactions btw. I wouldn’t call the bank either if I were you. Maybe check your account again to see if any adjustments were made?

Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek
Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek (@guest_1170877)
April 5, 2021 02:13

Nope. Nothing.

Did you use Cash App transfer for DD too?

Dominique
Dominique (@guest_1170887)
April 5, 2021 04:25

No, I used Schwab brokerage, and I’ve also used Keypoint CU successfully in the past, so I just assumed almost anything worked to satisfy their DD requirement.

ShawntheShawn
ShawntheShawn (@guest_1170977)
April 5, 2021 13:59

Dominique When did you complete all the qualifying requirements? Was it before or after the 19th? 3/31 itself is a strange date for them to issue the cash reward.

Erik
Erik (@guest_1171138)
April 5, 2021 19:00

It may be useful to find who got the March reward and when the requirements were completed. We (P1 & P2) completed the requirements on 3/15 but neither of us got the reward.

p.s. Any chance that anyone here did organic spend and could call in to ask?

Dominique
Dominique (@guest_1171210)
April 5, 2021 21:51

Here are my transactions from before the 19th:

MAR 18 2021
POS Pinned Purchase – DEBIT PURCHASE CASH APP*DOMINIQUE 4153753176 CA 107600030827 12345678 Mar 17 @ 8:23pm
Amount: negative one dollars and seven cents– $1.07

MAR 12 2021
POS Pinned Purchase – DEBIT PURCHASE CASH APP*DOMINIQUE 4153753176 CA 107000027737 12345678 Mar 11 @ 8:16pm
Amount: negative one dollars– $1.00

MAR 9 2021
SCHWAB BROKERAGE/MONEYLINK/210309/ PPD
Amount: ten dollars+ $10.00

MAR 8 2021
DEBIT PURCHASE CASH APP*DOMINIQUE 4153753176 CA 106500022099 12345678 Mar 6 @ 8:58pm
Amount: negative one dollars and two cents– $1.02

MAR 5 2021
DEBIT PURCHASE CASH APP*DOMINIQUE 4153753176 CA 106400021316 12345678 Mar 5 @ 9:58am
Amount: negative one hundred dollars– $100.00

MAR 5 2021
DEBIT PURCHASE CASH APP*DOMINIQUE 4153753176 CA 106300015731 12345678 Mar 4 @ 8:22pm
Amount: negative one dollars– $1.00

MAR 4 2021
DEBIT PURCHASE CASH APP*DOMINIQUE 4153753176 CA 106200025207 12345678 Mar 3 @ 8:17pm
Amount: negative one dollars and two cents– $1.02

MAR 4 2021
DEBIT PURCHASE CASH APP*DOMINIQUE 4153753176 CA 106200025206 12345678 Mar 3 @ 8:17pm
Amount: negative fifty dollars– $50.00

Dominique
Dominique (@guest_1171211)
April 5, 2021 21:51

Here are my transactions after the 19th:

APR 2 2021
Interest Adjustment-Deposit – CORRECTION-CASH BACK REWARDS
Amount: four dollars and forty one cents+ $4.41

MAR 31 2021
CashBack Checking Rewards
Amount: four dollars and fifty nine cents+ $4.59

MAR 29 2021
Point Of Sale Withdrawal – CASH APP*DOMINIQUE 4153753176 CAUS
Amount: negative one dollars– $1.00

MAR 29 2021
Point Of Sale Withdrawal – CASH APP*DOMINIQUE 4153753176 CAUS
Amount: negative one hundred dollars– $100.00

MAR 29 2021
Point Of Sale Withdrawal – CASH APP*DOMINIQUE 4153753176 CAUS
Amount: negative one dollars and five cents– $1.05

MAR 22 2021
Point Of Sale Withdrawal – CASH APP*DOMINIQUE 4153753176 CAUS
Amount: negative one dollars and three cents– $1.03

MAR 22 2021
Point Of Sale Withdrawal – CASH APP*DOMINIQUE 4153753176 CAUS
Amount: negative fifty dollars– $50.00

ShawntheShawn
ShawntheShawn (@guest_1171248)
April 5, 2021 23:49

Thank you for sharing your detailed transactions, Dominique. Your qualifications were met after the core conversion, and they first issued you the cash reward for transactions after the conversion. Similar to Erik, I completed all the requirements before the conversion. It looks like those of us who did so got messed up. Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek

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Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek (@guest_1171249)
April 5, 2021 23:55

Yeah, I completed my requirements in the beginning of the month… I don’t like to put off rewards checking stuff till the end of the month. Esp since they were expecting an outage for the upgrade. Thank for the tag though.

Dominique
Dominique (@guest_1171258)
April 6, 2021 00:20

Yeah, I guess I just got lucky then. I like to space out my debits throughout the month because I feel like it makes them seem more organic even though they aren’t organic purchases. (I don’t even know how people are able to use this debit card regularly for organic purchases since it triggers so many fraud alerts all the time, except on cash app.)

I read somewhere that you can be disqualified for kasasa rewards at some banks if you do all of your debits in only a short period of time within the month. Since all my rewards posted automatically, I am hoping that all of yours will too. ShawntheShawn Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek Erik

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Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek (@guest_1171262)
April 6, 2021 00:36

I’ve seen comments like that about Kasasa too but might depend on the CU more than the name Kasasa. I don’t plan to keep this account forever, so if something happens I wouldn’t care too much. But, while I am here, may as well.

I have had no issue paying my insurance $1.0x multiple times on the same day, which is my go-to. I did a few Cash App too, but after 6x $10 it craps out for the night. Not sure if that was on the Cash App end, or the CU end that it stopped working – no alert.

Imagine most anything would work for DD & debits with the automated system. A CSR will most likely not be so kind though, and quickly tell me Cash App transfers are not debits.

ShawntheShawn
ShawntheShawn (@guest_1177905)
April 16, 2021 16:43

I contacted them via SM and attached the screenshot of qualifications met for March. They got back to me within a few hours and said I will see my March cash reward together with my April reward. Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek Erik

Erik
Erik (@guest_1177908)
April 16, 2021 16:46

ShawntheShawn (ShawntheShawn),
What type of transactions did you have?

ShawntheShawn
ShawntheShawn (@guest_1177912)
April 16, 2021 16:56

CashApp transactions.

Erik
Erik (@guest_1170260)
April 3, 2021 00:42

Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek (Gadget),
When I checked my reward status on 3/24, it showed that I had satisfied the requirements. However, I have also not yet received the $9.00 (as of 4/2).

ShawntheShawn
ShawntheShawn (@guest_1190070)
May 12, 2021 10:47

Update: I received two $9 cashbacks on April 30th and May 4th, respectively. Hope you have received the missing cashback for March, too. Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek Erik

AllenW
AllenW (@guest_1152529)
March 1, 2021 12:33

DP:

12/3 – Opened
12/7 – $27 Push from Alliant
12/14 – 12 50c Debits Amazon reloads
1/4 – $6 Push from Alliant
1/7 – 12 50c Debits Amazon reloads
2/5 – $6 Push from Alliant
2/5 – 12 50c Debits Amazon reloads
3/1 – Bonus of 100 into Savings, also received an email stating it would come shortly.

3 Months of meeting the Kasasa Qualifications Bonus Posted for referral.

Debit card are a pain if you use Amazon, it triggers a txt alert you have to approve. Other reports to CashApp it doesn’t. Will keep open until 6m from opening. But done with Kasasa.