Update 2/7/19: Be sure to check that the bonus information is showing properly with any email offer. A reader was told by Citi that the Citi Double Cash signup offer for the new member is expired: referrer still gets the $100 bonus, but new member gets nothing.
Update 2/1/19: A new round of referral offers were sent out now via email. You can only refer if you were targeted. Feel free to leave referrals here. Do not leave referrals or referral requests in the comments of this post.
Update 11/3/18: The links are now being sent out via e-mail. The e-mail itself mentions the 24 month language, but the application links don’t. I’d be surprised if 24 month language doesn’t apply, but you never know when it comes to Citi.
Update 11/1/18: Offer is now being sent out via email (via Reddit). You click the link in the email and input the referral information.
The Offer
When logging into Citicards, many people are seeing a referral bonus page pop up with offers such as:
- Get $100 when referring a friend to Citi Double Cash. Max 5 referrals over the next 12 months.
- Get 10,000 ThankYou points when referring a friend to Citi ThankYou Premier card. Max 5 referrals over the next 12 months.
- Get 10,000 American Airlines miles when referring a friend to Citi AA Platinum Select card. Max 5 referrals over the next 12 months.
They do have odd/interesting terms whereby you first enroll, then YOU – the referrer – spends $500, and then you can get the bonus for each referral.
The signup offers for the new member are as follows:
- Citi double cash: $125 after $625 in spend within the first three months (good offer if you’re also getting the $100 from the referral; previous best has been $150)
- Citi American Airlines Platinum select: 50,000 miles after $3,000 in spend within three months (better offer available here)
- Citi ThankYou Premier: 60,000 points after $5,000 in spend within 4 months.
The Fine Print
- After you spend $500 in a 12-month period beginning from date of enrollment, you will receive a bonus Cash Back award of $100 for each friend you refer through this Refer-a-friend offer.
- Bonus Cash Back will post to your account within 1-2 billing cycles.
- You are limited to a maximum of 20 referrals and 5 bonus awards per 12 month period beginning from your enrollment date. (I interpret this to mean that you can send up to 20 referrals, after which point the system won’t allow you to send any more. But you can only earn a bonus on up to 5 who actually use the referral.)
Our Verdict
You can only refer if you are targeted specifically by Citi either via email or by popup when you login into your online Citi account. Feel free to leave referrals here. Do not leave referrals or referral requests in the comments of this post.
Can you still refer our does this not work anymore?
How can I get 60K Premier referral?
Topic with referrals is closed for comments and in several tries I got just 50K referral from people I selected.
There is no 60k referral offer right now.
These terms and conditions contradict themselves: “You must refer a friend within 12 months of the send date of this email. You must refer a friend within 3 months of the send date of this email.”
I’m surprised the legal team let this go with errors too: “Please note, the offer email to our friend may take up to two weeks to deploy.”
Our friend? I guess my friends become Citi’s friends too, hehe.
It does sound like only one $500 MSR is required for up to 5 friends, yet what Citi means and what their IT systems do are two completely different things:
“After you spend $500 in purchases in a 12-month period beginning from date of enrollment, you will receive a bonus point award of 10,000 ThankYou® Points for each friend you refer through this Refer-A-Friend offer (up to 5), who is approved for the card as long as they applied through the link in the email offer they received.”
Does anyone know how long it takes to receive the referral email? Seems there is quite a delay. :/
Give it a week. I have sent a test referral to myself and got the email from Citi in 4 business days
I think one of the problems is that most people didn’t realize that this is not instantaneous like other cc issuer so they think it doesn’t work if they don’t get an email after 1 day or so… and continue asking for referral from another person after seeking a first, second one..
I got invited by Citi and thus can generate 60K Citi premier referral links, since end of last year
But a question – Do you need to spend $500 before you can receive the 10,000 TYP referral bonus associated with each individual the who applied and approved under you?
Or is it that you just need to spend $500 one time and thats it
This part is what confuses me
Pretty sure its just once. It also seems pretty likely that this is a way for them to be able to consider the referral bonus a “rebate” so they dont have to send 1099s.
Thank you
it would be terrible if it is $500 x n where n is the number of approved applications . I mean, how would you know otherwise? Unless the applicant who seek referral from you let you know
Well it will be good if they don’t send 1099 later
I better check and see how much spent I have put on this card so far.
I looked and a friend of mine has received a bonus on his Premier twice now and he’s spent almost $900 since the referral program began. I assumed it was $500 per person referred, but who knows. He called and said he’s maxed out at 5 referrals, but I don’t know if those people really signed up. If they did, he’s still missing out on 3 more referral bonuses, unless he needs to spend more. I haven’t kept on what others have been seeing so far, and I just received an offer on my Premier this week.
He received the 60k bonus twice because of no-24 month language?
No, I mean the 10k referral bonus twice.
can anyone send me a referral with the 60K thank you bonus after 5K spending for the citi premier card? thanks.
Check out the new referral thread. https://www.doctorofcredit.com/citi-credit-card-referral-thread-for-aa-double-cash-and-premier/
I created a new thread since the old one was only for Premier. https://www.doctorofcredit.com/citi-credit-card-referral-thread-for-aa-double-cash-and-premier/
Just targeted for the Citi aa Platinum select refer a friend program. If only I had more churning friends lol.
If anyone has a referral link to the double cash I would happily apply if there is a bonus 🙂
Check here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/churningreferrals/comments/a7tkl5/referrals_citi_credit_cards/
We started a referral thread here. Hopefully someone will leave their email there. https://www.doctorofcredit.com/citi-credit-card-referral-thread-for-aa-double-cash-and-premier/
I’ve Citi TYP and AA Platinum Select cards.
Got Citi TYP referral offer email today even though I was having that offer before.
Don’t know why I have not received AA Platinum Select offer Or Citi has a policy to give only one referral per card ??