New $50 Bonus for Citibank Ultimate Savings Account and Bonus Updates

Mike (anonymous) - #1, Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 10:16 AM

For the $50 bonus for citibank ultimate savings account is there a hard inquiry?

FR (anonymous) - #2, Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 2:32 PM

If I signed up for EZ checking today (with the initial $100 bonus), what are the chances that I could get the %50 bonus for the ultimate savings account?

Anonymous - #3, Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 3:43 PM

Nice find. Most of the Citi promos I've seen in the past had so many strings they weren't worth dealing with. At least the Ultimate Savings only requires account opening and a "direct deposit" to avoid a monthly fee. Not too shabby!

michelle (anonymous) - #4, Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 5:24 PM

I just signed up for the $200 one! Yay! I did it over the phone with no problem. I ACH'ed the $1500, although that will take 7-10 business days, the rep said.

I guess way back when you first let us know about it, I thought it would be too much work. But, today, I figured, what the hell? I've got some time today. I can change my work's direct deposit online, so it's pretty easy. I'll just need to be careful to make sure I transfer some $$ each month back to my old checking account to pay for all my automatic bill-pays (like Verizon).

I'm up for it. Thanks so much for bringing this up again.

bank (anonymous) - #5, Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 2:32 AM

I signed up for Citibank checking account today . and I receive $200 bonus.

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Banking Guy (anonymous) - #6, Tuesday, April 3, 2007 - 8:28 AM

Looks like they've extended the bonus to 5/31/07. Here's the new promo page link:

$50 bonus for Ultimate Savings Account

money grubber (anonymous) - #7, Monday, April 23, 2007 - 3:56 PM

I've yet to see a post from anyone out there who has opened a citibank checking account for the $200 bonus after the initial offer expiration of 3/31/07. Can anyone make such a claim or provide new information since that date?

Roger (anonymous) - #8, Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 10:32 AM

The Ultimate Savings account is available to current Citi credit card customers without a checking account (promo CYAD). However, this accout has a restrictive external transfer policy - $5,000/day and $10,000/month.

Anonymous - #9, Saturday, July 7, 2007 - 6:53 PM

Spoke with CSR today at Citi to sign up for ez checking and 5% mm account with $200 promotional code. CSR indicated Citi is no longer doing hard pulls for checking/savings accounts. Required a lot of personal info to open account. CSR was friendly and helpful.
Thanks all for contributions to this blog!

Banking Guy (anonymous) - #10, Sunday, July 8, 2007 - 3:16 PM

Thanks for the info. Glad to read they've ended the hard pulls.

Raghuram (anonymous) - #11, Friday, September 21, 2007 - 11:32 AM

Is this offer still available? I just now spoke with CSR and she told that she cannot find this promo code instead they have some other offer of $100, but need to follow lot of steps like autobill payment and other stuff to get $100

Anonymous - #12, Monday, October 15, 2007 - 3:54 PM

Citibank obviously doesn't want *everyones* money -- what kind of bank has this mentality. Using *offer codes* are a royal pain. I believe the $200 offer ended at the end of August (so the CSR "Rick" said). He suggested that I go into a local branch to investigate further.

I *know* there is yet another promotion code for the same offer to the end of October; a friend of mine received it. However, it requires a local branch, *so* I am sure they will not honor it since it wasn't an invitation to me.

Citibank should stop playing games with their promotion codes *and* spend more time focusing on improving their customer service.