This bonus has now officially expired, but they have a new bonus for $250 but this does have bonus requirements.
Note: Offer has officially expired but still being advertised on home page so I suspect it will be extended. If it does get extended and you notice, please let us know.
Offer at a glance
- Maximum bonus amount: $200
- Availability:Â Open to residents of New Mexico, Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado only
- Direct deposit required: No
- Additional requirements: Open account with $100
- Hard/soft pull:Â Soft
- ChexSystems: Unknown
- Credit card funding:Â Up to $1,000
- Monthly fees: $4, not avoidable
- Early account termination fee:Â 90 days otherwise bonus is forfeited, according to this comment there is also an early account termination fee of $75.
- Household limit: None
- Expiration date:
March 31st, 2017April 30th, 2017May 31, 2017
The Offer
- Bank of Colorado are offering a bonus of $200 when you open a new Diamond Secure Account and complete the following requirements:
- Open account with $100
The Fine Print
- Terms and conditions for our $200 offer valid for Diamond Secure Account applicants only.
- Account must be opened online.
- The minimum amount to open an account is $100.
- The maximum payment per customer is $200.
- This offer is for new checking account customers only.
- A new checking account customer eligible for the bonus is someone who has had no previous checking account relationship with Bank of Colorado in the previous 48 calendar months.
- The money will be deposited after 90 days of account opening.
- Account must be maintained in good standing with no overdrafts for the first 90 days.
- Open to residents of New Mexico, Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado only. The $200 bonus will be reflected on a 1099-INT that will be issued and reported to the IRS at year-end.
Offer expires March 31, 2017. April 30th, 2017
Avoiding Fees
This account has a $4 fee that you cannot avoid, you’ll be charged an additional $5 per month if you choose to receive a paper statement as well. You must keep the account open for a minimum of 90 days otherwise you will forfeit the bonus.
Our Verdict
Great deal, you’ll need to keep the account open for six months so you’ll end up paying $24 in monthly fees but this account has no bonus requirements at all. Their sister bank (KS, MO, NE, IA, WY, CO) has a similar bonus for $100Â and it’s possible to do both if you’re in an overlapping state.
This is the best bonus they have offered (previous bonuses can be seen here). This will obviously be added to our list of the best bank account bonuses available.
Big thanks to reader, Sean who let us know. Learn how to find bonuses and contribute to the site here.
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This offer is still open until Dec. 31, 2017, at https://www.bankofcolorado.com/rockies
My DPs:
08/15 – Opened checking with $100 and and savings with $200
3 pushes of $250+ from Chase and 1 push from Cap1 (these coded as external transfer, but they worked toward the DD requirement)
11/14 – 3 bonuses posted: $50 for debit card, $50 for savings, $100 for DD
Final bonus of $50 posted today (11/20) for keeping account open for 90 days. Total of $250 received, minus three months of $4 fee (unavoidable).
DP:
My $200 bonus just posted today.
I opened the account on 03/14/17, and my 3rd month statement was 6/16/17.
Anybody have DP on closing the account after the 90 days?
Closed mine and my wife’s account right after 90 days and before the new statement posted with another $4 monthly fee. Did chat for both, but for me they called me to close out. For my wife they just closed on the spot over chat. We drained both accounts to $0 beforehand.
This is still showing as active until 5/31/2017.
https://www.bankofcolorado.com/diamond-secure-account-200offer
Thanks, updated
We won baseball tix. Thx Doc.
Awesome, glad to hear it Tom! 🙂
DP: Used my Chase United MPE card to fund $1000 and coded as purchase.
Excellent! Thanks for that little bonus tidbit.
how long does it take for the bonus to post?
I wonder if the account can be downgraded after six months to their Free Checking account, and thus avoid the $4 fee to eternity? (for someone who actually wants to maintain a checking account at Bank of Colorado, but is fee-intolerant)
When I called about avoiding fees, I was told that this was an option as the $4/month is mostly relating to the ID protection that comes with the Diamond Secure account.
The link to the actual offer here are kind of wonky. I ended up at a broken Bank of Colorado site, but clicked on through. The offer showed up on their home page. No blank to enter a promo code. But… you don’t have to open an account to enter the Rockies Sweepstakes. Enter at the link given above ( https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RPFSQBY )
Opened an account for myself & the Man. I’ll eat the $4/month fee for a net $176 per account.
I’m glad I didn’t open the $100 bonus account recently.
It says that the account only needs to be open for 90 days, not six months.
Somebody said in the other post in the account disclosures there is another ETF if closed within six months.