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Update 7/23/22: Deal is back until December 31, 2022. Hat tip to payyoutuesday.
Offer at a glance
- Maximum bonus amount: $300
- Availability: Must live, work or worship in Pima, Pinal, Cochise, or Maricopa Counties, Gila River Indian Community Reservation, Arizona’s “Copper Basin” Area
- Direct deposit required: No
- Additional requirements: See below
- Hard/soft pull: Soft pull
- ChexSystems: Unknown
- Credit card funding: $2,000
- Monthly fees: $12, avoidable
- Early account termination fee: Six months, bonus forfeit
- Household limit: None
- Expiration date: December 31, 2021
Contents
The Offer
- VantageWest is offering a bonus of $300 when you open a new Premium Rewards Checking account. Bonus requirements are as follows:
- Make $1,000 in deposits
- Complete one debit card transaction
- Or you can get a $150 bonus when you open an essential checking account. Bonus requirements are as follows:
- Make $500 in deposits
- Complete one debit card transaction
The Fine Print
- New Vantage West Members are eligible for one of two rewards options:
- 1) To qualify for the 30,000 Rewards Points bonus ($300 cash value), you must open a new Vantage West Membership and a Premium Rewards Checking account and complete each of the following within 60 days of account opening: Deposit an aggregate total of $1,000 and complete 1 debit card transaction (transaction must be completed with the debit card). Or
- 2) To qualify for the 10,000 Rewards Points bonus ($100 cash value), you must open a new Vantage West Membership and an Essential Checking account and complete each of the following within 60 days of account opening: Deposit an aggregate total of $500 and complete 1 debit card transaction (transaction must be completed with the debit card).
- Promotion runs June 1, 2021- December 31, 2021.
- Your checking account must remain open for at least 6 months.
- If it is closed within 6 months of the open date you may be responsible for reimbursement of any bonus awarded.
- Minimum opening deposit for Premium Rewards Checking and Essential Checking is $20.00.
- Essential Checking does not earn rewards points.
- A qualifying product (Premium Rewards Checking or Credit Card) must be opened to continue earning rewards points.
- Your account must be in good standing at time the bonus is awarded.
- The Rewards Points will be credited to your rewards account within 30 days of the date the last requirement is met.
- Limit one new Premium Rewards or Essential Checking account, per membership and per member, will be eligible for the bonus.
- Offer available to non-Members who have not had a relationship with Vantage West in the past 6 months.
- Offer valid for new Premium Rewards and Essential Checking accounts only.
- Members with any existing Vantage West relationship are not eligible for the bonus. Conversions between Premium Rewards and Essential Checking are not eligible for the bonus.
- Offer cannot be combined with any other offers associated with opening a checking account.
- See Vantage West Rewards terms and conditions for details and restrictions of the program.
- All accounts are subject to approval. Additional restrictions may apply. Subject to change without notice.
- All bank account bonuses are treated as income/interest and as such you have to pay taxes on them
Avoiding Fees
Premium Rewards Checking ($300 Bonus)
This account has a $12 monthly fee. This is waived if you do any of the following:
- minimum daily balance of $3,000, or
- combined average daily balance in all deposit accounts of $10,000 or
- monthly net direct deposit of $750
Essential Checking ($100 Bonus)
This account has no monthly fees to worry about.
Early Account Termination Fee
Account must be kept open for six months, otherwise bonus will be deducted.
Our Verdict
This offer is significantly better than the old $200 bonus as no direct deposit is required. VantageWest also offer a 5% card. This bonus is definitely worth doing and even better due to the higher than normal bonus and the credit card funding available. Will be added to the best checking bonuses.
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DP: Funded account ($1995 for Checking and $5 for Savings) on 3/22/23 with CIU and coded as purchase.
11/18/22 – Opened Account with $2000 AMEX fund – coded as purchase
1/4/23 – Debit Card Purchase (Amazon)
1/5/23 – 30,000 points available and cashed out
$3000 min amount on Premium checking to avoid fees, so I’ll keep that for 6 months.
10/3/22 – Opened Account with $25 CC fund
10/19/22 – Real DD $500
10/20/22 – Chase Transfer $500
10/24/22 – PNC Transfer $500
10/24/22 – Debit Card Purchase
10/24/22 – 30,000 points available
12/19/22 – Realized points are available and schedule to convert to $300 within 10 days
Going to hold this one open 6 months to avoid the ETF.
You received the 30k points on the same day as your debit card purchase? I’m still waiting and it’s been almost 2 weeks.
Chase Freedom Unlimited coded as a purchase (1.5x URs) on 12/19/22 for opening account transactions of $1,995 and $5.
Used Wells Fargo credit card to fund $2000 that went through as purchase not a cash advance and counted as $1000 added to account.
Then a small debit card reload to Amazon counted as debit card purchase to fulfill requirements, and 30,000 rewards points posted 12/05 when they ran my monthly statement — about two weeks after I’d fulfilled the requirements.
It’ll now take up to 10 business days to load the $300 to my account.
Used my Amex Gold and funded this account $2000 and it went through as a purchase not a cash advance.
Be careful with this one. I linked a couple accounts to shuffle DD’s around. They locked account access and blocked transactions. No contact from them as to what was happening. I called to unlock online access. They did not unlock transactions at the same time. I had to call again and I missed a real DD because of it.
Used my Capital One Venture X card to fund 2k. Went through as purchase and counted towards my 10k spend.
Need DP’s as to whether funding with a Barclay’s card would be CA or purchase.
Also, for P2 in same household, does this work?
Thanks.
Funded with Chase United Business and went through as purchase.