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The Offer
No direct link to offer. Sent out via e-mail, subject line is ‘Get $50 on us for a limited time!’
- Some American Express Serve customers are being offered a bonus of $50 when you receive two direct deposits of $250+
The Fine Print
- To receive a $50 Account credit on the American Express Serve Card, you must successfully enroll in Direct Deposit and receive at least two (2) minimum qualifying Direct Deposits of $250 or more into your Serve Account referenced above between October 15, 2020 and January 31, 2021, 11:59PM ET.
- It may take up to two (2) pay cycles after you enroll for your Direct Deposits to begin.
- A qualifying Direct Deposit is defined as a recurring Direct Deposit of a paycheck or other regular monthly income electronically added by a payor into your Serve Account.
- Transfers and loads from other funding sources (including a tax refund or via Receive Money, debit card, cash, bank account) are not considered qualifying Direct Deposits.
- Account credit will be posted within thirty (30) days of your second qualified Direct Deposit as defined here in these terms.
- Limit one (1) $50 credit per customer.
- Offer subject to change or cancellation at any time.
Our Verdict
You can see what has coded as a direct deposit in the past here. Although we haven’t seen one of these bonuses for some time.
Hat tip to reader Alex N
As others reported, Wells Fargo triggered the bonus for me.
Thanks for the DP. When you added your Serve account as a bank for transfers in you Wells Fargo account, you didn’t have a problem when Wells Fargo tried to pull the trial deposits back out from Serve (since Serve doesn’t allow ACH pull)?
Now that you mention it, I don’t think Wells Fargo did pull out the trial deposits. I was never contacted by WF or did I have any issues confirming the account or transferring money (as of November 2020).
Targeted for promo. Two pushes from Wells Fargo triggered bonus
– Oct 27 push $250
– Oct 27 push $251
– Nov 3 $50 bonus posted
Thanks for the DP. When you added your Serve account as a bank for transfers in you Wells Fargo account, you didn’t have a problem when Wells Fargo tried to pull the trial deposits back out from Serve (since Serve doesn’t allow ACH pull)?
Add serve to my venmo account on Oct 22 morning
Oct 22 venmo cash out $250 shows as DD
Oct 23 venmo cash out $250 shows as DD
Oct 30 Credit merchant promotion $50 dlls
Both Marcus and Santander work to trigger the $50 promotion. Marcus does not pull back trial deposits and Santander doesn’t use them. These are also a great way to load Serve as Serve works for a lot of DDs to other banks.
Did you get the $50 promotion already? How long after the second deposit did the bonus post? I am waiting on my second deposit to come in this tuesday and figured it will take a week or two for the bonus to post.
Yes I received it yesterday. It took about 1 week.
So after a few rounds of shut down they now offer a little something to those who are still left over on the battlefield?
all 3 targeted! but not sure if the old DP still works…
Got the email here- don’t use it, just kept it as you never know.
I have 4 cards and got 0 offers.
Anyone having trouble “DD” $250 from Discover, only to Serve, after verifying trial deposits? It always fails at the last step (confirmation).
check your external accounts. i have so many linked accts, but i have an acct named “AMERICAN EXPRESS CENTURION BANK” that’s has a status of “SUSPENDED” because they couldn’t automatically take out the trial deposits. i have a few accts like that. be careful w the ppd accts and discover. gadget said that they closed his acct iirc lol
The only targeted offer I ever got on Serve is when they shut me down last year.