AOPA rebate gone?

A friend of mine just sent me an email that he got a notice from MBNA
that the AOPA 5% rebate would be discountinued after this year and
instead he would get "2 points" for every dollar spent. I haven't
checked my mail yet today but I didn't see anything about this on
AOPA's web site.
-Robert

Doesn't surprise me at all, now that MBNA is bought by Bank of America.
I always wonders how MBNA doesn't lose money giving 5% FBO rebate when
people would only put FBO purchases on that card. These days you can
always seem to get 1% rebate on some other cards to put all the other
credit card purchase on. So the MBNA card gets stuck with only the FBO
purchases.

I think the bank fee for processing credit card transactions is
something like 1-2%.

Robert M. Gary wrote:
A friend of mine just sent me an email that he got a notice from MBNA
that the AOPA 5% rebate would be discountinued after this year and
instead he would get "2 points" for every dollar spent. I haven't
checked my mail yet today but I didn't see anything about this on
AOPA's web site.
-Robert

I got the letter today in the mail. Mine wasn't sent by MBNA, it was sent
by AOPA and didn't mention the 2 point thing, just a list of "Rewards
points" and went on and on about how it would be unlimited and applied to
all purchases but double for FBO's or something. I bet it will end up being
another 1% card.
Jim

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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A friend of mine just sent me an email that he got a notice from MBNA
that the AOPA 5% rebate would be discountinued after this year and
instead he would get "2 points" for every dollar spent. I haven't
checked my mail yet today but I didn't see anything about this on
AOPA's web site.
-Robert

I got the letter today from AOPA too. It says that beginning in Jan of
2007 you'll earn one reward point for each net retail dollar charged to
the card. You'll earn double points for every net retail dollar spent
and over 4000 qualified FBOs and other select aviation merchants. The
points can be redeemed for cash, merchandise, gift certificates, travel
and more. The letter didn't give any indication of what a point would be
worth. I'm also not sure what net retail dollar means but it smacks of
some legal mumbo jumbo to disqualify some or all of a purchase from
receiving points.

Jim Burns wrote:
I got the letter today in the mail. Mine wasn't sent by MBNA, it was sent
by AOPA and didn't mention the 2 point thing, just a list of "Rewards
points" and went on and on about how it would be unlimited and applied to
all purchases but double for FBO's or something. I bet it will end up being
another 1% card.
Jim

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
oups.com...
A friend of mine just sent me an email that he got a notice from MBNA
that the AOPA 5% rebate would be discountinued after this year and
instead he would get "2 points" for every dollar spent. I haven't
checked my mail yet today but I didn't see anything about this on
AOPA's web site.
-Robert




--
Rich Badaracco
Director - Angel Flight North Carolina

Rich Badaracco wrote:
I'm also not sure what net retail dollar means but it smacks of
some legal mumbo jumbo to disqualify some or all of a purchase from
receiving points.

More likely it's to disqualify returns from earning any points.

.... Alan
--
Alan Gerber
gerber AT panix DOT com

read the letter again Jim..
BT

"Jim Burns" wrote in message
...
I got the letter today in the mail. Mine wasn't sent by MBNA, it was sent
by AOPA and didn't mention the 2 point thing, just a list of "Rewards
points" and went on and on about how it would be unlimited and applied to
all purchases but double for FBO's or something. I bet it will end up
being another 1% card.
Jim

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
oups.com...
A friend of mine just sent me an email that he got a notice from MBNA
that the AOPA 5% rebate would be discountinued after this year and
instead he would get "2 points" for every dollar spent. I haven't
checked my mail yet today but I didn't see anything about this on
AOPA's web site.
-Robert

I'm afraid to.

"BTIZ" wrote in message
news:AwrNg.3797$8J2.1915@fed1read11...
read the letter again Jim..
BT

"Jim Burns" wrote in message
...
I got the letter today in the mail. Mine wasn't sent by MBNA, it was sent
by AOPA and didn't mention the 2 point thing, just a list of "Rewards
points" and went on and on about how it would be unlimited and applied to
all purchases but double for FBO's or something. I bet it will end up
being another 1% card.
Jim

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
oups.com...
A friend of mine just sent me an email that he got a notice from MBNA
that the AOPA 5% rebate would be discountinued after this year and
instead he would get "2 points" for every dollar spent. I haven't
checked my mail yet today but I didn't see anything about this on
AOPA's web site.
-Robert

Jim Burns wrote:

I got the letter today in the mail. Mine wasn't sent by MBNA, it was sent
by AOPA

Double check that. Mine had AOPA letterhead and was sent in an envelope with
AOPA on the return address, but the postage was actually metered/sent from
19713, which is Newark DE, which just happens to be the site of the Headquarters
of the former MBNA Corporation.

I'm sure they must have had permission, but it was pretty clever of BoA/ MBNA to
send this as if it was being sent from AOPA and Phil Boyer himself. "Many
members have told me they want something different." Hah! Might be worth
asking AOPA what the real story is. Although I can guess, it would be nice to
hear it straight.

Trevor wrote in :

Jim Burns wrote:

I got the letter today in the mail. Mine wasn't sent by MBNA, it was
sent by AOPA

Double check that. Mine had AOPA letterhead and was sent in an
envelope with AOPA on the return address, but the postage was actually
metered/sent from 19713, which is Newark DE, which just happens to be
the site of the Headquarters of the former MBNA Corporation.

I'm sure they must have had permission, but it was pretty clever of
BoA/ MBNA to send this as if it was being sent from AOPA and Phil
Boyer himself. "Many members have told me they want something
different." Hah! Might be worth asking AOPA what the real story is.
Although I can guess, it would be nice to hear it straight.



I called MBNA today to find out about combining my AOPA MasterCard
with the 5% rebate and my AOPA Visa World Points card so all my points
would pool after January 1. In the course of my conversation, the
representative I spoke to let on that they are getting may calls from
pilots, none of whom are very happy about this. It really doesn't take a
math genius to figure out that at 2% (double points and large point
redemption) one needs to charge $12,500 before you exceed the $250 maxium
reimbursement you reached with $5,000 in charges on the 5% rebate program.

BTW, to pool the points, I need to cancel one of the cards, but they
will give me a new credit limit equal to the sum of the two separate credit
limits.

--
Marty Shapiro
Silicon Rallye Inc.

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I got a letter in the mail last weekend from AOPA..
1 point for every dollar spent regardless of location or product,
2 points for aviation stuff you used to get the discount on..
only about 20% of charges to the card qualified for the discount..
so now.. no cash back.. but points that can be redeemed for cash and other
products..

MBNA -- raise the interest rates and cancel the rebates..

BT

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
oups.com...
A friend of mine just sent me an email that he got a notice from MBNA
that the AOPA 5% rebate would be discountinued after this year and
instead he would get "2 points" for every dollar spent. I haven't
checked my mail yet today but I didn't see anything about this on
AOPA's web site.
-Robert