Apple offering you an OPTIONAL free pair of Airpods turned you off from applying for an Apple card? Doesn't make sense to me, but everyone's needs/wants/desires are different.
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New Apple Card Holders Can Get Free AirPods Pro 3, But There's a Catch
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Of course this is a bad offer. Wasting a hard credit pull on such an offer is waste of time. By the time you spend 100 transactions over 10 months, airpods pro 4 would have been released.
I wonder if this applies to authorized accounts too ie: if authorized users count towards the spend count.
Can someone answer this for me…
Let say I do what Apple requires to get this deal.
Then each of the qualifying months (July-April) I only make ten $1.00 purchases to get the $25 cash back. If I don’t ever use the card again, what happens to the $150 leftover cash back after 10 months? (for argument’s sake I’m neglecting tax) Can you transfer that over to your bank? Or is $150 destined to forever be a credit for any future purchases?
Thank you in advance.
Let say I do what Apple requires to get this deal.
Then each of the qualifying months (July-April) I only make ten $1.00 purchases to get the $25 cash back. If I don’t ever use the card again, what happens to the $150 leftover cash back after 10 months? (for argument’s sake I’m neglecting tax) Can you transfer that over to your bank? Or is $150 destined to forever be a credit for any future purchases?
Thank you in advance.
How about making 10x $0.01 purchases each month from a free Square account I set up on another device?
ghostface147
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That doens't make any sense. It's not like Apple won't send you the airpods until you complete the offer, so you still got 10 months of free airpods usage before the new ones (hypothetically come out). And also, the 3's are still Free, while you have to pay for the 4's that you can purchase in 10 months.
How many credit cards are you applying for that one pull is going to hurt your odds.
I don't think it works like that. I think it works like they charge you for the airpods, and break it up over 10 months, like they do when you finance a laptop. Each month, $25 of the purchase price is applied to your account, and then the credit offsets the $25, so you don't owe anything (for them that month). They don't actually give you $250 and the Airpods.
And why would they? It would be pretty much the best sign up offer ever given for a card without an annual fee if they did that.
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It doesn't seem that awful—if you take public transit (and are a new customer), just switch your tap-to-pay card to the Apple Card and you'll easily rack up 10 charges in a month.
It doesn't seem awful at all. It's literally free AirPods Pro 3 for new card holders for doing nothing special or hard. Arguably better and easier than cards that require $1000 in purchases to unlock a $200 cash bonus.
I did not expect anyone to complain about it but guess I shouldn't be too shocked. If Apple donated $10 million to a cause, there'd be people saying "thats it?"
jarman92
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The whole point of the Apple Card is that it’s supposed to be better than other cards
I agree with you. I'm just pointing out an error in the prior commenter's understanding of how the process works.
Even if you never used the Apple Card, it's basically free AirPods. Ten one cent transactions on Venmo or Cashapp to a friend, spend met. It would cost you a whopping $1.00 +3% fee (3 cents) to get this deal, so yeah, it is a great deal.