AOPA rebate gone?

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.

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Marty Shapiro
Silicon Rallye Inc.

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