The Offer
United is offering a nice shopping portal bonus for the coming holiday season. Depending how much you spend in qualifying purchases through the United MileagePlus Shopping portal, you can earn up to 6,000 bonus miles total.
- Spend $150 and get 500 bonus miles
- Spend $350 and get 1,500 bonus miles
- Spend $650 and get 3,000 bonus miles
- Spend $1,250 and get 6,000 bonus miles
The Fine Print
- Valid November 8, 2015 through November 24, 2015 at 11:59:59 pm ET.
- Bonus miles are in addition to the regular miles earned from the portal.
- You total spend during the promotion period will determine whether you qualify for the 500 mile bonus or the 1500 mile bonus or the 3000 mile bonus or the 6000 mile bonus. Maximum bonus is 6000 miles.
- Please allow 8-10 weeks after the Bonus Period for bonus award miles to post to your MileagePlus Shopping account.
Our Verdict
This is actually quite a generous bonus as you can get an additional 4.8 miles per dollar of spend if you spend exactly $1,250. Very good. Previous deals maxed at under 4 miles per dollar.
These bonuses are especially worthwhile since you can do the spend at any merchant. Suppose you spend $1250 on eBay during the promotional period. Currently, the United portal is offering just .5 miles per dollar, but with the holiday bonus you’ll end up getting a whopping 5.3 miles per dollar. Figure out which stores you’ll be using to see how best to maximize this offer.
There are supposed to be more shopping portal bonuses coming as well. Hopefully, we’ll have some more direct links soon.
