The Offer
- Receive up to 4,000 bonus miles when you use the United MileagePlus shopping portal. Here is the breakdown:
- Spend $125 or more and receive 500 bonus miles (4 points per $1 spent)
- Spend $600 or more and receive 1,750 bonus miles (2.9 points per $1 spent)
- Spend $1,500 or more and receive 4,000 bonus miles (2.66 points per $1 spent)
The Fine Print
- Promo period runs from 7/21/15 through 8/12/15
- Promo points are in addition to standard portal earnings, not instead of them
- Bonus will be based on your cumulative purchases during this period
- You can only get one of these bonuses
- Allow 8-10 weeks for the bonus miles to post
Our Verdict
We posted last week about a similar offer from the AAdvantage portal and from the Southwest portal. The others maxed out at 3500 miles while this United offer maxes out at 4,000 miles.
These portal bonuses could really be nice if you do lots of online shopping, especially if these portals are offering competitive rates to begin with.
Sweepstakes
Aside from the bonus miles earned from shopping, MileagePlus is also offering a sweepstakes as part of this promotion. You can enter the sweepstakes here and be eligible to win up to 100,000 miles and $2,500 cash. Three more winners will receive 20,000 miles each.
You also get five additional entries into the sweepstakes when you make a purchase using the shopping portal. And you can opt in to receiving promotional emails (read: spam) from MileagePlus and receive an additional five entries.
HT: ThePointsGuy
Anybody know whether HP physical gift cards will track through the United Portal, e.g. Cartera?
What about VCGs?
I bought the Nordstrom gift card from Staples last week using the AA portal and it did not post. Also bought paper from Staples the same day using the AA portal and that posted the next day.
Thanks for the data point. Seems like at least physical gc aren’t working.
It could also be that these new ebay eGC’s have not yet been coded correctly as giftcards, within the staples system. We’ll see.
Is the ebay egc still working. I tried 2 days ago and have not received confirmation
mine has not tracked yet… i assume it’s dead
yes, physical gift cards def do NOT work… my Nordstrom card order never tracked.
I bought eBay eGCs from Staples.com and Gyft the last time they had one of these promos and they both ended up counting (I also got the bonus from the AA portal for a similar promo this way). Not sure if things have changed in the past few months, but am trying again.
Does anyone have any experience buying Dell GCs through a portal?
This would be amazing if it still works. One can test it out with a $25 gc and see if it works. If it does that will be great. x3 AA miles, x5 UR points, 1.1% CB from TCB on ebay and 2% CB from ebay themselves, this not accounting for any GC deals. wowzers!
OK, testing this out for $25… i’ll report if it ever posts.
😉
WTF… i ordered an eBay e-gift card and my expected delivery is 8/4/2015… what is Staples doing with it?
hey joe, how do you get x5 UR points with staples? Is this a special offer or something I only see x2 from the chase portal 🙁
Staples is an office supply store, the Chase Ink cards earn 5x at office supply stores.
DUH….. total brain fart…..
Thanks a lot!
do we dare buy ebay gift cards on staples.com thru this? i wonder if it would track.
Same question here
Fine print: “Returns, cancellations, shipping and handling, taxes, gift card or other cash equivalent purchases, and certain products are not included in the bonus award miles eligibility calculation” (now whether that’s enforced or not is another story)