The Offer
American Airlines shopping portal is running the following bonus offer:
- Get 250 bonus miles for every two purchases you make which are $5+.
- Maximum bonus is 1,000 miles when you make 8 or more purchases of $5+.
The Fine Print
- During the “2X Shop Bonus” offer, which runs from 3/16/20 through 3/27/20 at 11:59:59 pm ET (the “Bonus Period”), Member will earn a one-time bonus of up to 1,000 AAdvantage® miles on qualifying purchases, in addition to the standard AAdvantage® miles earned from shopping online through the AAdvantage eShoppingSM mall.
- This one-time bonus award will be determined based on the number of individual “qualifying purchases” of $5 or more during the Bonus Period using one of the following Tiers: Tier 1 bonus: 250 miles for 2 or 3 individual qualifying purchase of $5 or more; Tier 2 bonus: 500 miles for 4 or 5 individual qualifying purchases of $5 or more; Tier 3 bonus: 750 miles for 6 or 7 individual qualifying purchases of $5 or more; or Tier 4 bonus: 1,000 miles for 8 or more individual qualifying purchases of $5 or more.
- “Qualifying purchases” do not include returns, cancellations, shipping and handling, taxes, gift card or other cash equivalent purchases, and certain products that are not eligible for bonus miles. Please see the AAdvantage eShoppingSM mall site for details on product eligibility and other restrictions.
- Please allow up to 10 weeks after the Bonus Period for bonus miles to post to your AAdvantage eShoppingSM account. The Tier 4 bonus provides the maximum number of miles that will be awarded per member. Void where prohibited by law.
Our Verdict
Interesting new structure. Break up purchases into smaller ones, if you can, to max this out. Purchase does need to be a minimum $5 in order to count.
AA is going bankrupt
Nope they’ll buy a bailout from our government. Best bailouts for the money.
If they don’t go bankrupt or shut-down your FF account because you have too many miles you can get 1000 miles from shopping 8 times? Think I will pass.
Feel like buying a bunch of $5 purchases at Raise.
Even though they have Raise, looks like gift cards are excluded?
“Qualifying purchases” do not include returns, cancellations, shipping and handling, taxes, gift card or other cash equivalent purchases, and certain products that are not eligible for bonus miles.
The promotions always say this but they always count anyway. At least for GCM and GC.com.
Minimum purchase to earn cash back at Raise is $20. I think that is applicable across all portals. Please check before you buy.
Thanks for heads up.
Any suggested portals to make the small $5 purchases (for purchasing gift cards, etc while maximizing $/mile)?
Nvm looks like gift cards are excluded 🙁
I suggest using the portal to buy a Groupon for a local restaurant (with good takeout, lol).
So… if (when, haha, cry) these airlines and other entities go bankrupt, what happens to our points/miles/pseudocurrencies?
A great silver lining to this whole crisis would be seeing AA go under and split up between Delta, United and I dunno…anybody else.
And hopefully Toby gets canned in the process.
United is worse than American for customer service.
The bigger issue is a lot of corporations never lowered their debt levels during the boom and now are going to need bailouts to survive.
Yes but they had to buy up their own stock instead to make their stock options worth more.
With the current administration’s tax cut, many company bought back shares with the savings