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MMMondayMemo: Enter 100x+ for United’s Billion Mile Giveaway
In case you’ve missed it United is giving away a Billion Miles. 100 lucky people will win 1 million miles. There’s a couple ways to enter for the contest. The first is using the link here for United.com where you enter all your info. The second is using your United card from Chase. Every single time you make a purchase you are entered. The Monkey Miles Monday Memo will show you a clever way to maximize your purchases so you can enter 100x+ for United’s Billion Mile Giveaway.
Using your United Card requires no registration: It’s automatic
Let’s be honest. If you have the United card you probably signed up for the whopping 70k bonus that was offered earlier this year, or you signed up a while ago, and if you’re like me, you don’t even use the card and it sits in a box or a drawer. Well this promotion has provided the incentive necessary for me to make some purchases – so PROPS to Chase and United for offering a lucrative reason to push spend through the card.
The promotion gives you an entry for every purchase
HUGE DEAL. If you’re like me you like to buy things on Amazon. Well Amazon has a great way of loading the account with small amounts at a time. So here’s the thing if you want to buy something that is $50….load your account with $0.50 reloads. Instead of getting 1 entry for a $50 purchase, you’ll get 100 entries.
Step 1: Go to Amazon.com – Pull down Your Account and open it
Step 2: Reload your gift card balance
Step 3: Manually enter the value you’d wish you reload – I do the least…$0.50
Step 4: Use a key stroke to go back…keep cursor in place. This will conserve time. Rinse and Repeat
I have done this twice now for roughly $150 worth of merch – that’s over 300 entries
It took me about 10 minutes to load 150 times for each $75 purchase. The thing I will tell you is that the account has a delay and it usually takes up to 15 minutes after you’re done loading for the balance to be accurate. I had loaded about 30 times at this point and my balance only reflected 13 loads.
Obviously there is no guarantee I will win, but I’m gonna get as many entries as possible
I want to fly Polaris and am banking Miles to do so.
I’d also love to try out ANA’s first class
Recap: Use $0.50 Amazon reloads to max your chance to win 1 million United Miles
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 2x on all other travel
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel℠ and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver ( primary ), purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in Chase Travel℠ for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2027.
- $95 Annual Fee
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex® and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash® , Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.
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