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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
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card went through a major refresh in 2026 adding new bonus categories, travel protections, statement credits, and remains one of the best travel starter cards in the market. It earns Premium Ultimate Rewards that can be transferred into over a dozen partners many of which are US based including Hyatt, Southwest, United, IHG, and Marriott. Note that Hyatt is now a 4:3 transfer partner
Welcome Offer
Earn 100,000 bonus points after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
Earn
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- NEW ACCELERATED EARN CATEGORY: 3x points on gas and EV charging
- NEW ACCELERATED EARN CATEGORY: 3x points on vacation homes at top brands
- Cardmembers will earn 3x points on vacation homes at these top brands: Airbnb, Vrbo, Plu Guide, HomeAway, Homestay.com and Vacasa.
- 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)
- 2x on all other travel
- 1x on everyday purchases
- 5x points on Lyft rides Earn 5x total points on eligible Lyft rides including ride share, bike and scooter rides and subscription and membership products through September 30, 2027.
- 5x total points on Peloton equipment Earn 5x total points on eligible Peloton equipment and accessory purchases over $150 through December 31, 2027.
Benefits and Credits
- $100 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- NEW: $120 Global Entry, TSA PreCheck or NEXUS fee credit Cardmembers will receive one statement credit of up to $120 every four years as reimbursement for the application fee charged to the card.
- NEW: Complimentary Apple TV subscription for one year
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Complimentary DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees & lower service fees for a min. of one year when you activate by 12/31/27. Plus, a $10 promo each month on non-restaurant orders
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® Card is great 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: Chase Ink Business Cash® , Chase Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into the Sapphire Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee remains quite low at $95 a year and if you use the $100 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠ you’ll wipe out that annual fee every year. It has great bonus categories and other useful statement credits to enhance your travel.
One thing that is a bummer is Chase lowered the transfer ratio to World of Hyatt from 1:1 to 4:3.
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