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United’s Billion Mile Giveaway
United is giving 100 grand prize winners a 1 MILLION points each. Yes that’s 1 MILLLLLLLLLION points each. Who doesn’t flipping love free Miles?! They are also giving away 10,000 prizes of 25,000 miles and 130,000 prizes of 5,000 miles each. There are a couple ways to enter this giveaway, plus the easiest is if you already have a Chase United credit card. I’ll detail the 2 options below, but I highly encourage to you enter United’s Billion Mile Giveaway.
2 ways to enter
- Spend on your Chase branded United credit card.
- every eligible purchase is an entry. That’s pretty phenom
- Read the official terms and conditions to see what some of the exclusions are
- Enter manually here
Miles and I got a United Mileage Plus Explorer card earlier this year when we were targeted for a 50k sign up and an additonal 5k for an authorized user. Not a bad grab at points, but we missed out on the HUGE 70k target. What’s annoying is that my account was targeted for it, but it was outside of the 90 days to match my sign up bonus to a better offer. Can’t win them all. I’m currently thinking of some creative ways to get multiple entries on this great offer… Remember you have until September 30th to enter in the contest.
*update* United will also give the grand prize winners cash to offset taxes
Reader Gene had some interesting thoughts on that and we had a good exchange in the comments below. Odd that United is valuing points at difference prices depending on the prize won.
- 1,000,000 valued at $27,500 or $0.0275/mile
- 25,000 valued at $500 or $0.02/mile
- 5,000 valued at $100 or $0.02/mile
Even the whole prize of 1 Billion miles is valued at $20,750,000 or $0.02075/mile. Makes me scratch my head as to why the grand prize isn’t valued at $20,000…
What would you do with 1 million Mileage Plus Miles?
I actually loved my experience in Global First last year. But I think I’d definitely spend some big Miles on partners and try out some of the International First Class products…even if they aren’t the best redemption options.
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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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