October 12, 2020|United
The Mileage Plus X app is a great app that acts like a shopping portal by letting you buy gift cards and earn United miles.
Within the app there is a feature called Visa Rewards. This is activated by adding a United Visa card to your account.
Visa Rewards is currently running a promotion that let’s you earn bonus miles for making up to 5 purchases at select merchants. 5 purchases will earn you 10,000 points.
The way I earned my bonus points was as follows:
Sears – $2 donation to St. Judes
HSN – $2 donation to St. Judes
Barnes and Noble – $2.12 e-book purchase
Gamestop – $2 donation to Make-a-Wish
Jersey Mike’s – $2.34 soda
The only in-person purchase was Jersey Mike’s. The rest were made online. Also, for some reason, a $2 online donation to St. Judes through the Chilis website did not trigger the bonus. I’m not sure why.
So for a total of $10.46, I not only earned points 107 United Miles from the bonuses for shopping through Visa Rewards and 10 miles for charging to my United Visa, but also 10,000 bonus miles. Additionally, $6 of this went to charity.
I call that an excellent return.
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