United MileagePlus (Consolidated) - United Explorer Card 65,000 Miles Offer

TSMRSRNE got a (targeted?) flyer via postal mail for the United MileagePlus Explorer Card. Printed therein was the link below. She applied August 19 and received the card today. She previously had a MP Explorer card, but cancelled it more than a year ago to avoid the annual fee. She "should" get 55,000 bonus miles right off the bat. I'll let you know if she does.

Bonus Miles:
50,000 when you spend $1,000 in the first three months
5,000 for adding an authorized user
10,000 every calendar year you spend $25,000

http://unitedexplorercard.com/65000miles

If this link has been posted elsewhere, a thousand pardons. I did search for it to no avail.

That being said, here's what the fine print in the offer details says:

Earn MileagePlus Miles:
You will earn 1 mile for each $1 of net purchases. You will earn 1 additional mile for each $1 of net purchases made directly from United and on tickets purchased directly from Continental and at continental.com.

Still shaking my head...

David

Anybody else get this offer, or is Jamie Dimon lavishing it solely upon my wife? :eek:

Anybody else get this offer, or is Jamie Dimon lavishing it solely upon my wife? :eek:

Didn't get the offer, but clicking on the link opens up the Chase page with the 65k offer. So, seems not to be targeted.

Anybody else get this offer, or is Jamie Dimon lavishing it solely upon my wife? :eek:

My wife's UA FF# is eligible, too. (Me? Not so much...stuck with MileagePlus Visa, but I get 3x UA purchases and 2x groceries.) Unfortunately, she's canceled a UA CC within the past 12 months, so I have a feeling that she would not get these bonus points (and that the CSR would be slippery when directly asked...)

So, irrefutably, this offer is clearly only valid for female SOs of FTers.

The link takes me to the Explorer Card catalog page once I log in. No sign of any offer/application for the new card. Anyone else experiencing the same?

A similar offer is being discussed here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/milesbuzz/1330475-ua-mileage-explorer-card-offer-up-60k-miles-now-65k-50-statement-credit.html

I applied using the link in the above mentioned thread for an offer with 50k after first purchase, 5k after adding an additional order and 10k after spending 25k. Seems like it's the same offer except with a minimum spending.

Doesn't work for me. Takes me to 40k offer.

TSMRSRNE got a (targeted?) flyer via postal mail for the United MileagePlus Explorer Card. Printed therein was the link below. She applied August 19 and received the card today. She previously had a MP Explorer card, but cancelled it more than a year ago to avoid the annual fee. She "should" get 55,000 bonus miles right off the bat. I'll let you know if she does.

Bonus Miles:
50,000 when you spend $1,000 in the first three months
5,000 for adding an authorized user
10,000 every calendar year you spend $25,000

As promised, I am reporting back.

Bonus miles have now posted to her MP account. There were 5000 bonus miles as expected because she added an authorized user: yours truly. (She did not yet meet the $1000 spend requirement, so we were not expecting the 50,000 bonus miles yet.) The problem, though, is how the 5000 bonus miles are identified. It says "First Use Miles Earned," but the flyer doesn't mention any such bonus. We expected it to be "Authorized User Bonus." Now maybe this is just a misnomer. Or maybe it's an unplublished bonus. Or maybe Chase doesn't know what's going on. We'll see next month.

Can you add 2 authorized users to get 10K bonus miles?

Can you add 2 authorized users to get 10K bonus miles?
Probably not, but it can't hurt to try. Let us know if you do.

As promised, I am reporting back.

Bonus miles have now posted to her MP account. There were 5000 bonus miles as expected because she added an authorized user: yours truly. (She did not yet meet the $1000 spend requirement, so we were not expecting the 50,000 bonus miles yet.) The problem, though, is how the 5000 bonus miles are identified. It says "First Use Miles Earned," but the flyer doesn't mention any such bonus. We expected it to be "Authorized User Bonus." Now maybe this is just a misnomer. Or maybe it's an unplublished bonus. Or maybe Chase doesn't know what's going on. We'll see next month.

My wife also got this targeted offer, and she also had a previous card. She applied for the card and immediately spent over $1000 on airline tickets to qualify for the 50,000 bonus miles. Were we surprised to receive a letter informing us that she did not qualify for the bonus since she was a previous card holder! We reread the offer, and nowhere does it say that previous card holders are ineligible. And since they had her Mileageplus number and current miles, they must have had all her information before they made the offer.

Hope you are more successful in getting the bonus miles then we were.

Anybody else get this offer, or is Jamie Dimon lavishing it solely upon my wife? :eek:

I got a similar offer in the mail about 3-4 months ago. Except I got the 50k miles on the first spend (no dollar minimum). Got the card and got the miles. FWIW - I like the Chase Sapphire and AMEX cards better than this one (double points on all travel and no forex fees on the Chase Sapphire - double points on gas and groceries and 15k miles on annual $25k spend on the AMEX). Robyn

My wife also got this targeted offer, and she also had a previous card. She applied for the card and immediately spent over $1000 on airline tickets to qualify for the 50,000 bonus miles. Were we surprised to receive a letter informing us that she did not qualify for the bonus since she was a previous card holder! We reread the offer, and nowhere does it say that previous card holders are ineligible. And since they had her Mileageplus number and current miles, they must have had all her information before they made the offer.

Hope you are more successful in getting the bonus miles then we were.

This is in the terms and conditions:

50,000 Bonus Miles:
With this bonus offer you will qualify and receive 50,000 bonus miles after you make purchases totaling $1,000 or more during the first 3 months from account opening. Purchases do not include using your account for balance transfers or cash advances, or using any checks that access your account. After qualifying, please allow 6 to 8 weeks for bonus miles to post to your account. To be eligible for this bonus offer, account must be open and not in default at the time of fulfillment. This bonus offer is valid only for first-time United MileagePlus Visa cardmembers with new accounts. Previous and existing United MileagePlus Visa cardmembers/accounts are not eligible for this bonus offer. Bonus miles do not count towards Premier status.

Have others who had a UA Visa before applied and received the 50K? I had the card approx 3-4 yrs ago. Would def reapply if I were get the bonus again.

This is in the terms and conditions:

50,000 Bonus Miles:
With this bonus offer you will qualify and receive 50,000 bonus miles after you make purchases totaling $1,000 or more during the first 3 months from account opening. Purchases do not include using your account for balance transfers or cash advances, or using any checks that access your account. After qualifying, please allow 6 to 8 weeks for bonus miles to post to your account. To be eligible for this bonus offer, account must be open and not in default at the time of fulfillment. This bonus offer is valid only for first-time United MileagePlus Visa cardmembers with new accounts. Previous and existing United MileagePlus Visa cardmembers/accounts are not eligible for this bonus offer. Bonus miles do not count towards Premier status.

Have others who had a UA Visa before applied and received the 50K? I had the card approx 3-4 yrs ago. Would def reapply if I were get the bonus again.

Yikes- my wife received this offer in the mail yesterday and I signed her up even though she canceled her previous UA explorer card around 2 months ago! Seems cruel to target the offer to then deny the bonus miles!

Yikes- my wife received this offer in the mail yesterday and I signed her up even though she canceled her previous UA explorer card around 2 months ago! Seems cruel to target the offer to then deny the bonus miles!

This is in the terms and conditions:

50,000 Bonus Miles:
With this bonus offer you will qualify and receive 50,000 bonus miles after you make purchases totaling $1,000 or more during the first 3 months from account opening. Purchases do not include using your account for balance transfers or cash advances, or using any checks that access your account. After qualifying, please allow 6 to 8 weeks for bonus miles to post to your account. To be eligible for this bonus offer, account must be open and not in default at the time of fulfillment. This bonus offer is valid only for first-time United MileagePlus Visa cardmembers with new accounts. Previous and existing United MileagePlus Visa cardmembers/accounts are not eligible for this bonus offer. Bonus miles do not count towards Premier status.

Have others who had a UA Visa before applied and received the 50K? I had the card approx 3-4 yrs ago. Would def reapply if I were get the bonus again.

My wife also got this targeted offer, and she also had a previous card. She applied for the card and immediately spent over $1000 on airline tickets to qualify for the 50,000 bonus miles. Were we surprised to receive a letter informing us that she did not qualify for the bonus since she was a previous card holder! We reread the offer, and nowhere does it say that previous card holders are ineligible. And since they had her Mileageplus number and current miles, they must have had all her information before they made the offer. Hope you are more successful in getting the bonus miles then we were.
For what it's worth, nothing in the PAPER offer itself says anything about not having had this card before to be eligible for the benefits. The offer on paper is ironclad. And as I noted, TSMRSRNE has already begun to receive bonus miles, despite having been a cardholder before.

For what it's worth, nothing in the PAPER offer itself says anything about not having had this card before to be eligible for the benefits. The offer on paper is ironclad. And as I noted, TSMRSRNE has already begun to receive bonus miles, despite having been a cardholder before.
I will hold onto the paper offer as well- as u mention OP there is nothing there about previous card member- in fact they add the bonus miles to her current balance in the lower left hand corner of the paper offer to show how many miles will end up in the account!

My wife also got this targeted offer, and she also had a previous card. She applied for the card and immediately spent over $1000 on airline tickets to qualify for the 50,000 bonus miles. Were we surprised to receive a letter informing us that she did not qualify for the bonus since she was a previous card holder! We reread the offer, and nowhere does it say that previous card holders are ineligible. And since they had her Mileageplus number and current miles, they must have had all her information before they made the offer.

Hope you are more successful in getting the bonus miles then we were.

You will recall my wife too was a former Explorer Card holder; despite that, she met the $1000 spend and received the "Chase Explorer Enrollment Bonus" of 50,000 points, making a total of 55,000 with this offer. ^

You will recall my wife too was a former Explorer Card holder; despite that, she met the $1000 spend and received the "Chase Explorer Enrollment Bonus" of 50,000 points, making a total of 55,000 with this offer. ^
Another data point- my wife (2 months sans a mileage plus card) just received her 50K + 5K bonus so it looks like everything was legit!

Any rumors of this offer coming back? It'd be really convenient for my MAR churn :)

Any rumors of this offer coming back? It'd be really convenient for my MAR churn :)

I signed up for the 65K offer in late jan. it's always active as a targeted offer.

I signed up for the 65K offer in late jan. it's always active as a targeted offer.

Chase will usually match via SM.

I signed up for the 65K offer in late jan. it's always active as a targeted offer.But when you click on OP's link today, you get a message that "This offer has expired. You are being directed to the Chase Home Page."

But when you click on OP's link today, you get a message that "This offer has expired. You are being directed to the Chase Home Page."
In December 2012 was able to sign up for the OP offer (except now $2000 has to be charged to the card over the first three months) at my nearby Chase Bank. Rep entered/completed the card request via his terminal.

In December 2012 was able to sign up for the OP offer (except now $2000 has to be charged to the card over the first three months) at my nearby Chase Bank. Rep entered/completed the card request via his terminal.

Thanks. I'll check it out in March.

When did you recieve your sign up bonus? I just got the card, spent the required $1000 by the first statement and was a bit disappointed not to see the bonus points on the statement. I also have a MileagePlus Select card, so I am a little worried about the "Previous and Existing customer" clause.

When did you recieve your sign up bonus? I just got the card, spent the required $1000 by the first statement and was a bit disappointed not to see the bonus points on the statement. I also have a MileagePlus Select card, so I am a little worried about the "Previous and Existing customer" clause.

United CSR told me by phone in 2012 (and I assume it's still true) that MP Select and Explorer CCs were considered the same card = no bonus on Explorer for previous or existing customers.

I plan to get my wife the UA Explorer CC when she has cleared 365 days without a MP Select. Even that method may not generate the bonus--CSRs throw around the term "should" a lot more than "will."

I hope it works out for you. Very curious to see if they honor it.

I'm going to try the same post-365-day thing, come May.

When did you recieve your sign up bonus? I just got the card, spent the required $1000 by the first statement and was a bit disappointed not to see the bonus points on the statement. I also have a MileagePlus Select card, so I am a little worried about the "Previous and Existing customer" clause.

I just got the card and noticed in yesterday's "welcome" e-mail that they say posting of 50,000 miles would come 6-8 weeks after the $1,000 spend.

When did you recieve your sign up bonus?

Received 55,000 (50k + 5k) miles in MP account upon statement date.
Charges for the period had satisfied the requirement to obtain the bonus.

I signed up for the 65K offer in late jan. it's always active as a targeted offer.

Any idea how to get that targeted offer?

I signed up for the 65K offer in late jan. it's always active as a targeted offer.

Any idea how to get that targeted offer?

You can check this for starters.

https://creditcards.chase.com/RecentlyMailedOffers.aspx

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Bonus Miles:
50,000 when you spend $1,000 in the first three months
5,000 for adding an authorized user
10,000 every calendar year you spend $25,000

http://unitedexplorercard.com/65000miles ...

+1 received this offer with new link
http://unitedexplorercard.com/start50K -- good until 15 June 2013
$0 first year fee

May be / likely targeted

I tried it but it reverts back to 30K offer