Sep 4, 2013, 2:09 am
Last edit by: Cheetah_SA
PROMO: Buy UA Miles and Earn Bonuses up to 60%
Offer ends today. Purchase miles and earn a bonus based on how many others purchase. The more people that purchase, the higher the bonus goes. Bonus has already reached 60%. Everyone who purchases gets the same bonus, so if the bonus was 45% when you purchased you will still receive the 60% bonus.
You can purchase a maximum of 100,000 miles (though the bonus is not included in that, so a a purchase of 100,000 miles still earns the full bonus).
Offer details: (via website)
Offer ends today. Purchase miles and earn a bonus based on how many others purchase. The more people that purchase, the higher the bonus goes. Bonus has already reached 60%. Everyone who purchases gets the same bonus, so if the bonus was 45% when you purchased you will still receive the 60% bonus.
You can purchase a maximum of 100,000 miles (though the bonus is not included in that, so a a purchase of 100,000 miles still earns the full bonus).
Offer details: (via website)
- To take advantage of this offer, you must use the order links on this page.
- Promotional offer valid until 11:59 p.m. CT (Chicago local time) on September 5, 2013.
- For a limited time, get a minimum of 30% bonus award miles and a maximum of 60% bonus award miles when you purchase miles via the above links.
- Allow 48 hours for purchased miles to process and post to your MileagePlus account. Bonus miles will post up to 7 days after promotion ends.
- Displayed price includes all taxes.
- Minimum purchase of 5,000 miles required for this promotion.
- Miles are available in increments of 1,000 miles.
- Purchase up to 100,000 miles per account per calendar year.
- For Give Miles transactions, both purchased miles and bonus miles will post to the recipient's MileagePlus account.
- Credit card will be billed immediately upon purchase.
- Mileage rates and other applicable fees are subject to change.
- Miles are nonrefundable.
- Purchased miles do not count toward MileagePlus Premier status.
- All MileagePlus Program Rules and terms and conditions apply.
Buy miles and receive up to 60% bonus PROMO
Sep 4, 2013, 8:06 pm
#106
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Is the lesson that there are not too many FTers out there ( and even fewer people doing MRuns )?
B/c some posters keep claiming that 1Ks are people who do countless LAX-EWR 2.5cpm MRuns and then turn around and book SFO-SIN leisure trips in SQ F, and who really really hurt UA's bottom line. . .
B/c some posters keep claiming that 1Ks are people who do countless LAX-EWR 2.5cpm MRuns and then turn around and book SFO-SIN leisure trips in SQ F, and who really really hurt UA's bottom line. . .
Sep 4, 2013, 8:53 pm
#107
Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: Homosassa, FL & Ringwood, NJ -UA-G(Lifetime); SPG-Plat (Lifetime)
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You beat me to it! I was thinking the same thing. Imagine the uproar if UA did this. I'm thinking it could happen as we know some departments don't talk to other departments.
Sep 4, 2013, 8:55 pm
#108
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If you do not use the link for this promo as listed in #1 and use Home > Mileage Plus > Buy or transfer miles > Personal Miles on the website instead, you get the 2,000 mile option, but won't get the bonus, I suspect. It offers 2000 miles for $75.25.
Sep 4, 2013, 10:13 pm
#109
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 5
You are thinking about making a trip from SFO to HKG or some such trip in first or business. You buy the ticket. After you buy the ticket you will be given the opportunity to buy some miles. Normally these miles (all the times on such trips for me in first and business so far this year) are offered at 2.1 or 2.2 CPM. Although earlier in this thread 3.3 CPM was reported IIRC. If you want them BUY them. Later on before 24 hours has passed since you purchased the ticket you think about the trip again. If you don't want the ticket you CANCEL the ticket. Any miles you purchased will not be refunded and still be in your account. Your ticket purchase will be refunded in a week or two.
Last edited by iluv2fly; Sep 4, 2013 at 11:25 pm Reason: merge
Sep 4, 2013, 10:14 pm
#110
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: ORD
Posts: 880
This is great! I am going to top off my account with 8k miles and upgrade my HNL-EWR flight to lie flat F.
Sep 4, 2013, 10:15 pm
#111
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 5
How frequent are 60% bonuses like this?
Does anyone here know how often United offers this kind of a 60% bonus on the purchase of miles? (in other words, if I wait a couple months to see if I can earn the miles other ways, is there any chance they'd offer a similar points purchase bonus?)
Last edited by kevsunblush; Sep 4, 2013 at 10:20 pm Reason: accidentally double-posted, wanted to place a new post
Sep 4, 2013, 10:20 pm
#112
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But if you can get the 2.1cpm award accelerator, that's even better.
Sep 4, 2013, 10:20 pm
#113
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This is very typical of the poorly executed and researched thought bubble that seems to typify United 2013.
They clearly want to sell as many miles for cash as they can. 60% off is well above what they offer day in and day out via Accelerator, so is no big deal to them, nor especially low.
This stupidly worded lottery type thing clearly has had masses of folks read it, decide it might be bait and switch etc or deceptive, and they move on and delete the email.
Opportunity lost. The new office boy dreamed up the idea perhaps. Jeffies pool boy perhaps?
We all get 100s of emails a day and had they said "BUY MILES FOR NEXT 3 DAYS, AND WE ADD a 60% BONUS TO WHAT YOU BUY" - masses more sales would have been made.
We all KNOW the final figure will magically be 60% but 99% of email recipients will not check back to see.
They clearly want to sell as many miles for cash as they can. 60% off is well above what they offer day in and day out via Accelerator, so is no big deal to them, nor especially low.
This stupidly worded lottery type thing clearly has had masses of folks read it, decide it might be bait and switch etc or deceptive, and they move on and delete the email.
Opportunity lost. The new office boy dreamed up the idea perhaps. Jeffies pool boy perhaps?
We all get 100s of emails a day and had they said "BUY MILES FOR NEXT 3 DAYS, AND WE ADD a 60% BONUS TO WHAT YOU BUY" - masses more sales would have been made.
We all KNOW the final figure will magically be 60% but 99% of email recipients will not check back to see.
How many $$$ millions they'd have got extra if they sold the 60% bonus right at the get go is anyone's guess.
There was little 'Buzz' and the take up to now has been pretty abysmal globally as can be clearly seen.
As usual for ConUALL these days, another United barely half thought through idea of a mind bubble.
Sep 4, 2013, 10:32 pm
#114
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: HNL
Programs: United Gold
Posts: 1,581
I really wish I could get in on this promo, but I'm saving every last cent for the 10k PQD requirement for next year. Blech.
Sep 4, 2013, 11:56 pm
#115
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Osaka
Programs: Hyatt Explorist, Hilton Gold, UA
Posts: 3,158
That's not quite true. In Feb there was an offer for up to 40% discount (discount increasing with number of miles purchased). The 60% bonus is a 37.5% discount. Admittedly, 60% bonus seems like a better deal than 40% discount, but unfortunately it is not.
Sep 4, 2013, 11:58 pm
#116
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Wasn't there previously a 'processing fee' for purchasing miles, so that purchasing in larger quantities resulted in a lower CPM? Unless I'm missing something, I don't see that here.
Sep 5, 2013, 12:00 am
#117
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Anyway it is a good deal as I stated from post #1, just poorly advertised, and current Accelerator rates are well north of 2c a mile right now, as I discovered today - for me anyway.
Sep 5, 2013, 12:09 am
#118
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http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...ard-miles.html
So yes, that was a abetter deal for large purchases, just barely.
Sep 5, 2013, 12:30 am
#119
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Osaka
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The 40% was targeted and you need to buy at least 50K RDMs to get full 40%
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...ard-miles.html
So yes, that was a abetter deal for large purchases, just barely.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...ard-miles.html
So yes, that was a abetter deal for large purchases, just barely.
Neither myself nor my wife received any email notification on this offer. I wonder how widely they promoted it.
I'm still wondering what will happen if I try to purchase some miles on this offer, even though I purchased a full 100,000 in Feb.
Sep 5, 2013, 12:35 am
#120
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United does not care about enforcing these alleged rules in my view, they simply want CASH CASH CASH - the new Corporate logo.
As much and as fast as your credit card will offer.
The mere fact we can buy miles and credit them to any account we nominate means the annual cap is just meaningless boilerplate - IMHO.
You seem overly nervous as you keep posting this - simply sign up and see what occurs. If you think for ONE MOMENT these carpetbaggers will refund your purchase as you are over the limit .....................
As United have a sad history of pretending that clear promises on their website never existed - even to Million Milers, thought it wise to capture this just in case they take that tactic on this one!
Last edited by iluv2fly; Sep 5, 2013 at 5:11 am Reason: merge