Purchase BR ticket from UA?
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Approach #2 -- try to book as an award flight, if available then before booking you should be offer an all cash purchasing option. (Ahh see in post #1 you have tried this)
A potential issue is some airline will offer certain fares only via their outlets, especially true for deep discount fares. You may be running into this.