Aug 31, 2015, 10:17 pm
Last edit by: narvik
Current offer through September 30, 2020. : (modified terms)
Limited-time offer: Now through January 31, 2018, when you book a mid-size or larger car with Hertz through united.com, you'll earn 1,500 bonus award miles in addition to the miles you normally earn, for a total of up to 2,750 miles. You MUST go to the united.com landing page first, then click onto the Hertz offer from there. Going straight to Hertz.com could result in Hertz denying you the bonus miles.
Be sure to provide discount code (CDP) 62455, PC#305023 and your MileagePlus number at the time of reservation.
MileagePlus members receive the following benefits:
Save up to 40% on the base rate* of each qualifying Hertz rental with discount code (CDP) 62455
Earn more MileagePlus award miles for each qualifying paid Hertz rental by providing a MileagePlus number when making a reservation or picking up a rental
MileagePlus Premier® members as well as primary cardmembers of the United MileagePlus Club and United MileagePlus Presidential PlusSM Cards can enroll to receive complimentary Hertz Gold Plus Rewards elite status.
Link to full offer:
https://www.united.com/CMS/en-US/pro...ertzoffer.aspx
T&Cs can also be found in the link above.
Screenshot of the actual email (less personally identifying information and the T&C's at the end of the email) can be found HERE.
Timing:
Initial Posting (500 miles) within 3-4 days of the trip. (some report 24 hours)
Bonus Posting (Premier Miles) within 7-8 days of the trip.
Additional Miles Posting within xx-xx days of the trip.
Retroactive mileage credit:
There have been many data points of car reservations made through United.com not properly crediting to the member's MP account. To obtain retroactive credit follow the link on the Hertz.com homepage under Customer Support named "Frequent Traveler Credit". Input your appropriate account and reservation details and you'll receive a response back from Hertz within 3-5 business days. Allow at least seven days after rental return before requesting the credit. This works for obtaining both the base mile credit and whatever bonus your status level entitles you to, e.g. GS/1K bonus, etc.
Direct link: https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/partner/index.jsp?targetPage=ftRetroFormView.jsp
Save up to 40% on base rates*
Earn up to1,250 1,000 MileagePlus award miles
Receive an additional 1,500 miles when you book a mid-size or larger Hertz car for two or more days on united.com t at airport locations through March 31, 2019 pickups.
Corporate Discount Code (CDP) 62455, Promotional Coupon (PC) 204508 and MileagePlus number required for this offer
Earn up to
Receive an additional 1,500 miles when you book a mid-size or larger Hertz car for two or more days on united.com t at airport locations through March 31, 2019 pickups.
Corporate Discount Code (CDP) 62455, Promotional Coupon (PC) 204508 and MileagePlus number required for this offer
Limited-time offer: Now through January 31, 2018, when you book a mid-size or larger car with Hertz through united.com, you'll earn 1,500 bonus award miles in addition to the miles you normally earn, for a total of up to 2,750 miles. You MUST go to the united.com landing page first, then click onto the Hertz offer from there. Going straight to Hertz.com could result in Hertz denying you the bonus miles.
Be sure to provide discount code (CDP) 62455, PC#305023 and your MileagePlus number at the time of reservation.
MileagePlus members receive the following benefits:
Save up to 40% on the base rate* of each qualifying Hertz rental with discount code (CDP) 62455
Earn more MileagePlus award miles for each qualifying paid Hertz rental by providing a MileagePlus number when making a reservation or picking up a rental
MileagePlus Premier® members as well as primary cardmembers of the United MileagePlus Club and United MileagePlus Presidential PlusSM Cards can enroll to receive complimentary Hertz Gold Plus Rewards elite status.
Link to full offer:
https://www.united.com/CMS/en-US/pro...ertzoffer.aspx
T&Cs can also be found in the link above.
Screenshot of the actual email (less personally identifying information and the T&C's at the end of the email) can be found HERE.
Timing:
Initial Posting (500 miles) within 3-4 days of the trip. (some report 24 hours)
Bonus Posting (Premier Miles) within 7-8 days of the trip.
Additional Miles Posting within xx-xx days of the trip.
Retroactive mileage credit:
There have been many data points of car reservations made through United.com not properly crediting to the member's MP account. To obtain retroactive credit follow the link on the Hertz.com homepage under Customer Support named "Frequent Traveler Credit". Input your appropriate account and reservation details and you'll receive a response back from Hertz within 3-5 business days. Allow at least seven days after rental return before requesting the credit. This works for obtaining both the base mile credit and whatever bonus your status level entitles you to, e.g. GS/1K bonus, etc.
Direct link: https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/partner/index.jsp?targetPage=ftRetroFormView.jsp
Hertz/MP offers - [Consolidated] {earn up to 1,250 miles bonus based on UA status}
Sep 21, 2015, 8:52 am
#76
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just got email this morning ... both PC codes officially extended to pick up by 10/15.
Sep 21, 2015, 8:53 am
#77
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Sep 21, 2015, 9:20 am
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They didn't officially exclude multiple rentals or set a cap on earnings so I presume you can keep earning within the promo period. I just got my 5K bonus from 9/11-13 rental and I have another one coming up 10/2-4 so I'll be testing that soon.
Regarding multiple back-to-back rentals (for the sake of earning extra bonus), I can't answer that. The logic should be that the bonus be unique to individual rental agreements, but if the rental location decided to merge your multiple back-to-back bookings into a consecutive one (if car type and other preferences were identical), then the scheme may fail.
Obviously if your local location is cheap enough it actually might be NPV-positive to earn a car and dump it at the garage just to earn the bonus. But I'm not advocating this strategy
Regarding multiple back-to-back rentals (for the sake of earning extra bonus), I can't answer that. The logic should be that the bonus be unique to individual rental agreements, but if the rental location decided to merge your multiple back-to-back bookings into a consecutive one (if car type and other preferences were identical), then the scheme may fail.
Obviously if your local location is cheap enough it actually might be NPV-positive to earn a car and dump it at the garage just to earn the bonus. But I'm not advocating this strategy
Sep 21, 2015, 9:43 am
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I've just had a 5000 mile and a 7500 mile bonus post from two different rentals. However, in neither case has the usual 500+750 mile earning posted.
Sep 21, 2015, 10:00 am
#80
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Sep 21, 2015, 10:37 am
#81
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Sep 21, 2015, 11:40 am
#82
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Just completed my second rental on this promotion and I am mostly remembering now why I had stopped renting from Hertz. Their prices are higher than Budget (with whom I usually rent these days) and their cars are nasty. Seriously.
Just over a week ago my full size car out of DFW was a stripped down VW Passat with no USB or backing camera. I did not even know that they still made cars without these features.
A couple of hours ago I returned a Nissan to DAL that also had no USB or backing camera. It also stank of smoke and had two cigarette burn holes on the back seat. This is the POS that they assigned me as a President's Circle member. Gross!
I am also concerned about getting the promised miles, especially in light of the quick posting that many have mentioned. I have already received 500 miles for last week's rental, but there is no sign of the promised 7,500 miles.
Today's rental is even more concerning, as the receipt when I returned the car was for 2 days 9 hours, rather than the 3 days I booked. It was also for about 50˘ less than the rate I booked. When I asked about this three different Hertz employees (including the manager) insisted that my receipt would not/could not show three days unless I returned the car at 10:00pm because my pick-up was at 10:00pm. They insisted that "this is how Hertz does it," despite the fact that my receipt from the prior week out of DFW showed 3 days despite my picking the car up at 11:00pm and returning it at 4:30am. How is it that 2 days 5 hours = 3 days out of DFW, but 2 days 9 hours ≠ 3 days out of DAL? Both rentals were booked through the link in the United email I received, so I know that the rate codes were the same.
The manager at DAL did promise to process my return at 10:00pm tonight so my receipt will show 3 days, but I have no idea if this will happen. I also wasted a good half hour at Hertz working on this.
If I don't receive the 15k miles that I should, I will have spent more money to rent crappier cars for no additional benefit. I could do one more rental with Hertz before the end of the promotion, but I am starting to doubt whether it is worth the trouble.
Just over a week ago my full size car out of DFW was a stripped down VW Passat with no USB or backing camera. I did not even know that they still made cars without these features.
A couple of hours ago I returned a Nissan to DAL that also had no USB or backing camera. It also stank of smoke and had two cigarette burn holes on the back seat. This is the POS that they assigned me as a President's Circle member. Gross!
I am also concerned about getting the promised miles, especially in light of the quick posting that many have mentioned. I have already received 500 miles for last week's rental, but there is no sign of the promised 7,500 miles.
Today's rental is even more concerning, as the receipt when I returned the car was for 2 days 9 hours, rather than the 3 days I booked. It was also for about 50˘ less than the rate I booked. When I asked about this three different Hertz employees (including the manager) insisted that my receipt would not/could not show three days unless I returned the car at 10:00pm because my pick-up was at 10:00pm. They insisted that "this is how Hertz does it," despite the fact that my receipt from the prior week out of DFW showed 3 days despite my picking the car up at 11:00pm and returning it at 4:30am. How is it that 2 days 5 hours = 3 days out of DFW, but 2 days 9 hours ≠ 3 days out of DAL? Both rentals were booked through the link in the United email I received, so I know that the rate codes were the same.
The manager at DAL did promise to process my return at 10:00pm tonight so my receipt will show 3 days, but I have no idea if this will happen. I also wasted a good half hour at Hertz working on this.
If I don't receive the 15k miles that I should, I will have spent more money to rent crappier cars for no additional benefit. I could do one more rental with Hertz before the end of the promotion, but I am starting to doubt whether it is worth the trouble.
Sep 21, 2015, 12:51 pm
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Sep 21, 2015, 4:28 pm
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As one might expect, pretty much the moment I posted the 7,500 miles from my first rental appeared in my account. Fingers crossed for #2.
Sep 21, 2015, 4:34 pm
#86
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Location: NorCal - 1K 2MM
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I'm Premier Platinum and got that offer this morning too. Just re-booked one of my upcoming reservations with this new PC code. Including insurance, the 2-day rental would be equivalent to buying UA miles straight up at 1.89cpm while getting a car rental for free. Excellent deal indeed.
The sad thing is that for that trip, I'll be earning ~3300 miles from the flying but a whopping 6250 miles from the car rental.
The sad thing is that for that trip, I'll be earning ~3300 miles from the flying but a whopping 6250 miles from the car rental.
Sep 22, 2015, 9:15 am
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has anyone succeeded earning the 5000/7500 bonus by booking on hertz.com instead of united.com ?
Sep 22, 2015, 9:49 am
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Sep 26, 2015, 9:33 pm
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Rented from 9/19-9/21 in SAT and 5,000 miles posted today ^
Sadly it meant a really crappy Hertz experience but for 5,000 miles I can deal with it.
Sadly it meant a really crappy Hertz experience but for 5,000 miles I can deal with it.
Sep 26, 2015, 9:50 pm
#90
Join Date: Feb 2015
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Data Point for consecutive (kind of) rentals
2 rentals:
Sep 18 to Sep 20 10PM to 10PM
Sep 20 to Sep 22 11AM to 11AM
And yes, I had 2 cars (and needed them) on Sep 20 from 11AM to 10PM.
Both rentals posted today with 5000 miles each, so, they didn't combine them.
2 rentals:
Sep 18 to Sep 20 10PM to 10PM
Sep 20 to Sep 22 11AM to 11AM
And yes, I had 2 cars (and needed them) on Sep 20 from 11AM to 10PM.
Both rentals posted today with 5000 miles each, so, they didn't combine them.
