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The United Shopping Portal is offering bonus points for using their portal before you shop elsewhere.
The bonus is tiered in the following way:
The United Shopping Portal is offering bonus points for using their portal before you shop elsewhere.
The bonus is tiered in the following way:
- Spend $150, you will earn 500 bonus miles
- Spend $350, you will earn 1,000 bonus miles
- Spend $700, earn 2,500 bonus miles
Combine this with the fact that the United portal is currently offering 3 miles per dollar at Staples and you can get some nice United earning potential right now.
If you spend exactly $700 at Staples, you will earn 2,100 miles for regular 3x miles per $1 and a bonus of 2,500 miles.
Use a Chase Ink business card and you will earn 5x Ultimate rewards points per dollar spent at office supply stores including Staples. Ultimate Rewards can be transferred into United in a 1:1 ratio if you have the Chase Ink Plus or Sapphire preferred. This means, your $700 purchase earns you 3,500 UR points which can be 3,500 United miles.
All in all, you can earn 8,100 United Miles for your $700 purchase.
In addition you can earn up to 5% towards a future purchase with Staples Rewards, which is $35 if you are Premier status (requires $1,000 of spend at Staples for the year)
Final Tally for your $700 purchase
4,600 United Miles
3,500 Ultimate Rewards points which can be converted into another 3,500 United miles. A possible 8,100 miles total which comes out to 11.57 miles per $1 spent at Staples for a $700 purchase!
$35 towards a future purchase at Staples
To put this in perspective, a round trip ticket to Israel from NYC is 85,000 United miles in Saver economy so you almost 1/10 of the way there. Hopefully you have to spend the $700 anyway and you are good to go!
An idea for your purchase, check out Big Habitat for some ideas on iPads
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