One of my miles and points sayings is that it’s important to get your miles and points from several sources. While most of my miles come from credit card signup bonuses, another potentially lucrative source of miles is making your online purchases through shopping portals
(SEE ALSO: How I got a million points (and you can too!))
(SEE ALSO: Earning miles through shopping portals)
3 different shopping portal bonuses ending today
All of the shopping portal sites are run by the same company (Cartera), so it’s not really a huge surprise when many of them run similar promotions at the same time. Currently, there are THREE “back to school” promotions being run at different shopping portals. There was a 4th run by United , which ended on Wednesday
American shopping portal bonus, up to 3500 miles, ends 8/16
American and Southwest are running promotions with very similar details – both ending 8/16 (Monday night) with a maximum of 3500 miles earned. Here’s the American shopping portal bonus.
- 500 bonus miles for qualifying purchases of at least $125
- 1,250 bonus miles for qualifying purchases of at least $500
- 3,500 bonus miles for qualifying purchases of $1,000 or more
Southwest shopping portal bonus, up to 3500 miles, ends 8/16
Here is Southwest’s version – both ending 8/16 (Monday night) with a maximum of 3500 miles earned
- 500 bonus miles for qualifying purchases of at least $125
- 1,500 bonus miles for qualifying purchases of at least $500
- 3,500 bonus miles for qualifying purchases of $1,000 or more
Delta shopping portal bonus, up to 1500 miles, ends 8/16
And of course, bringing up the rear is Delta’s shopping portal bonus, which offers only a 1500 Skymile bonus. I feel like there’s a joke somewhere in there, but I can’t quite put my finger on it… 😀
- 500 bonus miles for qualifying purchases of at least $125
- 1,500 bonus miles for qualifying purchases of at least $500
- 3,500 bonus miles for qualifying purchases of $1,000 or more
If you’ve got a few purchases to make online, this could be a great way to get some extra bang for your buck!
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Is there a listing somewhere of which ones portals would give credit on gift card purchases and hit the bonuses for these offers? It seems that often times gift card purchases are excluded in the T&C for various stores…
The best I know of is the Frequent Miler laboratory
http://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/laboratory/
I think your calendar is off
August 16 was Sunday.
It’s now Monday and if anyone didn’t do this they missed it
Hey Paul – the post was actually posted yesterday (Sunday), so you are correct, if you haven’t done it yet, you’ve missed this one and will have to wait for the next promotion