April 10, 2023
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Editor’s Note
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It’s no secret that shopping portals may be an incredible strategy to earn extra rewards on online purchases. Now, Alaska Mileage Plan Shopping and United MileagePlus Shopping are offering targeted “mystery” bonuses to their members.
Here’s a more in-depth have a look at Alaska Airlines’ and United Airlines’ mystery shopping portal bonuses.
Alaska Mileage Plan Shopping
- Dates: April 10 to 17.
- Offer: In our tests, most accounts are targeted for a one-time 500 bonus miles after spending $100 or more on qualifying purchases, but click here to disclose your specific offer.
United MileagePlus Shopping
- Dates: April 10 to 16.
- Offer: In our tests, most accounts are targeted for a one-time 500 bonus miles after spending $100 or more on qualifying purchases, but click here to disclose your specific offer.
In fact, you’ll be able to select your chosen rewards currency, but when you’ve the identical offer from Alaska and United, we recommend initiating your purchase through Alaska’s shopping portal since we value Alaska miles at 1.8 cents apiece (roughly 50% greater than our valuation of United miles).
The perfect bank card for shopping portals
Contrary to popular belief, Alaska’s and United’s cobranded bank cards aren’t your best payment options for shopping portal purchases. They’ll code as a retail purchase quite than an airline purchase.
We recommend using an on a regular basis bank card that earns greater than 1 point per dollar spent on all purchases. Some options include:
Related: The perfect bank cards for online shopping
Additional reporting by Benji Stawski, Katie Genter, Sean Cudahy and Ryan Smith.
Featured image by ZACH GRIFF/THE POINTS GUY
Editorial disclaimer: Opinions expressed listed below are the writer’s alone, not those of any bank, bank card issuer, airline or hotel chain, and haven’t been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of those entities.