AA Shopping Portal Summer Bonus – Is It Worth Buying a GC to Get the Bonus?

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AAdvantage Shopping Portal Summer Bonus From now through Monday, June 15, at 11:59 pm Eastern Time, the AAdvantage shopping portal is offering a “Summer Bonus” – earn 500 AA bonus miles when you spend at least $200 through the portal.…

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Airline Shopping Portal Bonuses and Strategy Thoughts

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Introduction This morning, we’re seeing some new airline shopping portal bonuses from Alaska, American and United. The structure of the bonuses is interesting and allows for some very nice mileage returns on purchases at or near the $50/$75 minimum purchase…

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Middle Age Miles News & Notes 1/21/20 – Amex Offer for Staples; last call airline shopping portal bonuses; hotel points promos from ALL, iPrefer & Millennium

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After yesterday’s long News & Notes article, we had a few more things we wanted to catch up on today, mostly of the hotel promotion variety – but first, we’ll start with a new and potentially valuable Amex Offer that…

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Middle Age Miles News & Notes 1/13/20 – Staples VGC deal; AS, AA, UA portal bonuses; Marriott issues & deals; Ticket Club

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New week, new Middle Age Miles News & Notes column – several interesting things to cover today: 1 – Visa Gift Card deal underway at Staples From now through Saturday, January 18, purchase a $200 Visa gift card (VGC) in-store…

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Airline Shopping Portal Bonuses Until 12/22 – Our Analysis and How We’re Playing Them

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Introduction Earlier this week, American, Alaska and United eShopping came out with “Last Minute Bonus” offers for holiday spending through their portals. Each of the bonus offers runs through Sunday, December 22, so you have a few days left to…

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8x AA miles at Office Depot / Office Max

Written by Nick Reyes @ Frequent Miler's Quick Deals

The American Airlines AAdvantage eShopping portal is currently offering 8x AA miles per dollar at Office Depot / Office Max. This payout may be available today-only and would make for a nice stack with 5x from your credit card if you’re using a card that earns one of the best category bonuses at office supply stores. The Deal The American Airlines eShopping portal is offering 8x miles for purchases at Office Max / Office Depot Direct link to this promotion…

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Middle Age Miles News & Notes 11/11/19 – Great Rakuten-IHG 11%/11x deal; GC deals at Safeway & Staples; Millennium Hotels; Ticket Club; Airline shopping portal bonuses

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We wanted to be sure to get a News & Notes article out this morning to capture any Veterans Day/Singles Day deals. We were hoping for more travel-related deals for this holiday, ahead of Black Friday/Cyber Monday, but the offerings…

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Earn Extra Miles and Cash Back with Holiday Shopping Portal Bonuses – and How to Maximize Them with Gift Card Purchases

Written by Craig at Middle Age Miles @ Middle Age Miles

Last Friday, many airline shopping portals, as well as the cashback UPromise portal, came out with new November holiday bonuses. Several of these look to be very valuable. Unfortunately, when the offers were released, we were scrambling to get out…

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Earn 1,000s Of Bonus Miles With These Shopping Portal Bonuses

Written by Stephen Pepper @ Frequent Miler's Quick Deals

A bunch of different shopping portals launched holiday bonuses a couple of days ago which are offering thousands of bonus miles when hitting spending thresholds. Most of these are airline portals, but the Upromise shopping portal is also offering a decent cash bonus that could be pretty easy to hit with a Visa gift card order. The Deals & Key Terms Alaska Airlines Spend $150 & earn 300 bonus miles. Spend $300 & earn 750…

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Middle Age Miles News & Notes 10/28/19 – Safeway VGC deal; IHG PointBreaks; Apple shopping portal offers; Silvercar Amex Offer; AA new routes to NZ; Southwest schedule extension on Wed 10/30

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Here are some Middle Age Miles News & Notes for this fine Monday, while we continue to work through what our strategy might be for the newly-revamped Amex Green personal card: 1. Safeway/Just 4 U – $10 off when you…

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10x miles at Apple today (10x AA, 8x Alaska, or 8x United)

Written by Nick Reyes @ Frequent Miler's Quick Deals

Update 12/9/19: This deal is back again and makes for a great payout on Apple products. There are increased shopping portal payouts today for Apple, including 10x American Airlines AAdvantage miles, 8x Alaska Mileage Plan miles or 8x United Mileage Plus miles. Those are terrific returns for Apple products. The Deal Earn increased portal rewards today on Apple purchases as follows: Earn 10x American Airlines miles through AAdvantage eShopping Earn 8x Alaska Airlines miles through Mileage Plan shopping Earn 8x United Airlines miles through Mileage Plus shopping…

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Earn 6x AA Miles For IHG Stays Through AAdvantage Shopping Portal, Stack With Portal Bonus

Written by Stephen Pepper @ Frequent Miler's Quick Deals

The American Airlines AAdvantage eShopping portal is currently offering 6x bonus miles when making hotel reservations with IHG – double the usual rate. This can be stacked with the current portal bonus that’s offering 500 bonus miles when spending $75 or more and could potentially be taken advantage of four times. The Deal Earn 6x American Airlines miles per dollar when booking IHG stays after clicking through from the AAdvantage eShopping portal. Direct link to…

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Middle Age Miles News & Notes 9/10/19 – Hyatt; More on AAdvantage eShopping; LifeMiles; Travel to Syria; and Plastiq Promo

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We’re back with another edition of “News & Notes” today, with 5 more items that we hope you’ll find interesting: 1. Hyatt Worldwide Promotion Hyatt announced a new worldwide bonus points promotion yesterday, which will run from September 15 through…

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American Airlines Shopping Portal Bonus: Spend $75+ & Get 500 Bonus Miles (Limit 4)

Written by Stephen Pepper @ Frequent Miler's Quick Deals

The American Airlines shopping portal launched a new promotion yesterday that’s offering 500 bonus miles when spending $75 or more in a single transaction. This can be done four times for a total of 2,000 bonus miles. While the $75 spend requirement is a little frustrating compared to their normal promotions, it has the benefit of enabling you to earn 7.67x AAdvantage miles per dollar on third party gift cards. The Deal Spend $75 or…

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Middle Age Miles News & Notes 9/9/19 – Amex Offers for Waldorf/Conrad, Marriott & ESPN+; Upromise for Choice & IHG; AAdvantage eShopping Promo; Dosh/Kroger

Written by Craig at Middle Age Miles @ Middle Age Miles

It’s the first edition of our new “News & Notes” series that we promised in our recent “1st Birthday” article! We hope that we can use this series to get out to our readers more tricks, tips and news that…

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Earn Extra Miles with Airline Shopping Portal Back-to-School Bonuses – Alaska, American, Southwest & United

Written by Craig at Middle Age Miles @ Middle Age Miles

Four of the largest domestic airlines are offering back-to-school bonus mile promotions through their shopping portals for the next few weeks. We never want to leave miles on the table, so take a look at these offers for your upcoming…

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American Airlines Shopping Portal: Earn 500-2,000 Bonus Miles

Written by Stephen Pepper @ Frequent Miler's Quick Deals

Last week we shared about how the Alaska, United and Southwest shopping portals were all offering a Back To School bonus with various tiers of bonus miles. Somewhat belatedly, the American Airlines shopping portal is getting in on the act and is offering up to 4x bonus miles per dollar spent by August 18. The Deal Earn bonus miles when shopping through the American Airlines shopping portal: Spend $150 & get 500 bonus miles (3.33x)…

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1 Day Only: Earn Up To 8x On Apple Purchases (6/26/19)

Written by Stephen Pepper @ Frequent Miler's Quick Deals

For today only (June 26), you can get a great rate on purchases from the Apple Store through a number of different airline portals. The Alaska and United portals have the best rate, but the American, Delta and Southwest portals are also worth considering if you’re in need of any of their miles. The Deal Earn an increased rate for Apple purchases through the following airline shopping portals: Alaska – 8x United – 8x American…

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Can You Stack Shopping Portal Benefits with Using a Club Level Upgrade Certificate from the Ritz Carlton Visa Card? (Experiment-in-Progress)

Written by Craig at Middle Age Miles @ Middle Age Miles

Introduction At Middle Age Miles, we love to experiment with different points-and-miles strategies and then share our results with our readers, in hopes that it’ll benefit the community. In this experiment, we wanted to explore the notoriously hard-to-use Club Level…

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Nice Alaska, AA, & United payouts: 10x Dell, 20x eBags, 15x Shoes.com

Written by Nick Reyes @ Frequent Miler's Quick Deals

The Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Shopping portal has some nice payouts going for Memorial Day weekend, including 10x at Dell Consumer (stack with your $100 bi-annual credit on the Business Platinum card), 20x at eBags.com, 15x at Shoes.com and more. Both American Airlines AAdvantage eShopping and United MileagePlus Shopping have matching rates in many instances. Keep in mind that many of those sites sell things you might not not ordinarily expect, so it could be worth taking a look to see if something strikes…

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