Well, here are some things I didn’t know:
Mileage Plus Shopping
If you go to the Mileageplusshopping.com, you can register up to five credit cards (it doesn’t have to be just a United card), then if you click through that site, you get to double dip by getting additional miles as well. For instance REI has a 2 miles per dollar. So if you spend say $500 at REI, then you get 1,000 United Miles (worth about 2.5 cents per mile or $25!) and if you use your REI credit card, you also get a 5% discount as well. Woohoo!
Also theoretically, if you use these cards while you shop at those stores in a real location, you should get credit. This only works for a small set of retailers. Non interesting as far as I see for me.
Some of the interesting stores that you can click through include (at least for me):
- REI.com. 2 miles per dollar for online orders.
- Godaddy.com. Some amazing deals here although the amounts are small, but big multipliers
- Abe’s of Maine, ABT Electronics, Beach Camera, Newegg, Crutchfield, MacMall. All good electronics sellers.
- Blue Nile
- Drugstore.com
- Nordstrom.com
- eBags.com
- Golfsmith and The Golf Warehouse. Also sign up for their rebate program 🙂
- iTunes.com
- Overstock.com
- Giftcertificate.com and restaurants.com
- Tirerack.com. Great place for performance tires
- Campmor, Camping World
