Earn United Miles on Tickets - ScoreBig & Audience Rewards

Another way to earn United is by shopping for tickets to sporting events, concerts, and plays. United has partnerships with Scorebig and Audience Rewards that allows you to earn miles for each purchase through their site.

ScoreBig

Scorebig is a ticket website that sells tickets to sporting events, concerts, plays and family shows. The website acts very like Priceline.com. You pick the section that you want to sit and the amount you want to pay per ticket. For instance, I tried to buy tickets to an upcoming Nationals game and here is what they offered.

Next, you make an offer per ticket and the system tells you the likelihood of the bid being accepted.

Finally, you fill in your personal information, credit card information, and hit submit.

If your bid is not accepted, you can not make a bid on the same tickets for 24 hours.

Now where do the miles come into play. Well, you earn 5 points per $1 spent at ScoreBig.

Also, ScoreBig is offering a 1,000 mile bonus on your first order until September 30th, 2013. You must spend at least $30 in your first transaction to earn the bonus.

According to their website, you will never be charged fees for purchasing tickets with ScoreBig.

Audience Rewards

While you can buy a variety of different tickets with ScoreBig, only play and musical tickets can be bought at Audience Rewards.

Audience Rewards sells tickets for shows in NYC, Charolette, NC, Chicago, Los Angles, San Diego, Tuscan, AZ, Durham, NC, Wantagh, NY and Holmdel, NJ. 

Many of the hottest shows are eligible to purchase. 

The amount of miles you can earn depends upon the show. For instance, Kinky Boots is offering 100 miles per ticket purchased.

However, Potted Potter earns only 50 per ticket.

Frequently, Audience Rewards will have promotions offering additional miles for presales. For instance, Audience Rewards is offering 1,600 per ticket for orders of Janis Joplin.

Audience Rewards has partnerships with United, US Airways, Delta, Amtrak, Starwood, and Best Buy.

In full disclosure, I never used either ScoreBig or Audience Rewards. However, I may try out ScoreBig for sporting tickets like the Nationals or Capitals.  If you need to buy tickets to an event, it can't hurt checking these two websites out. 

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