The first step is to register with e-Rewards. My recommendation is to search your email for e-Reward offers. Many times airlines and hotels will send emails inviting you to join e-Rewards and included in that email is sign-up bonus offers. A quick search of my email turned up offers from JetBlue, Southewest, and Priority Club in the past 60 days.
Jetblue:
Southwest
If you can't find an offer in your email box, United has the same offer available here.
After registering for e-Rewards, the next step is to fill out your profile. It is important to be honest in this step as it will determine what surveys are sent to you. If you stretch the truth in your profile, you might start noticing that you don't qualify for any surveys they sent you. There are 9 different sections that you need to fill out to complete your profile:
Here is a sample of the questions you will have to answer:
After filling out your profiles completely, sit back and wait for eRewards to email you invites to surveys. I typically get at least 5 invites a week. Each email looks something similar to this and lets you know the subject of the survey, the time commitment, and payout:
Click on the link within the email and you enter the landing page of the survey. This page will have the same information as the email except it also has the amount you will be paid for testing out of the survey. Being paid for testing out of the survey is one of my favorite parts of eRewards. They give you something for trying. That is why I always attempt to take surveys, nothing to lose.
After completing or testing out of surveys, your account is typically credited immediately; however, some surveys have taken a few days to credit. Once your account has at least $25 in it, you have the option to cash out in exchange for miles. Currently, eRewards allows you to transfer to the following airlines: Air France/KLM, AeroMexico, AirTran, Alaskan, AA, Emirates, Etihad, Fronteir, Hawaiian, Iberia, Jetblue, Southwest, Spirt, US Airways, United, Virgin America and Atlantic. Here is a list of all the partners:
As we have been talking about earning Mileage Plus miles this month, here are the redemption options for United:
After choosing your redemption level, you will be asked to enter your MileagePlus number and eRewards password. Typically, the miles will show up in your MileagePlus account within 3 weeks, but eRewards warns it could take 6-8 weeks. Therefore, this is not a way to transfer miles to your account for an immediate award purchase. Here is some important information about transferring miles to MileagePlus:
Overall, eRewards is a great way to earn a handful of miles. It's time consuming and the payout isn't huge. However, if United has another partner bonus like they did in December, it would be nice to be ready. A little bit of time now can payoff later.
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Hello,
ReplyDeleteCould you please explain what the United bonus was last December; and is it something you would want to accumulate points for now to hope the bonus returns this December?
Thank you.
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DeleteThey offered a 25% bonus on all miles transferred from partners to your MileagePlus account. I wrote about it here
http://www.doitforthepoints.com/2012/10/check-your-email.html
While I don't know if they will do it again, at least once a year, some airline or hotel offers bonuses similar to this. I would defiantly accumulate points in programs like eRewards and eMiles because you never know when these programs might come back. Worst comes to worst, you transfer them to United etc. without a bonus.
Thank you for your response. They offered it in October last year - and October is not far off. I can wait (and hope that they do it again).
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