Do It For The Points: Sign-Up For MyPoints

I just got an email offering me up to 1,500 United miles for signing up for MyPoints.

I wrote about the MyPoints/United Partnership here, during the 31 Ways of Earning United Miles.

The offer sent to me in the email is the same one offered on the "Earn Page" on the MileagePlus website. Therefore, I pretty sure this isn't a target offer.

To earn the entire 1,500 miles, you need to do three things:

1) Register for MyPoints - earn 500 miles

2) Create your Mypoints Profile within 30 days - earn 250 miles

3) Complete a $25+ purchase through the Mypoints Store within 30 days - earn 750 miles

The Mypoints store has over 1,200 stores. Spending $25 won't be to hard.

If you don't want to make the purchase, earning 750 miles for signing up and creating your profile is a no brainier. This is a great way to make sure your United mileage balance doesn't expire.

Is MyPoints Legit? Yes, I have been a member since 2005 and earn at least a $1,000 worth of prizes.

Now, go Do It For The Points/Miles!

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I Earned Miles on My Nationals' Baseball Tickets

During my 31 Ways To Earn United Miles, I talked about the ticket seller ScoreBig.com. ScoreBig.com is the Priceline of ticket sellerss. Unlike other online ticket sellers, you bid on the price that you want to pay for particular tickets and ScoreBig.com tells you if they accept the bid or not.

The benefit of ScoreBig.com is that you can earn United miles for ever $1 spent at ScoreBig.com.  Plus you first order will earn you an additional 1,000 miles.

Last month, I tried out ScoreBig to purchase tickets for a Nationals baseball game. My goal was to get cheap ticket to the 8/31 Nats tickets, so I could go to the Gavin DeGraw concert.

I choose 3 Star tickets . . .

And bid $15 a ticket. I was unsure that they would accept my bid based upon their offer status bar, but they did. I should have tried $10 a ticket.

Not The Status Bar When I  Bought The Tickets

Communication from ScoreBig was amazing. An email was sent after my winning bid congratulating me. Another was sent telling me my tickets would be sent via FEDEX and another email was sent with my FEDEX tracking number. Overall, I felt very well communicated.

In addition, I was impressed with the speed the miles posted to my United account. The points posted within days of me purchasing the tickets. Actually, I got the points before the tickets arrived.

My only complaint was that they FEDEX me tickets that could have been emailed to me. They were printed off tickets, so they wasted money on shipping me tickets.

I was very satisfied with ScoreBig.com and I will defiantly use them again.

The best part, I got to see Gavin Degraw:

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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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