Harvest Bonus Miles Posts

In October, I wrote that you should check your email for a possible bonus offer from United dining rewards. Known as harvest Bonus, the email could have been easily overlooked as another junk communication from the dining rewards network.

In reality, the offer was simple. Participate in one dine through the network and earn bonus miles. "In my instance, I could earn 2,000 miles after one dine. This was a must participate offer.

How simple was this offer. This $6 smoothie

Earned me 2,018 United miles:

Not to shabby for something I was going to do anyway.

The lesson here? Always look at promotional emails. The ones that look junk maybe the diamond in the rough.


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Check Your Email for Great Dining Rewards Offer

Recently, I received an email from Dining Rewards. This isn't abnormal, as Dining Rewards sends out emails constantly with catchy subject lines. This one;s subject line was Harvest Those Bonus Miles.

Typically, I ignore these emails, because they are just trying me to use the program. However, I am super happy that I opened this one, as it was a bonus:

 "Earn 2,000 MileagePlus bonus award miles when you dine from October 15 to October 29. This 

  fall, you'll gather 2,000 bonus miles just for dining out with the Happy Harvest Bonus. Search 

  for all the delicious places you can visit and review to earn those bonus miles. No registration       required. See details below."

Well the details below didn't provide much detail:

 "To earn through this bonus, you must dine at participating restaurant, bar, or club between

  October 15 and October 29. Please not that all dines must occur during a valid reward 

  period and be paid for with a credit or debit card registered with MileagePlus Dining. You

  may earn this bonus only once. Offer is not combinable with other MileagePlus Dining

  bonuses. Please allow 6-8 weeks from the date of your qualifying dine for any bonus miles to

  post to your MileagePlus Dining account. All account inquires related to this bonus must be

  received by December 29."

As you can see, the details did not provide much information on what one must due to earn the miles. I called the customer service number and learned that the I need only to dine once between October 15th and October 29th and complete the survey. 2,000 miles for only one dine. Easy breeze.

The offer is only for those who received the email, so check to see if you are eligible.

Remember DON"T LEAVE POINTS ON THE TABLE.

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Big Spending At A MileagePlus Dining Rewards Restaurant Soon? Earn Up to 1,250 Bonus United MileagePlus Miles

The Dining Rewards program is a great way to easily wrack up points while dining out and spending exactly what you would already be spending. If you haven't signed up for a program yet you can pick your favorite airline (I choose United of course) and you register your credit cards so that every time you register a dine at one of the participating restaurants you earn points, simple as that! Though if you have the Alaska Airlines program apparently Bank of America registers you automatically in the Alaska Airlines dining rewards program. It's easy for me to get points as my favorite Thai food place by work participates so once a week I go and earn my 60 points and take my spicy fried rice and all is good in the world!

A few days ago I got an invitation from the MileagePlus Dining program advertising bonus miles for dines at participating restaurants. If you spend over $100 you will gain an extra 250 bonus miles and you can repeat the bonus up to five times for the potential of up to 1,250 bonus miles.

Big Spender Bonus We want to thank you with up to 1,250 MileagePlus® bonus award miles! For a limited time, you can earn 250 bonus miles every time you spend $100. Register today to earn this special bonus up to five times for a total of 1,250 bonus miles. Register now >

This is really a bad promotion on the whole because 250 bonus points for spending so much money is not worth it. But if you have a big group going out to dinner soon or are heading to an expensive restaurant that participates in the program you might as well earn the bonus points. This is one of those promotions that you register for just in case you need it. The offer is targeted but it doesn't hurt to try and register just in case you find yourself willing to "treat" all of your friends at dinner. Don't worry, I won't tell them you did it just for the points. ;) 

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