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I'm trying to stay ahead of schedule on things right now given how busy May is going to be. To that end, I just ordered a nice bouquet of flowers in a silver vase for my mom for Mother's Day. She and my dad live in an RV so ephemeral gifts are essential given their limited living space. I did some checking for Amex Offers and found one: I also looked at evreward.com to see if there were some additional points I could earn from a shopping portal bonus. Lo and behold, United's portal is offering 25 points per dollar . Furthermore, United's spring promotion has point bonuses that will stack on top of this if you meet the cumulative spending thresholds. After going through the checkout process I realized that you have to use a promo code to get the points, and the promo code is mutually exclusive with Shoprunner free shipping. Hmm. Math time. Do I want 1500 points ($60 x 25 per dollar) or do I want to pay $14.99 for shipping? Since I know exactly which rewar...

JetBlue has a great 3x shopping portal bonus with Amazon. None of the other airline shopping portals partners with Amazon, so this is a unique partnership that I use whenever I shop on Amazon. Unfortunately, I got an email today saying that the only Amazon purchases that will qualify are those made in the air while connected to JetBlue's FlyFi in flight Wi-Fi. So for nearly all intents and purposes, this program is over.

If you haven't done so already, you should sign up for the Delta partner bonus promotion . Once you're registered, you'll earn 1000 bonus SkyMiles for each new Delta partner you earn miles with until June 30th. A list of the partners is here UPDATE (14 June): So far we've netted 7,000 bonus points on this promo with another 2,000 pending! I fly Delta fairly regularly for domestic travel, and I generally avoid United at all costs. But United's miles are still so much more useful that I pretty much only use the United Mileage mall and United Mileage Dining websites when I'm shopping or eating out. That turned out to be perfect for this promo, since I'm both a Delta SkyMiles shopping AND a SkyMiles Dining virgin. Once I was signed up for the Delta SkyMiles shopping program, I used it to buy a few things from Walgreens.com and collect my first 1000 point bonus. ( Do note the dates – the bonus takes 6 weeks to post ). Last month when we needed to ...

It's unfortunate, but American department store and malls in general are on the verge of dying . In an effort to stay relevant, many old school retailers are making various kinds of online offers to lure you to their website instead of Amazon.com or specialty online shops like Bluefly or Jet. The bonus points from my last big shopping portal victory just cleared ( 5400 United points and 1100 Amex points for a pair of shoes! ) and I thought I'd share a few tips. Airline shopping portal tips: Be patient . High markup retailers have specials in the 8-12 points per dollar range Low markup retailers (Amazon, Jet, BestBuy) rarely have specials Stack promos whenever you can (Amex offer + portal + portal bonus!) Don't buy anything you wouldn't have bought otherwise (this is the hardest part!) Comparison shop so you know if you're overpaying (have you seen Wikibuy ?!) Utilize free shipping options whenever possible Turn off adblock before using the shopping po...

United's shopping portal was offering a holiday shopping bonus this year -- in addition to the bonus miles you get from each merchant, they were offering additional tiered bonuses for your cumulative shopping through their portal during the holidays. My bonus came through today and I netted 18,014 points for spending $1612. 13.6 points per dollar . Not too shabby :) The tiers were: 500 bonus miles for spending $150, 1500 for $350, 3000 for for $650, and 6000 for $1250 or more. Here's the breakdown: Like most of these mileage-related things, the trick is not being tricked into spending money you wouldn't otherwise have spent . In my case Yoox had a coat I'd been lusting for since last winter and it was half off the original price. And my current winter coat is like 5 years old and shabby. I always bring the wine to my in-laws place so I would have bought the Wine.com purchase without the promo. My one real addiction is expensive shoes, so the Nieman's purcha...