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United MileagePlus Explorer Guide to Benefits

Matching is not guaranteed anymore YMMV

Personal Card
Public offer in the Bank is 50K+5K                            Sign up for the 30+5K offer. You can get matched to the higher offer by sending a secure message after you are approved to be matched to the 55K + $50 offer that you say your colleague received.

If its your:
First time: After you sign for the 30k + 5k for adding an AU offer, you can SM Chase to match you to the 55k + $50 offer.
2nd+: Sign up with a new Frequent Flyer # (FFN), and SM AFTER receiving the first 30k. Make sure to create the new FFN with United BEFORE submitting the Application to Chase, or they'll default to your previous number, even if you leave the field blank.

Make sure to add an AU to receive the final 5k, for a total of 55k +$50.

Business Card
On the business card, you can get matched to 50k.
Follow the same process as the personal card.
Note: There is no 5k bonus for adding an AU to the biz card, so when you SM, make sure to ask to be matched to the 50k offer, not a 55k offer which doesn't exist for this card.


It could take up to a week to get a response from the Secure Message Center

Here is a link within your United account, which some DDFers have reported to received a 50k offer for the Explorer card, and the annual fee waived for the Club Card.

If u have a UMPE card and NO status, then you can do upgrades from a coach pts booking to bus/1st pts booking for just incremental pt + taxes, no fees. If you don't have the card they said they'd charge the all-dreaded rebooking fee of $100/person (always the chance to get it waived).
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Re: United MileagePlus Explorer Card
« Reply #180 on: July 08, 2012, 12:44:15 AM »
Try sending a new SM.
OK will do thanks for your help.
Do I reference the first sm or just play dumb

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Re: United MileagePlus Explorer Card
« Reply #181 on: July 08, 2012, 12:47:02 AM »
Why si 7/1 the end date? I got targeted for the promo and it said I could sign up as late as 7/6...
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Re: United MileagePlus Explorer Card
« Reply #182 on: July 08, 2012, 12:58:33 AM »
OK will do thanks for your help.
Do I reference the first sm or just play dumb
I wouldn't reference the old one.

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Re: United MileagePlus Explorer Card
« Reply #183 on: July 08, 2012, 01:01:57 AM »
OK will do thanks for your help.
Do I reference the first sm or just play dumb

don't reference.
could also try sm'ing a different dept.
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Re: United MileagePlus Explorer Card
« Reply #184 on: July 08, 2012, 01:13:13 AM »
I would advise you to 'reply' to the message.
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Re: United MileagePlus Explorer Card
« Reply #185 on: July 08, 2012, 01:16:32 AM »
Why si 7/1 the end date? I got targeted for the promo and it said I could sign up as late as 7/6...
Anyone?...
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Re: United MileagePlus Explorer Card
« Reply #186 on: July 08, 2012, 01:27:38 AM »

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Re: United MileagePlus Explorer Card
« Reply #187 on: July 08, 2012, 01:28:41 AM »
http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/21566

Chase still has the 40k offer on their site.
Right, but what we are matching to is the 65k offer, which my email said can be signed up until friday 7/6, so the question is what is this 7/1 date people are talking about?
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Re: United MileagePlus Explorer Card
« Reply #188 on: July 08, 2012, 01:29:38 AM »
Right, but what we are matching to is the 65k offer, which my email said can be signed up until friday 7/6, so the question is what is this 7/1 date people are talking about?
We applied on 7/1 so Dan can get the referral.

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« Reply #189 on: July 08, 2012, 01:31:49 AM »
We applied on 7/1 so Dan can get the referral.
I applied on July first the day before the deadline but I didn't get instant approval so I called recon and pushed it through on the third - maybe the fourth - not positive.
So this deadline he just means for the referral, not the match?...
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Re: United MileagePlus Explorer Card
« Reply #190 on: July 08, 2012, 01:40:09 AM »
So this deadline he just means for the referral, not the match?...
Don't know

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Re: United MileagePlus Explorer Card
« Reply #191 on: July 08, 2012, 01:51:32 AM »
Don't know
I got the offer through Dan so I don't see why he wouldn't get the referral.     I want
Right, but what we are matching to is the 65k offer, which my email said can be signed up until friday 7
  I didn't know that that offer was good all the way to the seventh.  It makes me even more confused that I was rejected for for "not falling within this designated time frame"
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« Reply #192 on: July 08, 2012, 01:59:19 AM »
I got the offer through Dan so I don't see why he wouldn't get the referral.     I want   I didn't know that that offer was good all the way to the seventh.  It makes me even more confused that I was rejected for for "not falling within this designated time frame"
ok I"ll just send a new sm.

They were referring to the 90 day time frame. Nothing to do with the promo expiration date.

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Re: United MileagePlus Explorer Card
« Reply #193 on: July 08, 2012, 02:06:19 AM »
ok the sm center keeps on giving me an error message when I try to send the letter but I will do.  It looks promising :)

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Re: United MileagePlus Explorer Card
« Reply #194 on: July 08, 2012, 02:22:43 AM »
@chaimayer, i see ur up, what times alos in NJ/NY ?

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« Reply #196 on: July 08, 2012, 02:27:03 AM »
NY/NJ is a big place, http://www.myzmanim.com/search.aspx

Yes I know that. He didn't name any specific place so I listed a place in nj/ny.

@lamdan, the times I posted  are for Lakewood,  NJ.

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« Reply #197 on: July 08, 2012, 02:29:55 AM »
Yes I know that. He didn't name any specific place so I listed a place in nj/ny.

@lamdan, the times I posted  are for Lakewood,  NJ.
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Re: United MileagePlus Explorer Card
« Reply #198 on: July 08, 2012, 03:43:04 AM »
the promo is still working i think for the 55K, i got my card around 2 weeks ago and spent the 1 dollar and then sm'd them and they gave me the 50k and not only that they asked me if id like to add on another authorized user for 5K...and now my account says 55K on it!
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« Reply #199 on: July 08, 2012, 03:46:29 AM »
the promo is still working i think for the 55K, i got my card around 2 weeks ago and spent the 1 dollar and then sm'd them and they gave me the 50k and not only that they asked me if id like to add on another authorized user for 5K...and now my account says 55K on it!
Again, all of the dates that we are referring to are "Apply by" dates...
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