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Author Topic: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile  (Read 26942 times)

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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #160 on: June 21, 2015, 09:53:13 AM »
Correct was referring to the first person who was redeeming their UA for Amazon GC and discovered this glitch.

Even with a dirty account with 600 miles in it, it might have been worth it.
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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #161 on: June 21, 2015, 09:53:41 AM »
I didn't find any FT thread with Google.
This was posted on a Chinese blog by the guy who posted to Reddit.
And then on DDF.

It's in UAInsider's original MP-X thread http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-airlines-mileageplus/1631232-mileageplus-x-shopping-app-earn-additional-award-miles-22.html

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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #162 on: June 21, 2015, 09:55:14 AM »
It's actually a great way to empty out small denomination accounts, even now when Amazon is dead, but others still work, and I'm sure will be back soon, but it will be a different redemption amount.

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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #163 on: June 21, 2015, 09:58:59 AM »
Crap! I spent 2 hours trying to get this to work last night and another hour this morning!! Pretty sure this will be the one time in my life I regret not having an android phone/tablet!

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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #164 on: June 21, 2015, 10:09:07 AM »
Was this for e-cards? If not who said they would honor it?

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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #165 on: June 21, 2015, 10:09:56 AM »
Was this for e-cards? If not who said they would honor it?

Yes. You got the code immediately to load onto your account. That's how the whole app works.
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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #166 on: June 21, 2015, 10:10:54 AM »
Just died a few minutes ago
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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #167 on: June 21, 2015, 10:11:12 AM »
Though might still work for gcs other than Amazon
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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #168 on: June 21, 2015, 10:13:42 AM »
It does. But each store has a different minimum and you're not getting the same rate.
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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #169 on: June 21, 2015, 10:16:33 AM »
How can I find my code if I didn't write it down?
I am sometimes accused of overthinking things. I am still mulling over whether that accusation has merit.

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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #170 on: June 21, 2015, 10:16:44 AM »
ftr i think this thread was in its proper pace before.

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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #171 on: June 21, 2015, 10:21:02 AM »
How can I find my code if I didn't write it down?
Look under purchases in the app.

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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #172 on: June 21, 2015, 10:29:59 AM »
I have the option to pay with Miles for a Amazon gc. But they fixed the ratio. For a $500 You need 80,645 points

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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #173 on: June 21, 2015, 10:33:54 AM »
Yup, it's back. The redemption rate now is 0.006 per mile.

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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #174 on: June 21, 2015, 10:36:12 AM »
I have the option to pay with Miles for a Amazon gc. But they fixed the ratio. For a $500 You need 80,645 points
Yup. Now we wait for all the posts of... Redeemed for $500 and they charged me 80k miles... And i called and they said it's nonrefundable :o

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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #175 on: June 21, 2015, 10:38:52 AM »
Yup. Now we wait for all the posts of... Redeemed for $500 and they charged me 80k miles... And i called and they said it's nonrefundable :o
I emptied out a small united account and redeemed it already. so this probably can't happen to me

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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #176 on: June 21, 2015, 10:40:25 AM »
Ya same Here. Emptied out dirty small accounts. They can't do much at this point

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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #177 on: June 21, 2015, 10:40:57 AM »
Now I'm wishing I would have hit it much harder but I need to be content with my $5k.

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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #178 on: June 21, 2015, 10:55:44 AM »
Was this for e-cards? If not who said they would honor it?
It was, most people already redeemed them to their accounts

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Re: Hot! Use UA miles to buy amazon gift cards at 1.82 cents per mile
« Reply #179 on: June 21, 2015, 11:25:02 AM »
Do we need to put this in the "HT for dan for not putting it on DDMS" thread? 
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