{"id":1119,"date":"2021-03-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:41:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:41:21","slug":"how-to-tackle-todays-portal-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/09\/how-to-tackle-todays-portal-bonuses\/","title":{"rendered":"How I\u2019m Tackling Today\u2019s Portal Bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few shopping portal bonuses with easy payouts for March:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AA, <a aria-label=\"Spend $100, earn 500 miles. Spend $300, earn 1,000 miles (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aadvantageeshopping.com\/p\/extra-rewards.htm\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spend $100, earn 500 miles<\/a> or spend $300 and earn 1,000 miles.<\/li>\n<li>Alaska, <a aria-label=\"Spend $25 with their shopping toolbar installed in your browser, earn 1,000 miles (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mileageplanshopping.com\/button\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spend $25 with their shopping toolbar installed in your browser<\/a>, earn 1,000 miles.<\/li>\n<li>Delta, <a aria-label=\"Spend $25 with their shopping toolbar installed in your browser, earn 500 miles (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skymilesshopping.com\/button\/?source=ot|Delta|ALL\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spend $25 with their shopping toolbar installed in your browser<\/a>, earn 500 miles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For AA, buy a $100 gift card from GiftCards.com for 6x and credit card spend and skip the extra $200 at a lower multiplier unless you\u2019re buying something anyway through the AA portal (buyer\u2019s clubs, personal use, gifts, etc.). My personal preference at GiftCards.com is the <a aria-label=\"Virtual Mastercard (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.giftcards.com\/mastercard-egift-gift-card\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Mastercard<\/a> because you don\u2019t pay shipping and they liquidate easy, but if you don\u2019t currently have a way to liquidate those, you can either load it onto your Amazon balance or buy the physical variant.<\/p>\n<p>For the other two, I\u2019m going to be unloading my American Express Platinum\u2019s Home Depot $50 credits twice and buy some cleaning supplies for in-store pickup, once with each toolbar. Make sure you uninstall the toolbars after you buy so it doesn\u2019t mess with future portal earnings.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a lot of work for a small reward? I\u2019m having a hard time deciding. It really doesn\u2019t take long: possibly 5 minutes for the AA purchase and liquidation, and there\u2019s a Home Depot almost literally in my back-yard. I also still need to offload the $50*2 Home Depot AmEx Credits too, but I\u2019m on the fence as to whether the rewards are worth it. I miss when GiftCards.com sold $500 Visas and Mastercards, it was a no-brainer then.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1120\" height=\"300\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hd.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hd.png 902w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hd-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hd-768x511.png 768w\" width=\"451\"\/><figcaption>On a whim I searched for \u201chome depot backyard\u201d. I\u2019m not sure what I was expecting exactly, but it wasn\u2019t this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few shopping portal bonuses with easy payouts for March: AA, Spend $100, earn 500 miles or spend $300 and earn 1,000 miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ms-hints","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7340,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/7340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}