{"id":921,"date":"2021-02-11T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:44:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:44:52","slug":"shopping-portal-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/11\/shopping-portal-frenzy\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping Portal Frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valentine\u2019s Day shopping portal bonuses have arrived just in time for, err, Valentine\u2019s Day. The bonuses are actually at high multiples for this time of the year, but they\u2019re also low total payout so overall bang for the buck doesn\u2019t quite reach the \u201c11\u201d setting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a aria-label=\"Southwest (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rapidrewardsshopping.southwest.com\/p\/extra-rewards.htm\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southwest<\/a>, 1,000 miles for spending $300, or 500 miles for spending $100<\/li>\n<li><a aria-label=\"AA (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aadvantageeshopping.com\/p\/extra-rewards.htm\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AA<\/a>, 500 miles for spending $150<\/li>\n<li><a aria-label=\"United (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/shopping.mileageplus.com\/p\/extra-rewards.htm\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United<\/a>, 500 miles for spending $150<\/li>\n<li><a aria-label=\"Alaska (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mileageplanshopping.com\/p\/extra-rewards.htm\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alaska<\/a>, 500 miles for spending $150<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would definitely hit the Southwest version of this first, or if you\u2019re only going to do one, make it that one \u2014 you can buy a single Visa or Mastercard gift card at Giftcards.com for $100 and get effectively 5.5x plus the credit card spend, and the virtual Mastercard variety works really well in lots of \u201cfrom home\u201d techniques.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt='A dial with the label \"VOLUME I\" and settings between 0 and 11. The dial is pointed at 11.' class=\"wp-image-922\" height=\"420\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/volume_11.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/volume_11.png 420w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/volume_11-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/volume_11-150x150.png 150w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>Pictured: Better deals than this one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valentine\u2019s Day shopping portal bonuses have arrived just in time for, err, Valentine\u2019s Day. The bonuses are actually at high multiples for this time of<\/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":[5,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-ms-hints","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7358,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/7358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}