United Gateway cardholders: Pick your spending bonus (Targeted?)

There are new spending offers out for United Gateway cardholders which are different to the quarterly offers available through Chase.com/mybonus. It’s giving cardholders the opportunity to choose which spending threshold and bonus they’d like to earn and should stack with other spending offers if you’re also targeted for those.

The Deal

• Earn bonus United MileagePlus miles when meeting a spending threshold as a Gateway cardholder.
• Direct link to registration.

Key Terms

• Promotion Period: April 1, 2024–June 30, 2024.
• Registration Period: April 1, 2024–June 15, 2024.
• Must register to qualify.
• To register for this promotional offer, you must log on to united.com/BonusMilesYourWay and register your United Gateway Card ending in the last four digits referenced in this communication by June 15, 2024, 11:59 p.m. CT, and set your own personal bonus mile offer and corresponding spend goal.
• After registration, you will qualify for and receive the selected bonus reward if you make net purchases with your eligible, registered United Gateway Card that total an amount at or above the specified target amount during the promotional period.
• Only the primary Cardmember is eligible to earn bonus miles for net purchases.
• Register before June 15, 2024, and all net purchases made on your qualifying card within the promotional period will count toward your total spend goal.
• Only net purchases posted to your account with a transaction date during the offer period are eligible for this promotional offer.
• The bonus miles can only be earned once during the period, and you will only earn the bonus selected at the time of registration for achieving the bonus spend goal you set for yourself. A bonus for hitting a goal other than the registered offer will not be awarded. Goal and bonus offer are final upon registration.
• Please allow 6–8 weeks after the promotion ends on June 30, 2024, for bonus miles to post to your MileagePlus account.

Quick Thoughts

It seems like this offer is only available for Gateway cardholders – United’s no annual fee credit card. However, there might be different landing pages available for the different United card types. I initially came across this offer via a banner in the MileagePlus X (MPX) app yesterday, but subsequently also got an email after I’d actually registered.

It’s an interesting concept for a spending offer and isn’t like any that I remember seeing before from Chase and United. The registration page gave me three bonus options and I had to choose one to register for. The three options I saw were as follows (your version might be different):

1. Earn 700 bonus miles when spending $500
2. Earn 3,300 bonus miles when spending $1,500
3. Earn 7,500 bonus miles when spending $2,500

Those are returns of a bonus 1.4x, 2.2x or 3x respectively if spending to the exact thresholds. I was targeted for a separate promotion a couple of months ago awarding bonus miles when spending $500 each month from February to April. I spent $500 on my United Gateway card in both February and March, so I was already planning to spend $500 in April to fulfill the requirements from that previous offer.

If I was to choose that first option, it would be an easy 700 bonus miles. However, my Gateway card is often targeted for the quarterly spending promotions Chase offers on its cobranded cards at Chase.com/mybonus. I tried registering for a new Q2 bonus yesterday but nothing showed up. However, it can sometimes take a few days into the new quarter before those bonuses become available for registration, so I’m hoping I’ll be targeted for some kind of additional 5x promo in the next few days.

Those quarterly spending offers are normally valid on $1,000-$1500 of spend. If I do end up getting lucky with being targeted, maxing out that offer would mean I’d hit the $1,500 total spend needed for the second option, while putting me most of the way to the spending threshold of $2,500 for the highest bonus.

Seeing as you can only choose one option, I decided to select option 3 – spend $2,500 and earn 7,500 bonus miles. Even if I don’t get targeted for any further spending bonuses, this offer makes my Gateway card an effective 4x everywhere card on that $2,500 of spend (1x as standard and then 3x from the spending offer).

If you find yourself in a similar position, it could be worth setting a calendar reminder for June to complete the spending required by the end of that month.

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