The Give Away
- United are giving away one billion United miles, the prizes are as follows:
- 100 x One million miles, along with a check for $7,500 (ARV is $27,500)
- 10,000 x 25,000 miles (ARV is $500)
- 130,000 x 5,000 miles  (ARV is $100)
How To Enter
- This give away starts on August 1st, 2016 at 12:00 PM and ends on September 30th, 2016 at 11:59:59 PM ET time. You can enter in the following ways:
- Receive one entry for each eligible pruchase you make using a Chase United MileagePlus credit card
- Log on to https://www.billionmilegiveaway.com and follow the prompts
The Fine Print
- The Sweepstakes begins on August 1, 2016 at 12:00:00 PM (Noon) Eastern Time (“ET”) and ends on September 30, 2016 at 11:59:59 PM ET (the “Sweepstakes Period”)
- For purposes of this Sweepstakes, a “day” is defined as a 24-hour period, beginning at 12:00:00 AM ET and ending at 11:59:59 PM ET except for the first day of the Sweepstakes where a day is defined as beginning at 12:00:00 PM (Noon) ET and ending at 11:59:59 PM ET
- Sweepstakes is open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and United States based military installations who are eighteen (18) years of age or older and a United MileagePlus member at the time of entry (“Eligible Participant” and/or “Entrant”)
Our Verdict
Keep in mind that you need to pay taxes on the prices, the approximate retail value (ARV) is listed above. You can dispute the value of the miles, United is valuing them at 2¢ per point. Personally I might enter a few times via the website if it isn’t too hard to complete an entry. For those that want to improve the number of entries you get, you might find this page to be helpful. Also keep in mind that the promotion doesn’t start until August 1st, 2016. Goodluck everybody!
Any one actually won any of the prizes?
The part that I love/loathe about sweepstakes is this part:
2 – Non-Purchase Entry: Log on to https://www.billionmilegiveaway.com and follow the on-screen entry instructions to be entered. Enter as often as you wish, however, each entry must be manually key stroked
There’s still 140,100 prizes to be won but some stay at home mother in Indiana is going to win a million miles and use it to fly to Memphis and it annoys me.
Ha…Give MEmphis TN!
I’m guessing this won’t work for United Club Cards?
I think any Chase United card will work?
Any way you can repost this on July 31st/ morning of Aug 1st as a reminder?
google calendar is your friend.
Personally, I love the “Reminders” app on my phone/laptop for all of this kind of stuff, including reminders to downgrade or cancel cards. Set it and forget it.
Boomerang for Gmail works for websites/blog posts as well.
http://www.orensmoneysaver.com/2016/01/use-boomerang-for-gmail-to-track.html
Chase will send an email to cardholders.
We will likely repost/share how you can enter without making a purchase.