How To Get The Most Points From Shopping Portals

 

Dreaming of traveling to faraway places? Of course, you are. One of the best ways to get there for FREE is to use shopping portals for your everyday purchases. You can read about how to use the portals in general here. However, today, the portals launched their Halloween special offers which means increased points on your purchases. 

But the rates are not the same on all the portals. Now sometimes it has to do with the value of the points in that rewards program. But for you, it may mean the difference between a free ticket and not quite being there. 

So we have to be very intentional about which portal we use for what purchases. 

So let me show you! 

Take a look at this offer I got this morning in an email from the American Airlines shopping portal. If I go thru the portal and sign up for the Motley Fool newsletter, I get 7,500 American miles. Pretty sweet. If I sign up with Blue Apron through the portal, I get 2,000 American miles. 

Now at the exact same time, I got an email from United Airlines Mileage Shopping with these offers. 

If I sign up for Motley Fool through United, I get 4,000 United miles and if I sign up for Blue Apron, I get 1,000 miles. Now if you need United miles to top your account or you only fly United, then you should go through this portal. 

But if you fly both American and United, you may want to make your purchase through the American Airlines shopping portal. 

We value American miles at 1 cent and United miles at 1.1 cent. 

I always check cashbackmonitor.com to see which portal has the best offer before I make a purchase. 

Good luck!