I received a targeted email last night from United inviting me to sign up for E-miles.com and thought to share it with you.
Basically it’s a marketing program that will send you emails asking you to review offers and take a survey afterwards. For your efforts you will earn between 5 and 25 miles per survey (other offers award more miles if you sign up or purchase something, depending on the offer).
Up until now I was enrolled as a result of an invitation from Delta and my impression has always been that you needed to be invited but that’s not the case. I was able to find the link that allows anyone to enroll and you can choose one of several frequent flyer programs for mileage credit. Participating Airline programs include: Continental, Delta, United, US Airways, Alaska Airlines and Frontier. Other options include earning points for Hilton HHonors and IHG Priority Club as well as Amazon Gift Cards.
You can visit this link to register for the program. Last year I was able to “earn” about 1200 Skymiles taking these surveys. I know its not a lot of miles, but they are easy to get. I signed up using a different email address than what I have for my Delta version of E-miles so I suspect you can enroll multiple times if you want to credit multiple frequent flyer or loyalty programs.
I cleaned up with e-miles over Christmas. I got a pile of offers for 500 miles for a $15 charitable donation. Subtract the $4.50 I got in tax savings and add in the the Ultimate rewards points I got for using my Chase Freedom and it was right around 1.8 cents per mile…
Be careful about Emiles though. They’re like like eRewards, which wants your opinion. E-Miles wants to sell you thinks. The surveys (which give you 5 miles or so) are designed to figure out what they can sell you. To really earn miles you have to buy National Geographic or donate to some charity or get car insurance quotes.
Good point! thanks! I never sign up for commitments. Usually its to 5-10 mile things that I follow up on.
If you sign up under US Airways and wait for there Grand Slam hopefully staring next Sept you will earn a hit for the transfer!