The Deal
- Earn 12 miles per dollar at HSN when paying with a United credit card with the HSN offer loaded in the MPX app.
- Direct link to MileagePlus X app.
Key Terms
- Expiry date unknown.
- Limit 960 bonus miles.
- Limit 1 per activation/account.
- Must pay with United Chase Visa card.
Tips & Ideas
If you’re not familiar with United Visa Rewards, open the MPX app and tap on the ‘United Visa Rewards’ section. Keep scrolling through the list of offers until they appear – that automatically links them to the United credit card you have registered in the app. You should see an offer for HSN in there.
Earning 12x MileagePlus miles at HSN is a decent bonus if you were going to be making a purchase anyway. With a limit of 960 bonus miles, you’ll max this out when spending $80.
HSN sells both physical and digital gift cards and it looks like they process payment for both types themselves. If there’s nothing you need to buy from HSN right now but you’re confident you will in the future, you could buy a gift card to lock in the bonus earnings.
The deal gets even better thanks to this (possibly targeted) offer in the MPX app. That offers up to 10,000 bonus miles when purchasing from up to 5 different retailers/restaurants listed in the United Visa Rewards section. The first tier offers 1,000 miles, so completing this HSN offer would earn you both 12x on your purchase and 1,000 bonus MileagePlus miles. If you bought a $25 HSN gift card, you’d earn a total of 1,300 miles which works out to be 52 miles per dollar – a fantastic return.
If this was the second offer you completed during the other promotion, you’d earn 1,500 bonus miles which would make it a total of 72 miles per dollar. If it helped you max out the promotion by being your fifth offer, you’d earn 3,000 bonus miles. Added on to the 300 miles from earning 12x, that’s a total of 132 miles per dollar.
You obviously don’t have to purchase a gift card to take advantage of this HSN offer – you can just buy an item normally. Buying a gift card is a good fallback option though. If you have no use of a gift card though and/or don’t want to try reselling it, HSN sells some cheap items. For example, there’s this $4 umbrella with $3.50 shipping. You’d earn 90 miles from this offer and 1,000 miles from the other offer if it was the first offer you completed. That’s 145.33 miles per dollar, so probably worth the $7.50 investment regardless. If it was your fifth purchase under the other offer, you’d earn 3,090 miles which is 412 miles per dollar!
Regardless of what you’re planning on purchasing, it’s worth clicking through from a shopping portal. Gift card purchases probably won’t track, but there’s a chance they might which is why it’s always worth taking a shot. You can check the current HSN portal rates here, here and here.
[…] Update 8/15/20: If you can make a small purchase from a store, that’ll work out even better on a miles per dollar basis. For example, there’s a new HSN offer where you can earn 412 miles per dollar when spending $7.50 – see this post for more. […]