UNITED 50,000 BUSINESS CARD: Some helpful posters on this Flyertalk thread who have pointed out that it’s possible to get a 50,000 mile offer on the business version of the Chase United card. Go here, log in, and then click the “MileagePlus Explorer Business Card” link.
It appears that some people get the 50,000 offer and some people only get the 30,000 offer, though you may be able to fiddle with the page to prompt the better offer. Quoting from the first post in the thread,
I went to the united site, clicked link for united explorer business, got landing page for 30K offer, clicked tab for Mileageplus Club business card got offer for $0 first year, clicked tab back to explorer business and boom 50K offer W/2K spend in 3months + the 10K after 25K.”
Another poster wrote:
Seems like logging in activates the offer. Unlogged, I was shown the 30K one, but logged in, 50K appeared.
Better still – the Club Card went from $395 with $100 off, to no fee first year!!!
And another:
I have 3 similar MP accounts. They all received the 50K offer on the personal card in the past but only one receives the 50K on business now. And the only differences I notice right now are the activitiy dates and the number of miles. The one account that got the offer has plenty of miles with the lastest transaction date 06/03/2013 from UR transfer. The other two latest transactions are in May and from purchase point on personal card.
And another:
None of the 4 family accounts I manage had this. We all have pretty good balances, and a variety of times from our last mileage postings, but the common denominator is that NONE of us has earned a flight mile in years.
In other words, YMMV. Here’s a screenshot of the offer put up by one of the FT posters. For the record, I was not able to get the 50,000 offer, but hopefully some of you will have better luck.
TRUTH, LIES, AND BANKS: If you do apply for the United card, Point Me To The Plane has some interesting thoughts on truth-telling on your application from a reader named Brooke, who happens to be a divorce attorney:
I will not bore all of you non-legal travel lovers out there with all of the details, but what I will say is that during this process, I would often subpoena the person’s credit card applications to see what they alleged to have earned when applying for credit cards throughout the marriage. More often than not, they inflated this number to gain approval for a card, and we (and the Courts) held them to this figure that they listed and signed off on during the application. This data supplied concrete evidence for the Court that the spouse earned more than they reported and assisted us in receiving higher settlements. This could be exploited by a greedy ex-spouse in an effort to prove to the Court that you are admitting to earning an amount that is actually higher than that you earn. Believe me, an ex-spouse is nearly always claiming their spouse earns more than they do. Thus, the moral of the story is this: beware of what you put on those credit card applications, it can and will be held against you during legal proceedings!
I’m not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure that lying on a credit card application is also a federal felony, albeit one that is rarely, if ever, enforced. But then, a surprisingly large number of things are federal felonies. For example: sharing your HBO Go password can land you in a federal penitentiary.
Incidentally, this reminds me of a famous psychology experiment: researchers found that merely putting up a picture of a pair of human eyes caused people to behave more honestly. This is the actual document from the experiment, wherein people were asked to contribute to the coffee fund–on the honor system–according to how much coffee they drank. The mere presence of the eyes tripled the amount of money received:
….And that gives me an idea: what if credit card companies put a pair of eyes on credit card (or any other loan) applications? Would that reduce lying? This idea is certainly testable–you just randomize who gets what application and see if there’s a difference in reported income. What say you, Citibank? Chase? B of A? Anyone?
A MONOPOLY HACK: The mathematics are a little complicated, but long story short some very smart people have gone to the trouble of determining which Monopoly spaces are landed on most frequently. Which one are you most likely to land on? JAIL. But not the GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL space, thank goodness. Which property should you be angling to purchase or trade for? Illinois Avenue.
Have fun! And no stealing from the bank, please.
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