Originally Posted by
sc4fpse
You almost seem
upset that people are interested in prizes besides miles. Humorous, I must say. However, at 28,000 points, and retailing for $319 (And selling on eBay for upwards of $150 (not including shipping)), Windows Vista Ultimate is a much better deal than forking over close to 50,000 points for an amount of FF miles that can net you $105 or so in Amazon.com gift cards. And even the Zune is a better deal than the FF miles. 38,500 points for a 30 Gigabyte first generation Zune MP3 player that will sell for between $100 and $150 on eBay? Better deal than the miles once again.
Don't be upset with us because we understand simple math better than you. 
If someone redeemed 172,000 tickets for 100,000 AA miles before the change
of terms and conditions, he or she could have used 100,000 miles to redeem for a saver business class award ticket to either Europe, Asia or South America, that would have otherwise costed $4000 to $5000. That's at least a $650 value for 28,000 tickets, or $895 for 38,500 tickets.