Originally Posted by
tng11
I found it funny that a commenter on one of Ben's posts remarked about him being a spoilt brat and using 25K AA miles on a 1 hour flight. Ben's retort was that he has "millions" of miles and hence it didn't matter to him. I wonder how he does that...
Manufactured spending is easy, right? People here talk about doing tons of it on a regular basis.
Saying that it "doesn't count" to do EY F on a paid ticket rather than miles is silly, especially given the commonly used and favored fares ex-CMB. At that point the cash was probably the smarter value.