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Old Jul 18, 2008 | 8:21 am
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The Mileage Millionaire
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Originally Posted by robertw477
I was listening to the Clark Howard the other day and he was talking about burning up all his ff miles and the devaluing of the mile/point. He mentioned that he used to value miles at 1 cent ea and now he considers them at a .5 value. This was something I was thinking about, and I wonder about thoughts from othere here.
Clark is absolutely wrong on his valuation. DL miles are worth > .5 cpm using "Pay With Miles", and that's a horrible deal. I value them at 1.6 cpm and have seen no reason to change that valuation.
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