" Priority Club dining which can eventually earn you 15 points per dollar on qualified dines (after you've had 11 or 12 dines of any amount) "
15 instead of 8 list on their web site?
Kindly explain more details? Thanks.
First of all, sorry, I forgot that it's 16, not 15.
What you missed is that for the past year and a half, they've had (like most of the airlines) the "rate your dine" bonus, which doubles your regular earnings (5+5=10 at participating airlines, but 8+8=16 at PC Dining):
http://priorityclub.rewardsnetwork.c...=elite&detail=
Yes, they claim that it is only until 9/30/08, but so far, for a year and a half, they've updated it "in the nick of time" every quarter.
The "rate your dine" bonus posts separately, after you (of course!) rate your dine. And unlike the original dine, which shows up on the dining website first as "pending" before it pays out to the partner (PC points in this case, miles in airline cases), the "rate your dine" bonus doesn't appear until after it has posted to the partner. But still, even if lagging, it's there on every single dine, so it's valid IMHO to consider it 8+8=16 PC points per dollar once you're at the top elite level.
(Meanwhile, the murkiness about 11 or 12 is because they always claim it takes 12 dines a year on their website, but for years we've always seen ourselves -- at the various programs -- showing as having (re)qualified after just 11 dines! Go figure...)