Originally Posted by
pgary
$625 for 25,000 miles?! Nice tax deduction for them, but the taxes I would pay would more than pay for a domestic ticket, without the restrictions, and with flight miles earned.
I don't think they said it would be taxes of $625, they just said it was approximate retail value. Whether and how it's taxable for the winner is a separate question. Whether or not the average winner will think to redeem for an award worth at least $625 is a whole seprate discussion.
At any rate, I'm not excited about contests in which I have a teeny tiny chance of winning 25k miles. I prefer to focus my efforts on bonuses rather than contests, since in the long run I'm very likely to produce oodles more miles from bonuses than from actual contest I could win, even if not every bonus by itself earns a much as a theoretical contest win by itself might...