Originally Posted by
sts603
Say the 75K a year traveler. Doesn't want to MR for 25K to get EXP but clearly has room to enjoy the benefits. He may be willing to pay. Perhaps a lot.
The best market for selling EXP would be to those who are about to lose it. I've only been EXP for a few months, and yet I've already seen the benefits of eVIPs on TATL flights, the availability of award travel, the helpfulness of the EXP desk. Plus, I have 21k EQM of 2009 vacation travel booked with cash and upgraded via eVIP, so that I (a) don't have to redeem 200k of RDM (or, more accurately, 160k of *points) to get the same premium cabin tix, thus enabling me to get 2 free hotel rooms for a family vaca, instead of paying to have 4 of us share 1 room (hmmm...how many miles is the ability to have $ex with one's spouse during vacation worth, anyway?!?
) and (b) get that much closer to requalifying to do it again in 2010.