I've done a search and can't find that this question has been already asked and answered, (unless one of our esteemed mods can point me in the right direction, to prove I'm blind, stupid or both ).

I'm a relative newcomer to PC, only joining last year after swapping my allegiance from a|club, and have been happy so far. However, I have just one little question:
I spent 3 weeks in China in March, and attempted to maximise my points earn by jumping between different hotels. I very carefully chose each hotel and length of stay based on the "Individual Hotel bonus packages" here.

Now my gripe is that when I reserved each of these 14 or so stays, I was given a choice of two rates having clicked through from the "Individual Hotel bonus packages" page, one being called something like "Priority Club® Rewards – 2,000 Bonus Points for a 2 Night Stay" and the other being my corporate rate. But it quite clearly stated on the right hand side in the "rate preference" drop down box "Priority Club® Rewards – 2,000 Bonus Points for a 2 Night Stay".

So I assumed that this bonus point package would apply equally to both rates shown on screen, and as my corporate rate was some 20-50% cheaper than the specfically named bonus rate, I selected it, booked, stayed and paid.

However, not one of these bonus packages have posted, a total of about 30k points. So is this just a mean marketing trick by IHG? Or is it worth pursuing with them? Or should I just go and sit in the corner and be told to not be so stupid?

Your thoughts and experiences please.