Originally Posted by
jackal
FWIW, I disagree with the idea that you can only value a point at what you would be willing to spend in cash. I think it is perfectly rational to value a point at whatever the going rate is, regardless whether you would pay that much for it.
If you buy a $150,000 property that later appraises for $300,000, you don't say, "Well, it's only worth $150,000, because I only would have paid $150,000 for it."
The fallacy of that logic is that you could actually resell the property for $300000 or borrow based on that appraised value. Neither is true of tickets.
As someone else pointed out AGR offers to sell points for 2.75 cents/point so that is the maximum that they could be worth even if you can use them to secure a ticket that would otherwise cost 6 cents/per point. And anyone who paid 6 cents/per point paid too much.