There is one piece of information that is missing here.
Based on:
https://www.amtrakguestrewards.com/i...BuyPoints.html
AGR will only sell you up to 10,000 points per calendar year.
Also, until the end of July they are giving away a 30% bonus. So they are effectively selling points for $0.02115 each.
However, if you want to book a cross country three zone bedroom it would take five years before you could book the 50,000 point reservation.
Originally Posted by
rtpflyer
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.