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Old Sep 6, 1999 | 9:23 am
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Djlawman
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Marriott Rewards offered a full catalog of stuff last year at holiday time which you could purchase with your Marriott Rewards points if you so desired. however, the points needed for the merchandise in most cases seemed way too much to me. I would rather use the points to save money on $200 a night hotel rooms on vacation sometime. Don't know if they will do the program again this year. probably depends on how many miles they managed to get out of people's accounts and how much "profit" (value of the points less the cost of the merchandise) they made at it last year. Since these companies are all required to keep the value of the miles or points on their balance sheets as a contingent liability these days, they have an incentive to try to get people to use them.
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