Originally Posted by
josephstern
The normal deal is similar but you have to spend $10K in six months. So for a $4K larger spend, your referrer gets 5K more SPG points. In my case, the referrer and referred each got 5K points - not sure if that was intentional or not.
I had thought the normal deal was that you had spend $15K -- but perhaps that was in a year, not 6 months. If so, you're right, it's not that much lower of a threshold at all, and SPG "makes up" for it but not shelling out the 5K points to the referrer.