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Old Feb 11, 2011 | 12:25 am
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aba030
 
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Originally Posted by hindukid
...If you did something like 4 first class tickets to Europe or Asia and 14 nights in a high end starwood resort that would cost you in the range of 640,000 points. So you can blow a lot of points on one trip. Of course the retail value of that is about $50,000 so its not a bad return.
The retail value is not relevant, the monetary value is equal to how much the OP would spend (in cash) on such a vacation.
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