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Old Aug 15, 2011 | 7:31 am
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Originally Posted by schley
I would point out that I would never sit there without redeemign the miles to sit in the $15k seat thus it is worth $15k.
Different people assign different values. I believe using retail cost as value is very naïve and really a cop-out for people who want to artificially inflate the value of their miles/points.

Originally Posted by schley
Any other complicated metric is ignoring the fact that if you don't pay xxxx$, then you won't get to experience it.
Only if you have no imagination. For example, you could probably pay $3K for a Business Class seat and upgrade to First for far less. But then you wouldn't be able to brag about your high redemption rate...
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