Originally Posted by
unavaca
I'm surprised you got any SPG benefits at all when booking on a 3rd party site.
I'd rather them keep the annual fee where it is than raise it up to make up the revenue difference of lost forex fees.
It's an affiliate link, not a full separate booking engine. It just passes you over to SPG's site, and then UR gets some percentage of whatever I do there. It's similar to Amazon's affiliate program.