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Old Aug 30, 2012 | 1:14 pm
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dcline414
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
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Originally Posted by soxfanndc
I plan on taking the miles but it seems NOBODY does that. I so rarely travel int'l and when i do, i buy BE. I've purchased SC memebership so that's useless and don't plan on gifting anybody so the miles are the only choice. Does ANYbody ever take the miles or am I missing some obvious reason NOT to do so?
The most obvious reason to me would be that you have the better option of a $200 credit, either in the form of a Tiffany's gift card or a Delta travel voucher. I cannot think of a single time that I would have been better off with 20k miles over a $200 voucher when booking leisure travel. YMMV.
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