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Old Jan 25, 2013 | 5:39 am
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brooklynmatt
 
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Brooklyn
Programs: AMEX Plat, AAdvantage Gold, UA, SPG Gold, HHonors Gold
Posts: 963
Originally Posted by farwest101
New to the game, but pushing ~80K per month, mostly UR/MR (~60K) from nonbusiness spend (on business cards - go figure). (Rest comes from UA/AA/HA).

VRs finally arrived mid-month and that's making life much easier. A few months to get my programs going and 100K seems possible. I'm gunning for you ADK!

Agreed. All points aren't created equal. Those HHonorpesos are worth a fraction of an UR/MR (~1/6th or less for the aspirational redemptions I'd be using them for). Once I saw the comparable redemption value, I stopped bothering with Hilton for the most part (although I do grab 24K/month using Amex @ CVS for grins - but I only value them at 4K).
Yeah they aren't as valuable but still very good for aspiration all travel for me- eg next trip 4 nights Conrad Maldives and Condrad Tokyo for 290k of course I'd rather have 290 spg but still have value to me axon cat 7s like these.
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