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Old Feb 10, 2013 | 2:09 pm
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Originally Posted by sdiddy84
I got a quick question I'm trying to book a ticket to LAS, and the ticket prices are way too high and im short on points. I was looking at craigslist and various other sites on buying points and am wondering if this is allowed.

If so how much should i be paying for 50k points
How short are you? You could always buy points directly from UA if you don't need a lot of them. Also, as other have said, opening a credit card is an easy way of getting some points.
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