Originally Posted by
nabeelj
It’s also worth $225 in Wal-Mart GCs, which is not a bad option either (especially for those mile rich, cash poor, like me).
EDIT: Further, affiliate links may come out for this offer, like they did for the 50K offer, after a few days. If that's the case, GCR should have the offer in addition to their normal $60 rebate.
EDIT 2: My response was to the analysis in the blog entry linked to in the earlier post, that mia rightfully removed. In summary, 60K BW points could be worth 12K miles, or $225 Wal-Mart GCs - the latter would be my preference.
Originally Posted by
yerffej201
It certainly depends on how much you value 12000 miles... if you value them at 1cpm, it actually might be better getting the 225 walmart gc's and then liquidating them for cash.
To sum up, here are the alternatives:
60,000 Best Western points
=
• 2 to 3, maybe 4 Best Western hotel nights, OR
• $225 in gift cards (with 1,500 Best Western points left over), OR
• 12,000 Aeroplan miles now, OR
• 14,000 Aeroplan miles if you can wait... and if Aeroplan runs another top-up offer in the future.
Important:
$2,000 minimum spend required, within about 2 months tops, to get all 60,000 BW points
Link to application:
https://www.applyonlinenow.com/CACCa...=CPOX&lc=en_CA
More discussion about points alternatives in this forum:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/air-c...cc-no-fee.html