Originally Posted by jamjaruk

By the way... If you are purchasing miles for Emirates. SPG have a great offer where you get 25% discount if you purchase more than 13,000 starpoints, if you purchase 20,000 starpoints you get an additional 5,000 miles free when you transfer to Emirates...

This is far more cost-effective at the moment rather than buying through Emirates. But I think you will need to have a spg account and takes 3-4 days for points to be transferred over.

Buy from Emirates if you have an Emirates American Express card (get 25% off) and want less than 20,000 miles. If you don't have this card then better to buy miles from SPG instead. If you want 25,000 miles then better to buy 20,000 miles from spg with 25% discount, transfer to airlines and get 5,000 free air miles.