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Old Jul 29, 2014, 6:57 pm
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Originally Posted by wise2u
I got in on the black Friday sale a couple of years ago, they had newly partnered with BestBuy and gave a 25% discount on points needed for redemption. At the same time BestBuy cut online prices 20-25% these combined for true bargain redemptions...most of the time merch redemptions are too expensive to be a good use of points, but that sale got me a 60" 3D Samsung tv, 4 pair of active glasses, a 3D Bluray player with wifi, a PS3 with motion controllers, and 3 or 4 games all for about 100k points...was hoping it would happen again, but they learned their lesson.
Still a very bad value IMHO. The 20-25% off BF sale would have still applied if you used cash/cc, so that savings is irrelevent. You simple got a 25% discount on points used, so you got $1250(cash price) worth of merchandise for 100k UR points, which is $.0125/point....horrible value for UR points.
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