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Old Sep 23, 2014 | 9:24 pm
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Originally Posted by canopus27
I've never understood the value of this option. It is only useful if you can predict, a year ahead of time, exactly how many miles you'll end up with. If you undershoot the target by more than 5K miles, or if you overshoot the target by even 1 mile, then it's useless -- you have to land in exactly a 5K window for it to have any value.

Perhaps others can predict this level of accuracy a full year in advance, but the way it works right now, it seems totally useless to me.
Quite the opposite; it's insurance for those who are not certain to make a given threshold but expect to be within 5,000 miles of it. Has worked for me 2 years in a row... I finished at 46k last year and am sitting at 49.5k this year with no further travel planned.
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