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Old Oct 30, 2014, 7:44 pm
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Tchiowa
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Originally Posted by bcj1949
Does everyone think 1K still worth it after quite a year! Thanks
Back to the original question:

At the end of 2013 I was close to 1K so I bought an accelerator to get me to 1K. Cost me nearly $3k. I fly SFO/BKK/SFO 3 times a year (at least). On each of those flights I paid over $6k for my ticket (well, my boss did). I normally pay the same for my wife. Instead I paid $1,200 each for coach tickets and she has cleared a GPU upgrade on every single leg (just got the confirmation on the last leg coming up next month). So getting to 1K saved me just over $15k at the cost of $3k.

So, yeah, at least in my case it was well worth it.
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