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Old Nov 25, 2014 | 6:33 pm
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Originally Posted by ESQ
I am trying to rack up 200,000 points in a 3 month period. What is the quickest and easiest way to do so with manufactured spending or other options?
Welcome to FlyerTalk, ESQ. Unfortunately, the meaning of "points" varies tremendously, with some hotel points being worth just 1/7 or so of the value of others (or of airline miles).

So while it's easy to rack up 100000 HHilton HHonors points in about 3 months (applying for two 50k bonus Citi HHonors Visa cards at least 8 days apart, and then doing the $1000 minimum spend quickly after you get each one), those points are worth not much more than 15k or 20k airline miles. And they are also worth about 1/7 of what SPG points are. So unless it's Hilton hotel points you need, the fact they are easy to get fast is not very relevant.

Also, it's one thing to rack up 200,000 points/miles in lots of different programs in 3 months, but if you need them all in one program, that's way more difficult.

So it might help to explain what your end goal is, rather than just listing "200,000 points" generically.

Thanks.
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