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Old Apr 26, 2015 | 7:25 pm
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Originally Posted by RobH
Yes - it can make sense if you invoke the law of diminishing marginal utility. If you have 100,000 miles, using all of them on a poor redemption value award is probably not a good deal. If you have three million, why not?

I used to do the reverse; I had something like a million IHG points and I redeemed them for air travel several times. I knew it would take a long time to use them for hotel redemption, I figured I might as well spend them before they get devalued.
I move all my Marriott points to UA and use them for upgrades. I've never really "done the math" as far as $ value. But I almost always get free upgrades to a suite at Marriott and never get a free UA upgrade.
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