Originally Posted by
Doctor of Credit
Thanks FindAWay for taking up the cause, I tried to explain in my original comment that his calculations were wrong and was told I was wrong so I just gave up. Glad to see that MileCards has updated the post, I'm sure Gary will do the same soon.
Unfortunately, when I've corrected bloggers in their own comments, they typically assume that I must be wrong (like MileCards did for you and for my first post...to which I had to reinforce why the post was wrong). And, I usually just let it go, like you did. But, this time, I didn't want to let false information that casts the recent devaluation in a positive light continue to be spread by more blogging parrots who may pick it up and post about it (like VFTW did without fact checking).
Yes, I definitely appreciate how quickly MileCards reacted. No one is perfect and errors are made by all of us - it is part of being human.
VFTW updated his post within the past hour (so, a bit more than a full day after several comments to the post noted that it was erroneous) with the following at the top:
Update: Sadly no such bargains to be found, I reported on this without checking the math. Still just 70 points per dollar the best you can do.
Interestingly, other than the "Update," the post remains identical (i.e., the false information remains below in his post without strikethroughs)