Originally Posted by
Delta3MM
You're right, of course, in that you only earned 10 points per dollar and there was no CC at first. I can't remember how I amassed so may points so long ago (other than the fact that I spent a lot of BIB), but I did buy one MVCI unit back then.
There was one period where every room-night, after some threshold (which varied by person), was worth a 10,000 point bonus. A friend got a lot of tickets to Australia that way (he found a hotel with a $40 weekend rate, and you could book a second room for $20, so $60 for 20,000 points, or $600 for 2 tickets plus a week in a Marriott plus car rental).