Originally Posted by
Youngtraveldude
Smiley90, not sure what you mean by the 'measly 1cpm redemptions.' I want do a long distance MR to help get me to exec. platinum for the year so transferring Amex points to an airline for points does me no good.
What he means by this is that 50,000 MR points can either get you the equivalent of $500 in cash, or it can get you a round-trip, coast-to-coast trip in business class if you transfer it to points.
If you simply don't have the cash on hand, and the Amex points are your only means of funding the MR, fine, but by all other metrics you're basically lighting a wad of cash on fire.