Originally Posted by
fallinasleep
Good point.
I would gladly pay USD110 (not sure about USD395 though) for the advance seat assignment benefit alone, to know my family will sit together in Y rather than waiting for a disappointment during OLCI. And if you are traveling solo, then there is lounge access, check-in counters, extra baggage allowance and the occasional op-up (although that never happened when I was SL).
Not to mention not having to hold on the phone line for ages (sometimes hours) to get through whenever you try to call MPC (silver seems to get you answered significantly faster than green).