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Old Jul 6, 2016 | 8:25 am
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vidiman
 
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Asiamiles, what gives most bang for the buck in redemption?

Short(ish) time reader, first time poster. Sorry if I break any rules.

So I have a handful of Asiamiles points, and I am accruing 50K-100K more per year.

What gives me the most dollar value per point in exchange? I could either hang out for flight awards or exchange my miles for hotel rooms or some tech goods (like surf pads and external harddrives).

For example, a WD 2TB external harddrive I can get for 26K points. That item has a dollar value of 110 dollars if I buy it elsewhere. I can get about 19K points for a 600 dollar return flight from Europe to SEA and back . So that gives me one hell of a nice percentage discount (In the event that an external HD is something that I was going to buy anyway)..

Could accumulating more points for future flight awards give me a similar high level of payout. From a first glance it does not seem like it.

I am not interested in flight upgrades for my points, cause that is not something I would ever spend money on.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your time.

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