I cannot help believe that this is not going to be good for most of us in the long run.

Chase and United have already teamed up to sell everything. They make a fast buck doing it, but there are long term consequences.

Some of us older frequent flyers remember Delta's triple mileage offer in the 90s. All the airlines followed suit. There were so many award miles out there that this eventually led to the first de-evaluation of miles.

The saga continues.

As it is, I get an email almost weekly from United either offering me the opportunity to buy miles at a discount or an email trying to get me to spend my miles on something.

Call me old fashioned, but what I really want is to buy free first class or business class tickets to some great destination for a reasonable number of miles. THAT gets more and more difficult with every offer and promotion that United and Chase use to get fast cash.