Originally Posted by
taliesin
I see people using them all the time. And I am acquainted with a very wealthy family that puts virtually all their spend on their Platinum, at least $1M per year. For that matter I don't even know what they do with their MR points. To my knowledge they've never booked a reward flight.
People like this are probably AMEX's best consumer card customers... high spend and they probably redeem their MRs for things with a redemption value of less than 1 cent per MR point, like items out of the catalog or for amazon pay with points.