using the amex spg card for MS.....
hmmm, this is some groundbreaking, weird wild stuff. wow, you guys think of everything.
now, before you go out and do that $90m in your example, perhaps consider:
a. do you have any spend history that has been built over time to make anything near this level of spend anything but a red alog flag?
b. can you pass an Amex FR?
c. do you have several avenues to liquidate volume like this?
d. do you have the cash flow to float this money for a while in case you get shut down by a MO source/s or a liquidation avenue dies overnight (which is usually how they die)?
e. do you have a redemption in mind?
f. do you trust Marriott? if you do, take a look at their category moves the past several years- particularly what is left in Cat 1-5
g. do you get the feeling Marriott is taking a carrot and stick approach to this merger? ie: we are getting the carrot now. stick to follow (imo- kinda a leopard and changing it's spots thing) ........