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Old Dec 21, 2016, 4:21 pm
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Originally Posted by eponymous_coward
Well, given that Elevate's going to be eliminated permanently, why on earth would SPG and AS bring the option back?

I suspect they both realized 20k SPG -> 25k VX -> 32.5k AS was problematic especially since at the moment a number of people can buy SPG at 50% discount thanks to SPG's latest buy points promo. This was in effect buying AS miles at 1.1 cpm ($350 for 20k SPG->32.5k AS). AS has a history of looking at large SPG dumps into brand new AS accounts rather suspiciously.
It was a fairly lucrative option and your probably correct in that a lot of activity was taking place. Being the 21st it was shut down fast.
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