Originally Posted by
joshua362
I believe that to be normal. In late 2010 I won a NHL Winter Classic package and went several hours past the deadline in 500 pt increments, bidding against an auto bidder who capped out at 100,000. Each bid gave me an email outbid notice and another 5 minutes to up the bid. I won at 100,500. Although I calculated it as the equivalent of 3 weeks in a suite in Hawaii, it was among the greatest experiences of my life thus far.
Same thing happened for the suite tickets for the US open mens finals a few days ago. The counter kept resetting itself when any bids on one of the 8 packages were made and at the end the points had almost doubled than what it was at the normal closing time.
My max limit was 150k and I think many people also had the same limit as once a few packages hit that threshold many people started to back off. I am so grateful for that.
I really wanted those tickets for a while now and was extremely happy when the merger went through.
I am a marriott loyalist (a noob too) and spent almost 80% of my points on the suite tickets and courtside tickets for sep 1.
No better feeling than watching grand slam tennis from courtside for a huge tennis fan.
I would like to thank SPG for making it happen.