Originally Posted by
conde
As of today, I can buy Starpoints at $.02275 per Starpoint (20000 Starpoints for $455). With a 5000 point bump to 25000 airline transfer points, that comes to a value of $.0182. Starpoints can be transferred to many airlines.
It should be mentioned, though, that Starpoints as such will cease to exist on Aug 1. They'll turn (at 1:3) into new merged Marriott/Ritz/Starwood program points (valued much like Marriott's points of today), but the airline redemption rates will be different, so it won't be the "gold standard" for transfer to airline any more necessarily after Aug 1.