I have not picked up as many points as OP, but it sure has helped in keeping the account active. My company changed hotel programs and I stopped accumulating LQ, redeemed some free nights in the past, but end up with about 20k unused points. Aside from the oddball survey, free LQ points just for clicking, or the old roulette game they had a few years back, this was a simple way to get some points into the account.