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Old Dec 17, 2018, 7:36 pm
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Originally Posted by pgary
.... unless I am purchasing in a special category offering more that 1 mile//$1 spent...
1 mile per dollar is no longer a meaningful baseline. 1.5 is the absolute minimum, and this reduces the opportunity cost to $0.0133 per point -and- 2 miles per dollar is widely possible, with an opportunity cost of only $0.01.
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