Originally Posted by
gengar
You'd also be hard-pressed to find retailers who will accept $100 in foreign countries, but that's never been the point. I know you like being needlessly bombastic and argumentative, but this is just silly.
If you're going to defend the statement that a cert is a "15k point equivalent", it's not good enough to justify that statement by arguing that some people, in some cases, are going to be able to use that cert in lieu of 15k points. And if you continuously have to add qualifiers just to attempt to have an argument, it's not a good argument.
Your argument is a train wreck. A Cat 1-4 cert, definitionally, is worth 5,000 to 15,000 points. The fact that less than 100% of them are redeemed at Cat 4 properties doesn’t change the fact that such certs are functionally equivalent to 15,000 points. Likewise, a $100 bill is a $100 bill, even if I choose to
use it at a store in Mexico that gives me a crummy exchange rate or refuses to give me change.