Originally Posted by
craigthemif
A) you earn even more points on the $100 room rate. 650 points for Globalists. So a net 4350 points actually...
I usually just add the potential points earned to the redemption cost. Of course I also add the taxes, service fees (anything that would not be waived as globalist) to the room rate. It's often more or less a wash (highly dependent on location, of course)
B) you can buy points for 1.7 cents during promos, so why pay 2 cents unless you max out annually on buying points?
Yeah I max that out. I guess most people don't?
Actually since I shifted a lot of spend to the CC I notice my point balance holding steady instead of it dropping throughout the year so I might have to be more willing to redeem around the 2c mark. At a 2.5c minimum I think I earn them slightly faster than I spend them.