Originally Posted by
freed0m
did you read from beginning? The original argument is that SPG has fixed peak date and Marriott has dynamic peak date so that it prevents gaming the system.
I did. At least it's only 13 pages long.
Originally Posted by
freed0m
you certainly can game the system with fixed peak date when you can book a standard award when there is an event which drives the cash price up...
Why is that gaming the system? If for a given "price", one is willing to sell, and one is willing to buy, then it's fair. Even for cash price, it's possible to get a good price even when there is event if one bought very early. Besides, haven't you seen that points booking can become unavailable peak rate or not when the cash price becomes high? So certainly SPG/Marriott has way to not sell you a points booking when it feels not a good deal.
So as I said, your argument doesn't make sense.