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Sep 27, 2019 | 12:00 am

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Originally Posted by swag

I've never redeemed points, and now I'm sitting on 5000+ points. Looking for the latest info since last year's devaluation.

As I understand it, I can redeem 5K for an OpenTable $25/50/60 dining reward, or for a $25 Amazon GC. But it looks like there's no way to see what restaurants qualify as "great deal" $50 value or "best deal" $60 value, until after I have committed and redeemed the points.

If there's a decent selection of $50 restaurants here in NOLA, then that seems like the best deal, but if most spots only offer $25 value, I'd rather just get the $25 Amazon gift card, which is simpler and easier to use.

I find this really frustrating too. How hard would it be to publish a list? But of course open table does not want any transparency because everyone would gravitate towards a few restaurants which would be overwhelmed with reward bookings ... kind of like certain hotel properties.

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