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Old May 5, 2020 | 9:49 pm
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Originally Posted by tcook052
Good question. On IHG when I've purchased points with a bonus promo it shows the regular and bonus amounts but don't know how points.com works so anyone have any insights.
The screen that gives you the price and mileage amount is the final purchase screen. Short of having you "hold" miles (like holding space on a flight) with the dropdown, there's no way to do that. With only 10M eligible for the top bonus, there are going to be a LOT of people there trying to buy.

20 people are able to buy the full 500k.

The bovine and I are each talking about buying the full amount. That would be 10% of the available bonus pool at 115%.

I don't think that's going to happen, but there's serious consideration.

Not that 1.1cpm is much worse than 1.0cpm, which means there's 110M available.

But I suspect you're going to have to make the purchase with no idea whether you're getting 115%, 90%, or 65%. I'd bet that if you do it by 1015 EDT, it'll be at least 90%. But I could see the 115% running out by 10:00:05.
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