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desafino
There are occasionally opportunities to acquire points at decent prices through the Amex/Rakuten partnership. A recent example was 90 MR/$ from rakuten + 5 MR/$ from Amex offers for a norton lifelock subscription. Rakuten points are only transferred to amex quarterly so it may not be helpful for a time sensitive redemption.
Great to know thanks.
The purchase price doesn't make sense for the large chunk of Hilton points I require but it certainly does for some flights to Asia.