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Old Feb 21, 2024 | 5:34 am
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chipbennett
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Originally Posted by sydneyracquelle
Join the club. But what you are in effect doing is locking in DM in future years when MQD will likely be higher than $28k MQD. DL already showed their hand that they want it close to $35k. So in my view it cost me 100k SM to insure DM for 2026 and I got my 2025 CBs early.
As we've discussed: same here. The MQMs were Monopoly money to begin with. I'm perfectly happy with trading 200K of them not to have to worry about MQDs again until two years from now. There's a very good chance I do hit $28K actual MQD this year. But this way, it doesn't matter what the 2026 threshold will be. And as it keeps going up, I've already accepted that I'll eventually be dropped back down to PM long-term (and maybe once the ranks are thinned, PM will actually mean something once again).

I might spend the remainder 8,000 RDMs worth of rollover MDMs on an upsell Sky Club wine.
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