That says the offers are "provided," not that they are provided free. I'd also find this hard to believe for the programs that provide so many millions (billions?) of points. I mean some years IHG has "restocked" in later weeks of the promo so what does that mean- they decided to donate more??

I get that there are tax advantages of companies donating products and services but find it hard to believe all of this is from donatiions.

In any case, I wasted 50 minutes of my life on IHG yesterday, clicking nonstop on two devices on almost every package and all were immediately in someone else's cart from 1:00:00 onwards due to automated buying. It's really not much fun when it gets like this