Originally Posted by
eethan
Frequentmiler has a Buy IHG points page that explicitly mentions they are using an affiliate link.
FM also looked at 24 hotels in the US and reported that point values were roughly unchanged. 24 hotels is a statistically insignificant set and ignores the devaluations that have happened outside the US. Furthermore, FM pretty much named those 24 hotels. Do you think IHG is going to heavily devalue these 24 "spotlight" hotels?
I have not seen a thorough analysis of how much IHG points have devalued. Various FTers, including myself, have reported how hotels now cost more than they did last month. If you are an IHG consumer wanting to get long-term value from your points, why would you keep insisting that IHG point values have not changed?
It appears to me since you don’t understand clearly what you said, what I have said and what others have done, that English must not be your first language. That is okay. Language barriers do cause confusion.
You wrote in your first post:
“ Did IHG just devalue its points today?
I've been looking at 8 hotels in the US and Asia and they all cost more since last night. Asia hotels went up 15% and US hotels went up 10%.”
Now myself and others, including the moderator, have shown that not all hotels have been devalued. That is simply an irrefutable fact. The answer to your question is simply no. Why. Because not all hotels changed their valuations. A true statement is: IHG devalued SOME of its hotels.
I have said:
“One, bloggers have mentioned that appears to have been some changes in SOME redemption values, but certainly not all.”
“ I never said there were no devaluations. I am just saying it isn’t system wide and there are plenty of great values to be had, even for people without credit cards and not in the US. I and others have backed that up many times”
“ Until people acknowledge and understand that there has been no universal devaluation the thread has a purpose.”
All these statements acknowledge that SOME BUT NOT ALL have had devaluation.
So yes, I have said repeatedly there are some devaluations, which appears to be a true statement.
You also don’t seem to understand how the article for FrequentFlyer was written. He wrote the article about the valuations and posted without contacting IHG about what hotels he was going to analyze and when. So the idea that they were monitoring his comments and keeping valuations high is simply a violation of various laws of causality. He calculated and reported the values without IHG’s knowledge.
I hope this post clears things up.