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Old Dec 29, 2024 | 5:57 pm
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Originally Posted by gudugan
I posted about this upthread but the status qualification is not designed very well.

I spend about 50k a year in rent (ouch!). Instant silver status. I spend basically nothing on the card otherwise.

To get Gold, I need 75k more points from non-rent spend which is 1x/2x/3x. I could shift my dining spend to Bilt but I don’t think it’s $25k.

Alternatively I need to spend 25k on the card which doesn’t count my rent spend at all. After the rent day 2x nerf, I don’t think this is a good use of spend.
So it is designed well, right? It's incentivizing you to work to attain status at the expense of better allocating your spend in other ways. You aren't opting for that trade-off, but others may.
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