Originally Posted by
SP03
I can assure you, you are not comparing the same rates, since Edit isn’t available for Sapphire Preferred.
The Edit rate gives you daily breakfast, $100 credit, and room upgrade. You don’t get that booking with Preferred.
Then that’s the point. They are upcharging you to gain the benefits that any normal person would assume is the whole point of the $800 annual fee. Feels very disingenuous to me as a business practice if that’s what’s going on.