well thats 2500 a year...but first you have to buy 250k worth of stuff to qualify...awfully expensive for gold. on another note i called up the different hotels and heres what i found. spg cant be purchased. priority club only allows gold to be purchased. hilton doesnt allow. and hyatt doesnt allow but will status match. spg gold is equivalent to hyatt platinum and hilton gold is equiv to hyatt diamond, and i must say the CS at hyatt when i called was superb. so right now only PC gold can be purchased. what ashame