I just got bumped from gold down to silver. But along with that depressing notice came an interesting offer: for 35,000 points, they'll let me "buy back" my gold status.

I have 113K points, but am sort of jealous of them. But you can buy points @ $12.50 per 1000, so Gold status would run $437. That's not so bad for upgrades and concierge lounge for a year. And if I pay for only half the points I use (and dip into my stash for the other half), the price is down to a pretty reasonable $200 or so.

Seems a no-brainer. Are there any demoted gold people out there who've resisted doing this?