How much does it cost a hotel to give 5K points to a guest?
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But I am genuinely interested in what dirty food you would consume (or be content with 5000 points), and where the line crosses over to filthy. As another poster mentioned, $27.50 buys a lot of replacement coffee...10x price in many places.
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Not really when it comes to food. It's either sanitary or it's not. Even if it's simply "dirty", I expect someone to clean it and in the meantime provide me with a sanitary cup of coffee, not pay me hundreds of dollars. The points are a bonus.
But I am genuinely interested in what dirty food you would consume (or be content with 5000 points), and where the line crosses over to filthy. As another poster mentioned, $27.50 buys a lot of replacement coffee...10x price in many places.
But I am genuinely interested in what dirty food you would consume (or be content with 5000 points), and where the line crosses over to filthy. As another poster mentioned, $27.50 buys a lot of replacement coffee...10x price in many places.
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Even figuring the value for yourself (which is what really matters), .08 is a bit high. I would have guessed $20, so $27.50 sounds reasonable, and they're worth about $35 to the recipient.
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I like SPN Lifer's "$5.50/1,000 pts" because it's easier for the mathematically challenged to understand. I've seen way too many misplaced decimal points over the years! How many times have you seen a price written as " .25c" when it's obviously 25c ? If you tried to hand the clerk a penny to pay for four of them, s/he would look at you as if YOU were the idiot!
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I like SPN Lifer's "$5.50/1,000 pts" because it's easier for the mathematically challenged to understand. I've seen way too many misplaced decimal points over the years! How many times have you seen a price written as " .25c" when it's obviously 25c ? If you tried to hand the clerk a penny to pay for four of them, s/he would look at you as if YOU were the idiot!
James