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These companies don't seem to realize how much more valuable customer word of mouth is than the loss from throwing that customer a bone.
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Annually, eligible Venture X primary account holders will receive a $300 Capital One Travel credit ("Credit") to use toward purchases made through Capital One Travel. Each annual Credit will expire on the next account open date anniversary. The Credit will be available within Capital One Travel and can be applied to purchases at checkout. The Credit may be used in whole for a single purchase or in part over multiple purchases. Rewards will not be earned on the Credit. If the purchase using the Credit is canceled, the Credit will be restored if it is not expired. An expired Credit will not be restored upon cancellation. A Venture X card account must be open and in good standing to receive or use the Credit.
Now the only caveat here is that while you will get that value and you'll be able to tell yourself you converted 90,000 points into some crazy amount of dollars, the question you have to ask yourself is if you would have booked those flights with cash if you had to. What I mean is, if Avianca is $518.50, and Delta is say $450, and you choose to book Avianca with miles because you say "damn, 450 and 518.50 are expensive, I'd much rather pay cash for when flights are under 400 and maximize the value of these points" would you really have spent $518.50? Unless you REEEEEALLY needed to do the Avianca route, if you were forced to pay cash (say, because you have no miles) you probably would have gone with the Delta flight for $450 (assuming all things being equal...time on flight, layover time, etc.). In my case, I don't remember what other flights were available that I would have chosen for my mother-in-law, but if I had to pay cash, I certainly wasn't buying the $518.50 Avianca flight. I think there was a much less comfortable (with respect to flight times) COPA flight that was like $150 less on a different day. So did I really get $0.02367/point?
if i receive a voucher for a free ferrari, that i wouldn't have bought otherwise, i'm still receiving a ferrari. I could then go sell the ferrari and get cash in hand.
anyways you wrote a good post
if i receive a voucher for a free ferrari, that i wouldn't have bought otherwise, i'm still receiving a ferrari. I could then go sell the ferrari and get cash in hand.
anyways you wrote a good post
Let us 2 identical flights - same time / same plane / same seat. Company A can be done through cap one and flight costs $600. Company B costs $500 but can't be done through cap one. The redemption value should be based on $500 and not $600.
That has been the problem lately - some of these travel blogs find some obscure country to travel to on some obscure date and come up with some funny redemption values that are in general very hard to replicate.
In your Ferrari example it may be a question of list price versus negotiable price. You can't base it on the list price even though reward redemption gave it you based on list price. Because wen you go to sell, you willl find out that you can only sell at the negotiated prices.
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Let us 2 identical flights - same time / same plane / same seat. Company A can be done through cap one and flight costs $600. Company B costs $500 but can't be done through cap one. The redemption value should be based on $500 and not $600.
That has been the problem lately - some of these travel blogs find some obscure country to travel to on some obscure date and come up with some funny redemption values that are in general very hard to replicate.
In your Ferrari example it may be a question of list price versus negotiable price. You can't base it on the list price even though reward redemption gave it you based on list price. Because wen you go to sell, you willl find out that you can only sell at the negotiated prices.
if you didn't have a voucher, and would have bought thing #2 instead with lower price Y, that doens't change the fact that at time of redemption, the voucher for thing #1 was worth price X
if you didn't have a voucher, and would have bought thing #2 instead with lower price Y, that doens't change the fact that at time of redemption, the voucher for thing #1 was worth price X
If Amex, for example, gives me limited set of choices and says that I can redeem membership points for $100 HD card, just because I redeemed 10,000 points for $100 HD card does not make the value $100. Because if they had given me cash, I would have taken cash and there would be no arguments about the value. But by your argument, it has a $100 value at the point of redemption but it doesn't because I can buy HD cards by spending less. So the real value is what would I have spent for the same product without "constraints" just like cash.
Now if you are lucky to cash out on an item that can't be cheaper elsewhere and it is exactly what you want, then yes the value is equal to what you received. Then good job and pat yourself on the back. And if you happen to get even more value than super-pat yourself on the back. I am still smiling at my free Amex hotel night certificate that I am using for $650 per night hotel in Manhattan. And even though I am happy with what I got here, I don't consider the value to be $650 - it is at least 20% less compared to paying out of pocket.
All the flight perks can also be applied to hotels (and car rentals). As long as it can be booked through their travel portal. So if you book $400+ of hotels yearly through their portal you can come out on top with this card.
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