Comments for One Mile at a Time

Comment on Photo #388 by Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 26 May 2012 06:32:15 +0000

My hometown of Perth!

It’s missinng that monstrosity of a building (BHP City Square) …

Comment on What does it take to convince a US Airways agent that you can go back in time? by stargoldua

stargoldua — Sat, 26 May 2012 05:31:35 +0000

Heard a new one today,
“Sir, although you are paying the $150 change fee for Dividend Miles ticket, you can not change your flights from Asiana to United.”
Me: “Why?”
Agent: Because we have already compensated Asiana for your ticket and there is no way for us to get our money back!!! Any changes you make have to be on Asiana only.
Me: Whaaaaatt?

Comment on Photo #388 by Maic

Maic — Sat, 26 May 2012 05:23:04 +0000

Yup I think its Perth too

Comment on Photo #388 by Tim

Tim — Sat, 26 May 2012 03:10:46 +0000

Taken from Kings Park in Perth.

Also seems to be an older shot as it’s missing some new buildings.

Comment on Photo #388 by Latitudes

Latitudes — Sat, 26 May 2012 02:26:30 +0000

Easy! Perth, Western Australia.

Comment on Photo #388 by Bu

Bu — Sat, 26 May 2012 02:19:20 +0000

Madison, Wisconsin?

Comment on Photo #387 by lucky

lucky — Sat, 26 May 2012 01:49:23 +0000

Well done, guys!

Comment on My Updated Analysis on What a Mile/Point is Worth: Credit Card Points by lucky

lucky — Sat, 26 May 2012 00:25:43 +0000

@ jmd001 — I promise I’ll cover the value of Hilton points in the hotel section. This wasn’t supposed to be a thorough section about credit cards, but rather only the programs that make it easy to convert points to mileage programs.

@ av — I’ll explain it in more detail in the section on hotels. Ultimately like I said there’s no absolute correct value, and my valuation hasn’t actually changed. I was just trying to establish some reasonable, relative values, and given the value of other points I couldn’t give SPG 2.5 cents per point.

@ john — I value them at around 1.8 cents per point, given that they can be transferred to American. Stay tuned for the next section for my valuation of American and BA miles/points.

@ Papa Smurf — Fixed, thanks!

@ Dan — Hah, pray tell, what do you value them at?

@ sean — Thanks!

@ PatMike — That’s enough for two one-way tickets in first class to Asia, so given that you have 800,000 Avios points already, I’d consider transferring them to Singapore.

Comment on Win 25,000 SPG points from the Starwood American Express! by anash

anash — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:50:18 +0000

tweet: https://twitter.com/anashct3/status/206170214629523456

thanks for the giveaway

Comment on My Updated Analysis on What a Mile/Point is Worth: Credit Card Points by lucky

lucky — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:22:38 +0000

@ Ann — Citi ThankYou points and FlexPerks are both fixed value currencies. I’m not sure what you want me to analyze there? The Chase Sapphire Preferred is still a great card, though as I’ll discuss in the next section, the value of United miles has gone down a bit for me over the past few months, and United is their most valuable transfer partner.

@ Frequent Miler — That’s a toughie, and I’m not even sure I have a good answer. I’d say it’s the “fair market value.” Of course since points can’t be bartered or sold there is no market, per se. It’s certainly not referring to the “cash value” I get out of the points, since that assumes you’d otherwise be willing to pay retail for the product you’re redeeming for.

And it’s not necessarily the amount at which I’d buy either, because I’d only buy at a discount given that I can earn interest on money but not on miles, at least without short term redemption goals. So I guess the only decent answer I can give is that I consider it to be the “fair market value, a rate at which points could be exchanged and both parties would be getting a fair deal. If I could theoretically buy points, I’d probably do so at 5-10% under the values I give.