100% bonus on buying points for IHG Elites

[ketsuzei]

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[burmans]

Bonus on buy points < $6 per 1000

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[TD] Buy Points

A very special offer - get 100% more points!
Buy IHG® Rewards Club points and get double the bonus points. Only until August 26, 2013.

Buying Points is the easy way to top up your account to get the award you want!

You may purchase points in 1,000 increments:

• 1,000 - 10,000 points for $13.50 per 1,000 points
• 11,000 - 25,000 points for $12.50 per 1,000 points
• 26,000 - 60,000 points for $11.50 per 1,000 points

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Appears this may be targetted!

 

[Princess Fiona]

This is the Hilton Honors forum ?

 

[ketsuzei]

Sorry. I am an idiot.

 

[JohnK]

Re: Bonus on buy points < $6 per 1000

So if purchasing 60,000 points (+60,000 bonus points) is that going to cost USD690 + any fees?

 

[burmans]

Re: Bonus on buy points < $6 per 1000

So if purchasing 60,000 points (+60,000 bonus points) is that going to cost USD690 + any fees?

Not sure of that as I haven't taken it to completion but dont believe there is any cost on top of that!

 

[paultiffen]

Re: Bonus on buy points < $6 per 1000

Interesting roundabout way to buy points in a few programs for a top up as 10000 IHG points become 2000 miles in AA, Alaska etc. Would price out to 2.875 c each.

 

[serfty]

Not individually targeted, and it is not restricted to Ambassadors - I got the offer as a gold with a reference to all elites in the Email.

 

[burmans]

Not individually targeted, and it is not restricted to Ambassadors - I got the offer as a gold with a reference to all elites in the Email.

Surprised by lack of interest, while have only redeemed 70k worth over last year have had superb value from those redemptions and keen to replenish, no one else got value out of IHG reward points?

 

[serfty]

Last year you could buy points to get status, since early this year you can't.

Maybe there's been a drop in sales?

 

[paultiffen]

Won't they be allowing stay credit with reward nights coming up? That would kind of be the same thing.

 

[vitagen]

I Don't get the bonus as a plat.

 

[markis10]

Surprised by lack of interest, while have only redeemed 70k worth over last year have had superb value from those redemptions and keen to replenish, no one else got value out of IHG reward points?

Its an average deal, if you buy 60000, 10000 points cost USD 57.50, a $13.50 saving over the usual method to get cheap points. Still a saving but not as high as it appears.

 

[burmans]

Its an average deal, if you buy 60000, 10000 points cost USD 57.50, a $13.50 saving over the usual method to get cheap points. Still a saving but not as high as it appears.

Sort of agree but it seems to me there are still plenty of people using the "usual method" so they see value in that itself but at $70 vs $57.50 the normal method is ~22% more expensive than this. So if people see atraction in this usual method then surely saving ~20% more would be even more attractive.

 

[docjames]

And I assume these arent qualifying points?

 

[serfty]

And I assume these arent qualifying points?

See post #10 ...

 

[markis10]

Sort of agree but it seems to me there are still plenty of people using the "usual method" so they see value in that itself but at $70 vs $57.50 the normal method is ~22% more expensive than this. So if people see atraction in this usual method then surely saving ~20% more would be even more attractive.

Depends on when you need to use the points I suppose, with the normal method you don't need to buy much so the saving is far less.

 

[docjames]

See post #10 ...

To be fair, #10 didnt explicitly answer that (although I take it you're implying that this year they still dont).

 

[serfty]

To be fair, #10 didnt explicitly answer that (although I take it you're implying that this year they still dont).

Yeah ... true.

Anyhoo, purchased points have not contributed to status since early this year.

 

[burmans]

Depends on when you need to use the points I suppose, with the normal method you don't need to buy much so the saving is far less.

Sure but you only need to buy 52k for this, so given I spent 70 I'm looking to replenish an easy sell to me. I do agree that it won't be attractive to everyone but nevertheless thought it would be more attractive than it seems to be. Maybe people are just suspicious more devaluations are in the wings and of course that is possible.