Sentences with phrase «essentially buying points»

Points & Cash is essentially buying points to reduce the total point requirement of your stay.

That means you've essentially bought your points at.002 cents per point.

Not exact matches

His point was, which I think probably more people will do, is buy it synthetically by essentially deferring Social Security, and that's the most efficient annuity you can buy.

As I pointed out, if the futures price falls by enough relative to the spot price it will lead to a situation where there is an essentially risk - free arbitrage profit to be made by selling the physical and buying the futures.

This reverse line movement is an indicator that sharp bettors have essentially «sold on good news» by allowing the sports media to pump up the perception of Wichita State among fans and recreational bettors, then buying back the inflated point - spread value with Dayton.

Essentially, an alternative line is akin to buying points, but sportsbooks make it easier for bettors to buy or sell several points.

As Milevsky points out, if you buy insurance for a high probability event, the payout you would receive when the event occurs would essentially give you back the insurance premiums you paid less the insurance company's «load,» which is composed of administrative costs, sales commission and profit.

It trades on a 13.0 % discount to NAV — so buying Green REIT instead is essentially a bet you'll manage to beat a 40 percentage point + spread in favour of IRL!

The ThankYou Premier also lets you earn bonus flight points (essentially double ThankYou points) when you use your card to buy tickets.

If you are looking to just buy a ticket at a «cash» fare and get that reimbursed by your credit card points (ie your credit card points are essentially cash) then I suggest getting a 2 % cashback card for all purchases (the BMO World Elite is the best right now due to a $ 300 sign up bonus) but the Scotiabank Amex is best at 4 % gas, grocery and restaurants if you spend a lot at restaurants.

Back in June I essentially bought 1,000 Membership Rewards Points (MRPs) for $ 10 and I managed to earn quite a few thousand more thanks to a variety of offers that Amex has (and still is) running.

If I booked the Mega Points rate I would essentially be buying Club Carlson points at 0.478 cents each and, as I value the points at around 0.4 cents each, that's not a very good deal fPoints rate I would essentially be buying Club Carlson points at 0.478 cents each and, as I value the points at around 0.4 cents each, that's not a very good deal fpoints at 0.478 cents each and, as I value the points at around 0.4 cents each, that's not a very good deal fpoints at around 0.4 cents each, that's not a very good deal for me.

Even though there are marketed as 2 night stay or one night stay, you are essentially buying Hyatt Gold Passport points.

but when you work out the math you'll see that you would essentially be buying points at a rate of 0.531 cents each.

As 150,000 Marriott Rewards points would buy you 7 nights in a Category 5 hotel anyway you would have essentially traded the other 120,000 Marriott Rewards Points (270,000 — 150,000) for 120,000 airline miles / points would buy you 7 nights in a Category 5 hotel anyway you would have essentially traded the other 120,000 Marriott Rewards Points (270,000 — 150,000) for 120,000 airline miles / Points (270,000 — 150,000) for 120,000 airline miles / Avios.

Most of the top IHG properties around the world cost between 50,000 and 60,000 points per night so, essentially, this promotion allows you to buy 2 nights at a very good InterContinental for between $ 288 and $ 345 / night....

Category 2 - 6 hotels are a particularly good deal when booking Points + Cash awards because you're essentially buying the other half of the points at a discounted rate using the cash cPoints + Cash awards because you're essentially buying the other half of the points at a discounted rate using the cash cpoints at a discounted rate using the cash co-pay.

A category 4 property charges 10,000 points for an award night so if you were to buy points in this promotion, that award would essentially cost around $ 228 — I don't see that as being great value... and it doesn't get much better the higher you go up the chart.

Even though there are marketed as 2 night stay or one night stay, you are essentially buying Hyatt Gold Passport points at discounted price.

Here you're essentially using 20,000 points and $ 396.47 to purchase a room costing, at best, $ 502.20 so you're getting 0.53 cents of value out of every point that you bought for 0.4 cents — and the points & cash rate is refundable.

A category 4 property costs 10,000 points for an award night so, if you were to buy points at 2.275 cents each, that award night would essentially cost approximately $ 228 — some may think that's ok but I don't consider that to be good value at all and the higher up the award chart you go the same poor value you'll get.

By doing C&P I am essentially buying 4,000 points for $ 55.

Near the end of that post I wrote «consider that airlines and hotels often sell their miles / points at steep discounts, which would allow you to essentially buy these same flights / hotels at a deeply discounted cost.»

Cash plus points awards can be great to help in a pinch or even serve as a way to essentially buy additional points when you need them at an advantageous rate.

I just want to know if I can essentially buy 40000, iles, get a bonus of 20000 and then add another 20000 points from American Express to reach the entire 80000 points needed because Alitalia says that only a maximum of 75 % of miles purchased can be used towards anb award ticket and the other 25 % must come from Alitalia flights or other Alitalia partners.

With a Category 9 hotel, meanwhile, you'll need to redeem 45,000 points OR 28,000 points + $ 220, so you're essentially «buying» those 17,000 points at 1.29 cents each, which is a really bad deal.

Because they are a separate company they essentially are buying tickets at whatever point cost Air Canada charges them.

At the same time, though, buying a checkpoint can mean essentially negating all the money Rick found up to that point.

Kahneman makes essentially the same point I made in this thread on June 11 when he says in his book, «Of course, there is always someone on the other side of each transaction; in general, these are financial institutions and professional investors, who are ready to take advantage of the mistakes that individual traders make in choosing a stock to sell and another stock to buy.»

As far Coinbase's basic buy and sell Bitcoin service is concerned, at this point the core product is essentially settled.

You could essentially buy more property and almost double the cash - on - cash return (COCR) by investing at a lower price point.