Mileage Run Shopping: Buying 162,000 Miles for $ 500 In this post, I
suggested a way to take advantage of an Ultimate Rewards promotion to effectively buy 162,000 Ultimate Rewards
points for $ 500.
That's actually why I
suggest the Barclaycard Arrival as one of the top travel credit cards out there, because you earn 2X miles per $ 1 on all purchases and you can redeem them for travel — pretty much any travel that you can't normally redeem airline miles or hotel
points for, such as rail tickets, car rentals, even the fees and taxes on award tickets — at a fixed rate of 1 cent per mile plus a 5 %
mileage refund, and know you're getting a very decent fixed value or 2.2 % back on your spending.