Reply To: Renewing Diamond through points purchase

[Olly]

BA Flyer IHG Stayer wrote:

Olly wrote:

Thanks for all the additional data points. It does seem bizarre that there are so many different rates for the same amount of points.

Even more confusingly – if I go direct to the buy points page from the IHG site, the cost to buy 115k points is $1150, so $170 more than if I follow the link in the email. How can this possibly make any sense?

Because as status qualifying points they are more valuable – in terms of what you are actually buying (in this case status) than the points we normally buy.

If you followed the usual buy points link those wouldn’t be qualifying points.

That would be logical, except for the fact it is the other way around. The ones counting as EQP are the cheaper ones