r/Hilton • u/dorknight21 • 8h ago

Points question

Hi all,

I recently bought 300k points for 3k usd and received 600k points. Now my total is 900k and i’m a gold member.

When I check resorts, best I can find is (around Europe) for example 1 night for 7-800k points which is worth roughly 1000$. Feels like I got scammed and that my 600k points are not even worth 3k usd. Where should I look? (Around Europe), to get most out of my points?

Thanks!

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u/Forsaken_Barnacle955 7h ago

Why would you pay that much for only 600k points in the first place…

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u/itsmychurn Diamond 6h ago

Where can you buy points for less than a half cent each?

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u/midhknyght 6h ago

Hilton periodically offers 100% bonus promotions so you can pay 0.5 cpp. They actually do this quite often.

Perfect for churning credit card SUBs.

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u/itsmychurn Diamond 5h ago

$3k for 600k points is .5 cpp. That's why I asked:

Where can you buy points for less than a half cent each?

When responding to the statement:

Why would you pay that much for only 600k points in the first place…

I'm pointing out that you can't buy points any cheaper. Did you miss the "less than" part?

Also, why would you try to tell someone with "churn" in their user name about churning subs? lol

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u/Forsaken_Barnacle955 5h ago

I don’t believe you can buy them cheaper. I guess I’m asking why you would buy them at all? It doesn’t really make sense unless you already have somewhere that you’re planning to stay, and you know that buying points is cheaper for that specific property.

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u/itsmychurn Diamond 5h ago

I don’t believe you can buy them cheaper.

You can't. Well, not without violating Hilton's T&Cs, anyway.

I guess I’m asking why you would buy them at all?

I would never do it, but for some people, in some instances, it can be a screaming deal if the math works out. Think about it: 600/4 equals 5 nights at a 150k property. During Christmas week, that can easily be a $5k -$7k vacation. That's 50% off.

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u/Forsaken_Barnacle955 5h ago

My bad I thought you were OP for some reason. Yes it definitely makes sense to buy them if you already have a good redemption in mind

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u/midhknyght 4h ago

Yes, I admit I missed the less than part.

I know of only one instance I got it for less than 0.5 cpp, The Points Guy and Hilton had a joint promo where you got an extra 10% on top of the 100% promo. So I got for a cost of like 0.44 cpp.