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Today's main event, how to amass city thank you rewards.

We've been talking a lot lately about unique uses of city points such as transferring to leading hotels of the world. And so today

we're going to talk about how to get lots of points. And next week, we'll talk about what are

the best uses of thank you points. Yeah, I mean, we all like to collect lots and lots of points.

And city points are a currency that doesn't get talked about as much in part because there are fewer ways to earn the points. But that's where this show will come in helpful, hopefully, by telling you the ways that you can earn a bunch of city points. But before we get there, don't forget, I want to remind you that you'll always find the timestamps in the show notes. So if you want to skip ahead to the main event or you want to return to one of these segments later on, you can always just expand the description and see the timestamps there. Remember, wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like this. Give us a thumbs up. Leave us a review. Leave us some feedback. Tell us what you think. Tell us what we got wrong and what we got right. We always love to hear from you in the comments. So thank you very much for that. Okay, let's drag out this

week's giant mailbag. Yeah, today's giant mail comes from Richard B. I'm not going to read Richard's

email of verbatim, but he had a really interesting point that I'm going to explain or try to explain. It's a little a little bit

complicated. But, you know, we do these monthly Ask Us Anything shows where we live stream on

YouTube, the whole team, all five of us, and people jump on live and ask us questions.

And we were talking in a recent one about the Amex to Hilton transfer bonus. And I guess

during the show, I talked about the reasonable redemption values that when you transfer normally from American Express to Hilton, since our reasonable

since our reasonable redemption value, the average amount you could expect to get for Hilton points is about half a cent.

The normal value of your Amex points when you do

this one to two transfer is only one cent per point. With the 30% transfer bonus, that goes up to 1.3

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