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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #120 on: November 11, 2015, 02:00:12 PM »
Tzzz. You clearly never had Scotch eggs then.
The UK's full name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Great Britain comprises only England, Scotland and Wales.
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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #121 on: November 11, 2015, 02:02:16 PM »
The UK's full name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Great Britain comprises only England, Scotland and Wales.

The London department store Fortnum & Mason claims to have invented Scotch eggs in 1738

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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #122 on: November 12, 2015, 10:57:14 PM »
Maybe make a week DO there. Only the 10 big-shots (biggest shots actually) who can afford to blow 1,200,000 will show. Then every everybody can talk all they want about all the best tricks not on DDF. It will definitely be an exclusive club. How's that for an idea?
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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #123 on: November 12, 2015, 11:30:09 PM »


Yup that's everything good to come out of England
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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #125 on: November 25, 2015, 08:11:59 AM »
Yay for the world's worst use of points?
Good publicity I suppose.
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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #126 on: November 25, 2015, 08:20:28 AM »
Yay for the world's worst use of points?
Good publicity I suppose.
Theres much worse ways.
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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #127 on: November 25, 2015, 08:24:43 AM »
Yay for the world's worst use of points?
Good publicity I suppose.
He has said himself that it's quite a bad use

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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #128 on: November 25, 2015, 08:25:19 AM »
Perhaps, but not many.
No way I'd take that over a dozen F flights or even a week in an OWB.
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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #129 on: November 25, 2015, 08:28:30 AM »
Yay for the world's worst use of points?
Good publicity I suppose.
If its something that interests you then its not terrible at 2.5 cents PP.

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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #130 on: November 25, 2015, 08:31:49 AM »
Case study for why values should be based on what you'd pay for it rather than the price tag.
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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #131 on: November 25, 2015, 08:35:45 AM »
Case study for why values should be based on what you'd pay for it rather than the price tag.
In that case, I don't think you ever got a value of more than 2CPP when flying F...

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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #132 on: November 25, 2015, 08:39:51 AM »
That's why I look at both value numbers when redeeming miles, personal and retail value.
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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #133 on: November 25, 2015, 09:30:27 AM »
I guess I can take some credit for the trip.

I (stupidly) talked about AS 12/24BMs in Monsey in 06/14 when RTC and MMS were there. Didn't even know they were there until the very end, though they stayed on for the afterparty. They promised to keep everything to themselves.
04/15 FM posts about his BOFA MBM and credits RTC for the idea being his. Then MMS does massive damage to AS in 05/15 by blogging about his MBM and gives the credit to FM and RTC.

SMH
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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #134 on: November 26, 2015, 12:11:43 AM »
Yay for the world's worst use of points?
Good publicity I suppose.
You don't think he's getting tons of clicks (when was the last time you clicked through to his site)? Isn't it worth it for that alone?
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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #135 on: November 26, 2015, 12:35:19 AM »
You don't think he's getting tons of clicks (when was the last time you clicked through to his site)? Isn't it worth it for that alone?
Clicks aren't worth much of anything if they don't convert into actions.
Are you going to use his aff links because he blew ~$15K of points on a week's hotel stay?
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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #136 on: November 26, 2015, 12:36:05 AM »
Many will. Not solely due to that (though a few have explicitly said that), but other things too, including his policy never to embed cc links in his posts, etc.
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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #137 on: November 26, 2015, 12:36:24 AM »
Clicks aren't worth much of anything if they don't convert into actions.
Are you going to use his aff links because he blew $15K of points on a week's hotel stay?

No. But if I never heard about the game and saw a link about this and clicked through to his site and then got interested...
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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #138 on: November 26, 2015, 12:37:37 AM »

No. But if I never heard about the game and saw a link about this and clicked through to his site and then got interested...
That's assuming it goes viral. Maybe it will, but his last over the top 1MM challenge didn't and it likely cost him relationships with banks.
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Re: Necker Island (Owned by Branson)
« Reply #139 on: November 26, 2015, 12:37:53 AM »
And it's not $15K. 75%of the points was from churning the virgin card. What are those points worth?
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