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Please Help!! How to get 112,000 Starwood Points?
« on: November 18, 2008, 01:58:57 PM »
Anyone have any advice on how to get about 112,000 Starwood points within the next year, or sooner, without literally spending that amount (or anything like it  ;)) on the credit card? I would like to point out that I'm a total newbie at this.

Thanks!

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Re: Please Help!! How to get 112,000 Starwood Points?
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2008, 02:23:19 PM »
buy them.

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Re: Please Help!! How to get 112,000 Starwood Points?
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2008, 03:01:07 PM »
Wouldn't that be really expensive? Could I do it by another route, say taking out more credit cards?

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Re: Please Help!! How to get 112,000 Starwood Points?
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2008, 10:08:51 AM »
why not get a personal card with a 25,000 (10,000 first purchase 15,000 if you spend 15,000 in 6 months) and get the business card, which also has the 25,000 bonus now as well

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Re: Please Help!! How to get 112,000 Starwood Points?
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2008, 03:28:31 PM »
My husband and I already have both. Is the business card the best one to churn. I really don't want to risk messing with credit scores?

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Re: Please Help!! How to get 112,000 Starwood Points?
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2008, 04:46:56 PM »
yes. Search the forums for the reasons why. I am confused, if you already have 4 different cards how much was the bonus that you got? That should bring you pretty close to 112,000.

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Re: Please Help!! How to get 112,000 Starwood Points?
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2008, 05:18:30 PM »
Well, my husband got the consumer card first and got the extra 15,000 points b/c we had a big purchase to make at that time. Then a little while ago, he and I both got the business card and I picked up the consumer card but we're not spending enough on them to get the 15,000 bonus points again. As it stands right now, we've got about 78,000 points (we're still waiting on some sign up bonuses that have yet to appear on our accounts). I would like to eventually, somehow, get 180,000 points total.

We haven't tried churning any of the business cards yet. I'm just wondering how many times (if any) they'll let us get away with it...