Update 2: Sold out! Now you’ll have to earn Starpoints the old-fashioned way…by opening up the Starwood AMEX!
Update: I just successfully purchased 50,000 Starpoints for $725!
Discover America Starpoint Sale Linky
At 10am EDT today you can have the chance to purchase Starpoints at a fraction of their normal cost.
Starwood normally charges 3.5 cents per Starpoint and you are limited to purchasing 20,000 Starpoints per year.
Discover America is selling a number of Starpoint packages today at 10am that don’t count towards
-Purchase 4,000 Starpoints for $60 (1.5 cents per Starpoint, 281 packages available)
-Purchase 7,000 Starpoints for $100 (1.43 cents per Starpoint, 400 packages available)
-Purchase 10,000 Starpoints for $145 (1.45 cents per Starpoint, 470 packages available)
You can apparently buy up to 5 of each package and they don’t count towards your limit of how many Starpoints you can purchase in a year.
Good luck and please post if you get any of them!
Hi Dan,
Im looking to purchase some points (a lot) from you can you please contact me by email for a quote?
Thank you.
@mendel:
@Mark:
Wow, I’m just speechless guys.
Buying Starpoints at 1.5 cents is a nice deal, but definitely not a smoking one. Go buy some coins and get Starpoints for free!
It seems that people flip them on http://www.dansdeals.com/forums for about 2 cents so this is a deal but still…
Mendel, don’t come into my house and call me names-you’ve earned yourself a dansdeals.com ban (You’re the only one on the list!). Feel free to remove yourself from the facebook group so you aren’t bothered by my stupid emails and don’t let the door hit you on the way out…
Mark, if I wanted to “be selfish” why the heck would I post this deal at all??? Sure I had an extra 15,000 dansdeals readers to compete with but I felt it was the for the greater good to help more people out which is exactly why I posted.
If you want to follow every deal go sign up at http://www.twitter.com/dansdeals to get an SMS of every deal.
@mendel:
It’s clear that Dan wanted to be selfish and buy them himself, so sending this message to 2000 people probably wouldn’t help the cause… my take!
@mendel: complete lack of hakaras hatov. disgusting.
@mendel: WTF is wrong with you!??!!?! You have some serious middos issues to work on my friend.
Dan i am really upset at you
i am getting all you facebook message for evrey stupid thing
and when you have a good deal on STARWOOD you don’t send it
SHMOK
@wondering: how do you know that
seems like the points are only good for hotel stay and not to transfer for miles
@Dan/Ctownbochur: dan with 1.5 million starpoints are you ever even gona use those 50k that you got 2day? i sure could.
Is it normal that I didn’t receive an e-mail confirmation yet for my starwoods purchase?
i have so much charata – i wish i had never bought them
if anyone regrets buying them ill take it off your back
fyi:
Please keep this e-mail for your records.
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DISCOVER AMERICA(R) DAILY GETAWAYS — 05/03/2010
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Hi elliott,
Congratulations! Your purchase is complete.
NAME: ———-
CONFIRMATION NUMBER: 20100—-
GETAWAY: Stay 1 Night for $60: Style at a Steal
QUANTITY: 4
COST: 240.00
CARD ENDING IN: 72037
BILLING ZIP CODE: 44118
E-MAIL ADDRESS: ——–@gmail.com
HOW TO REDEEM YOUR PURCHASE: Within 5 business days from date of purchase, 4,000 Starpoints® will be deposited into the Starwood Preferred Guest® (SPG®) account you provided at time of purchase. These Starpoints can then be used for a 1-night stay at a Category 2 SPG hotel.
If you have any questions on redeeming your points, or if you don’t receive your points within 5 business days of purchase, please contact 1-888-625-4988.
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Your getaway: Stay 1 Night for $60: Style at a Steal
What You Receive: 4,000 SPG® Starpoints® deposited into your SPG account
Dates of Travel: Anytime (as long as your SPG account is active)
Max. Quantity per Purchase: 5
I tried exactly at 9AM…Looks like you beat me! 🙂
Did score 5 of the $60 (Aloft) deals b/4 sold out.
I’ll take 1.5cents p/SPG point
@Dan/Ctownbochur: im assuming so, bec i did exactly what you did and it didnt work, one second when i refreshed it wasnt on sale and the next second (litteraly) when i refreshed the buy button came on yet i couldnt get it
@chaim:
When did Eli say he did it before 10am???
Dunno what everyone else did, but I was constantly refreshing at 9:59am and added 5 packages to my cart at the exact second that the buy now button appeared.
@Eli W: @Eli W: could u explain how u did it before 10am bec i did it exactly at 10 and wasnt able to get it
me to, i had been refreshing the page every second untill it finnaly said buy and i pushed right away and got that message that its in s/o elses cart, could everone explain how they beat this system
@Shlomi: me too
i thought you had a link within your shopping cart that you tamperd with… well, i got nothing! and i was clicking for 37 minutes!!!!!!!!!
how hard is it to score flights to israel with air canada on business class?
Done…4,000 just got SOLD OUT!
Thanks Dan!
Which link? Just keep clicking “Buy Now”
https://dailygetaways.discoveramerica.com/OfferDetails.aspx?pid=362a1AAd-0139-4ce7-891a-d3be8ad467a6#
please share that link eli w !
nice buy!
7,000 is SOLD OUT!
bought 100,000 starpoints — two different accounts with same address, so i’ll merge the points! yesss!
10,000 is SOLD OUT!
Sold Out!
Sorry you missed it! But we have many other products and offers available. Just take a look.
10,000 is SOLD OUT!
got 5×7000 and 3×4000
got 5*7,000 thanks Dan. it comes out to 1.16 cpm for AA. gr8 buy.
So NOT fair!
I waited from 21:50, as soon as it cleared to buy i had the message: “Sorry, the item(s) you selected
is currently in someone else’s cart.”
Kept refreshing and clicking buy now bot the same message came popping up!
uuuufffffffffff
There’s still some available. I just messed up by entering the same CC # for the same package under a different SPG #
did also 5 for 725 🙂
I kept trying at 10:00 and was unable to get anything!!!!
purchased 5 lots of 7000…thanks!
got 4 packages of 4000 points.
even after you wrote sold out – I was able to buy 4k
Got 50,000 plus 20,000 so far.
Got 5×10.000 and 3x 4.000
Tx a mill Dan
bought 35000 for 500 bucks
gone gone gone
seeems to be all sold out already 🙁
Got ’em!
@David:
I bought 50,000 for $725!
WOW. I waited and pulled the trigger right away but they were somehow all gone the second it was available.
If anyone did get in on this, and want to sell the points -or if you have other spg or airline miles to sell, please email me at yicheller at gmail dot com. Thanks
Bought 10,000 Starpoints. It’s supposed to post to my account within 5 business days. Thanks Dan.
click on the link at ten? I did- i dont see the offer????
@josh:
Look one post down please.
dan sorry for a silly question but what amount of points translates to a room in a hotel?
@chaim:
Click the link at 10.
I cant find this offer on the webpage. Anyone?
who do i call?? i cant seem to find it!
dan, is this a good point value? r u going to buy?
thanks
can u transfer starwood points to jetblue? and if u can do u know the exchange rate??
@dan:
Do you pay taxes when you buy them? That would be the deal killer for me.
Dan, with your 1.5 mil, are you really going to go out and purchase?