Unfortunately for serious players, playing to get 10 cent gas discounts (500 Tier Points) is gonna likely cost you far more in a single month of mail coupons due to a drop in your ADT than you could save on gas in an entire lifetime. I've linked my card but only because I use everything possible of the Fuel Rewards Savings and my primary grocery store also gives the discounts. I tend to play maybe 1x per month rated and play heavily when I do play so I still only earn 10c/gallon.
Structuring your play to maximize fuel discounts is incredibly negative EV for Total Rewards. It's almost like they structured the rewards to encourage you to trigger more trips and crush your ADT.
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Harry and Jean have gone back and forth on whether the Harrah's fuel program is worth the effort. They are both correct. Harry views the time invested being a reasonable cost for the benefits and Jean does not.
People can funny opinions about the value of an activity and relative savings. Funny to me, anyway. Long , long ago a friend and I went to Las Vegas and were downtown having a drink. This is about 25 years ago so we were paying for airfare, paying (moderately) for hotels and food, etc. One of the places downtown had $0.49 Michelobs and $0.75 Heinekens. I bought the first round, 2 Heinekens, and paid $1.50 for them ( plus tip). My friend got the next round and came back with 2 Michelobs. I asked why he switched and he proudly said "these are $0.26 cheaper". I informed him that you have paid $300 for airfare, another $100 or so for the hotel rooms, $50 - $75 for food and a couple hundred gambling budget and you are worried about $0.26? He gave me a funny look as if to say "well, if you are going to look at it like THAT".
So, people place different values on things. I give away a lot of coupons and most of the time, I don't think the people realize what they have received. These are people who are standing in line at a buffet with a family of four and I give them 2 buy one, get one free offers. They might say thank you and might not. They don't value that as much as handing them $20 ( even though the benefit is the same assume a $10 buffet for simplicity). The net effect is the same. They have $20 more in their pocket but is viewed with as no big deal ( the 2:1 offers) and the other would be viewed much more positively.
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