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Originally posted by: kiwiboy1
My points just went up from 150K to 260K. It would seem that Station is keeping its word on converting point from 600 to 1000. Well done Station, good move!
My latest offer arrived and allows for one 6 point day over the next month. As a visitor, one day is more than enough for me. Again another good move station.
So let's see if I can summarize from a visitors perspective.
PROS
Cash back now an option rather than free play
Always 0.3% cash back
Offers for occasional 0.6% cash back (very, very good!)
Tier status is now retained/earned over 6 months
Old points converted to new point structure basically turning comps into cash back. Nice move! It really could have been much worse.
CONS
Was getting 0.3% free play once or twice a month anyway
Comps downgraded by 40% (60,000 points was $100 comps now $60 cash)
Tier significantly downgraded. 25% discount was $500 coin in, now $40,000 coin-in. 50% discount was $75,000 now $100,000.
Same stinky offers ($40 Free play for $20K of action)
All things considered it's probably a push I guess, the 0.6% cash back is really strong and makes up for almost everything else.
Just checked our points and they took a significant jump. Great move by Station Casinos that I truly did not expect. Before the point jump I felt there was a lot of hype for something that was barely a push, if that. Now I'd call it a little better than a push and pretty much agree with above post.
The 0.6% cash back on the mail offer is pretty good but relatively speaking it's actually a downgrade from before. Previously we got 3x the base rate of $1 = 1 point, now we are getting 2x the base rate although the base rate is now $1 = 3 points.
One other slight negative is that $1 in video poker play only counts a 1 point towards tier status. That's not too significant because the only thing I recall the tier status being good for was a buffet discount at least at the gold level and the mail offers usually have enough free buffet coupons that the buffet discount rarely came into play for us.
Wes
