@rgd51 wrote:I have written before of how bad of a card I think the venture one is giving only 1.25 miles per dollar due to that being only 1.25% cash back when redeemed toward travel. While that is technically correct there are websites out there such as the points guy that show if you transfer your miles to certain partners you can get the equivalent of over 2% back which is better than the 1.5% on the QS. This doesn't mean the venture one is for me because I like the hassle free cash back of the QS but someone who wants to optimize their rewards and travels a lot (I rarely travel which is why it is a terrible card for me) could get better value out of this card than the QS.
Thank you for sharing the information.
You will find here quite a bit of skepticism about The Points Guy valuations (and in one post he says that there were a lot of heated discussions about how to value the Venture points in particular). But even taking the 1.4cpp as given that leads to a 1.75% value, which while higher than QS is much less than many other cards (and you have to find a good flight to redeem). TPG would value using the Double Cash (earning TYP) at 3.4% for comparison.
I'm one of those skeptics, I'm not sure if it's common core math or something else, but his calculations never work for me.
Actual footage of trying to figure TPG's redemption values, if you have a birthday in a month that ends in "C" then you get a bonus 1.8% value if you convert them to Jimmy's Pancake House loyalty points and then have Jimmy book a flight for you from Topeka Kansas to Cleveland Ohio using Qantas airlines at an additional 15x points value....
