What's New on Point Auctions — April 2026
A lot has changed on PointAuctions.com over the past few weeks, so here's a rundown of everything that's new. And if you're brand new to all this, here's how point auctions actually work end to end.
New auction sources
The biggest addition this round: we've brought Emirates Skywards Exclusives and Qantas Points onto the platform. Both now get scraped automatically alongside the programs we already track.
Emirates Skywards Exclusives is a curated marketplace of luxury experiences (private events, travel packages, and one-of-a-kind access), all priced in Skywards miles. These tend to skew high-end, so the math is worth doing before you commit. If you want to sanity-check whether a redemption is actually a good deal, here's how we think about cents per point on auctions.
Qantas Points Exclusives is a curated catalog of fixed-price redemptions, with a strong lean toward Australian experiences. These are "Buy It Now" items you claim for a set number of Qantas Points, not auctions, so there's no bidding window to time. Getting it running meant building a scraper that could get past their anti-bot protections, but it's live now and refreshing hourly. If you hold Qantas Points, you finally have one place to watch the catalog without digging through their site.
PointAuctions.com now covers more than a dozen loyalty programs in one place, and the list keeps growing. You can see everything that's live across all of them on the auctions page.
Accounts, logins, and favoriting
You can now create an account on PointAuctions.com. This unlocks a few things:
• Favorite listings: save any listing and come back to it from your account page. Handy for the things you're watching but aren't ready to bid on yet.
• Persistent preferences: your filters and settings carry across sessions.
• Alerts tied to your account: more on that below.
Account creation is free. You can sign up with email, and standard features (password reset, email confirmation, account deletion) are all in place.
Smarter price alerts
Alerts have been reworked to be more useful and less noisy:
• Multi-program alerts: set a single alert across multiple programs at once instead of creating one per source.
• Deduplication: if the same listing triggers multiple conditions, you get one email, not several.
• Batching: alerts that fire close together are grouped into a single digest rather than a flood of individual messages.
If you set up alerts before this change, they'll continue to work. New alerts created through your account will benefit from all three improvements automatically.
Redesigned homepage
The homepage has been reworked to lead with the core value proposition more clearly: you earn points through everyday spending, then redeem them for experiences that would cost a lot more in cash. The old version assumed too much prior knowledge. The new version explains the flow (bank points transfer to loyalty programs, which then run auctions and fixed-price sales), so it's easier to understand what PointAuctions.com is actually for without already being in the hobby. If you want the longer version, I wrote up why I built this in the first place and a getting-started walkthrough for miles auctions.
The hero also now shows a live snapshot of active listings across programs, so you land on the page and immediately see what's available.
Card and listing improvements
A few quality-of-life improvements to the listing cards:
• Freshness indicators: cards now show how recently a listing was last seen, so you can tell at a glance if something is still active and current.
• Source badges with program colors: each card shows which program it's from, using that program's brand colors. Makes it easier to scan a mixed list and quickly identify sources you care about.
• Buy It Now labels: fixed-price listings are more clearly differentiated from auctions in the card layout.
What's next
We're continuing to expand the program list and improve how alerts work. If there's a loyalty program you'd like to see added, or a feature that would make the site more useful for how you track redemptions, reach out. The roadmap is shaped largely by what people are actually asking for. In the meantime, you can see what's live right now on the auctions page, or browse what past lots actually cleared at over in the closed-auction archive.