What 3,000+ Closed Point Auctions Reveal About Each Program's Auction Market
What a point auction closes at depends almost entirely on which program is running it: the median winning bid is 17,158 points at Accor ALL, 95,000 at Marriott Bonvoy and 260,000 at Hilton Honors. Across the 3,037 closed auctions that carry a trusted price, spread over twelve programs, the number of people bidding against you varies just as widely, from 2.6 bids per close at Wyndham Rewards to 37.2 at Delta SkyMiles. PointAuctions.com keeps every closed auction as a permanent results page instead of deleting it at the close, and this is what that archive shows, program by program.
A note on method before the numbers. We report actual points, in the currency of each program. A Marriott point, an Avios, and a SkyMile are different currencies with different earn rates, so the medians below are best read within a program, not across them. For cross-program comparisons, lean on auction volume and bids per auction rather than the raw point figures. (For where in the world these auctions list and where the hardest bidding happens, see our companion piece on the geography of point auctions.)
The big board
For each program: closed auctions with a trusted winning bid, the median winning bid, the typical range (the middle half of all closes, from the 25th to the 75th percentile), and the average number of bids per auction.
| Program | Closes | Median winning bid | Typical range (25th to 75th) | Avg bids |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marriott Bonvoy | 1,722 | 95,000 pts | 40,000 to 282,500 | 19.3 |
| Delta SkyMiles | 320 | 141,000 mi | 60,750 to 281,500 | 37.2 |
| Accor ALL | 310 | 17,158 pts | 11,000 to 47,638 | 6.3 (97% of closes carry a count) |
| Qatar Privilege Club | 216 | 85,000 Avios | 27,825 to 232,500 | 7.1 (95% of closes carry a count) |
| Wyndham Rewards | 184 | 42,500 pts | 30,000 to 81,375 | 2.6 |
| Hilton Honors | 113 | 260,000 pts | 150,000 to 390,000 | 5.4 (45% of closes carry a count) |
| United MileagePlus | 53 | 85,000 mi | 40,000 to 200,000 | 18.9 (89% of closes carry a count) |
| Choice Privileges | 51 | 60,000 pts | 35,500 to 100,000 | 4.3 |
| IHG One Rewards | 32 | 58,500 pts | 35,000 to 115,000 | 4.8 (25% of closes carry a count) |
| Alaska Atmos Rewards | 20 | 420,000 pts | 293,750 to 566,000 | 12.4 |
| World of Hyatt (FIND) | 9 | 112,380 pts | 51,999 to 264,580 | 92.7 |
| Emirates Skywards | 7 | 87,000 mi | 80,000 to 199,500 | no bid counts recorded |
Verified finals vs. observed floors: this pool holds both, and here is the split. Of the 3,037 trusted closes, 2,661 (87.6%) are post-close verified winning bids and 376 are the last bid we observed before the lot went offline. Three rows carry most of that tail. World of Hyatt's ended FIND pages stop resolving within weeks of the close, so there is nothing left to read a winning bid from and all nine Hyatt closes above are last-observed floors, not verified finals. Delta sat in the same position until August 21, 2026, when our close sprint went live: 48 of its 320 closes now carry a verified final and 272 remain floors, so read that row as a disclosed mix. Alaska splits evenly, 10 verified and 10 last-observed. Accor (54 of 310) and Wyndham (26 of 184) carry smaller floor tails; Marriott, Hilton and United carry exactly one each; Qatar, Choice and Emirates are verified throughout. IHG has moved the other way entirely. Our local finals runner has been reading its ended pages since July 6, 2026, and 30 of the 32 closes behind the live IHG archive are verified finals, with only the two oldest still unverifiable. Verified finals and last-observed bids are labeled separately everywhere, and no single price is a blend of the two. (How much the final bid typically climbs past the last number a bidder sees is the subject of our companion data post, what late bidding adds.)
Which program suits which bidder
The board above answers "what does this program close at". The more useful question for most readers is which program to spend a Saturday morning watching, and the answer depends on what you want out of it.
• Depth and volume: Marriott Bonvoy. 1,722 of the 3,037 trusted closes are Marriott, more than every other program combined. If you want something live to look at on any given day, this is the program most likely to have it.
• A contested marquee market: Delta SkyMiles. Delta averages 37.2 bids per close and only 2.2% of its lots finish under five bids, the most fought-over marketplace we track at scale. Expect to be outbid, and expect the headline lots to run. Read its prices as a disclosed mix: most of them are last-observed floors rather than verified finals.
• Quiet bargains: Wyndham, Choice and Accor. Wyndham averages 2.6 bids per close and 83.7% of its lots finish under five bids; Choice sits at 4.3 bids and 64.7%; Accor at 6.3 bids and 51.1%. Small balances go furthest here, and the bargain hunter's guide to uncontested auctions has the fuller map.
• Big-ticket lots: Hilton and Alaska. Hilton's median close is 260,000 points and Alaska's is 420,000, the two highest medians on the board. Both suit a large balance and a short shortlist rather than daily browsing. Alaska's twenty closes split ten verified and ten last-observed, so treat its row as indicative rather than settled.
• The steady middle: United MileagePlus, with Emirates as a footnote. United's 53 closes sit at an 85,000-mile median on an average of 18.9 bids, busier than the hotel programs and nowhere near Delta's crush, and 52 of the 53 are verified finals. Emirates Skywards has only seven trusted closes, all verified, running 75,000 to 302,000 miles for football and tennis tickets. It had no auction of its own running on September 5, 2026: its live shelf of 51 listings is entirely fixed-price.
• The thinnest sample, and the busiest bidding: World of Hyatt FIND. Nine closes, every one of them a floor rather than a verified final, at an average of 92.7 bids each. Interesting, not yet a market you can plan around.
• Fixed-price catalogues: the Buy It Now programs. Seven of the programs we track have never run an auction at all. They publish set prices instead, so nothing on this board describes them: AAdvantage Experiences is much the largest (95 listings live on September 5, 2026), then Virgin Red at 46, Capital One Entertainment at 34, Singapore KrisFlyer at 23, Flying Blue at 7 and Southwest Rapid Rewards at 3, with Qantas Points Exclusives carrying nothing live that day. There is no bidding to win or lose, only stock to catch, and what KrisFlyer Experiences actually is explains how that shelf behaves.
If you hold points in two or three of these, the practical order is the one your balance dictates: watch the quiet programs for value, the deep one for choice, and the big-ticket ones only when a specific lot is worth the balance.
Marriott: two markets wearing one badge
Marriott Bonvoy Moments accounts for nearly six in ten closes in the archive, and it behaves like two different marketplaces. Sports packages closed at a median of 302,500 points with about 29 bids on average. Entertainment closed at a median of 53,195 points with about 13 bids. Same program, same bidding interface, a near six-fold price gap.
You can see that split in the shape of Marriott's whole distribution: a dense cluster of low-five-figure entertainment closes, a long tail of six- and seven-figure sports and arts packages, and comparatively little in between.
Median: 95,000 points
1,721 verified closes · median 95,000 points · updated monthly
The sports end is where the blockbusters live. Marriott's FIFA World Cup inventory alone has produced 345 closed auctions, at a World Cup median around 375,000 points, and the priciest packages closed between 2,352,500 and 3,002,500 points (what World Cup 2026 packages actually closed at takes those apart lot by lot). A reminder on reading them: auctions sharing one title are not always the same item. Marriott's World Cup listings span many match dates and cardmember restrictions under near-identical names, so treat each as its own lot. You can browse the 434 live Marriott auctions on the Marriott Bonvoy program page.
Delta: the bidding war
Delta SkyMiles Experiences is the most contested marketplace we track at scale, averaging about 37 bids per auction, many times the typical hotel program. Travel packages are the busiest corner of it, closing at a 301,000-mile median on about 52 bids. Culinary runs close behind and is the surprise inside the data: chef-led trips and tasting events closed at a median of 205,000 miles with about 50 bids each, the most fought-over food inventory anywhere we track.
See what Delta's bidding looks like live:
The quiet aisles: Accor, Wyndham, Choice
At the other extreme, three programs do most of their business in near silence. If your points balance is small and you would rather not fight a bidding war, this is your end of the pool (and our bargain hunter's guide to uncontested auctions goes deeper on where the quiet wins hide).
• Accor entertainment: median 12,000 points, average 3.1 bids. Most of these (53%) still close with zero or one bid.
• Wyndham Rewards: 2.6 bids on average across its whole catalog. Eleven similar auctions with the title of Harry Styles suite tickets at Madison Square Garden closed between 100,000 and 155,000 points.
• Choice Privileges: 4.3 bids on average, with NASCAR shop tours closing as low as 5,000 points.
The big-ticket houses: Hilton, Alaska, Hyatt
Hilton Honors runs fewer, larger auctions, at a median of 260,000 points, and the McLaren F1 packages (we covered the paddock experience) produced the single largest close in the entire archive, 4,410,000 points for a Canadian Grand Prix weekend. The verified Hilton closing prices take that program apart on its own. Alaska's twenty closes are destination packages rather than seat sales, nearly all of them bundled with roundtrip airfare for two: Kodiak brown-bear lodges, a Costa Rica cruise, Montana fly-fishing, New England foliage, and a Japan tour that took the program's top close at 900,000 points. And World of Hyatt's nine FIND auctions averaged about 93 bids each, the highest bidding average of any program we track (mind the binding-bid rules).
Qatar: stadium prices, club-show bargains
Qatar Privilege Club splits cleanly in two. Sports hospitality closed at a median of 180,222 Avios. Concerts at The O2 closed around a 36,000-Avios median, and the smallest closes on record anywhere in the archive sit at that end too: two Inter Summer Tour matches at 1,000 and 1,100 Avios, and a JOJI show at 1,500 Avios.
How to use this
Every closed auction behind these numbers has a permanent results page in our auction results archive, and every live auction appears in search within the hour we find it. 605 are live right now. If a program here matches your balance, start with its program page and set an alert.
About this data
• Figures come from the PointAuctions.com closed-auction archive as of September 6, 2026: 3,541 closed auctions on record, 3,037 of them with a trusted closing price, with close dates from February 2026 onward (we began collecting in March 2026). The archive has kept growing since, so the live figures on each program page and in the chart above run a little ahead of the snapshot numbers in this piece. "Trusted" means a close with a real winning price on record, not a starting price frozen at close with no bids: either a verified winning bid or a last-observed price with recorded bids.
• Every per-program median, range, and bid average above is computed on that one trusted-close pool, so the programs are measured the same way.
• The pool is 2,661 verified finals (87.6%) and 376 last-observed floors, split by program in the note under the board: Hyatt is entirely floors, Delta is 48 verified against 272, Alaska is 10 and 10, Accor carries 54 floors of 310 and Wyndham 26 of 184, Marriott, Hilton and United carry one each, Qatar, Choice and Emirates none, and IHG is 30 verified of 32. Verified finals and last-observed bids are always labeled separately, and no single price is a blend of the two.
• Bid-count coverage is not uniform, so the last column carries a caveat where it matters. Hilton records a bid count on 45% of its closes and IHG on 25%, so both averages rest on part of the row's closes; United sits at 89%, Qatar at 95% and Accor at 97%. Emirates records no bid counts at all, so it has no average. Marriott, Delta, Wyndham, Choice, Alaska and Hyatt are at full coverage.
• Live listing counts for the fixed-price programs are the active, non-teaser listings on record on September 5, 2026.
• All prices are actual points bid. We do not convert points to dollar values.
• Data reviewed and figures re-checked against the live archive, September 5, 2026.