What 2,000 Closed Points Auctions Reveal About Each Program's Auction Market
When a points auction ends, most platforms quietly delete it. We don't. PointAuctions.com keeps every closed auction as a permanent results page, and that archive had passed 2,000 decided auctions when we ran these numbers. This is the first proper look at what the winning bids actually show, 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 points 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 | 1,018 | 105,000 pts | 40,000 to 347,000 | 19.6 |
| Accor ALL | 266 | 42,000 pts | 12,000 to 51,000 | 5.2 |
| Delta SkyMiles | 149 | 131,000 mi | 55,000 to 276,000 | 33.3 |
| Qatar Privilege Club | 139 | 90,000 Avios | 29,500 to 199,000 | 6.6 |
| Wyndham Rewards | 106 | 40,000 pts | 30,000 to 75,000 | 2.4 |
| Hilton Honors | 60 | 250,000 pts | 106,500 to 396,000 | not shown |
| United MileagePlus | 27 | 55,000 mi | 38,500 to 160,500 | 19.4 |
| Choice Privileges | 21 | 70,000 pts | 60,000 to 103,000 | 3.6 |
| Alaska Atmos Rewards | 9 | 430,000 pts | 290,000 to 600,000 | 6.2 |
| IHG One Rewards | 7 | 66,000 pts | 52,500 to 160,000 | 5.4 |
| World of Hyatt (FIND) | 3 | 466,513 pts | not shown | 130 |
| Emirates Skywards | 2 | 80,000 mi | both at 80,000 | not shown |
Verified finals vs. observed floors: Delta, IHG, and World of Hyatt take auctions offline the moment they end, so for those three the figures above are the last bids we observed before close, not verified finals. Read them as floors, not exact sale prices. Every other program's median is a post-close verified winning bid. (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.)
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 335,000 points with 30 bids on average. Entertainment closed at a median of 42,500 points with about 9 bids. Same program, same bidding interface, an eight-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: 96,944 points
1,202 verified closes · median 96,944 points · updated monthly
The sports end is where the blockbusters live. Marriott's FIFA World Cup inventory alone produced more than 300 closed auctions, at a FIFA-wide median around 390,000 points, and the priciest World Cup packages closed between 2,352,500 and 3,002,500 points. A reminder on reading those: 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. There are 282 live Marriott auctions right now, which you can browse on the Marriott Bonvoy program page.
Delta: the bidding war
Delta SkyMiles Experiences is the most contested marketplace we track at scale, averaging 33 bids per auction, many times the typical hotel program. The surprise inside the data is culinary. Chef-led trips and tasting events closed at a median of 252,000 miles with about 46 bids each, the most fought-over food inventory anywhere we track. Travel packages ran a 176,000-mile median with about 43 bids.
See what Delta's bidding looks like live right now:
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 1.5 bids. Most of these close with zero or one bid.
• Wyndham Rewards: 2.4 bids on average across its whole catalog. Harry Styles suite tickets at Madison Square Garden ran six times and closed between 100,000 and 155,000 points.
• Choice Privileges: 3.6 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: a 250,000-point median, 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. Alaska's closes, mostly tied to its Europe inaugurals, run from 290,000 to 600,000 points through the middle of the pack, with a 430,000-point median. And World of Hyatt's three FIND auctions averaged 130 bids each, the most contested individual auctions we have ever recorded (mind the binding-bid rules).
Qatar: stadium prices, club-show bargains
Qatar Privilege Club splits cleanly in two. Sports hospitality closed at a 160,000-Avios median. Concerts at The O2 closed around a 27,800-Avios median, and the cheapest win in the whole archive lives here too: a JOJI show for 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 — 443 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 June 13, 2026: more than 2,000 closed auctions, more than 1,800 with a trusted closing price, collected March through June 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.
• 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.
• For most programs we verify the winning bid after close. Delta, IHG, and World of Hyatt remove their auctions at close, so for those three the figures are the last bids we observed and should be read as floors, not verified finals. We do not have verified sale prices for them, so we do not claim a precise gap between the last bid and the final price.
• Hilton is shown without a bidding-competition average. Most closed Hilton auctions do carry a bid count, but coverage is partial enough that we leave the average off rather than over-read it.
• All prices are actual points bid. We do not convert points to dollar values.
• Data reviewed and figures re-checked against the live archive, July 2026.