I am wondering something:

Say I have like 1,000,000 miles on airline X and wish to get tickets for a bunch of "friends." OK, so the airline lets me arrainge this big fat sale and go pick them up to give to friends. Now I axe ya, who is to say I cannot ask those people for a few bucks to cover costs, etc?

In MASS, I have heard that when you sell a concert ticket I think you are actually allowed to recoup something like 3% on top of your OWN ticket costs and listed fees for yourself. Now if you sell one that was just sold to you, is that another 3%? Who knows. The Point is similar to radio stations playing your favorite songs and the DJ suggests that this might be a good time to tape it for yourself! Illegal or no?

ALL of this is rather vague law and garble, in my opinion--you know, like that BofA money order thing. Who knows the REAL deal anyway? There are nreal rules--just the FACT that someone was PUBLIC enough to get noticed by an airline exec. who was pissed off by feeling duped because that person was actually able to do what my above million miles example is actually suggesting--and they used the very popular and public Ebay to pull it off, almost!

In short: I have easily SOLD the use of awards to friends in need who were willing to pay me some decent money rather than buy a full-on ticket for a ton more cash at airline X, and sometimes I even made a few nice bucks off of it so we were all happy! I didnt use Ebay, but should it matter if you dont really KNOW the person, or is it just a matter of THEM thinking so?...

Perhaps the ease of my doing this is later 'paid for' in other ways through my constantly frustrating battles about having to go to airports to pick up tickets I bought for somebody else.

and how do they figure the 15,000 mile fee? Is that all you had left on that carrier? Hmmm. Who's REALLY right? The one with the power to click and deduct, or neither entity?

MM