Originally Posted by
Helena Handbaskets
You say you have nothing to lose, which suggests you're willing to try a "sale" or other exchange in contravention to the program rules. It may well be that you have nothing to lose, but is not the case for your trading partner, who would presumably use your miles for travel, and faces (perhaps unknowingly, depending on how you represent the trade to them) the possibility of denied boarding on the return flight and the necessity of buying a last-minute full fare return flight.
I can't argue with that, and if the roles were reversed I would be cautious. From my own perspective, I'm going to lose the miles anyway. As for the program rules, they suck big time, particularly KLM who seem to have retrospectively changed the rules at ridiculously short notice. I would feel very guilty if I traded my miles to somebody who then could not use them, but as for KLM they have shafted me far worse than what I'm proposing doing to them.