Originally Posted by
crazygrow
The court required my friend and his wife to split his Starwood points (he had nearly 1,000,000 of them!!!!!! - which is a hellofalot of starwood points). His main problem - his had told his wife for years how much they were worth!
Just wondering, what was the mechanism for splitting the points? Did Starwood set up two accounts for the two and they then got equal points? Or did one party have to pay the other a dollar amount based on some calculated value. One thing that the 'values per point' posted on FlyerTalk don't take into account is that one might not stay at a hotel at all (or a much cheaper one) when using hotel points for a nice hotel. Yeah so you can find a hotel where you might get 2-3 cents a point if you compare the rate the hotel is charging to what it costs in points. But it doesn't cost a hotel nearly that much to provide a room to a customer, and a customer probably wouldn't pay that price out of pocket and stay a such a nice hotel if not for having the points.
I would say someone would be somewhat overpaying to, for instance, pay out even one cent per point to keep from splitting up the reward points. Cash is good anywhere. Marriott points are not. And if Marriott has a corporate policy that points cannot be transferred, how else can these be divided?