<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by First in Class:
Just an FYI for you folks who haven't been aware:
You can by up to 20,000 membership rewards points per month, and at a price of 2.5 cents a mile, to be transferred directly to a partner airline.
The restrictions is that your account must not have more than this amount in it, but that's easy if you have >1 card because you can open a second empty MR account, or just empty your current one.</font>
When did the restriction come into effect? I've done several of these purchases and was never informed of this by any MR CSR.