Originally Posted by
cfischer
You risk getting no points when booking outside of Marriott.com This is well-known. That is all I was saying; I did not say you cannot ever get points.
not true...not true at all....you can book through any channel you'd like, but you must book pub avail rates, not wholesaler rates which the ota's like to offer BUT even the ota's have the ability to book pub avail rates (they just earn less on them so they'd prefer not too)