Well, you may be right but, I'm looking at a one-time pass now and the nearest it says is "This pass is subject to United Club terms and conditions, which United has the right to amend or modify with or without notice to its customers."

And following that bread crumb, here are the United Club Terms and Conditions: http://www.united.com/cms/en-us/prod...nitedclub.aspx

Nothing on there about not selling one-time passes.

There are bunches of these on eBay and I know that United is quick to have eBay shut down auctions for things like e-certs, which very clearly are non-sellable.

So I think the young man may be in the clear