Originally Posted by JonNYC

Indeed, I surely would have went through with it see what resulted!

Would be curious to get more info from OP as to what/how/etc., this was all about. What he was told specifically, etc.

A long time ago, you were able to route N.America-> Asia1 via Asia2 as long as you paid the N.America-> Asia2 redemption rate (currently 55K.)

But a little hard to imagine an AAgent-- "several agents" according to OP-- making this mistake so many years later.