<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by burgerwars:
It makes me wonder, can they just close accounts with earned points any time they feel like, and not award them? ...
But is it ethical for a company to take all your points away, because they feel a few of them you didn't get legitimately? Doing that I think would open them up to lawsuits.</font>
Ethical? Probably not. Completely legal? Absolutely. From the MyPoints "Terms of Service:"
- Member agrees not to abuse MyPointsŪ privileges by conduct which is detrimental to the interests of MyPoints.com...
- MyPoints.com reserves the right to terminate or disable, at MyPoints.com's sole discretion, any MyPointsŪ membership if MyPoints.com believes such Member has violated or acted inconsistently with the rules of MyPointsŪ or intent of this Agreement. Member understands and agrees disabling of membership will result in Member's inability to redeem and/or earn Points. Member understands and agrees termination of membership will result in the cancellation of all of Member's Points.
- AT ANY TIME EITHER MEMBER OR MYPOINTS.COM MAY TERMINATE MEMBER'S MEMBERSHIP WITH OR WITHOUT CAUSE. MEMBER'S RIGHT TO USE MEMBER'S MEMBERSHIP IMMEDIATELY CEASES UPON TERMINATION AND MEMBER'S UNREDEEMED POINTS SHALL BE CANCELLED. (their CAPS not mine)
I agree that its a rotten thing to do - especially if someone has accrued a few thousand miles (and is too dumb to be transfering to another program
<points to self> ), but you and I both know that ethics don't always mix with business.
SGM