Originally Posted by
sethb
So points transferred in do count? That would make sense, otherwise people could transfer points back and forth and both get lifetime points. (Though I wonder what happens if you earn Lifetime Something and then transfer out some of the points you needed to get it.)
TBH, wondering what happens is exactly the point. Applying an undisclosed rule after the fact is simply not kosher. They have T&C and those should be the rules. Period.
If they want to pull this when I'm at 489 nights and (supposedly) 1.5+ million points is dishonest. I understand the benefit was "secret" previously, but it is not now, and the page that talks about it says nothing about this "rule".
Certainly my behavior would have been very different had I known. Heck, I only transferred miles to my wife to get her AA miles toward her lifetime status. Otherwise there was no need to have her even become a member, much less redeem awards that I could just as well have redeemed myself. And that is the bulk of the 750k miles now missing.