Originally Posted by
SanDiego1K
Have we always been able to transfer points between accounts?
Yes and no. How's that for an answer.
For decades, we've been able to move points from one account to another, but the sticker was it had to be in conjunction with making an award reservation. The points needed for the award order could be pulled from someone else's account. While Marriott's T&C's have always stated this "benefit" was for spouse accounts, Marriott never did enforce that requirement. So you could create a "dummy" reservation requiring more points in your account than were there, go through the process of moving the points over when ordering the cert for that award and then canceling the award afterward. All points would then be dropped into your account.
And back then, there were no restrictions on the number of times per year one could transfer the points in this manner nor were there any limits on the number of points that could be transferred.