Originally Posted by wharvey
I would actually expect most people (that are not on FT) would not know that they cannot sell or barter their miles. They probably assume these miles were earned by them and they should be able to do with them what they want.
There's a big problem with this explanation in kdinino's situation. If kdinino really didn't know that it was against the FF program's rules to sell the miles, why would they have listed an auction for "a white envelope" that happens to contain a 25k mileage award, instead of just listing the 25k miles directly? The only possible explanation for this is that kdinino knew up front that selling the miles was improper and was using the white envelope trick because they thought that they had discovered a clever way around the rule.