Originally Posted by
JimInOhio
There has to be more to the story you've been told. Why would someone with roughly 1 million miles be buying more on the black market? The first answer that comes to my mind is he also sells them on the black market.
He never bought or sold before. It was 1 million miles worth of flight awards booked. He used all existing miles for future flight awards. He bought 150K miles. United canceled all the tickets worth roughly 1 million MP points and closed his account. At least they refunded all the taxes. Sounds pretty harsh.