Originally Posted by
SkyElite
What I really find annoying is that Marriott let me go ahead with the transaction with a WRONG membership ID despite having my full name. I mean, why bother asking for my name IF you ain't gonna verify the name against the membership ID before allowing my transaction to go through?
Technically, you're buying points on a third-party website - points.com - who also retail points for any number of other travel companies as well as Marriott. Whether its by design, or data security, or lack of technical capability, points.com isn't necessarily able to validate your input data against the Marriott master database in real time.