There's a thread in here about Points.com and it has this long post I just made about how much I think that company stinks. Some agree with me wholeheartedly and so may not agree, but one thing is for sure:

People want the ability to trade and transfer points. We all want that option to exist and right now, it may be true that Points.com is the biggest or the only place to do this kind of thing. I think they botch it big time, and they also abuse their position. That's my take and my passionate post in that other thread tells you why. So does my web link I have listed at the bottom of this post, which I suggest people take a look at when considering this post. Points.com has fees to do transfers and they have partners with whom people can move points or miles or even Ebay points around in their own worlds. You can read more in other threads or even in the company's own site. Some don't mind fees and some do. That's actually not even my main complaint with the organization, but whatever you think about those fees, the way they handle them, or their overall service and delivery, I think this:

They need to have competition. I am only one guy so maybe WE need to become it!

Most large entities do need this in the overall business landscape, or there will be problems down the line for the customers and partners, and of course, with the quallity of business itself.

So I ask this question to the gurus and moderators who run FlyerTalk and who use it the most:


Can WE somehow create and nurture whatever realtionships are necessary to do point and mile transfers with the hotels and airlines? Consider the good that comes out of Coupon Connection, but with a twist. Maybe another sub-area of the FT that requires certain factors in order to partake, but something that allows for business transactions that WE trust adn feel more comfortable in carrying out without being held hostage to any outside entity that, in my strong and well documented opinion, does not really take care of its people so nicely...

I would gladly pay for such a service offered by some faction of this forum. We really need a new and better way.

Thoughts?

(Well, now, as with the old gift card gigs, there are TWO threads. I think the subject deserves it though).

thanks.

MM
www.theothersideoftraveling.com
(Site not yet 100% finished but a lot of good stuff in there to ponder first!)