Originally Posted by fuzz
Perhaps this is not news to all of you, but I was attempting to move Amtrak points to my United account (had transferred from Continental to do so and it was the reason I got the Amtrak credit card).
Well, I could not find the link online. When I called Amtrak Guest Rewards, the representative told me that the partnership was over, effective immediately. There will be no more transfers. She said they received an e-mail today, but I would have loved some warning. Was it in a newsletter?
Now I have to figure out what to do with the nearly 17,000 points in my account and what to do with the points I was planning on transferring to Amtrak to move to United...
As per the angst of the OP:
I know that no matter how many people participate in something, all deals we see in FT eventually come to an end. And what really stinks is not so much the fact
that it changed, but
HOW it changed!
The culprit is those marketing persons working at one of the 3 entities with which one transfers the miles and points who decided to just STOP the transfer abilities cold turkey. I would Cc a letter to Amtrak and United (and maybe CO) right now, and get as many people on board as possible to
demand an explaination as to why they pulled the plug with the unexpected speed of a Tsunami!
Otherwise, the jerks in this business will simply continue to pull this sort of thing over and over again and we will be screwed in the next gig!...
As the famed ski film producer Warren Miller once said, "Do it--and do it now, or you'll be one year older when you do!
MM