Originally Posted by itsme

I am in general agreement with you and 1KDAN about not "illegal" and no implications of immorality, dishonesty, or anything of the sort. (Don't see any relevance to 1KDAN's point about the airlines being in the "sideline" business of selling miles. They can giveth and taketh away miles, and however they go about it does not make it a "sideline" rather than "mainline" business for them.) But you neglect the real risk to the would-be buyer or seller of miles. They need not fear a sentence in the Big House, but sellers might reasonably fear they will see their miles forfeited and accounts closed, while buyers might reasonably fear they will be out the money and without the benefit of a ticket, or worse still, perhaps stranded in the course of their travels.

Do you think I am wrong, that it is entirely safe to use brokers if one can be reasonably satisfied they are not dealing with scamsters? If there is a lot of experience out there with ticket brokers, it would be interesting to hear about it from our fellow FTers.