ozstamps speculates:
Whether this has anything to do with the widespread hawking of these 1K Certs on a certain online auction house trumpeting to the universe: "these suckers can be used worldwide to confirm an upgrade from the lowest possible coach fares buyable - you can save $10,000 if clever" etc as some of the sellers there are keen to point out, we will of course never know, but my views remain very strong on that outlet.
I think I
will know very soon. But in the meantime, I can't in my wildest dreams imagine United changing policy that would negetivly effect all 1Ks based on the half dozen systemswides that might sell on eBay daily. I have talked to United about eBay. They don't like it. But it's literally a drop in the bucket compared to all the
millions of certs they mail out. So they ignore it. Small potatos. It's not worth their time. It's not worth the money. There are dozens of big time ticket and coupon brokers out there that they
do set in their sights on. But eBay? Nope. So don't worry about eBay
Oz. There have been upgrades selling there for years. Trust me. eBay is not the root of all evil at United. Heck, United could just make 1K Systemwides non-transferable except for companions if they wanted to end this practice. Right?
If they start to play games with the fare rules, it has nothing to do with eBay. It has everything to do with revenue yield and it's resultant capacity controls. IMHO.
[This message has been edited by PremEx (edited 10-04-2000).]