I don't think anyone on FT is being asked to actually bust the perpetrator here. At least, I didn't interpret the initial post quite *that* literally.

As for these auctions, I absolutely do care, just like I'd care if people were shoplifting from the little grocery store at the end of my street. Obviously this is a drop in the bucket with a huge airline like AA right now, but eventually this could impact all of us.

Eventually, some airline will get tired of people scamming their program, so they will take away the perk that allows us to give our awards to friends/family that aren't traveling with us. They probably won't ever form a department full of eBay Police, but they certainly WILL change the rules of their program on a whim. They've done it before...

Having said that, I hope they nail the moron in this auction who posted too much of his personal information.

sllevin: The Q-miles = Q-points means that he flies on Y/B fares. He probably flies paid segments exclusively for business and redeems awards for leisure travel. His company won't pay for him to fly F, but his Exp status takes care of that for him in most cases, I'd guess.

And yeah, these threads get pretty redundant, but we all come back and post again, don't we?