Millions of points, out of the blue.
Feb 18, 2019, 5:08 pm
#31
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Don't fool yourself, Marriott will absolutely ignore that rule when THEY make a mistake! And given it's obviously a mistake trying to use them could be considered attempted fraud. We've all seen movies where an armoured car tosses a bag of money out the back and bills go flying. You don't get to keep them in the real world.
Feb 18, 2019, 6:29 pm
#32
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Call Marriott, do the right thing. Why is this even being discussed. I for one like to sleep at night.
Feb 18, 2019, 8:19 pm
#33
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EDIT Ooops, just notice ,,,thought it was 70000 points. Better call Marriott, talk to a high honcho , maybe he will reward you.
Last edited by HMPS; Feb 18, 2019 at 9:02 pm
Feb 18, 2019, 8:54 pm
#34
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Feb 18, 2019, 9:17 pm
#35
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While it might be tempting to try and transfer the points out or otherwise spend them before Marriott notices I'd not suggest you do that. While doing so at any level is obviously dishonest, this isn't a few thousand points - the value of 70M points at what Marriott sells them would be about $875,000 (using 1,000 points for 12.50USD) and to state the obvious: Someone is going to notice that! Also given there are Marriott employees here I'm sure they are already looking for a large deposit of miles to identify you and I cannot imagine there's been >1 account that had 70M points deposited recently into it for a single transaction so it will not be hard to do so. IANAL but pretty sure since you know you didn't earn those and are not entitled to them you likely have some legal jeopardy (both criminally and civil) if you tried to use them. Best thing to do is call and let them know about the error, perhaps they will throw you a few points for being a good person.
Feb 18, 2019, 9:41 pm
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Between the 3 USD Times Square hotel and this, at what point will Marriott invest the tiny tiny bit that it costs to add front end data validation?
Feb 19, 2019, 4:25 am
#39
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Feb 19, 2019, 4:45 am
#40
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Go OP, go!
Feb 19, 2019, 7:46 am
#41
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Feb 19, 2019, 8:02 am
#42
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bla bla
we are not talking about money but about some virtual points. I am not telling him to transfer millions to an airline. just a couple of transfers for a business or first ticket.
If I was the op I would immidiatelly start booking all ritz and st. regis hotel, buy a around the world ticket and start flying around the world with a TV crew following me .
this would give marriott good PR and the op would propably not get into any trouble with spending his points.
the otherr option is to just spend all points to marriotts charity. and make a big pr story out of it
Feb 19, 2019, 8:03 am
#43
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Feb 19, 2019, 8:20 am
#44
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No, it's not cash, but it is a cash-equivalent and you are not entitled to benefit from someone else's mistake. Marriott has ways to get this back by either cancelling any transaction that took them out of the account or set the account balance negative to actually fire the customer and close out the account. It's not right and best to take the high road and let them know about the mistake.
Feb 19, 2019, 8:30 am
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