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Trading credit card FNCs for points?

Old Jan 18, 2022, 5:13 am
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Trading credit card FNCs for points?

So there’s a throwaway line in this rant:

https://liveandletsfly.com/marriott-...air-and-hotel/

The ability to convert hotel certificates earned from credit cards to points is a nice benefit and one others should consider.”

(The rant itself is discussed over here, if you want to get your high dudgeon on: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/marr...n-program.html )

I’m more interested in the throwaway line because I’d actually like to take my balance down as close to zero as possible pre-March “we’re nuking the award charts” devaluation, and turning a 50k FNC into points might help with that (depending on how many points I’d get)… so how does this work? I tried a search and came up blank, and I’m a noob to the FNC game, apologies if this is a dumb question. Or is the author mixing this up with Hyatt (where I know they let expiring certs go to points sometimes)?
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Old Jan 18, 2022, 1:58 pm
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Called the Titanium elite line earlier today and the agent expressed that this was 100% not possible. Unfortunate as I have 2 50k FNA and 1 40K FNA.
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Old Jan 18, 2022, 2:47 pm
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Originally Posted by JayHK
Called the Titanium elite line earlier today and the agent expressed that this was 100% not possible. Unfortunate as I have 2 50k FNA and 1 40K FNA.
But you still have 5 months to use them right?
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Old Jan 19, 2022, 11:59 am
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Correct - Nothing has changed in terms of expiration but with around 220k points it would've been nice to convert these to 140k + a small points transfer for a 400k 5th night free blowout
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Old Jan 19, 2022, 2:13 pm
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Originally Posted by eponymous_coward
So there’s a throwaway line in this rant:

https://liveandletsfly.com/marriott-...air-and-hotel/

The ability to convert hotel certificates earned from credit cards to points is a nice benefit and one others should consider.”

(The rant itself is discussed over here, if you want to get your high dudgeon on: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/marr...n-program.html )

I’m more interested in the throwaway line because I’d actually like to take my balance down as close to zero as possible pre-March “we’re nuking the award charts” devaluation, and turning a 50k FNC into points might help with that (depending on how many points I’d get)… so how does this work? I tried a search and came up blank, and I’m a noob to the FNC game, apologies if this is a dumb question. Or is the author mixing this up with Hyatt (where I know they let expiring certs go to points sometimes)?
OP has no idea what hes talking about. hes confused with Hyatt. if this was possible with marriott, it would be front page news for people who play the game. i would know because ive had certs expire. had to cry myself to sleep multiple times.
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Old Jan 19, 2022, 2:19 pm
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Originally Posted by eponymous_coward
So there’s a throwaway line in this rant:The ability to convert hotel certificates earned from credit cards to points is a nice benefit and one others should consider.”
Said the blogger who has never been bonvOYed.
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Old Jan 19, 2022, 5:13 pm
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Originally Posted by GundamWing01
OP has no idea what hes talking about. hes confused with Hyatt. if this was possible with marriott, it would be front page news for people who play the game. i would know because ive had certs expire. had to cry myself to sleep multiple times.
This is why I went “wait, wut?!?!?” because that would be a pretty useful feature to cash a 50k FNC for 50k points. Heck, even 40k points.
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