Cool...that makes sense. I wasn't aware that a lot of big companies gave these things out. I recall the Buick test drive deal a while back, but you'd have to work pretty hard to amass a lot of certs that way, even if the dealerships didn't really make you drive the cars.

I've used quite a few BB/PP certs over the past two or three years, either obtained from other FT'ers or from the properties. As FlyinHawaiian notes, it would be hard to make a good counterfeit of them, but I'd be afraid that someone offering me a stack of dozens of them on the cheap would be attempting to sell me, to put it bluntly, bad counterfeits.

But then again, if you can get a lot of them from HP in place of rebates, then perhaps the entire thing is on the up and up. From an ethical perspective, I have no problems with people trading travel instruments on the secondary market - it's no different to me than buying/selling tickets to the opera or a baseball game. It's just that a deal too good to be true is at risk of being...uhhh...too good to be true. :)

I had noticed all the safety features as well, not something that could easily be run off on a color copier. Do you have a Graphic Arts background perchance Flyinhawaiian?
Cindi

My contact gets the Bonus Bucks direct from Marriott in bulk. They are obtained legally through Marriott's corporate incentive program.

They do have the following mentioned security features:

hologram on the lower left corner
serial number
Microprint line on the right
Watermarked stock
Multi-colored ink

My contact accepts Paypal, for payment and signature upon delivery service. ^

Keep in mind that one only pays Marriott 15% of the face value of the coupon. It leaves a pretty good margin for profit ;)

My contact from this spring is now Out Of Business (OOB.)

Not exactly; more a background in the aspects of printing negotiable instruments and identifying counterfeit items.

Let me know how to get them. You have PM.

Dennis

If that's a real name/email, you might want to nix it...both for the purposes of trafficking in aftermarket Premium Pounds and for general spam purposes. :)

What is the going rate?

You have PM. ;)

Got it. You have a PM and email ;)

Premium pounds and bonus bucks - is there anything similar in euros?
 

I've never seen any reference to these types of certificates in euros, and wonder if there is such a thing. Does anyone know?

Yes, there are. I have seen them every once in a while, but they don't seem to exist in high supply. Anyways, from all my experiences, premium pound certificates always turn out to be the most bang for the buck.

Posting and You

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...highlight=euro

The ones I got in the past were called Extra Euros (so they're PP, BB or EE, depending on where you get them).

PP's have the greatest value (either 100 or 50 respectively), but it's also nice not to have to go through an exchange rate hair cut that happens at some properties. So the EE's one are nice in the EU. Except for the UK which still uses Pounds.

Do be aware that there are some properties, especially in Italy, that do not take them at all. Always let reservations know you are using one of them and have them document it in the record.

YMMV.

Billy