żSell your Frequent Flyer Miles?
Aug 2, 2002 | 10:08 pm
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żSell your Frequent Flyer Miles?
I know this has been discussed before but it appears Frequent Flyer Points still exists. What is the deal here? I thought these types of brokers were all but out of business.
I thought I might get a quote for my miles and UGs just to see what would happen but I'm way to chicken to do it. I'd never risk my accts for this type of deal.
I thought I might get a quote for my miles and UGs just to see what would happen but I'm way to chicken to do it. I'd never risk my accts for this type of deal.
Aug 3, 2002 | 6:55 am
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I don't know about the other thread, or who the person was who said it was "dumb" to use brokers.....
But my loss of many, many hundreds of thousands of FF miles due to the "brokers" ought to be testament enough.....In the (sort of) words of Nike: "just don't do it!"
Best wishes.
But my loss of many, many hundreds of thousands of FF miles due to the "brokers" ought to be testament enough.....In the (sort of) words of Nike: "just don't do it!"
Best wishes.
Aug 4, 2002 | 2:43 pm
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This thread addresses some of the problems that can pop up if caught selling awards: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum50/HTML/013389.html
In the above thread I said, "An acquaintance has sold approx 2.5M of his own FF miles since 1990, he's always dealt directly with the customer and none of his clients has ever had a problem using the award tickets. His cardinal rule is to NEVER EVER use a middle man/broker when dealing with awards - they can only mess things up."
In the above thread I said, "An acquaintance has sold approx 2.5M of his own FF miles since 1990, he's always dealt directly with the customer and none of his clients has ever had a problem using the award tickets. His cardinal rule is to NEVER EVER use a middle man/broker when dealing with awards - they can only mess things up."
Aug 4, 2002 | 2:54 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by yorock:
I'm just curious, how did you make the upside-down question mark?</font>
I'm just curious, how did you make the upside-down question mark?</font>
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Aug 4, 2002 | 3:27 pm
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If you have a Macintosh, just hold down the Option key as you type a regular question mark.
An analogous procedure will get you an upside-down exclamation point.
An analogous procedure will get you an upside-down exclamation point.
Aug 4, 2002 | 4:32 pm
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Most word processing programs have a menu where you can select literally hundreds of characters, from scientific, international linguistic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, etc., to numerous icons.
For example, in Word Perfect, use Control-W.
For example, in Word Perfect, use Control-W.
Aug 4, 2002 | 4:57 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by yorock:
I'm just curious, how did you make the upside-down question mark?yorock</font>
I'm just curious, how did you make the upside-down question mark?yorock</font>