All trades or gifts on Coupon Connection are to be treated as interactions between friends, and no member shall seek to push people to the wall, practice deception, or deal on unfair terms. Although e.g. Royal Ambassador referral certificates may not be transferred, bartered, or sold, [i]the notion of "community spirit" has seemed to trump the bartering language.

In short, I have the impression that intention of CC is the place to swap items of comparable value on trust basis.

Let me talk about terms “community spirit” and “comparable value”.

In PC forum there is a master-thread about different (targeted) promotions which help followers to boost their account substantially. IMO it’s much easier to collect than redeem wisely; we are hoping to grab a “PointBreak” (PB) for 5K PC points/night at a prime IC which is priced for 40K PC points/night regular. It goes without saying that these offers are available for a couple of days only.

I hope it is fair to say that it’s in the “community spirit” of the follower of IC forum that every member have a chance to redeem one of this prime awards. But maybe I am wrong and it’s in the “community spirit” that some FT-members grab as many PB nights as possible and swap these at “comparable value” on CC.

How do friends interact and compare values? Do they compare the cost of the item (= 40K PC points) or the value of the item (=8 nights at IC Vienna)? To solve this problem, swaps could be done points/miles for points/miles and nights for nights.