Potentially tradeable commodities?

[simongr]

OK - let's preface this by saying that I am not trying to make a quick buck here. I am just tidying my desk so I have some space towrk from home and I stumble across the following:

Epass departures - Qantas
Epass inwards - Qantas
Epass arrivals - Cathay Pacific
Fast track Pink Pass - AA

Now I am obviously not the only one in this situation - there must be lots of reasons these things don't get used (such as not immigrating into the UK when transiting) but I am wondering how transferable/tradeable these are.

A couple of things spring to mind - my parents are arriving into BNE on EX in J with my sister and her boy in whY. Is there any point sending the inwards arrivals cards to them to express immigrate them into Oz - or are EK handing these out to J pax and thus can my sis piggy back on that?

If these are tradeable commodities - what price are they trading at?

S

 

[Mal]

Over @ Flyertalk, if you've been there long enough (4 months I think) and have posted enough (over 100 posts I think), you get access to "Coupon Connection". This is one sort of place where you can get rid of Airline goodies. As cash transfers aren't allowed through Flyertalk, you would normally swap them for something else travel related such as a BOGO voucher (Buy one night get one free), or some points in a scheme, drink chits for an airline etc, a fast track immigration pass for another country. Depends what the other party wants to give you and how they value what you have and what they have.

Ebay is another, but I think that it isn't the best place to get rid of specialised stuff like that. Plus having these types of things on Ebay can make it harder to get them legitimately as the distributors can start to crack down on how they are given out.

Informal trades through sites like here do happen at times, although I'm not sure whether it is considered ok or not.

There are lots of 'freebies' that have value to some. Qantas Club (and other lounge) passes, express immigration slips, BOGO's, upgrade vouchers for flights, drink chits for US airlines, Royal Ambassador status Invites, Member for a stay cards (for the various hotel schemes) etc.