I ran the Marine Corps Marathon for the first time in 2012. With the way the registration process was managed at the time, I wasn't able to register when it first opened -- it sold out FAST. But several months later, having posted my disappointment about not being able to register, one of my friends flagged to me one of her co-workers who had to cancel their participation and was willing to transfer their bib to me. (Thanks, Jody!) From a runner's perspective, it was a painless process. And it only cost me about $20 for the transfer fee, in addition to paying the other runner the straight cost he had paid to register.
That ability to transfer bibs is no longer going to be made available, as announced by MCMO. Apparently, it is a cumbersome process on MCMO's end, and there was an increasing amount of fraud. MCM now joins the vast majority of marathons in not permitting transfers*. (They do have an exception for active duty military on orders that make attendance not possible.)
Similarly, they are no longer permitting runners to defer their registration to the following year.
End of an era!
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