Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[Days In the Sun]

Daughter and husband received Staples personal offers this morning, email title "A reward offer is waiting for you". 50 airmiles wus $100, 25 airmiles wus $75, June 11-18. Different coupons so they are definitely personal offers. Check your emails if you are interested!

 

[Days In the Sun]

Daughter and husband received Staples personal offers this morning, email title "A reward offer is waiting for you". 50 airmiles wus $100, 25 airmiles wus $75, June 11-18. Different coupons so they are definitely personal offers. Check your emails if you are interested!

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Looking a little closer, you need to present an airmiles card but it doesn't specifically say it has to be their card so I imagine they are single use coupons any collector can use.

Conditions:
**Offer valid from June 11 - 18, 2018. Get 25 Bonus Miles with eligible purchase(s) with a single net transaction of $75.00 – 99.99 or get 50 Miles with eligible purchase(s) with a single net transaction of $100 or more, after discounts and before taxes. AIR MILES®† Card must be presented at time of purchase. Exclusions include, but are not limited to, all taxes, delivery services, assembly services, all gift cards, dining/activities/getaway packages, postage stamps, self-serve copying, charitable donations, electronics levies, environmental and other third-party fees. Offer cannot be combined with any other coupon or AIR MILES Bonus Offer. Miles will be posted to Account within 120 days of promotion end date.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Took Max out for quite the test this weekend (as in Max the Mighty Mixer don't you name the important things in your life?!?!) Loaf of English Muffin bread, loaf of cheese bread (that hubby thought he could sneak a piece of without me noticing!) and some Banana, Date & Chocolate Chip Oatmeal cookies!!

 

[osully]

Nice!!

 

[osully]

The AM travel rewards booking section is live again. I can’t tell a different personally. But I’m searching for flight & hotel using miles.

 

[Donald - my hero]

The AM travel rewards booking section is live again. I can’t tell a different personally. But I’m searching for flight & hotel using miles.

It was only down for me for about 6 hours and the only difference i can see is when i look at it using the Surface since it uses Windows 10 .. and even then it is a very minor change - when i go to look at hotels it splits the screen in 2 and i get to decide if i want to use miles or go to the travel hub.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Slightly off-topic here : can i say how much i am slowly growing to love the PC Optimum programme? (very slowly!) Since i don't shop there much at all most of my offers are truly targeted and i LOVE the fact that i can choose to save an offer if i don't think I'll use it before it expires. I decided to do a test with one and keep it until the item goes on sale again and I've managed to keep it active for a month now by simply saving it every week. But the best? And something Airmiles could learn from ... I actually used an offer yesterday (or rather tried to) so that i could bump my point up to the next level, hoping i could hit up a Shoppers and take full advantage of the "use your points and get extra big bonus more .." Sadly the offer didn't post in time but i immediately filed a missing points claim directly from the page that shows your transactions and i got this response this morning:

Why on earth can't Airmiles do this simple thing??? I know when i contact them about an issue with Rexall they are looking at my transaction record ....

 

[bababear_50]

Took Max out for quite the test this weekend (as in Max the Mighty Mixer don't you name the important things in your life?!?!) Loaf of English Muffin bread, loaf of cheese bread (that hubby thought he could sneak a piece of without me noticing!) and some Banana, Date & Chocolate Chip Oatmeal cookies!!

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That stuff looks so yummy good!
Your Hubby is a lucky guy.
Have fun creating stuff with Max.
Hugs Mel

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Slightly off-topic here : can i say how much i am slowly growing to love the PC Optimum programme?

There are things about each program that I like. The PC optimum program works if you work it. I already had 300.00 back in $$$ this year alone...and only 17.00 of that was from converting my old optimum points to the new point system. I have taken advantage of the bonus weekends where they have 20 -25X the points. Which has really boosted my $$$ back. I have had very good luck with getting my missing points as well with them

I like the fact that I can use those AM towards trips, tickets, plane tickets etc etc etc...but they seem to be making it harder and harder to accumulate AM. You seem to have really watch and jump through hoops to get them.

I will keep working both programs as I can. Some weeks I do well...other weeks, I simply don't have alot of time to spend to " look " for targeted Am. The PC points are easy to save for another week.
The nice things about the PC points...the more you shop there, the more they will target the points to what you purchase.

 

[osully]

I just find I get way more with AM than I ever did with PC Points. The fact that it was only targeted offers and rarely a spend X get X points, and never any base points for the loyalty only (non credit card) users. Got about $120 off my groceries in the couple years I was using it.

I've gotten WAY more out of AirMiles!!

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

Hi Elaine
Well something nice but strange just happened.Today we are celebrating my oldest son's Birthday and as my Birthday is tomorrow we are also celebrating mine.
I inherited a coal scuttle,,,it has been to England and back to Canada many times. It has significant damage that needs to be repaired by a skilled antique specialist.
I have tried to get other family members to take it.
This is a coal scuttle example as I can't figure out how to post mine.(mine has a back with a beveled mirror.)

inside of a coal scuttle

So I opened the front of the coal scuttle to show my son and daughter inlaw the inside and guess what ?
I found cards that my mom had given to my Nana years ago (Birthday and Mothers day cards) I found a card I gave my nana that is over 30 years old. Everytime I took a card out of the coal scuttle the power in our home went out,,happened 6 times and scared the living daylights out of my son. My son was so freaked out because when he was a very young child he put a piece of christmas ribbon inside the coal scuttle and thought he's get into trouble,,,,and there at the bottom of the coal scuttle was his ribbon.
Well now my son is saying i can't give away the coal scuttle........................
I am going have to rethink this.
Hugs to you
Mel

Mel....that is incredible....I agree with your son...you can't give it away....you need to find somewhere special for it....a front hallway perhaps????

 

[Donald - my hero]

A very quick glance at the Sobeys Ontario flyer turned this great deal up!!! The Duck is too tired to do the math but this is pretty awesome!

 

[DilEmma]

Hello!

I’ve been away for a year travelling around the world with our three kids. We’re due back in just over a week. I’m a ‘start at the beginning so I don’t miss anything’ kind of person but there’s no way I can do that with all the things I need to do.

Would you all mind giving me a snapshot of changes? I plan to jump back into it fully but want to avoid any big mistakes. Is there a Shop the Block type promo? Do 1 AirMile promos for Onyx still happen (that section looks different but I may just be cracked)?

Of interest, we booked a significant amount of our trip with airline miles, credit card points and hotel loyalty points that we saved up for years or earned on the way. Our balances are pretty sorry looking now but I still have all my Air Miles. Car rentals in South Africa, Ireland and Greece were not available. Oh, in Nicaragua I did do a couple one day rentals for a few Air Miles but had to add in the full insurance because there was no credit card coverage. I probably would have been further ahead booking a full cash rate there. Hotels on Air Miles were poor value for the dates and places we were looking at. Or the hotel loyalty (SPG, IHG and Marriott Platinum) point redemption/earning were more lucrative.

We did redeem $300 of Air Miles for the Keg when we met my BIL in Toronto. We chased cheap flights from Nicaragua to Greece via Toronto so got to visit Canada for four nights. It was a good chance to stock up on sunscreen etc. Sadly I wasn’t organized enough to earn Air Miles. I didn’t even have an SDM card on me. Ah, the pain!

Oh, Air Miles for Best Westerns in Italy (historic buildings, awesome locations) were great value during the planning phase. But it seems far advance booking was required. By the time we committed to dates we were SOL. I’d rather redeem for good value rather than just travel for ‘free’.

Anyway, sorry for the long post. I’d appreciate any info getting me back on track. I’ve got a lot of things to catch up on. I have to figure out how to get back into PC stuff. We had three family SDM cards with a ton of points before we left. And two PC Cards with maybe $60 of points. Any suggestions with how best to merge those would be appreciated.

We’re so looking forward to getting back to Ottawa. It’s been a great trip but there really is no place like home.

Thanks much, DilEmma

 

[osully]

A very quick glance at the Sobeys Ontario flyer turned this great deal up!!! The Duck is too tired to do the math but this is pretty awesome!
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25 cents per AM - yeah that is a good deal!

 

[bababear_50]

Foodland flyer
https://flyers.smartcanucks.ca/canada/foodland-on-flyer-june-14-to-20/all

Sobeys flyer
https://flyers.smartcanucks.ca/canada/sobeys-on-flyer-june-14-to-20/all
Soups deal is good buy 2 at 2.49 each and there is a baking products buy 4 get for Jacqueline
Buy 4 get 25 airmiles.

Metro flyer
https://flyers.smartcanucks.ca/canada/metro-on-flyer-june-14-to-20/all
use 10 cash airmiles get 50 bonus airmiles.

Hugs Mel

 

[AngelDisney]

A very quick glance at the Sobeys Ontario flyer turned this great deal up!!! The Duck is too tired to do the math but this is pretty awesome!
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Thanks for posting! Food drive accumulation time!!

 

[motherof5]

Just sharing
I cashed in some Dream airmiles for a Bella Black Pearl bracelet for my granddaughter two days ago.
She is graduating grade 8 this June.
Airmiles super fast delivery today!
I hope she likes them.

Hugs Mel

I'm sure she will. Congratulations on her graduation.

 

[marcyleecorgan]

A very quick glance at the Sobeys Ontario flyer turned this great deal up!!! The Duck is too tired to do the math but this is pretty awesome!
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Hmmm. did you see the Safeway/Sobey's sale on soup last cycle? Campbell's 12 packs were $7.99 with no limit... I bought many and used either my 150/$150 coupon or my 100/$100 (can't remember) to earn the AM on them...

 

[alohamom]

Anyone notice theres no longer a child ticket option on AM. You can also only get a 7 day WDW adult ticket for 5400 airmiles. I still needed to get 2 child 5 day tickets. Now its not there anymore. Hope this isnt permanent

I'v been watching for a while for a 5 day adult ticket and there hasn't been one.

I just saw the 5 day adult base ticket is back. It is "valid for arrivals until Dec 31/2018" and is 5100 AMs

I dont see the child ones yet...

 

[Donald - my hero]

Just getting ready to do my Wednesday flyer study and this popped up in my E-mail ... one day coupon at Rexall (does anyone else remember a commercial for who knows what.. "the one day sale, the one day sale"????)

Spend $50 get 100 AM Valid Thursday June 14th ONLY