Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[kerreyn]

Hmmm, how did your airmiles post? There are usually two lines, 1 am for $40 for Staples (looks like a delivery or instore pickup BOPIS - Buy Online Pickup In Store) and a second line (usually comes later) for airmilesshops, 1 am for $20. Here is one from March when airmilesshops was still 1 am for $40.

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If you were just missing the airmilesshops airmiles 1am for $20, it may likely show up later. I have done 3 accounts and haven't seen any of the airmilesshops airmiles for Staples yet. If they do post, you'll likely get another 500 airmiles. Lawrence I find is very generous compared to most.

So far only one staples shop posted (I did one on the 15th and one on the 19th). The post looks like your screenshot with the Staples, but beside it reads "staples delivery" instead of "Bopis" like yours, then it says the same 1 mile for every $40, and it should have been 1 mile for every $20. There's no second line with airmilesshops.

I was totally surprised when he said he went ahead and posted the 500 air miles - Lawrence is officially my new favorite air miles chat agent!

 

[Days In the Sun]

So far only one staples shop posted (I did one on the 15th and one on the 19th). The post looks like your screenshot with the Staples, but beside it reads "staples delivery" instead of "Bopis" like yours, then it says the same 1 mile for every $40, and it should have been 1 mile for every $20. There's no second line with airmilesshops.

I was totally surprised when he said he went ahead and posted the 500 air miles - Lawrence is officially my new favorite air miles chat agent!

The Airmilesshops line will come later, that should be 1 am for every $20. The "delivery" line is your airmiles from Staples, 1 for every $40, you'd get that even if you didn't go through Airmilesshops since they are an airmiles partner. Example, you could have gone through ebates and earned 3% cashback with Ebates and as well as your Staples airmiles but then not get the Airmilesshops airmiles.

You will likely get your Airmilesshops airmiles and your 500 airmiles later. Airmilesshops has 60 days to post your Airmilesshops base miles (post number #1 of this thread). Hard to keep it all straight sometimes.

 

[bababear_50]

Metro heads up, don't see this posted. From Metro's website 25am wus $25, load to your account. Not unusual to get a "when you spend" app offer but this week I believe everyone's account is the same.

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Thank-you thank-you thank-you
I need just a couple of things and it's nice to get a few airmiles as a bonus.

??? Anyone try the Natrel Whip Dips at Metro?
right now they are $2.49 each x 2 for 15 airmiles,,just wondered what they taste like?

Hugs
Mel

 

[Disney Addicted]

I just got off the air miles chat with "Lawrence". He said their system shows that it was just a 'normal in-store" Staples purchase, not done through the Air Miles Shops website. He corrected my air miles (I had a purchase on July 15 and July 19). THEN, he also manually added the 500 miles for the Christmas in July to my account today because since the Staples purchase didn't show up as an Air Miles Shops purchase, I would end up having to chat again to have the promo corrected anyhow. WOOT!

Thanks @Disney Addicted - I didn't even notice the mistake!

Wow, that's fantastic!

Hmmm, how did your airmiles post? There are usually two lines, 1 am for $40 for Staples (looks like a delivery or instore pickup BOPIS - Buy Online Pickup In Store) and a second line (usually comes later) for airmilesshops, 1 am for $20. Here is one from March when airmilesshops was still 1 am for $40.

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If you were just missing the airmilesshops airmiles 1am for $20, it may likely show up later. I have done 3 accounts and haven't seen any of the airmilesshops airmiles for Staples yet. If they do post, you'll likely get another 500 airmiles. Lawrence I find is very generous compared to most.

Mine showed up like your first line, with the BOPIS. I wondered what that meant. But I did not have the second line with an additional mile. Just the first saying 1 mile for every $40.

 

[Days In the Sun]

Wow, that's fantastic!



Mine showed up like your first line, with the BOPIS. I wondered what that meant. But I did not have the second line with an additional mile. Just the first saying 1 mile for every $40.

I'm waiting for 3 airmilesshops posts, I have the July 4 "BOPIS", July 16 "Delivery" and July 19 "Delivery", they posted around shipping day.

 

[bababear_50]

My targeted Metro offers
Redpath sugar $1.99 3 airmiles
Frozen ice cream drumsticks on sale $3.99 4 airmiles
Carton of Irresistibles Tropical fruit $1.99 juice 6 airmiles
Bonus spend 25 $ get 25 airmiles
total airmiles 39
Hugs
Mel

 

[marcyleecorgan]

Well I did some shopping.... spent less than $200 and came out with 208 AM!

 

[Donald - my hero]

Aaakkkk .. that time when you're on the greyhound and only able to watch the confusion over the Staples online shopping and not able to share the information you have!!!!!!!!!!!

tagging everyone i think is involved
@Days In the Sun , @Disney Addicted , @kerreyn
I'm not sure if anyone remembers but I dealt with this Staples new "problem", did an online chat with Sara (YES the same one you chatted with Mel, she's amazing!) and she even ended up calling me to share the complete info here (yes, i did BTW but i guess this is the first time since early june that anyone has used Staples?)

Solution to the problem explained like this:
You will get 1 mile per $40 directly from Staples DELIVERY (or store pick-up, whatever you chose) and it will appear on your account with the date you ordered.
You will then get 1 mile per $40 directly from STAPLES because they're a partner store and that is their earn rate
AND now we also get 1 mile per $20 that is actually coming from using the airmilesshop portal! This is how your account will look in a few days once everything posts! (ignore the bay order in the middle but it shows that the postings didn't happen on the same date -- in fact by glancing thru the thread i can see it took almost 10 days for them to show up in my account, dated June 5th but didn't appear till the 13th

 

[Donald - my hero]

Newbie to making AM work for me, would love if I could get some guidance!

I want to get in to the Christmas in July event and want to make sure that I can use it to purchase GC at Ardene, Indego, and Apple.

Also, what is the end goal with AM that gives you the biggest bang for your buck? Use AM dream points for tickets? Or cash miles to get Disney GC?

Any assistance is appreciated

Oh my goodness- this is amazing- thank you so much (I knew the Apple ones were to good to be true

Where were you able to access this chat? I didn’t realize that they were so responsive

I haven't forgotten that i said I'd give you some help but life kinda got in the way! I've been up since 4:30 and I'm losing the ability to think clearly I don't like sharing info that i can't back up with either direct links or screenshots and that will take some time to pull together, I'll tackle this tomorrow at some point! We'll get you on the road to earning the max number of miles with the minimum outlay of cash!

Quick answer to your gift card question is YES to Indigo, you will earn miles for buying e-cards. The other stores i think Mel answered.

 

[kitntrip]

For the Shell gc AM promo, do I have to buy them separately or can I buy 2 $50 Amazon gc's at the same time and receive 40 AM?

 

[flower_petals]

Yes, in that group. The person who posted it says she has received base miles on xBox gift cards by ordering on Microsoft through the AM portal before. I'd love to know if anyone here has done so. I checked and it does not specifically say no but... as you said, $50 a lot. I only did the 2 shops through Christmas in July as they were purchases I was making regardless.

That was me Hope this helps.

 

[dancin Disney style]

I just noticed 50 bonus miles in my account from Amex and I have no idea what it's for. Anyone else get this?

 

[Disney Addicted]

Aaakkkk .. that time when you're on the greyhound and only able to watch the confusion over the Staples online shopping and not able to share the information you have!!!!!!!!!!!

tagging everyone i think is involved
@Days In the Sun , @Disney Addicted , @kerreyn
I'm not sure if anyone remembers but I dealt with this Staples new "problem", did an online chat with Sara (YES the same one you chatted with Mel, she's amazing!) and she even ended up calling me to share the complete info here (yes, i did BTW but i guess this is the first time since early june that anyone has used Staples?)

Solution to the problem explained like this:
You will get 1 mile per $40 directly from Staples DELIVERY (or store pick-up, whatever you chose) and it will appear on your account with the date you ordered.
You will then get 1 mile per $40 directly from STAPLES because they're a partner store and that is their earn rate
AND now we also get 1 mile per $20 that is actually coming from using the airmilesshop portal! This is how your account will look in a few days once everything posts! (ignore the bay order in the middle but it shows that the postings didn't happen on the same date -- in fact by glancing thru the thread i can see it took almost 10 days for them to show up in my account, dated June 5th but didn't appear till the 13th
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So if I understand correctly, my $50+ online Staples order will end up giving me 4 miles instead of just the 2 I expected? I can deal with that kind of problem more! LOL Thanks for the explanation!

 

[Disney Addicted]

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Ohh thanks. I'll have to decide today then.

 

[Days In the Sun]

Aaakkkk .. that time when you're on the greyhound and only able to watch the confusion over the Staples online shopping and not able to share the information you have!!!!!!!!!!!

tagging everyone i think is involved
@Days In the Sun , @Disney Addicted , @kerreyn
I'm not sure if anyone remembers but I dealt with this Staples new "problem", did an online chat with Sara (YES the same one you chatted with Mel, she's amazing!) and she even ended up calling me to share the complete info here (yes, i did BTW but i guess this is the first time since early june that anyone has used Staples?)

Solution to the problem explained like this:
You will get 1 mile per $40 directly from Staples DELIVERY (or store pick-up, whatever you chose) and it will appear on your account with the date you ordered.
You will then get 1 mile per $40 directly from STAPLES because they're a partner store and that is their earn rate
AND now we also get 1 mile per $20 that is actually coming from using the airmilesshop portal! This is how your account will look in a few days once everything posts! (ignore the bay order in the middle but it shows that the postings didn't happen on the same date -- in fact by glancing thru the thread i can see it took almost 10 days for them to show up in my account, dated June 5th but didn't appear till the 13th
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I'm not following the logic here. I "thought" the announcement was airmilesshops would now award at 1am wus $20, not 1am wus $40. In that case the 1am wus $20 (+17) should have replaced the 1am wus $40 line (+8) not in addition to it. To me it looks like a coding error. No matter, all good for us, hope they post soon, I've been waiting since July 4 (23 days) on one account.

 

[Donald - my hero]

I'm not following the logic here. I "thought" the announcement was airmilesshops would now award at 1am wus $20, not 1am wus $40. In that case the 1am wus $20 (+17) should have replaced the 1am wus $40 line (+8) not in addition to it. To me it looks like a coding error. No matter, all good for us, hope they post soon, I've been waiting since July 4 (23 days) on one account.

I was only sharing exactly the info that was provided by Sara and then was subsequently supported by the postings to my account,
1 mile / $40 for the delivery/store pickup (this is new to me?)
1 mile/ $40 per the earn rate that Staples has due to being a partner and that is the rate they give always
1 mile/ $20 per the rate stated on the airmilesshop website

NOW, i think i made a comment last week about not even trying to comprehend the logic (or lack thereof) that Airmiles uses BUT if you look at my postings for Owen, my awesome oven, that came from Lowes you'll see that i got miles from BOTH Lowes AND airmilesshop website (sharing the bonus because, DANG, I done did good that day!) However, it is worded differently than the staples postings, so again, lack of logic (and just looking at it now, how did 1/$20 give 2 different amounts !)


Regarding the miles you're missing from the one account, the base miles you can chase down in 60 days and bonus miles only need to wait 75 for online shopping.

 

[Debbie]

Aaakkkk .. that time when you're on the greyhound and only able to watch the confusion over the Staples online shopping and not able to share the information you have!!!!!!!!!!!

tagging everyone i think is involved
@Days In the Sun , @Disney Addicted , @kerreyn
I'm not sure if anyone remembers but I dealt with this Staples new "problem", did an online chat with Sara (YES the same one you chatted with Mel, she's amazing!) and she even ended up calling me to share the complete info here (yes, i did BTW but i guess this is the first time since early june that anyone has used Staples?)

Solution to the problem explained like this:
You will get 1 mile per $40 directly from Staples DELIVERY (or store pick-up, whatever you chose) and it will appear on your account with the date you ordered.
You will then get 1 mile per $40 directly from STAPLES because they're a partner store and that is their earn rate
AND now we also get 1 mile per $20 that is actually coming from using the airmilesshop portal! This is how your account will look in a few days once everything posts! (ignore the bay order in the middle but it shows that the postings didn't happen on the same date -- in fact by glancing thru the thread i can see it took almost 10 days for them to show up in my account, dated June 5th but didn't appear till the 13th
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How long should I wait to ask about my airmilesshop shop points at Canada Post? Both of my other shops have appeared.

 

[bababear_50]

How long should I wait to ask about my airmilesshop shop points at Canada Post? Both of my other shops have appeared.

Hi Deb
I am going to say try Chat now,,,and lets hope you get Lawrence or Sara,,hugs Hon
Mel

 

[Days In the Sun]

I was only sharing exactly the info that was provided by Sara and then was subsequently supported by the postings to my account,
1 mile / $40 for the delivery/store pickup (this is new to me?)
1 mile/ $40 per the earn rate that Staples has due to being a partner and that is the rate they give always
1 mile/ $20 per the rate stated on the airmilesshop website

NOW, i think i made a comment last week about not even trying to comprehend the logic (or lack thereof) that Airmiles uses BUT if you look at my postings for Owen, my awesome oven, that came from Lowes you'll see that i got miles from BOTH Lowes AND airmilesshop website (sharing the bonus because, DANG, I done did good that day!) However, it is worded differently than the staples postings, so again, lack of logic (and just looking at it now, how did 1/$20 give 2 different amounts !)
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Regarding the miles you're missing from the one account, the base miles you can chase down in 60 days and bonus miles only need to wait 75 for online shopping.

Edit: Deleting post, I thought I figured out what I didn't understand, evidently I still don't get it lol. I'm just going to wait it out, I remember one promo the airmilesshops airmiles were so slow to post but did come through before the "major promo" was posted.

Thank you for the help.

 

[1926Moon]

Hi folks -
I do not post here very often, but I know that you all are watching for the airmiles deals and trying to get some value out of them. I am taking my nephews to USO and WDW in September, and I wanted to share with you the tix I ordered through Onyx shopper and how many miles they were:

USO 3day/3park tix, only two tix needed: 10850 miles total (was $360 USD each before taxes)
MNSSHP, 3 adult tix: 3575 miles total (was $79 USD each before taxes)
Animal Kingdom After Hours, 3 adult tix: 5675 miles total (was $125 USD each before taxes)

The Disney event tix were loaded directly to MDE account, and the USO are on their way via courier.

Also covered all flights and WDW tix out of miles for this trip (coming from rural BC, flights are good value for us).