Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[Donald - my hero]

@Donald - my hero

It's all the "Per's" in this particular offer that are of concern. In particular the last "per day" that I think caused the cashier to put the brakes on additional transactions. Another way of interpreting the per is "One reward for each customer for each transaction for each day". The each day is different from all other terms and conditions. It's sufficiently vague to allow for individual interpretation unless you have a law degree and can argue the point otherwise. At $50 it's not worth risking trying it to see what happens.

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oopsie! That's completely my error!!! I seriously thought it was Thursday yesterday and I'm not sure how I made that mistake, I always go into Toronto on Friday. Urgh, I really need a holiday. I've deleted my sleep deprived rant, thanks for pointing out my foolish rant

 

[Disney Addicted]

I was using a credit card, so it preauthorized a certain amount, but you only get charged how much you actually spend. I didn’t check if there was an option to attach a GC.
It looks like the offer isn’t targeted, so your husband would just need to download the app and link your AM card

Ok, thanks. I'll have to check it out later and see if I can attach a gift card. That would be great.

And I’m glad I held off on making my Etsy purchase earlier this week. Just got 3x and 10x bonus miles! Wasn’t a huge dollar amount, but I’m expecting to get 112 miles

I was going to wait until next week when everyone was back in school for my Etsy order as I have a discount code from my favorite DigiScrapper. But with this 10X I'm going to try to sit down tomorrow instead!

I still have the $100 gift card for Etsy that I won from some Airmiles promo last year and I can't decide what to spend it on. Question for you, if i want to buy things from different stores will I need to do a bunch of separate transactions OR is it like Amazon and i just keep adding stuff to my basket and pay once? I've never bought anything thru Etsy and I'm super confused !!

You can keep adding to your basket and pay once full. I use PayPal and never had an issue the few times I bought stuff from different stores in one purchase. The system separates them out and shows you the cost per store and the grand total.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

I didn’t participate in BF but I did Do the threshold offer and my targeted offers and earned 129 miles on $100. I haven’t been as hardcore on the miles lately as I have been doing much better returns on pc points. Also, I have been trying to cash in my miles as much as possible so the money is in my vacation fund ready and waiting to be spent on a cruise.

Speaking of cruises, I wonder when that option will finally be available on redtag.ca? Supposed to be late 2019.

 

[Days In the Sun]

I did Blue Friday as well,

Foodland, spent $40 (10 Cheerios), 202 airmiles and possibly 40am personal offer later. Anyone know if emailed Sobeys personal offers include Foodland? I have 40 aimiles for 3 $40 spends at Sobeys.
Sobeys, spent $40 (perogies and hummus), 152 airmiles and 40am later.

I was visiting my Mom and Aunt, both in 80s and airmiles collectors who both outdid me at Sobeys, 367am and 320am on $100 spends, not sure my Aunt loaded her personal offer. My Mom now has a year or two of Finish.

I'm off to Shoppers today, now named in our house by my daughter as "Red Saturday".

 

[Days In the Sun]

I'm two days behind on posts but took a quick glance, I believe Rexall 100am/$50 on October 29 is mentioned, not sure if printable Airmiles website link is posted so in case not, here it is:

https://www.airmiles.ca/arrow/utilities/printCouponAsPDF?offerID=44465_RXALO7923451
Edit: Ahh, already posted, thanks @Donald - my hero

 

[Donald - my hero]

I'm two days behind on posts but took a quick glance, I believe Rexall 100am/$50 on October 29 is mentioned, not sure if printable Airmiles website link is posted so in case not, here it is:

https://www.airmiles.ca/arrow/utilities/printCouponAsPDF?offerID=44465_RXALO7923451
Edit: Ahh, already posted, thanks @Donald - my hero

Yeah I stumbled across that myself but wasn't able to get a link to work on my phone so i only posted a screenshot of the coupon. Thanks for adding the link

 

[Pumpkin1172]

I need a little help from all of you AM gurus here. I'm needing to book a hotel for a weekend as we finally got the call for our son's surgery in Edmonton. And yes...I know we can get medical rates for hotels...but it would only be for one night as his surgery is a day surgery...but we will spend the weekend there...just in case we need to go back or have any complications.


My question is...when did Shop the block typically start? And were there any travel promos for that promo? I just want to maximize the AM I can get for using this unexpected trip. I wasn't expecting his surgery to be this year yet...because it's non emergent...but it still needs to be done. So I'm totally caught off guard by this. And it's scheduled already for Nov 15...so I need to get things in order.

Guess I better get checking to see if going through the airmiles shopping portal using expedia or using the airmiles travel portal.
I"ll also check to see how much of a difference we will get for a medical rate vs rack room rate.

 

[Donald - my hero]

I need a little help from all of you AM gurus here. I'm needing to book a hotel for a weekend as we finally got the call for our son's surgery in Edmonton. And yes...I know we can get medical rates for hotels...but it would only be for one night as his surgery is a day surgery...but we will spend the weekend there...just in case we need to go back or have any complications.


My question is...when did Shop the block typically start? And were there any travel promos for that promo? I just want to maximize the AM I can get for using this unexpected trip. I wasn't expecting his surgery to be this year yet...because it's non emergent...but it still needs to be done. So I'm totally caught off guard by this. And it's scheduled already for Nov 15...so I need to get things in order.

Guess I better get checking to see if going through the airmiles shopping portal using expedia or using the airmiles travel portal.
I"ll also check to see how much of a difference we will get for a medical rate vs rack room rate.

The StB usually starts mid-November so too late for you to book your hotel HOWEVER it's rare that the online shopping part includes anything travel related. Occasionally they might have a bonus connected to using the hotel hub but now that it's all lumped into one I'm not sure how that will play out either.

Couple of suggestions for you right now:
If you have an account that hasn't ever booked a hotel thru what was called the Travel Hub you can take advantage of this offer


Try to take advantage of the 10X miles thru the Airmiles shop portal this weekend and book thru any number of avenues :hotel .com (I like to use this because after 10 nights you get a free night), Expedia, any of the IHG chains of Best Western.

The only thing you need to watch for when using the online portal is with Hotel .com, you can't use any other coupon codes that you might have found (to get extra 10% off is one that pops up frequently for me) BUT you can use any of your discounts with the direct bookings --CAA rates work fine -- which will let you save money so if the medical rate is bookable thru the website you might be able to do both!

Good luck finding a place to stay and hope your son handles the surgery like a trooper.

 

[Days In the Sun]

Thanks for the information. I'd be curious to know how we can "verify" the price we are being quoted? I mean without some sort of verification Disney could tell us our ticket is only worth $1. I find it hard to believe that Disney is willing to lose $158.29 US per 7 day AM ticket by selling to a discounter ($627.29 - $469). We will be upgrading to APs regardless already have a 2 week trip planned for March 2020 so any amount we can apply towards our AP is a bonus. I will just ask for some verification on the price quoted.

I agree, it's difficult to redeem not knowing what the ticket value is. Even if you aren't upgrading, plans can change and you are left with a ticket with unknown value unless some kind soul posts about their tickets. In April, before I redeemed I called Airmiles and they would not disclose the value of the ticket but did confirm that they weren't valued at the current ticket price on Disney's website (I knew they were likely not as the ones Airmiles had expired 2019, Disney's expired 2020 even though they came out at the same time).

In regard to Disney losing money, I don't look at it that way. I think very few people will buy flexible date tickets, example, for a 7D ticket starting Nov. 25, the added cost of flex is $99USD per ticket and the only value added is a longer window of dates to use it. So I see it as Disney providing a regular ticket, valued just above the cheapest date price but with flexible date use which allows Airmiles to price more in line with a regular price ticket. Regardless, as you have said you are saving money using Airmiles so your AP will be a great deal. I see buying through personal shopper and using more Airmiles to get a higher price ticket may be the better route to go in the future, depending on how many airmiles one has.

Wishing you lots of pixie dust, you just never know!

 

[Donald - my hero]

I'm currently working on creating a post dedicated to redeeming miles for Disney Tickets. There are sooo many permutations and complications that I thought it might be handy to have all of the information we've collected as a community in one place.

I'll post here when I've got it up and active and then I hope everyone can help keep it updated!

 

[Days In the Sun]

I'm currently working on creating a post dedicated to redeeming miles for Disney Tickets. There are sooo many permutations and complications that I thought it might be handy to have all of the information we've collected as a community in one place.

I'll post here when I've got it up and active and then I hope everyone can help keep it updated!

@Donald - my hero , I have been working on this as well! I have gone back through as much history as I could find (while watching the election coverage for 6 hours lol). I'll try to post what I have so far tomorrow.

 

[bababear_50]

Off Topic
Ok I am addicted to my new Whoville Grinch Christmas Village and have found Ebay Canada
I know ,,,,,I know,,,,, I know--addictive,,,expensive,,,,etc,,but I love it.
So I made a bid and want to know if I set a limit do other bidders see the limit I've set automatically or do they have to bid to see it? I would ask my sons but I hear a lecture coming ......
Should I hold off till close to the end to up my highest bid?,I tried reading up on how to bid successfully.
Thanks Hugs
Mel

Update to add:
Ok I figured it out,,, they swoop in at the last moment and bid you up.
I don't think online bidding is for me,,way to stressful.

 

[Donald - my hero]

@Donald - my hero , I have been working on this as well! I have gone back through as much history as I could find (while watching the election coverage for 6 hours lol). I'll try to post what I have so far tomorrow.

I'm actually creating an entire thread for this info then it can be used by those who don't venture into this beast of a thread!

 

[Donald - my hero]

Ok, the thread is up (and already active!) I'll keep plucking away on the information I've pulled into a word document and add that to my placeholder posts. Please add ANY historical data you personally have as well as any information you've managed to locate. I'm hoping this will help people decide what to do with their miles, when to redeem and if upgrading is a viable option.

Redeeming Airmiles for Disney Land, World & Universal Tickets

 

[Pinkgurlshubby]

I went to Sobeys before work. School is doing first aid training for 35 students. We need snacks so I got the Lays assorted bags. Their size is bigger than the Halloween one’s. Then I got pasta and pasta sauce as donation to school’s pasta fundraising lunch. Spent $135 in total and got 435 AM. 500 AM more to get DD to Onyx!

I went to our Foodland before going to work last night and saw the big bags of chips as well, 2 packs of 20 for 6.99 each and 50 air miles. I just brought them to work and told everyone just hut up and eat.

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

I agree, it's difficult to redeem not knowing what the ticket value is. Even if you aren't upgrading, plans can change and you are left with a ticket with unknown value unless some kind soul posts about their tickets. In April, before I redeemed I called Airmiles and they would not disclose the value of the ticket but did confirm that they weren't valued at the current ticket price on Disney's website (I knew they were likely not as the ones Airmiles had expired 2019, Disney's expired 2020 even though they came out at the same time).

In regard to Disney losing money, I don't look at it that way. I think very few people will buy flexible date tickets, example, for a 7D ticket starting Nov. 25, the added cost of flex is $99USD per ticket and the only value added is a longer window of dates to use it. So I see it as Disney providing a regular ticket, valued just above the cheapest date price but with flexible date use which allows Airmiles to price more in line with a regular price ticket. Regardless, as you have said you are saving money using Airmiles so your AP will be a great deal. I see buying through personal shopper and using more Airmiles to get a higher price ticket may be the better route to go in the future, depending on how many airmiles one has.

Wishing you lots of pixie dust, you just never know!

I will report back once we upgrade as to if the value changed. I never thought to use the Onyx personal shopper to get our AP vouchers...I will next time just to see how many miles it would be...

 

[ElCray]

Just a heads up that Lego is on sale at Indigo this weekend (20% off). Could be cool to use the airmilesshops Indigo 5x multiplier plus the Halloween 10x multiplier for some Christmas gifts!

 

[Donald - my hero]

Just a heads up that Lego is on sale at Indigo this weekend (20% off). Could be cool to use the airmilesshops Indigo 5x multiplier plus the Halloween 10x multiplier for some Christmas gifts!

and to further maximize your miles? First buy e-gift cards on the indigo website thru the airmiles portal and earn miles on them as well!!!

 

[ElCray]

and to further maximize your miles? First buy e-gift cards on the indigo website thru the airmiles portal and earn miles on them as well!!!

Yep, my hero once again! I've got a few in this awesome community! Thank you.

 

[Noah_t]

I am about to drop about 2500$ CDN on some disneyworld tickets and was wondering if I could buy them through Expedia and with the 10x multiplier earn some air miles. I know they say they don't give air miles for tours and prepackaged vacations do I would love to know if anyone has any input on this plan.