Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[bababear_50]

Sadly, though my flyers came, the Sobeys flyer is missing!! Rexall has spend $50 get 100AM on the weekend.

Hi Heather
I always wanted to use the tiptoe smiley---but really it wasn't me who swiped the flyer,,lol
Hugs Mel

 

[ttaylorcan]

I thought I'd report on wait times for receiving Air Miles DLR tickets. Being that it says on the website to expect three weeks and I always wondered how fast they actually shipped.

I ordered two adult 5-day hoppers and two child 5-day hoppers for DLR on Thursday evening. I got my shipping confirmation number today at around noon. So it took Air Miles approx. 2 business days to send the tickets to UPS for shipping. They ordered UPS expedited so it should take approx. 2 more business days for the tickets to be received. In total, I expect to receive the tickets less than a week from when I ordered them. Pretty impressive!

Just adding mine as well, very fast : WDW pass, redeemed Sunday night 9:30pm, in my hands Wednesday morning.

 

[Glynis4]

Just a heads up - make sure you check the expiry date on your Disneyland tickets from airmiles...I just received one with the 01/13/17 expiry on it

 

[bababear_50]

Sobeys flyer link
http://www.sobeys.com/en/flyer/?f=889

Foodland
http://ontario.foodland.ca/flyer/

Hugs Mel

 

[pigletto]

Nothing at Sobey's for me this week. I'll probably go to Rexall for the Spend $50 get 100 airmiles. Otherwise, a slow week.

 

[mort1331]

Sobeys flyer link
http://www.sobeys.com/en/flyer/?f=889

Foodland
http://ontario.foodland.ca/flyer/

Hugs Mel

What???? did you miss 30am for $100lcbo gc. Should stock up...

 

[pigletto]

What???? did you miss 30am for $100lcbo gc. Should stock up...

LOL... Dh likes his craft beer but we aren't big drinkers. We actually said this morning that we don't want to tie up $100 at the LCBO when it would take us forever to spend it. 100 airmiles? Maybe. But 30? Nope.

After last weekends Sobeys miles post I should be at about 800 airmiles. I'm currently trying to decide if I can reasonably get to the 3550 I will need for a 5 day ticket before I would need to make fastpasses (late June). Because if I can't.. then I really should buy our last ticket before the Canadian 25% off deal ends.
I used to get the majority of my miles at Sobey's and their offers aren't as good as they used to be. I don't think that is coming back. So do I count on earning 2750 airmiles before mid June (when I would need to order the ticket), or do I suck it up and buy the ticket? Part of my hesitation is that we agreed to two trips ONLY if I could make it happen within the confines of our normal travel budget. It's all coming together but throwing $375 at a ticket means it comes out of somewhere else in the budget. I refuse to start blowing the budget.
Thoughts?

 

[DilEmma]

Just a heads up - make sure you check the expiry date on your Disneyland tickets from airmiles...I just received one with the 01/13/17 expiry on it

DOH. And I don't think that date could be read as any other if you switch the order around.
Did you call Air Miles about that?

 

[ttaylorcan]

LOL... Dh likes his craft beer but we aren't big drinkers. We actually said this morning that we don't want to tie up $100 at the LCBO when it would take us forever to spend it. 100 airmiles? Maybe. But 30? Nope.

After last weekends Sobeys miles post I should be at about 800 airmiles. I'm currently trying to decide if I can reasonably get to the 3550 I will need for a 5 day ticket before I would need to make fastpasses (late June). Because if I can't.. then I really should buy our last ticket before the Canadian 25% off deal ends.
I used to get the majority of my miles at Sobey's and their offers aren't as good as they used to be. I don't think that is coming back. So do I count on earning 2750 airmiles before mid June (when I would need to order the ticket), or do I suck it up and buy the ticket? Part of my hesitation is that we agreed to two trips ONLY if I could make it happen within the confines of our normal travel budget. It's all coming together but throwing $375 at a ticket means it comes out of somewhere else in the budget. I refuse to start blowing the budget.
Thoughts?

If it was me ... I'd buy the ticket and squeeze the budget. If you gamble on the points and are wrong, you'll have to squeeze the budget even more. Or you might make the 2750 but be buying more of things you don't REALLY need which will cost more in the long run. Also, if you go twice a year, I doubt our dollar is going to improve for awhile so the discounted ticket will still be a good buy regardless.

FWIW, we are going April and September and I have enough tickets/points now for both trips. But the April trip is just a 4 day quick trip so we are buying discounted tickets and saving our nonexpire tickets.

 

[pigletto]

If it was me ... I'd buy the ticket and squeeze the budget. If you gamble on the points and are wrong, you'll have to squeeze the budget even more. Or you might make the 2750 but be buying more of things you don't REALLY need which will cost more in the long run. Also, if you go twice a year, I doubt our dollar is going to improve for awhile so the discounted ticket will still be a good buy regardless.

FWIW, we are going April and September and I have enough tickets/points now for both trips. But the April trip is just a 4 day quick trip so we are buying discounted tickets and saving our nonexpire tickets.

I think you are right. As much as like the idea of getting all the tickets for "free" it won't really be free if I am buying extra to get to that last ticket.

 

[ttaylorcan]

I think you are right. As much as like the idea of getting all the tickets for "free" it won't really be free if I am buying extra to get to that last ticket.

Well the good thing is you still have until the end of the month to decide so could see how February goes.

 

[ttaylorcan]

I'm shopping the Rexall promo this week and checking out Sobey's instore specials (tags say monthly promo til feb 16 I believe).

Mort1331 posted the Clover Leaf tuna (10am wub 2) earlier this week. I bought the CL Toppers @ $1.99 so likely will get some more.
A few others I remember New Brunswick sardines 5am wub 2, another Clover Leaf product was 5am wub 2, Tim's coffee $9.99 10am wub 1, $7.49 sale price on the Tim's ground coffee 10am wub 1, Egg Creations $2.49 I think 5am wub 2.

I really wish they had a list somewhere of these but I suppose it wouldn't be an instore sprecial lol. I may be going back later today so will likely update the list.

 

[momof2gr8kids]

I think you are right. As much as like the idea of getting all the tickets for "free" it won't really be free if I am buying extra to get to that last ticket.

What about switching to AM Cash til June? That's what we did when I thought we wouldn't get enough AM in time for the last ticket. Then when I used my AM Cash at Safeway or GC for Christmas gifts I took that cash that I would have spend and put into our trip fund to buy the last ticket with the 25% off.

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Safeway in the West is not great for miles this week. But I should be able to get some miles out of it. We are visiting the daughter and I'm sure we will hit their Safeway while we are there. Not sure if they have a rexall. Might have to check to see if they do. But I guess after last weeks blue Friday bonus...I shouldn't complain. The only place I can regularly shop for miles is Safeway.

Just googled Rexall locations. There is one where my daughter lives. Doing a little happy dance. Might have to stop in there as well

 

[DilEmma]

Just returned from Rexall. The cashier was confused because he was surprised the coupons were stacking differently and couldn't fix it. Without prompting he tried multiple times.....

The $5 off WUS $25 now shows up BEFORE the subtotal as a manufacturers coupon. Looks like it's no longer being treated as cash tender (after the subtotal). So, in order to stack with the Get 50 WUS $30 coupons you now need to spend $35 to trigger the $30 spend.

I'll give it another shot next time just in case it's a one off. But I'm not optimistic.

This is significant for me because I have a hard time spending $30 each week at Rexall, let alone $35. Maybe I'll go every two weeks now and slow down my Air Miles earning even more.

Still great value. I was $32 OOP after the $5 off (not very close to the threshold) and stacked two Get 50 WUS $30 offers (email and receipt). No bonus item Air Miles but everything was a great sale price. I love Rexall and am sad about my favourite $5 coupon.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Just returned from Rexall. The cashier was confused because he was surprised the coupons were stacking differently and couldn't fix it. Without prompting he tried multiple times.....

The $5 off WUS $25 now shows up BEFORE the subtotal as a manufacturers coupon. Looks like it's no longer being treated as cash tender (after the subtotal). So, in order to stack with the Get 50 WUS $30 coupons you now need to spend $35 to trigger the $30 spend.

I'll give it another shot next time just in case it's a one off. But I'm not optimistic.

This is significant for me because I have a hard time spending $30 each week at Rexall, let alone $35. Maybe I'll go every two weeks now and slow down my Air Miles earning even more.

Still great value. I was $32 OOP after the $5 off (not very close to the threshold) and stacked two Get 50 WUS $30 offers (email and receipt). No bonus item Air Miles but everything was a great sale price. I love Rexall and am sad about my favourite $5 coupon.

Our Rexalls have NEVER stacked the coupons in that order so i stopped even printing it out, like you i tend to just push that threshold and as hubby says we can't afford to save that much!"

 

[DilEmma]

... and as hubby says we can't afford to save that much!"

Quite wise. And I love the quote.

 

[ttaylorcan]

Just returned from Rexall. The cashier was confused because he was surprised the coupons were stacking differently and couldn't fix it. Without prompting he tried multiple times.....

The $5 off WUS $25 now shows up BEFORE the subtotal as a manufacturers coupon. Looks like it's no longer being treated as cash tender (after the subtotal). So, in order to stack with the Get 50 WUS $30 coupons you now need to spend $35 to trigger the $30 spend.

I'll give it another shot next time just in case it's a one off. But I'm not optimistic.

This is significant for me because I have a hard time spending $30 each week at Rexall, let alone $35. Maybe I'll go every two weeks now and slow down my Air Miles earning even more.

Still great value. I was $32 OOP after the $5 off (not very close to the threshold) and stacked two Get 50 WUS $30 offers (email and receipt). No bonus item Air Miles but everything was a great sale price. I love Rexall and am sad about my favourite $5 coupon.

My cashier struggled on Tuesday, but they were having system problems. The system was rejecting the survey coupon all together even though I was spending $25, somehow it all of a sudden went through. Airmiles didn't show up on receipt but the 'sp$30 g50am' line was there and I received the airmiles the next day. Survey coupon is listed as 'mfg coupon $5' now and is now before subtotal.

I spent $31, used $6 in manufacturer coupons, $5 survey coupon, subtotal $20, received 50am.

We'll see what happens tomorrow.

 

[dancin Disney style]

For some unknown reason my Sobey's miles from last week did not post today. I've never had that happen before. I've got the receipts so I'm not really worried.

I also went back and looked through my transaction history for December and noticed a couple of other things that didn't post. So I got out some receipts and have found 310 AM that did not post.

 

[kuhltiffany]

Are there any credit cards promos you can apply for to get some extra AM?

LOL... Dh likes his craft beer but we aren't big drinkers. We actually said this morning that we don't want to tie up $100 at the LCBO when it would take us forever to spend it. 100 airmiles? Maybe. But 30? Nope.

After last weekends Sobeys miles post I should be at about 800 airmiles. I'm currently trying to decide if I can reasonably get to the 3550 I will need for a 5 day ticket before I would need to make fastpasses (late June). Because if I can't.. then I really should buy our last ticket before the Canadian 25% off deal ends.
I used to get the majority of my miles at Sobey's and their offers aren't as good as they used to be. I don't think that is coming back. So do I count on earning 2750 airmiles before mid June (when I would need to order the ticket), or do I suck it up and buy the ticket? Part of my hesitation is that we agreed to two trips ONLY if I could make it happen within the confines of our normal travel budget. It's all coming together but throwing $375 at a ticket means it comes out of somewhere else in the budget. I refuse to start blowing the budget.
Thoughts?