Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[ottawamom]

@damo the Load n Go offers are a one shot deal --- one of the reasons i wasn't happy to get pushed to that option since i used to print off multiple copies of each offer. If you look closely at this coupon i just linked it includes the nasty words "Cannot be combined with any other AIR MILES® store wide coupon or load+go offer" many of us have found that you can in fact use this coupon with the LnG ones but I wouldn't be surprised to find it doesn't work one time.

It still works this week.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Went to Safeway this weekend...spent $117 got 247 AM. Was happy with that. I did buy toilet paper... even though I didn't really need it yet. I was wondering when it would go on sale with AM...of course I bought some last week...and now this week it was offered with AM. Oh well...it won't go to waste, and doesn't expire hehehe.

We are heading to the big city on the weekend for a little alone couples get away, hoping I might be able to get to a Rexall to collect some miles. If I get to shop there...great...if not, oh well.

Curious as the which "big City" you're heading to -- for us that means Toronto and there are gazillion Rexall store, including a few 24 hour locations. If you give us an idea of where exactly someone might be able to give you a suggestion or two (for example when we are in the city i know which ones are happy to use coupons and others who make the experience less than satisfactory )

 

[Donald - my hero]

I was going to start a conversation with you @bababear_50 but noticed you have a note saying you don't use it .... I wanted to offer you something but didn't think it needs to be here!

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

You know what is a huge pet peeve of mine? Those sobeys offers that you can print out that are spend $100 get 30 miles. EVERY TIME I use one, it never goes through and I have to go to the customer service counter to get it added. Also, the bonus 25 miles you get when you use four products coupons never shows either. Ugh.

Just this weekend, the guy at Sobeys said he knows my card number now LOL Like, it ain't my fault that your scanners aren't adding my coupons properly. grr

 

[ottawamom]

You know what is a huge pet peeve of mine? Those sobeys offers that you can print out that are spend $100 get 30 miles. EVERY TIME I use one, it never goes through and I have to go to the customer service counter to get it added. Also, the bonus 25 miles you get when you use four products coupons never shows either. Ugh.

Just this weekend, the guy at Sobeys said he knows my card number now LOL Like, it ain't my fault that your scanners aren't adding my coupons properly. grr

I hear you! I just called Sobey's My Offers this morning because the 25AM for using 4 coupons from the little blue book still hadn't posted. I called when I first made my purchases and the My Offers person said to wait 10 days because it takes time to come through. I waited called back this morning and the My Offers person said I should really have called AM as they only deal with My Offers. I asked him why the person I spoke with two weeks ago didn't tell me that then. He agreed they should have, he would save me the hassle of having to call AM today and would post the 25AM for me. They should take 10 days to come through.

I tell you it's a good thing I track my AM in a spreadsheet I've got lots notes and highlighted areas to watch and follow up on.

I shopped at a different Sobey's from my usual one this past week and everything posted smoothly and properly.

 

[tinkerone]

Could someone explain what a 'load and go' offer is? I keep reading about this but I'm unsure what it is or how I would go about being eligible for it. Any information would be great.
Thanks

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

I hear you! I just called Sobey's My Offers this morning because the 25AM for using 4 coupons from the little blue book still hadn't posted.

Oh geez, I wonder how long we'll have to wait for those 50 miles from the Blue Book to be posted *sigh* Just something else I have to track now.

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Curious as the which "big City" you're heading to -- for us that means Toronto and there are gazillion Rexall store, including a few 24 hour locations. If you give us an idea of where exactly someone might be able to give you a suggestion or two (for example when we are in the city i know which ones are happy to use coupons and others who make the experience less than satisfactory )

hahahaha...I'm in northern Alberta. We are heading to Edmonton for the Eric Church concert. I am in Grande Prairie....and surprisingly enough in a city of 70,000+ people...we don't have a Rexall within city limits. I would have to drive 40+ minutes to go to one. Not worth it for me to do that. But can go to Rexall when we go visit our daughter or head into Edmonton.

 

[marchingstar]

I like hearing everyone's goals! I'm sorry to hear that there aren't many miles to be had in ON these days--I'm in AB and the miles seem to be relatively available. I'm mulling over what to do with my miles right now: I think I want to put them towards another set of Disney tickets before they go back to regular price. Here's a copy-and-pasted message I posted on the personal shopping thread. I'd be so grateful for any advice about what to do!

I put in a request for the air miles cost of 2 adult 7-day PH tickets. The quote is 10125 miles--this seems wicked high to me, especially since the item description does mention the Canadian discount.

To compare, to buy 2 adult 7-day base tickets through air miles right now is 6500 miles. so 3625 to add PH. That's more than a third base ticket!

So I'm not sure what I'm going to do right now. I'm not sure I can earn enough for the two tickets before May, and I'm not sure the PH addition is worth it. But we've also never travelled without them before. So many things to mull over, but ultimately from my experience I'm not sure its worth the miles to use personal shopper for park tickets...Right now I have about 6000 miles, so getting up to 10000 will be a bit of a stretch. What do y'all think: worth saving for?

 

[Donald - my hero]

Could someone explain what a 'load and go' offer is? I keep reading about this but I'm unsure what it is or how I would go about being eligible for it. Any information would be great.
Thanks

Your post slid right past me, sorry!

Airmiles has pushed some people to Load n Go offers for Rexall -- the same method used by Sobeys & Foodland and to some degree Metro. You can't just do it yourself, you will be sent some kind of notification that you are now "lucky enough" to use this. If you currently get offers that you can print out they will be replaced by these and you will need to "load them" to your card so they will be available when you shop.

Not sure if you noticed, but The Duck is NOT a fan of this new-fangled method. While I don't need a smart device to use these offers because they are loaded to my card now, I can no longer see exactly what i need to buy to get my offers (my phone is dumb --just like me my kids tell me ). Sometimes i can get them loaded on my Kindle as a document but that is rare. ALSO the offers are now a one shot and done deal. When i could print them out i had 2 weeks to print,use & repeat as often as i wanted.

 

[bababear_50]

I was going to start a conversation with you @bababear_50 but noticed you have a note saying you don't use it .... I wanted to offer you something but didn't think it needs to be here!

Hi Jacqueline
you can send me private emails ,,I am not sure what the note is I will check t out
Thanks Mel

 

[momof2gr8kids]

I received an email about Shell in store purchases 10x the points. Not sure how long it's good until but it's good to get gift cards from there to do your Safeway or Sobeys shopping. Wished they had the bonus on Sat when I had to get 200 worth of GCs.

 

[ottawamom]

I put in a request for the air miles cost of 2 adult 7-day PH tickets. The quote is 10125 miles--this seems wicked high to me, especially since the item description does mention the Canadian discount.

To compare, to buy 2 adult 7-day base tickets through air miles right now is 6500 miles. so 3625 to add PH. That's more than a third base ticket!

So I'm not sure what I'm going to do right now. I'm not sure I can earn enough for the two tickets before May, and I'm not sure the PH addition is worth it. But we've also never travelled without them before. So many things to mull over, but ultimately from my experience I'm not sure its worth the miles to use personal shopper for park tickets...Right now I have about 6000 miles, so getting up to 10000 will be a bit of a stretch. What do y'all think: worth saving for?

The 7 Day Park Hopper if you paid cash would cost $349 plus tax (371.69US) or ($501.78Cdn). Using my crazy AM math 10125AM is worth $1065Cdn (10125/95*10). You are therefore paying a slight premium to convert your AM into these tickets. That being said you are not out of pocket the cash for the tickets.

To upgrade my 7 day base tickets (pre 02/12/17) I would be looking at $122.50US ($165.38Cdn) to upgrade each of my tickets to Park Hoppers. That includes a price increase on Feb 12. (That's $40 price increase and $75 PH upgrade, plus tax US$) I'm actually wanting to upgrade to PH+ waterparks but that's a really scary # when you multiply it by 5 tickets.

I'm not certain what you would pay to upgrade the Canadian offer ticket to a Park Hopper at the gate. Others are using these tickets soon with the intention of doing that and have said they will report back their results. Unfortunately you won't find anything about it over on the ticket thread as they are a special deal just for us Canadians. If you are traveling before May 20 your answer may be different than if you travel later this year. They may add a price increase into the mix if you're not traveling until later in 2018. Too many unknown variables!

My advice, keep collecting and wait for the March break vacationers to come back and report their upgrading experiences.

Reread my answer and thought about it so more. If I was starting out without tickets or airfare for my holiday I think, right now, I would pay cash for the tickets using the Canadian offer (Disney Website you can add Park Hopper and Water Parks) then use the AM for your flights (you still pay the taxes on your flights but you can manage significant savings sometimes depending where you are flying from).

 

[Donald - my hero]

The duck is thrilled right now ...... just did my nightly check on the AM account and POOF i have the rest of my Shop The Block cash miles. Now what will i do with them??

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[Mickey&JoshNut]

The duck is thrilled right now ...... just did my nightly check on the AM account and POOF i have the rest of my Shop The Block cash miles. Now what will i do with them??

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Yeah!!!!! so glad to hear that they finally added them. Could you use the extra cash miles to buy gift cards? Might be a way to start saving for another WDW trip.

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

woo hoo!!!! I got my "official" you have reached ONYX status email from Air Miles and it says my new cards are in the mail!!!!!! I just want to thank everyone for posting about all the deals in December that allowed me to earn more than the required 400 AM to achieve ONYX status...my email advised I actually earned 566 AM from December 1 - 31. So now I am ONYX until March 31, 2019!!!

 

[ottawamom]

The duck is thrilled right now ...... just did my nightly check on the AM account and POOF i have the rest of my Shop The Block cash miles. Now what will i do with them??

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Complain about the fact they are not yet showing up as counting towards your ONYX status like the rest of us that are still waiting!!!! Congrats on getting them posted.

 

[mort1331]

O/T......kind of just need to talk............
This past week has been one of heartache and stress,my younger brother is in the hospital ICU (collapsed Lung,internal bleeding,,on a ventilator). He a a multitude of medical concerns and is the brother I have always been closest to. A interfering friend of my brother has caused me even more stress (she is a drama queen) to the extreme,,I say purple--she say red I say red she says purple. She was trying to challenge his Living Will. Anyhow I called to cancel my flight for next Sat and was told I'd have to cancel my granddaughter's flight (west jet companion fare). To rebook it replacing someone else with my seat is $2,300.00,,,So much planning went into this Disney trip.

I have thought about this long and hard and decided to go on our Spring Break trip. I have 3 other siblings that will be able to be here for my brother and I think I need to get away for a few days. I know this is what my brother would tell me to do,,my granddaughter is his god child. I may not have a completely stress free trip ( I am going to be thinking of him constantly) but at least my granddaughter will get to go. Please don't judge me --believe me I am still struggling with my decision.

I hit Rexall tonight as the Atopic eczema on my hands is so bad I can not wear the gloves at the hospital--so I got some white cotton gloves which I am going to try and wear under the hospital gloves. I managed to pick up 124 bonus airmiles.
I have met my goal of airmiles for $260.00 Starbucks GC. for our trip.
So my airmiles friends ,,thanks for listening and Hugs to you.
Mel

Mel just my 2cents, you need this trip. In my business I see this alot, people staying and putting off things while they wait around. Your brother will understand, and probably want you to go. He will always be on your mind, it doesnt matter where you physically are.
Its not a money thing or AM thing about losing what you have put in. It is about getting your mind to de-stress for a little while. Lose yourself as your GD is dancing with the princess, and when her smile lights up as each new character approaches in the parade.
All the best for you and your family.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

I received an email about Shell in store purchases 10x the points. Not sure how long it's good until but it's good to get gift cards from there to do your Safeway or Sobeys shopping. Wished they had the bonus on Sat when I had to get 200 worth of GCs.

Is that offer for ALL provinces? I didn't see that offer come through and I only have one Shell station by me.

 

[star72232]

The duck is thrilled right now ...... just did my nightly check on the AM account and POOF i have the rest of my Shop The Block cash miles. Now what will i do with them??

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I'm so glad your STB offers finally came through.

Now if only mine will...