Airmiles Armchair Chatter

I managed to get 5 of the partners and just waiting for National to post theirs. I should get the BMO one as well as my back up. Too bad I won't get the bonus posted in time for the canadian deal as this would get me enough to get our 4th 5 day ticket. Oh well!! Still managed to get a bunch of bonus airmails out of the deal!
 
Hurry less than 5000 spots now,,,
good luck

Edit, no coffee this am, there is 49982 spots left, that is a little more than 5000. Whoops

Me too. Reading the details, just wondering what "stand-alone" means? One of the Shell stations I use is also a Mac's milk location and has good gift cards. If the gift cards count, I could load up at the beginning of June with the 7X promo and qualify for the Amex offer at the same time.

My take (but I'm just guessing, so take it for what it's worth), is that "standalone" is meant to exclude places like Costco that run a gas bar as part of their larger business. Of course you can't use Amex at Costco anyway, so maybe that's moot. Canadian Tire? They say: "Merchants are typically assigned codes and categorized based on what they sell". I've never used a credit card that gives "4% back on gas, 3% on restaurants, and 2% on space suits for intergalactic travel", but I think that's what they're getting at here. If one of those targeted reward cards would work on gift cards at Shell, then presumably this would too. Most likely you'll be okay.

If anyone has one of those multi-discount reward cards and can confirm that gift card purchases at Shell qualify as "gas" purchases, I'd really like to know the answer too. :)

THANKS! signed up now there are 49968 spots left. I would love to figure out what this means as well ..we might be able to squeeze $200.00 worth of gas into our car over the 2 months but we drive a Fit .. was hard to get the 25 L into it to use the MM Shell coupon even ONCE the poor thing only holds 30 L so it rarely costs us $40.00!!!

I'm really disappointed that i won't get miles on my space suit though, i was counting on doing that this summer :P
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find a coupon for Rexall today??? Hubby is STILL sick and has managed to pass it to me this time, how generous of him :P
 

I've done these Amex offers a number of times with various Amex cards, though never at Shell specifically. And not with an Amex AirMiles card. And the offers were for a statement credit instead of Air Miles. Amazon, Esso, Tim Horton's and Lowes.

I'm pretty certain the logistics are the same.

I almost exclusively purchased gift cards with no problem whatsoever. After registering, once you use your card for the required purchase amount you'll get a congratulations email and the statement credit for me posted the following day. I expect you'll have to wait for your statement to cycle to receive the bonus Air Miles.

With regards to the 49,968 spots that are 'only' available, I wouldn't worry about that. Rather there is a deadline that you have to register by.
THANKS! signed up now there are 49968 spots left. I would love to figure out what this means as well ..we might be able to squeeze $200.00 worth of gas into our car over the 2 months but we drive a Fit .. was hard to get the 25 L into it to use the MM Shell coupon even ONCE the poor thing only holds 30 L so it rarely costs us $40.00!!!

I'm really disappointed that i won't get miles on my space suit though, i was counting on doing that this summer :P
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find a coupon for Rexall today??? Hubby is STILL sick and has managed to pass it to me this time, how generous of him :P
 
With regards to the 49,968 spots that are 'only' available, I wouldn't worry about that. Rather there is a deadline that you have to register by.
Absolutely correct that there is a deadline to register by however I would not hold off on doing so as both number of spots AND deadline are factors. 50,000 sounds like a lot however it just started this morning and I would bet once word gets out those spots will go quickly. Just be mindful.

From their website.....Enrollment period starts at 12:00:01 a.m. EST on May 15, 2017 and ends on May 22, 2017 at 11:59:59 p.m. EST or when 50,000 enrollments have been reached.
 
Absolutely correct that there is a deadline to register by however I would not hold off on doing so as both number of spots AND deadline are factors. 50,000 sounds like a lot however it just started this morning and I would bet once word gets out those spots will go quickly. Just be mindful.

From their website.....Enrollment period starts at 12:00:01 a.m. EST on May 15, 2017 and ends on May 22, 2017 at 11:59:59 p.m. EST or when 50,000 enrollments have been reached.
This is a very short window. The past ones have been much longer with the same capacity and most did not fill up.
 
Okay fellow hunters, I have a question! I received the little book of bonuses coupons in the mail last week. It's the special where using coupons at 3 stores means a bonus 50 miles. Like everyone else it has coupons for Safeway and a few airmilesshops options (Indigo, Microsoft, Under Armour). But there's also an offer in the inside cover for Shell that reads: "There's more in store. Get 5 air miles bonus miles when you spend 5$ or more on all eligible convenience store purchases." Underneath it says the offer is exclusive to my card number. So my question: do you think the Shell offer will count towards the "bundle your bonus" special?
 
THANK YOU !! My loadngo offer is spend $40.00 get 60 so i can snag 155 AM when i add the MM to this!

Is it generally better to do this kind of deal during the week, rather than the weekend? Yesterday I did the spend $50, get 100 AM at Rexall, but it looks like if I had waited I could have spent $40 and combined my load and go (spend $40, get 60) and the coupon and came out ahead at 120 AM and have spent $10 less. Hmmm...
 
Is it generally better to do this kind of deal during the week, rather than the weekend? Yesterday I did the spend $50, get 100 AM at Rexall, but it looks like if I had waited I could have spent $40 and combined my load and go (spend $40, get 60) and the coupon and came out ahead at 120 AM and have spent $10 less. Hmmm...
YES... for me it *almost* without fail, is better to wait till during the week when i can combine offers. You can see what your loadngo offer will be on either Friday or Saturday and make the decision at that point. Last week my offer was spend $80 get 100 AM and that is a LOT to spend if we don't need a big ticket item like certain vitamins but usually it is much less than the required weekend spend.

The odd time they will have a big bonus event on Sundays called "head-to-toe" that are a slightly better deal if you use those products!
 
Okay fellow hunters, I have a question! I received the little book of bonuses coupons in the mail last week. It's the special where using coupons at 3 stores means a bonus 50 miles. Like everyone else it has coupons for Safeway and a few airmilesshops options (Indigo, Microsoft, Under Armour). But there's also an offer in the inside cover for Shell that reads: "There's more in store. Get 5 air miles bonus miles when you spend 5$ or more on all eligible convenience store purchases." Underneath it says the offer is exclusive to my card number. So my question: do you think the Shell offer will count towards the "bundle your bonus" special?

I have the Shell offer too. It's included my book as well as my little blue book list online. I'm pretty sure it's part of your promo.
 
So I read that Amex deal too but it says the basic Amex card. I have the platinum card so I wasn't sure if I'd qualify even though they sent me the email? Maybe I'll sign up anyways.

Megamiles.... I've hit my 25 (make it 31 transactions) on our credit card lol it's been a month of lots of purchases lol. I was doing lots for our brownie unit too so it's perfect. Which means I only have 1 place left which will be Safeway this week when I get groceries!

I tried a shell station in Calgary today looking for Safeway gift cards but no luck. :( will try a larger one next week when I go there again.
 
Pretty good day today. Between Sobeys and Metro I spent $54 and earned 207 miles.

My Metro has renovated and I got a card in the mail from them. Spend $25 earn 25 miles. It's once per day until the end of June. Will do my best to maximize this but my DD takes my car everyday as soon as I get home from work which limits my shopping to only Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
 
Hi all, I just want to consult with the AM experts here. I currently set my reward preference to 100% cash miles. I just shopped at Rexall and got 92 miles. If I set my preference back to 100% dream miles now, the 92 AM I earned today would still be recorded as cash miles, right? Any AM I collect tomorrow after 3:00 am would be dream miles, right? Thanks in advance for confirming this!
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Did my Foodland shop today. I'm a bit bummed because we are going to miss out on that Canadian ticket by THIS much. :crazy2: I guess I'll console myself with... the points can go towards a flight for a cruise that I might do. :surfweb: That puts me 4 done for Mega Miles. I think I'll try to get to Rona or Staples this week. (Or maybe the new Lowes)
 
Hi all, I just want to consult with the AM experts here. I currently set my reward preference to 100% cash miles. I just shopped at Rexall and got 92 miles. If I set my preference back to 100% dream miles now, the 92 AM I earned today would still be recorded as cash miles, right? Any AM I collect tomorrow after 3:00 am would be dream miles, right? Thanks in advance for confirming this!
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Yes, your 92 miles will post as Cash Miles if you had it selected PRIOR to your purchase. If you select 100% Dream Miles any time today, as of 0300 tonight (rather tomorrow morning) any subsequent Air Miles that you earn will post as Dream Miles. Any transactions done prior to 0300 hours will post as Cash Miles. So don't count on purchases today posting as Dream Miles.
 
Yes, your 92 miles will post as Cash Miles if you had it selected PRIOR to your purchase. If you select 100% Dream Miles any time today, as of 0300 tonight (rather tomorrow morning) any subsequent Air Miles that you earn will post as Dream Miles. Any transactions done prior to 0300 hours will post as Cash Miles. So don't count on purchases today posting as Dream Miles.

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I need that 92 cash miles for the MM Sobey's coupon. I want to switch back to dream miles for some online purchases. I will do the purchases tomorrow then. Thanks again for the prompt reply!
 












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