Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[purple hippo]

I just came on to post the reward info and make the same offer but was beaten to it. If anyone needs an extra, let me know.

Where do you see that it is for 1 AM? I logged in to look and it shows as 1050 AM? I clicked on Onyx Rewards as well and it didn't show there either for 1 AM? I have Onyx status and just wanted to see for myself as to where you see the 1 AM deals when they are available so I know for the future. Unfortunately I can't use this offer. I'm missing something somehow.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Today is Tuesday! Bring on the flyers

 

[elaine amj]

Where do you see that it is for 1 AM? I logged in to look and it shows as 1050 AM? I clicked on Onyx Rewards as well and it didn't show there either for 1 AM? I have Onyx status and just wanted to see for myself as to where you see the 1 AM deals when they are available so I know for the future. Unfortunately I can't use this offer. I'm missing something somehow.

Must be sold out. They said they only had 20 packages available and I had no problems seeing it.

 

[ottawamom]

My Sobeys AM for the week ending Nov 18 posted sometime today. Heads up to those waiting to check and see if you got yours.

Edit to add: but I didn't get the 30AM for buying bagels and raisin bread.

 

[bababear_50]

My Sobeys for Nov 18th posted tooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
Hugs Mel

 

[bababear_50]

Where do you see that it is for 1 AM? I logged in to look and it shows as 1050 AM? I clicked on Onyx Rewards as well and it didn't show there either for 1 AM? I have Onyx status and just wanted to see for myself as to where you see the 1 AM deals when they are available so I know for the future. Unfortunately I can't use this offer. I'm missing something somehow.

Hi Hon

So after you log on --go to Rewards
Under Dream rewards Go to Events and Attractions
Go to Airmiles Events Exclusive
This was posted last evening at 1 airmile but has gone back to original price
1050 airmiles or 550 airmiles +$50.00.

Hope this helps
Hugs Mel

 

[mort1331]

Where do you see that it is for 1 AM? I logged in to look and it shows as 1050 AM? I clicked on Onyx Rewards as well and it didn't show there either for 1 AM? I have Onyx status and just wanted to see for myself as to where you see the 1 AM deals when they are available so I know for the future. Unfortunately I can't use this offer. I'm missing something somehow.

Sent you a pm

 

[dancin Disney style]

I'm seeing Sobeys miles posted as well but it's actually more than I thought I was getting. I have to go and get the receipts. Funny though, it says Nov.18....I didn't shop that day. It usually has the actual shop date.

 

[damo]

My Sobey's is exactly what I expected and was shown on my receipt.

 

[Debbie]

Went to Rexall today. I spent just under $70. The cashier didn't want to put both my STB coupon and my printable Spend50/get 110 AM coupon through. She said, "It won't let me do that". I told her to do it anyway. She checked my receipt and was surprised that I got 244 AM, with the additional L/G purchases I had. I wasn't, thanks to this group. Foodland AM posted, so I'm up more.

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

So frustrated with Air Miles...I found out today that regardless of when you make your purchase and what you have your preference set as, the merchant has 60 days to submit the information to AM and whatever your preference is on the date the merchant submits the information is how your AM will be rewarded. I was always under the impression that my AM would be granted based on my preference the day of my purchase. I found out the hard way, that my Sobeys purchase that I made on Nov 17 using my Shop the Block coupons got posted as of the 18th and I had changed my preference after I got home from shopping on the 17th from 100% Dream to 100% cash because I was going to Foodland on the 18th to get enough AM to be able to do the 95 AM cash redemption coupon. My gas purchase at Shell on the way home from Sobey's posted correctly as being on the 17th. I was told that Sobeys totals all your purchases for the period Sunday to Saturday and whatever your preference is when "they" post, is how the AM are rewarded regardless of your preference on the day of your purchase and AM can do nothing about it. So a word of caution...since we do not know when AM will award our 2000 Shop the Block AM, if it is a day you changed your preference, it could end up going to cash instead of dream or vice versa.

Did I misunderstand the program? I have never had an issue before of my AM not posted as of the date of my purchase, or is this a Sobey's issue?

 

[ottawamom]

I hear you. I had a similar issue a last year with a switch between Cash and Dream. Learned my lesson the hard way too. Mine was with a M/C posting. My statement date is 4th of the month (that was a Saturday on the month in question). I changed my preference so that when it posted on Monday (my bank doesn't post transactions over the weekend) it would go to my Dream account. What I didn't know was that when the 4th is a Saturday they pre-post the AM to the 3rd (how I don't know as my statement was still dated the 4th)

I argued the point with airmiles and the bank, the bank finally agreed it was not logical and gave me the same AM they had posted to Cash to my Dream account. Lesson learned now I strategically think about when retailers post AM (Metro, Sobeys/Foodland are all Sun-Thu posted on Saturday in your account a week or two later) and leave a margin of error in my plans. Switching between the two can be tricky.

 

[hdrolfe]

My Sobeys posted as well. I have 4 of the STB coupons in there but they aren't broken down as such so, there better not be any issues! I did keep the receipt etc just in case. Mine also posted as Nov 18th, thankfully I changed my preferences back on Nov 19th. I now have enough cash miles to use this coming weekend for one extra STB coupon.

 

[damo]

My Sobeys posted as well. I have 4 of the STB coupons in there but they aren't broken down as such so, there better not be any issues! I did keep the receipt etc just in case. Mine also posted as Nov 18th, thankfully I changed my preferences back on Nov 19th. I now have enough cash miles to use this coming weekend for one extra STB coupon.

Mine were all broken down on the receipt but not in my account.

 

[dancin Disney style]

Has anyone booked an all inclusive through Marlin Travel? I went to a Marlin office last year to book a $2500 vacation thinking that I would be getting miles over and above what I would be getting from Amex for charging it. I only got the miles that were on my Amex and didn't get the additional miles from shopping with a sponsor because it was charged as WestJet not Marlin. I'm on the verge of booking a trip for January/February and if I opt to go through Marlin again I want to do it right to get the max # miles. I'm looking at spending around $3500-4000 so that should be a nice amount of miles.

 

[dancin Disney style]

So frustrated with Air Miles...I found out today that regardless of when you make your purchase and what you have your preference set as, the merchant has 60 days to submit the information to AM and whatever your preference is on the date the merchant submits the information is how your AM will be rewarded. I was always under the impression that my AM would be granted based on my preference the day of my purchase. I found out the hard way, that my Sobeys purchase that I made on Nov 17 using my Shop the Block coupons got posted as of the 18th and I had changed my preference after I got home from shopping on the 17th from 100% Dream to 100% cash because I was going to Foodland on the 18th to get enough AM to be able to do the 95 AM cash redemption coupon. My gas purchase at Shell on the way home from Sobey's posted correctly as being on the 17th. I was told that Sobeys totals all your purchases for the period Sunday to Saturday and whatever your preference is when "they" post, is how the AM are rewarded regardless of your preference on the day of your purchase and AM can do nothing about it. So a word of caution...since we do not know when AM will award our 2000 Shop the Block AM, if it is a day you changed your preference, it could end up going to cash instead of dream or vice versa.

Did I misunderstand the program? I have never had an issue before of my AM not posted as of the date of my purchase, or is this a Sobey's issue?

I always thought the same as you. I feel like that is a Sobeys issue or else someone gave you some misinformation.

 

[isabellea]

To avoid having too many miles in my Cash category, I always set up my preference to 10%Cash90%Dream until I get the number of miles I want as cash (usually around 500 for promotions like Shop the Block that requires to spend some cash AM for bonus AM. I just got my 800AM Soar into More AM from Amex and was able to order our final DLR ticket!! Now I need to find a new goal... Maybe collect enough AM to get us flights to Paris or Tokyo for our 20th anniversary in 2020?!?

 

[tinkerone]

So frustrated with Air Miles...I found out today that regardless of when you make your purchase and what you have your preference set as, the merchant has 60 days to submit the information to AM and whatever your preference is on the date the merchant submits the information is how your AM will be rewarded. I was always under the impression that my AM would be granted based on my preference the day of my purchase. I found out the hard way, that my Sobeys purchase that I made on Nov 17 using my Shop the Block coupons got posted as of the 18th and I had changed my preference after I got home from shopping on the 17th from 100% Dream to 100% cash because I was going to Foodland on the 18th to get enough AM to be able to do the 95 AM cash redemption coupon. My gas purchase at Shell on the way home from Sobey's posted correctly as being on the 17th. I was told that Sobeys totals all your purchases for the period Sunday to Saturday and whatever your preference is when "they" post, is how the AM are rewarded regardless of your preference on the day of your purchase and AM can do nothing about it. So a word of caution...since we do not know when AM will award our 2000 Shop the Block AM, if it is a day you changed your preference, it could end up going to cash instead of dream or vice versa.

Did I misunderstand the program? I have never had an issue before of my AM not posted as of the date of my purchase, or is this a Sobey's issue?

If I'm reading your post right then that's not the way my account worked. Saturday I felt I had enough cash miles so I changed my account to all dream miles. Today my cash miles have 101 more miles in it so I looked to see what went wrong. Foodland posted their miles today but with a posting date of Nov. 18th. So, my miles were awarded with the percentages I had on the 18th, not the percentages I have today.

 

[elaine amj]

I hear you. I had a similar issue a last year with a switch between Cash and Dream. Learned my lesson the hard way too. Mine was with a M/C posting. My statement date is 4th of the month (that was a Saturday on the month in question). I changed my preference so that when it posted on Monday (my bank doesn't post transactions over the weekend) it would go to my Dream account. What I didn't know was that when the 4th is a Saturday they pre-post the AM to the 3rd (how I don't know as my statement was still dated the 4th)

I argued the point with airmiles and the bank, the bank finally agreed it was not logical and gave me the same AM they had posted to Cash to my Dream account. Lesson learned now I strategically think about when retailers post AM (Metro, Sobeys/Foodland are all Sun-Thu posted on Saturday in your account a week or two later) and leave a margin of error in my plans. Switching between the two can be tricky.

I agree and continue to be annoyed about it lol. It's a pretty dumb system IMO

 

[marchingstar]

i had a bit of a chuckle today because air miles sent me a kind notice by email, telling me i have enough miles to redeem for a dream reward. i’m sure it’s just an auto message but it really cracked me up. i have 11K+ miles—i know i could get a reward if i want one!