Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[Disney Addicted]

Hmm. You may be on to something. I took a look at my spreadsheet and I made 6 purchases. However, the first 5 were all bonus air miles. The 6th purchase was a combination of base and bonus air miles.

Guess I'll have to wait until the end of November to challenge it as well.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Sobeys post once a week, so whenever you would get them for Saturday is when you'd get them on Friday. But Sunday would be a week later. Does that make sense?

Right. And when they are posted, they are always back-dated to the day I earned the miles, not the posting day.

 

[Disney Addicted]

My Sobeys miles always seem to post in my account Wednesday night / Thursday morning.

I'd like to try for cash miles. Spending 95 cash miles on a STB is a great idea. Cuts down on the amount of cash when having to complete 7 offers x 2 cards.

This Monday I'm going to Sobeys for their $40 get 100 miles. Is it 7 days a week at 3 AM the card switches from Dreams to Cash (or vice-versa)? Or not on Sundays or Weekends? I'm trying to figure out if I switch my card to "cash miles" on Sunday, that will work for Monday's 100 miles? And I cannot switch it back to "dream miles" until those Sobeys cash miles post to my account, correct?

 

[ottawamom]

Yes. To be safe. Switch your card to Cash on Sunday (before midnight). You'll leave it there until at least next Sunday (Sobeys posts on Saturday) but I would wait until they show up in your account before switching back. If you don't want a tonne of AM in Cash just limit your shopping for the week.

 

[bababear_50]

My last years records (2017) show (For The Shop The Block).

Metro spend 95 cash airmiles get 25 --= one coupon used
Sobeys spend 95 cash airmiles get 25 airmiles --= one coupon used
Foodland spend 95 cash airmiles get 25 airmiles--= one coupon used

285 cash airmiles required.

Hugs
Mel

 

[Days In the Sun]

My last years records (2017) show (For The Shop The Block).

Metro spend 95 cash airmiles get 25 --= one coupon used
Sobeys spend 95 cash airmiles get 25 airmiles --= one coupon used
Foodland spend 95 cash airmiles get 25 airmiles--= one coupon used

285 cash airmiles required.

Hugs
Mel

I also did the The Bay e-vouchers with cash airmiles. 10 airmiles earned = one coupon used

The vouchers were in $10,$20 and $50, the $10s ran out pretty fast, I ended up doing 2 accounts, one $10 (95am) and the other $20 (190am). I then used them in-store at Home Outfitters during Black Friday weekend.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Home now and just pulled up all of the previous promo threads where the links for the coupons are since they're still active. Based on this I'm gonna try to make sure i have at least 2 transactions prepared and then wait and see. It will depend on how the promo is set up -- total # of coupons used OR number of sponsors shopped at -- if it's the sponsors I'll probably be fine with just the 2
Shop the Block 2017:

• Rexall
• Foodland
• Sobey's
• Metro
• AND redeem for a gift card at HBC

Mega Miles 2018:
Same as above, minus the HBC gift card

 

[Donald - my hero]

Earlier this morning while I was entering all my daily contests, I "won" a 5X airmilesshop good for today. I feel like I'm wasting it as there is nothing I need to purchase.

There's a couple of scrapbooking templates I'd like to get on Etsy, only they won't add up to $20. Hmm... I can't figure out what to do with it.

I keep a running list of things i need to order online for when these bonus offers pop up -- I got 15X on one account on Sunday so placed an order thru Amazon since it also has 2X right now -- so my $35 transaction netted me 16 miles -- not too shabby

**side note, take a screen shot of your "winning" i had to hop onto an online chat today since the 15X didn't credit but the others did, poof in under 5 minutes .. added to my account. Seems customer service is stepping up to the plate right now (or i'm just lucking in with the people i get!)

 

[Disney Addicted]

Yes. To be safe. Switch your card to Cash on Sunday (before midnight). You'll leave it there until at least next Sunday (Sobeys posts on Saturday) but I would wait until they show up in your account before switching back. If you don't want a tonne of AM in Cash just limit your shopping for the week.

Great, thank you!

I keep a running list of things i need to order online for when these bonus offers pop up -- I got 15X on one account on Sunday so placed an order thru Amazon since it also has 2X right now -- so my $35 transaction netted me 16 miles -- not too shabby

**side note, take a screen shot of your "winning" i had to hop onto an online chat today since the 15X didn't credit but the others did, poof in under 5 minutes .. added to my account. Seems customer service is stepping up to the plate right now (or i'm just lucking in with the people i get!)

15X - wow! That was a nice one. Yes, these days I take screen shots of almost everything - just in case. I'll have to take a look online later tonight and see if there's anything I might find I need. Ohh, I did see earlier that Indigo has a 5X going on right now. Would these stack? Would I get 10X if I ordered a $25 Indigo gift card? I can always use those at Christmas time.

 

[CanadianKrista]

So is it when it posts or when you do the transaction that matters? if I flip it now, and then go do my RExall trip, where I expect about 200 miles, but it gets posted tomorrow, will it be at my dream setting for today, or my cash setting for tomorrow? So confusing....

 

[Donald - my hero]

So is it when it posts or when you do the transaction that matters? if I flip it now, and then go do my RExall trip, where I expect about 200 miles, but it gets posted tomorrow, will it be at my dream setting for today, or my cash setting for tomorrow? So confusing....

No, it's based on the transaction date (usually) for Rexall to post as cash for a transaction you make today your account would already need to be set for cash.

Exception for this is when big promos get posted or anytime you contact them for missing miles they will go into your account immediately to whichever you have it set right then.

 

[flyingjay]

I haven't seen this posted yet...but for anyone looking to use AM for Disneyland tickets, AM is offering Canadian Resident tickets.

3 Day
Adult - 3250 Miles
Child - 3100 Miles

5 Day
Adult - 3650 Miles
Child - 3500 Miles

Not sure why, but the Disneyworld tickets don't have any discount yet.

 

[CanadianKrista]

Successful but funny Rexall trip. I had what I thought was $50 worth of stuff, got to the cash and everything was on sale but the stickers weren’t posted yet so it was only $36! Got what I thought was another $15 worth, and it was about 8. I felt like I was in The Price is Right or something going back and trying for the right totals! Finally got to my $50 and evrythjng counted - 150AM for the Ottawa coupon, 50 for the generic one from earlier in the week, 40 my my load and go threshold, and 10 for other load and go offers. Base miles included, it was 252AM! Pretty happy with that one.

 

[kristabelle13]

Had to chat to get my 1000 AM back to school bonus - but had all my receipts ready and it was fairly quick. Will need to chat again on my mom's account to make sure she gets hers as well (live chat isn't her strong suit tech-wise lol)

 

[Days In the Sun]

Successful but funny Rexall trip. I had what I thought was $50 worth of stuff, got to the cash and everything was on sale but the stickers weren’t posted yet so it was only $36! Got what I thought was another $15 worth, and it was about 8. I felt like I was in The Price is Right or something going back and trying for the right totals! Finally got to my $50 and evrythjng counted - 150AM for the Ottawa coupon, 50 for the generic one from earlier in the week, 40 my my load and go threshold, and 10 for other load and go offers. Base miles included, it was 252AM! Pretty happy with that one.

Glad to see someone take advantage of this awesome deal! Nice job.

 

[Disney Addicted]

I'm a bit confused with Rexall's spend threshold for the weekend.

The flyer says spend $50 get 100 air miles. My load & go shows the same but does NOT require it to be loaded. So that's the same offer, no doubling up there.

However in my Air Miles APP when I go into Get Miles and click on Rexall, it also has a Spend $50 get 100 air miles. That one I had to click the + sign to get a checkmark beside it. It now says "loaded to card". So will that one double-up so when I spend $50 I would get 200 air miles?

 

[Donald - my hero]

I'm a bit confused with Rexall's spend threshold for the weekend.

The flyer says spend $50 get 100 air miles. My load & go shows the same but does NOT require it to be loaded. So that's the same offer, no doubling up there.

However in my Air Miles APP when I go into Get Miles and click on Rexall, it also has a Spend $50 get 100 air miles. That one I had to click the + sign to get a checkmark beside it. It now says "loaded to card". So will that one double-up so when I spend $50 I would get 200 air miles?

I'm literally walking into rexall right now, I'll let you know!!

 

[Donald - my hero]

And the answer is no ... same offer just listed in 3 separate places! Fall offer hub, flyer and app . Spent 55.93, used the 5 survey coupon and snagged 113 airmiles, not as good as the Ottawa report but enough cash miles for the second card now!

 

[Disney Addicted]

Thanks Jacqueline. I appreciate your report. I think I'll still go tomorrow. I do want to get at least 95/100 cash miles on both my card and my husband's card before STB comes out.

I need 2 bottles of shampoo since I mistakenly purchased 2 bottles of conditioner last time I shopped (instead of 1 of each). That will give me another 20, plus 6 for sensodyne toothpaste.

I'll do the halloween candy at Sobey's on the other card for Monday.

 

[pigletto]

Oh darn, I forgot about the cash mile offers for STB. I have more than enough on my account as that’s all I collect now ( and use for gas and groceries) but I don’t think dd or dh’s cards have enough. I will have to get them to Rexall shop this weekend before STB.