Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[Canadian Harmony]

I'm hoping AM will come up with discounted tickets too, but I'll have to time it right as it takes us 2-3 weeks to get mail where everywhere else gets theirs in 10-12 days.

This week's Thrifty's flyer has 451 AM up for grabs, with some good ones on staples we use a lot of. I'm expecting a $210 shop for 300AM. I'm only 720AM away from our third DLR 5DPH, at the current AM cost.

 

[Donald - my hero]

I'm hoping AM will come up with discounted tickets too, but I'll have to time it right as it takes us 2-3 weeks to get mail where everywhere else gets theirs in 10-12 days.

This week's Thrifty's flyer has 451 AM up for grabs, with some good ones on staples we use a lot of. I'm expecting a $210 shop for 300AM. I'm only 720AM away from our third DLR 5DPH, at the current AM cost.

I'm interested to see how AM will handle this situation -- it took them quite a long time to get rid of the stash of the last Discounted tickets and since these HAVE an expiry date there's no way people will be wanting to get them after that point. PLUS the ones they currently have in stock have the identical expiry date -- They won't want to lose the money they put out to buy these!

 

[Canadian Harmony]

Very true. Maybe they won't do anything and hope we don't notice...?

 

[mab2012]

Yeah, I've been following the discussion. But do we know for sure that these tickets are non-discounted regular child tickets?

Mine is, but there's no telling when that might change. I knew I was taking a bit of a calculated risk when I ordered.

I wonder if the new Canadian Resident special is the reason the Air Miles website was not updated to new pricing for regular child tickets? By the time they ran out, they may have already known that the new special was going to be released, and possibly it wasn't worth updating the website and changing the pricing for that short period. So they filled the gap with regular tickets, with the intention of offering the new Canadian Resident tickets once they became available. Just a guess, of course, but I can't see why else they would have sent out these higher value tickets without increasing the redemption rate.

 

[Donald - my hero]

The duck is working the system to it's fullest today .... I placed an order with Amazon on Sunday to take advantage of a couple of things : get me my bonus 50 AM and i had some pre-paid Visa cards i got from doing surveys that were set to expire at the end of the month. Order arrived today (wow, i didn't select 2 day delivery!!) and one of the items was clearly opened, used, put back together and shipped out to me .. since it's a power bank and has a deep scratch in the case i don't want to keep it, opened a chat session and was told to ship it back (free shipping label provided) and re-order a new one. Got to select next-day shipping and they waived that as well once i provided them with the order # SO -- i went back in thru the Airmiles shop portal and I *might* make the whopping 2 AM again ...

THEN i heard the mail and discovered hubby's pay cheque from the American company he does an online course for and did a quick check on the current exchange rate --- everyone else might be upset with the rate right now but we just made $1500

 

[La Belle]

Following along...I double checked my AM tickets for Disneyworld and there is no expiry date on them. so...I am a bit confused. There was a time when the special was for non expiry tickets.

Update to my AM order - they will refund my points if I return the ticket. They do not have any Canadian Resident Tickets left - so if anyone was hoping to take advantage of the kids ticket with the lower am, do it quickly before they update their website. But keep in mind they really do expire - first use must be by Dec. 31 2018.

Edited: I'm just wondering now if I should buy more tickets and use the one's with the expiry date and then keep the non-expiry tickets.

Can someone confirm that the tickets were initially sent out as non-expiry? I should be expecting to see an expiry on the AM voucher if there was an expiry date?

 

[Donald - my hero]

Following along...I double checked my AM tickets for Disneyworld and there is no expiry date on them. so...I am a bit confused. There was a time when the special was for non expiry tickets.


Edited: I'm just wondering now if I should buy more tickets and use the one's with the expiry date and then keep the non-expiry tickets.

Can someone confirm that the tickets were initially sent out as non-expiry? I should be expecting to see an expiry on the AM voucher if there was an expiry date?

If you already have the green vouchers then they do NOT have an expiry date -- well, Dec 31, 2030 i think is the date attached to them. If you have hard credit card type cards with a date POST Feb 12th of this year they expire the end of 2018. The new vouchers (no way of knowing yet if AM will be sending these out or not) will have an expiry date of Dec 31, 2018.

Any date printed on the vouchers or tickets is the issue date.

 

[La Belle]

Thank you! I do have green paper vouchers. I'll double check the Post date on them just to make sure. Thanks again for confirming!!
If I can afford to buy more tickets, I will keep my non expiry tickets. We are going in March 2018 and then again after Star Wars land opens.

 

[peterparker520]

Not going to the parks in 2018, so I guess I will just wait and see if anything changes...Got the discounted tickets for our last trip this past May, that was a really nice savings. Let's hope it comes back

 

[Donald - my hero]

Please tell me that I'm not the only one who is excited when Wednesday rolls around because , well .. FLYERS!! SO far the only thing of much interest is a bizzarre offer in the Atlantic Sobeys flyer which will be good if you like to eat a lot (and i mean a LOT) of cereal ... Buy 5 ginormaous boxes of cereal for 6.99 and get 99 miles. Return rate of just under 3 AM/$



Glancing thru the Metro flyer and haven't been overly excited by the offers BUT the St Hubert chicken pies that are on sale for $5.99 are pretty dang good! (and i hate poultry so this says a lot!) OH LOOK, we also have a cereal deal -- same size boxes ..$5.99 get THREE AM when you buy 1

 

[cari12]

Please tell me that I'm not the only one who is excited when Wednesday rolls around because , well .. FLYERS!! SO far the only thing of much interest is a bizzarre offer in the Atlantic Sobeys flyer which will be good if you like to eat a lot (and i mean a LOT) of cereal ... Buy 3 ginormaous boxes of cereal for 6.99 and get 99 miles. Return rate of just under 3 AM/$
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Glancing thru the Metro flyer and haven't been overly excited by the offers BUT the St Hubert chicken pies that are on sale for $5.99 are pretty dang good! (and i hate poultry so this says a lot!) OH LOOK, we also have a cereal deal -- same size boxes ..$5.99 get THREE AM when you buy 1

I hope Safeway in the West gets the 99 airmiles deal - My husband eats cereal almost everyday and they used to have buy 5 get 100 AM quite often but I haven't seen it in a while. I'll see when I get home from work today.

 

[Donald - my hero]

I hope Safeway in the West gets the 99 airmiles deal - My husband eats cereal almost everyday and they used to have buy 5 get 100 AM quite often but I haven't seen it in a while. I'll see when I get home from work today.

** oops noticed i made a mistake and said buy 3 -- it's actually buy 5!

 

[buyerbrad]

No I didn't link it. I called Disney Ticketing and gave them the number on the card and they verified the expiry date. AM didn't ask if I had linked them or not. Can a linked ticket be un-linked so you can send back? Either way, I'd argue it with them - what they had advertised on their site, and what you ordered, was not what they delivered. Unless you know someone that got a Canadian Voucher that's going before the expiry and wants to trade with you. I may do that myself instead of sending back.

Customer service called me back tonight to resolve my case. They did confirm that the ticket they did send me would expire and they are now aware of the problem. They will be updating the info on the website soon. I was given the option to return the ticket for a refund of my miles, as Disney could cancel it through my MDE account. I told him I would like to keep the ticket, but was disappointed that I did not receive the item as described and that it took 2-3 hours of total chat/phone time over the past 2+ weeks to resolve(plus the purchase of a few $150 Sobey’s giftcards to get the 150 Miles that I didn’t really need at the time). He understood my disappointment and gave me a very generous amount of miles for my time and inconvenience. Handled very well by Airmiles!

 

[ottawamom]

Beginning of the new month reminder for everyone to screen print or print off their AM page(s) for the month of October. Airmiles has been known to back post amounts and having a hard copy makes it easier to reconcile what the heck has happened when things go crazy.

 

[osully]

Beginning of the new month reminder for everyone to screen print or print off their AM page(s) for the month of October. Airmiles has been known to back post amounts and having a hard copy makes it easier to reconcile what the heck has happened when things go crazy.

What do you mean?

 

[Donald - my hero]

What do you mean?

Well .. looking at mine -- i have had my account go up and down 3 times today and i can't figure out what the heck is going on! Everything seems to be ok at the moment but for a couple of hours i was missing close to 200 miles that were there last night. By the time i was sure of that, POOF they were back plus another 250-ish that I'd been waiting on from Sobeys & Metro. (still don't have the 150 for the airmilesshop though) I'm 99 miles away from having $1400.00 in travel certificates now

 

[bababear_50]

Foodland flyer
https://flyers.smartcanucks.ca/canada/foodland-on-flyer-november-3-to-9/all

Sobeys flyer
https://flyers.smartcanucks.ca/canada/sobeys-on-flyer-november-3-to-9/all

Hugs Mel

 

[osully]

Nothing remarkable again at Sobeys ON! Guess that one Blue Friday we had in Sept was a fluke?!

 

[osully]

Well .. looking at mine -- i have had my account go up and down 3 times today and i can't figure out what the heck is going on! Everything seems to be ok at the moment but for a couple of hours i was missing close to 200 miles that were there last night. By the time i was sure of that, POOF they were back plus another 250-ish that I'd been waiting on from Sobeys & Metro. (still don't have the 150 for the airmilesshop though) I'm 99 miles away from having $1400.00 in travel certificates now

Oh ok - I have not ever noticed this happening. Sorry to hear about that.

 

[ottawamom]

What do you mean?

Back in August, I believe, AM made some "corrections" regarding a promotion which had posted much earlier in the year. The corrections were made with a July date on them (in August) and all most people noticed was a change in their account balance. You literally had to go back in time post by post to figure out that they had inserted a change mid July. The correction should have been posted with the current date and not back dated (made it very difficult for people to figure out what happened)

If you have a hard copy (or screen shot) of your account activity it is easier to see if unusual activity has happened. Or you may not be concerned with this and you don't need to take this precaution. I'm a little too obsessed with my AM to let anyone mess with them and not be able to figure it out.