Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[mernin]

I received the BMO targeted email too for Sobeys but my spends were way higher. Not sure I'll be spending that much in October!!
270 Bonus Miles when you spend $1120
460 Bonus Miles when you spend $1260
540 Bonus Miles when you spend $1600

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

mernin, those spends are ridiculous.

 

[chris1212]

I got the targeted offer for my BMO MC:
50 Bonus Miles, spend $150
80 Bonus Miles, spend $225
100 Bonus Miles, spend $300

Is it cumulative for the month, or in a single transaction?

 

[mernin]

mernin, those spends are ridiculous.

You’re telling me!

 

[Donald - my hero]

I got the targeted offer for my BMO MC:
50 Bonus Miles, spend $150
80 Bonus Miles, spend $225
100 Bonus Miles, spend $300

Is it cumulative for the month, or in a single transaction?

Here's the link for the Terms & Conditions for the BMO offer -- mine is for Sobey's but i would imagine it's the same for Foodland as well

BMO Threshold Spend Terms & Conditions

To answer your specific question:

Minimum spend must be spent in a single transaction

BUT keeping with the confusion surrounding all of the BMO offers it also says:
Offer is cumulative over the statement period.

OK -- i looked a little closer at the offer and the terms are referring to 2 separate things -- the threshold spend IS a one time thing -- only get one threshold spend per card.
The cumulative spend is referring to the total miles you earn over a month using your card. Again i say CONFUSING! Not gonna have any impact on us anyway -- our smallest threshold is $140 and we have NEVER spent that much at Sobeys

 

[marcyleecorgan]

Well good news, DH says he will try to budget some money to go to Safeway Liquor for the deal they are running this coming sales promo. And we'll likely use the Shell promo on the premium fuel deal this month, as that's what we use in our vehicles.

 

[osully]

I also got the Sobeys offer. Our lowest spend threshold is too high. Our budget is $100 a week for groceries when we really need to stock up... $560 is not happening. Also would have liked for this promo to be sent out before Oct 1. Would then maybe have been able to do it if I had pushed my Friday grocery shop to Monday!!

140AM for $560

230AM for $680

270AM for $800

 

[damo]

My Sobey's thresholds are way too high as well. I never spend $250 in a single transaction. I'm not even going to activate it.

 

[ottawamom]

The only way the Sobeys offer would work for me is if they allow the GC (which they don't). I got another targeted offer, from Shell, which wants me to fill up 4X with a minimum of 40L each time (highly unlikely this will happen). What's up with the offers for bonus miles we really can't use?

 

[hdrolfe]

I didn't get any targeted offers lol. I guess I don't use my BMO card much! Oh well...

 

[dancin Disney style]

I also got the Sobeys offer...
$280 get 70
$340 get 120
$400 get 140

I will buy the gift cards(probably only 2) this weekend and hope that it works. Never in a million years would I spend $280 on a single grocery shop, sometimes I have difficulty getting to $100.

 

[Days In the Sun]

The only way the Sobeys offer would work for me is if they allow the GC (which they don't). I got another targeted offer, from Shell, which wants me to fill up 4X with a minimum of 40L each time (highly unlikely this will happen). What's up with the offers for bonus miles we really can't use?

Ouch, 40L would end Shell for me too. I got my monthly V-power premium offer that I can't use, dh has 2 25L fillups get 25am. We will do his and then likely go to Esso unless something else changes.

 

[Days In the Sun]

I didn't get any targeted offers lol. I guess I don't use my BMO card much! Oh well...

None for me either. I have the no fee card and don't use it much.

 

[TFC_UNTIL_I_DIE]

I didn't get the Sobeys offer - in fact My Offers is blank right now except for a few that have 1 day left. I have the World Elite Mastercard and didn't get that offer. I never seem to get any offers....not sure what I am doing wrong. I use this card a lot - if it can be charged, it hits the card.

I was ready for a restock on gift cards because I always buy the max and then go through them, converting some over to Shell gcs. Unfortunately, I can't take part this time because I am at sea on the Fantasy (boo-ho for me

Hope they have another gc offer soon as everytime I buy anything 'off card' I think about the lost AMs

 

[Donald - my hero]

Thanks for the reminder about the numbers.
As for the exclusions, while it does say gift cards are not included, I have done these offers before and as one person in this group here reminded me, Mastercard can not distinguish between what is and is not a gift card. It worked when I did this with my American Express offer, which had pretty much the same qualifiers. I have no interest in this offer as I don't use Foodland or their sister stores enough to make it worth investing that much money however if I were going to I would certainly give it a try. What's to lose?

The Duck sheepishly enters the room and raises her hand, clears her throat and sticks her hand in the air ...


YUP, that was ME! And dang, that's correct -- credit card will only see it as a purchase in the CLASS of store not what you actually bought. That exclusion is specific to Airmiles and we already KNOW that!!

Add me to the group that has zero idea of how these targeted offers are sent out. We also use our credit cards for just about any purchase we can but the MC is only for places that don't accept the AMEX since our earn rate for that card is higher. Only time we use it more is when there are these big offers.

SIDEBAR -- I got a new AMEX last week because the expiry was approaching and the dang thing has already been compromised I've only used it once in Metro on Sunday and then updated the info on my Fido account. Got an email at 3:42 am letting us know that someone bought close to $300 worth of Nike shoes thru the AMERICAN website. Red flags for them: above the dollar value of our regular online purchases and we never order thru a website in the states. When hubby got up first thing he did was try to check the online account and he couldn't sign in -- called AMEX to get password reset (took some time because it appeared we had done it on our end already) We're fairly confident we know what happened-- i had the option to activate it online and since i hate the phone, went ahead and did that but it forced me to create an online account for myself instead of attaching it to the current one. We thought it was odd and should have listened to the little voices but hubby figures there was a spoof of the website. Just had TWO phone calls from "AMEX fraud detection" insisting i needed to tell them my password so i could verify myself, uhm yeah, I don't think so! Had to call Fido to get them to remove my credit card for the account and then a hotel in Toronto to replace the credit card attached to our reservation for Thursday night to avoid arriving after 9 pm to find we have no room!

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Good news! I just got the Live Chat about this BMO offer. It's cumulative!


Jessica: From what I'm reading, it's cumulative, meaning that you earn 120 miles when you get to $350 spent, and then you get another 180 when your accumulated total reaches $525.
HEATHERM: ok and then another 240 when I hit $700
Jessica: Yes, exactly
HEATHERM: So I could earn a total of 540 miles on $700
Jessica: That's right.

 

[ottawamom]

I don't know if this is new or not but the BMO World Elite Airmiles card sign up bonus now has a free companion flight attached to it (plus the 3000AM bonus and fee waved for first year). Looks like you have to use Dream miles for the purchase of the two flights then they will credit you back (in airmiles) for the second flight. You get to pay the taxes etc.

I don't know if anyone here was thinking about signing up. That free flight is a nice perk.

 

[marcyleecorgan]

Wow these thresholds they keep coming up with are INSANE even if you consider gift card purchases!

 

[ottawamom]

Good news! I just got the Live Chat about this BMO offer. It's cumulative!


Jessica: From what I'm reading, it's cumulative, meaning that you earn 120 miles when you get to $350 spent, and then you get another 180 when your accumulated total reaches $525.
HEATHERM: ok and then another 240 when I hit $700
Jessica: Yes, exactly
HEATHERM: So I could earn a total of 540 miles on $700
Jessica: That's right.

That info turns the offer into a whole different ball game. My offer says "Get up to 300 AIR MILES® Bonus Miles"
GET:
150 Bonus Miles when you spend $630
260 Bonus Miles when you spend $765
300 Bonus Miles when you spend $900

I read that to mean there was a maximum of 300AM if I reached the $900 in spending for the month not that I would get 150+260+300. I think your CS rep misinterpreted things. Bonus if she didn't.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

ottawamom, yes I agree with your interpretation. I told her I would be saving our chat in case I had issues later on.