Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[Donald - my hero]

How long should I wait to ask about my airmilesshop shop points at Canada Post? Both of my other shops have appeared.

You might not like this answer, but this is how I would handle it: If it is for this current promo and I had only ordered it within the last month I would just be waiting for the following reasons:

1. Date for base miles for online shopping 60 days and bonus 75 days to post hasn't come close to passing
2. I could easily get a newbie customer service agent who will only spit out the above numbers (more than likely using 120 days not 75)
3. Even if I luck in and get some of the stellar reps who will post the miles right now I KNOW I'll need to do yet another chat when the big promo miles post because even a note on my file means nothing to that.

You could take the chance on getting Lawrence and having him post the entire promo amount like @kerreyn did but that's a bit of a crap shoot.

 

[bababear_50]

BMO question
I have a BMO airmiles mastercard which I hardly ever use.
So I got a airmiles,BMO offer spend 180.00 get 75 airmiles.

​ Get​ 75​ AIR MILES® Bonus Miles​ when you spend a total of $180 or more on your BMO AIR MILES Mastercard by August 2, 2019.1​

If I purchase Gift Cards at Shell 4x 50 gift cards will this qualify for this offer?
Plus will I still get 20 airmiles for each Gift Card?Amazon
Thanks
Hugs
Mel

 

[Donald - my hero]

BMO question
I have a BMO airmiles mastercard which I hardly ever use.
So I got a airmiles,BMO offer spend 180.00 get 75 airmiles.

​ Get​ 75​ AIR MILES® Bonus Miles​ when you spend a total of $180 or more on your BMO AIR MILES Mastercard by August 2, 2019.1​

If I purchase Gift Cards at Shell 4x 50 gift cards will this qualify for this offer?
Plus will I still get 20 airmiles for each Gift Card?Amazon
Thanks
Hugs
Mel

Yes ma'am! They won't care what you buy to get those $$ you just need to charge the $180, ANYWHERE! That's an easy-peasy 75 miles IMHO.
Now to answer the question about the gift cards that's a solid, "I'm not sure" Here's the terms & conditions and why I'm not sure
Gift Cards Offer valid May 6, 2019 through to September 1, 2019 at participating Shell locations in ON, MB, SK, AB, BC, and NT (excluding Shell Flying J locations). Get 20 AIR MILES® Bonus Miles on your purchase of any one of the following Gift Cards: $50 Keg or $50 Amazon or $50 Golf Town or $35.00 Xbox or $50 Home Outfitters or either $50 or $100 Cabela or either $25 or $50 OLG. Maximum of 20 Bonus Miles per transaction for this offer. Maximum of 5 transactions per day. Maximum 100 Bonus Miles per collector account for this offer. Offer may be combined with other Bonus Offers. No coupon required. A valid AIR MILES Card must be swiped/Collector Number entered at time of transaction. Shell reserves the right to make changes to this offer and to terminate the offer at any time, for any reason and without notice. Please allow up to 4 weeks post promotion for your Bonus Miles to be loaded to your collector account.

Does the part I underlined & put in italics means 100 miles TOTAL or does it mean 100 miles per TRANSACTION? I'm reading it as you can buy a total of 5 gift cards, in any combination, during the entire promotion. Maybe someone else can answer this ?

ETA: I'm pretty sure I've made the correct assumption about the gift cards because here's the terms & conditions for the coke products, notice the section I've marked. It says you can do 5 transactions per day
not total?
Coke HERO Promotion Offer valid July 1, 2019 through to September 1, 2019 at participating Shell locations in ON, MB, SK, AB, BC, and NT (excluding Shell Flying J locations). Get 10 AIR MILES® Bonus Miles on your purchase of any 3 of Coca-Cola 473-500ml, Powerade 710-946ml, Glaceau Vitamin Water 591ml & Peace Tea 695ml - mix & match 3/$5. Maximum 10 Bonus miles per transaction for this offer. Maximum of 5 transactions per day. Offer may be combined with other Bonus Offers. No coupon required. A valid AIR MILES Card must be swiped/Collector Number entered at time of transaction. Shell reserves the right to make changes to this offer and to terminate the offer at any time, for any reason and without notice. Please allow up to 4 weeks post promotion for your Bonus Miles to be loaded to your collector account.

 

[bababear_50]

Hi J
So maybe I should do each of the gift cards separately instead of together,,the total ($200.00) should still get me the BMO airmiles and each transaction of the gift cards should get me the 20 airmiles.
I am headed out later today and will give it a try.
Thanks for all the info
Hugs
Mel

 

[bababear_50]

Shell shop
Did 4 50.00 Amazon purchases separately.
First three went through and I got 25 airmiles for each one,,not sure what happened to the 4th one as only 5 airmiles posted??
I mean the total is right if you say 20x4= 80 but still weird how it posted on each receipt.
now to remember to Pay off the BMO card immediately.
Hugs
Mel

 

[bababear_50]

Uck--tapping 4 times at Shell froze my BMO mastercard and had to go through fraud team to get it back...
whoooooooooo what a process.Good to know they are on top of things though.
Hugs
Mel

 

[hdrolfe]

BMO question
I have a BMO airmiles mastercard which I hardly ever use.
So I got a airmiles,BMO offer spend 180.00 get 75 airmiles.

​ Get​ 75​ AIR MILES® Bonus Miles​ when you spend a total of $180 or more on your BMO AIR MILES Mastercard by August 2, 2019.1​

If I purchase Gift Cards at Shell 4x 50 gift cards will this qualify for this offer?
Plus will I still get 20 airmiles for each Gift Card?Amazon
Thanks
Hugs
Mel

My offer listed 3 stores I could qualify by shopping at. I don't see that on yours? Any way! Mine were Metro, Rexall and Shell. I get one a week with varying amounts to buy, haven't done it yet. This time it's $50 to get 50 AM. But I just paid off Disney and don't think I'll be doing that. Any way! You may want to see which stores it's for. But if Shell is listed, then yes you can get whatever you want there, BMO can't tell what you bought.

 

[Days In the Sun]

My offer listed 3 stores I could qualify by shopping at. I don't see that on yours? Any way! Mine were Metro, Rexall and Shell. I get one a week with varying amounts to buy, haven't done it yet. This time it's $50 to get 50 AM. But I just paid off Disney and don't think I'll be doing that. Any way! You may want to see which stores it's for. But if Shell is listed, then yes you can get whatever you want there, BMO can't tell what you bought.

Mine is 50 airmiles when you spend $50 as well, Staples, Lowes and Global Pet Foods, says in-store only. This is my third one, I get about one a month. I will likely go to Staples for a giftcard, likely Disney.

Edit: With my offer you have to spend $50 in one transaction

 

[Donald - my hero]

Newbie to making AM work for me, would love if I could get some guidance!
I want to get in to the Christmas in July event and want to make sure that I can use it to purchase GC at Ardene, Indego, and Apple.
Also, what is the end goal with AM that gives you the biggest bang for your buck? Use AM dream points for tickets? Or cash miles to get Disney GC?
Any assistance is appreciated

Oh my goodness- this is amazing- thank you so much (I knew the Apple ones were to good to be true
Where were you able to access this chat? I didn’t realize that they were so responsive

Ok, let's give this a go, shall we? I hope you managed to get enough answers regarding the airmilesshop promo to complete at least 2 categories for 50 miles. Make sure you pay attention to the grouping of the stores since it's not the same as the main page uses!

How you collect your miles and then use them will depend on a few things -- do you mind playing a little bit of the Shell Game, sort of a math slight of hand if you will if so then follow this and use Cash Miles
You can't do a straight up exchange of miles, cash or dream, for Disney gift cards but there is a work-around that some people like to use. Go shopping and use your Cash Miles to buy whatever (at a grocery store or Rexall) and then add a gift card for the same amount as your other purchases. THEN use whatever form of payment you like to pay for the gift card and tell yourself that you paid for the "stuff" and redeemed your miles for the gift card.

Dream miles can be used for Tickets, airfare, hotel (NOT Disney but we've booked the hotel inside Pearson for the night before our stupid-o'clock flight with miles) or a rental car. Due to the fact that we never buy anything strictly for miles and even if there are miles attached to a product it needs to be at or above my 1:1 ratio, the higher the better, we look at everything we redeem our miles for as FREE. We might alter our shopping patterns slightly (i don't think we need to buy toilet paper till 2021 at this point!) and I carry around a running list of items that are coming close to needing to be replenished while i wait for them to go on sale or have bonus miles attached.

To access the online chat with Airmiles go to the web-page, click on Need Help and select the 2nd option (Miles the Bot, sucks!)


I have found that FB Messenger works really well also, and they are staffed by the same people, with better hours! Also, if you use the online chat system you need to keep the chat window up and not switch tabs or you can get disconnected, but messenger will let you know when you've got a response. They can both solve your problems though.

Don't be afraid to ask more questions, we all learn from each other!

 

[ottawamom]

Uck--tapping 4 times at Shell froze my BMO mastercard and had to go through fraud team to get it back...
whoooooooooo what a process.Good to know they are on top of things though.
Hugs
Mel

That happened to me the other week at Metro. They allowed the 4 transactions to go through but called the house not long after I got home to confirm the transactions. They are on top of things. Better to freeze the account and have you call them than have someone run up a lot of charges.

I've never had this happen when I use my PIN code (have done 6 GC at Sobeys this way). I'm so afraid to tap again. I just take the extra time and enter my PIN.

 

[Debbie]

You might not like this answer, but this is how I would handle it: If it is for this current promo and I had only ordered it within the last month I would just be waiting for the following reasons:

1. Date for base miles for online shopping 60 days and bonus 75 days to post hasn't come close to passing
2. I could easily get a newbie customer service agent who will only spit out the above numbers (more than likely using 120 days not 75)
3. Even if I luck in and get some of the stellar reps who will post the miles right now I KNOW I'll need to do yet another chat when the big promo miles post because even a note on my file means nothing to that.

You could take the chance on getting Lawrence and having him post the entire promo amount like @kerreyn did but that's a bit of a crap shoot.

You called it. The one thing I did learn/do was to save (and save) my Canada Post email confirming shipping. I'll have to put a reminder for the middle of September. I know that it should be the end, but we are heading out of the country for 4 weeks, so I'll plead ignorance and hope I get someone who is willing to help. Thanks for the heads up on what to expect!

 

[WifeofZeusse]

Just went to the Foodland to purchase an A&W gift card and the cashier swiped the card and said there was a $6 activation fee. The cashier beside her said to try another card and same thing happened. Needless to say I didn't purchase it. Anyone ever have this problem?

 

[Aliciahere]

This is amazing advice. Thank you so much. What you are saying lines up with everything I thought and assumed about using the program - it is so reassuring! 1:1 or more sounds perfect to me.

I did my two purchases on the Xmas in July promo, but on the third I think I messed up I went in through AM and went to Children’s place, my son picked out the clothes he wanted put them in the shopping cart. I didn’t make the purchase. I went back the next day through AM and the items were still in the cart, purchased them. But now I’m reading that you have to place the items in the shopping cart in the same session??? Will it still qualify, or if the points don’t show up, can I dispute it and they will accept it? Or should I make another purchase (I can, he needs more clothes, but was planning to wait to get the Cash card, which will probably show up in a couple of days)?
Sorry for all the questions!! Thank you for answers I think I have my strategy. I have a couple of days in WDW in about 50 days, everything is paid for. I’m throwing everything into cash, try to get a GC for as much as possible. After that switch to Dream, as we are heading to DL in Nov 2020, try to get one park ticket (the others are being gifted, and I’m already a third of the way there), and then if there is any left, back to cash for as much GCs as possible

What is everybody averaging for monthly hauls of miles? I realize it’s variable, but it makes me curious!

 

[bababear_50]

So the youngest son was over today for a visit and guess what is his new favorite fast food place,,(vegetarian) A&W!!! He says the breakfast plant based sausage is wonderful.
Time to see if I can get a few cards.
Hugs
Mel

P.S.
WifeofZeusse

I have never been charged an activation fee for gift cards.
I am not sure what to suggest.sorry this happened to you,,hopefully other will chime in.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Just went to the Foodland to purchase an A&W gift card and the cashier swiped the card and said there was a $6 activation fee. The cashier beside her said to try another card and same thing happened. Needless to say I didn't purchase it. Anyone ever have this problem?

Nope, not a thing that I've ever heard of on any gift card other than the pre-paid Visa/Mastercard/AMEX cards. Not sure what the heck that store was doing, but it was 99.99999% wrong (gotta leave room for the potential that I'm mistaken )

I'm sorry this happened and hope it wasn't a special trip that was out of your way~!

 

[Donald - my hero]

This is amazing advice. Thank you so much. What you are saying lines up with everything I thought and assumed about using the program - it is so reassuring! 1:1 or more sounds perfect to me.

I did my two purchases on the Xmas in July promo, but on the third I think I messed up I went in through AM and went to Children’s place, my son picked out the clothes he wanted put them in the shopping cart. I didn’t make the purchase. I went back the next day through AM and the items were still in the cart, purchased them. But now I’m reading that you have to place the items in the shopping cart in the same session??? Will it still qualify, or if the points don’t show up, can I dispute it and they will accept it? Or should I make another purchase (I can, he needs more clothes, but was planning to wait to get the Cash card, which will probably show up in a couple of days)?
Sorry for all the questions!! Thank you for answers I think I have my strategy. I have a couple of days in WDW in about 50 days, everything is paid for. I’m throwing everything into cash, try to get a GC for as much as possible. After that switch to Dream, as we are heading to DL in Nov 2020, try to get one park ticket (the others are being gifted, and I’m already a third of the way there), and then if there is any left, back to cash for as much GCs as possible

What is everybody averaging for monthly hauls of miles? I realize it’s variable, but it makes me curious!

So glad to help you out! Regarding the online shopping, I know that Amazon mentions needing a fresh start every session or the miles won't count but I'm not sure about any of the other stores. This is how i handle my online shopping -- i create "wish lists" or "favourites" whatever the store calls it and plunk things in there that I'm interested in buying. When I'm actually ready to shop I head to the portal and sign in (if my account is already signed in I'll sign out first to make sure I'm using the right account!!), head to the store i want and sign into that account (i ALWAYS sign out of my stores to make sure I will have a clean start every time) then I will pull things, one at a time into my cart, watching the subtotal carefully until it reaches whatever threshold i need to meet, free shipping, or Airmiles bonus.

Our hauls are nowhere near as impressive as some of the others here but our household is only 2 adults who don't eat much, buy much extra stuff or use Shell for gas. When we have a goal to reach for our earn rate increases. Looking back at the past year we've earned 18,674 since January, lowest month was January at 325 and highest was February at 2,712 (but that was only because Shop the Block posted 2,000!!)

 

[Days In the Sun]

Any last minute Christmas shoppers? In case it helps anyone out, today I did:

Canon: 5x airmiles and 10% off code on retailmenot
Rona: $10 off $50 code on retailmenot
Lowes: used a new email to get $10 off $50 for new email signup (on Lowes website)

 

[Donald - my hero]

Any last minute Christmas shoppers? In case it helps anyone out, today I did:

Canon: 5x airmiles and 10% off code on retailmenot
Rona: $10 off $50 code on retailmenot
Lowes: used a new email to get $10 off $50 for new email signup (on Lowes website)

YUP! I just put together an order for Well .ca and used the coupon code for $10 off my first order. I currently have 6 safe foods in my diet and I found some great things i can actually eat!! Added some soap, Voltaren gel for hubby's aching shoulder, a bag to store our silicone straws for Disney (I ain't drinking out of a paper one thank you very much!) and several bags of freeze dried cheese! Yes, that is a thing, and it's something i can chuck in my bag for quick snacks.

Didn't think I'd find a 3rd shop to complete but this was just a stroke of luck that i decided to search for somewhere to buy the stuff other than a tiny, over-priced health food store downtown. Pre-tax total was $52.67 and that will net me the extra 250 miles, pretty decent haul!!!!!

 

[bababear_50]

YUP! I just put together an order for Well .ca and used the coupon code for $10 off my first order. I currently have 6 safe foods in my diet and I found some great things i can actually eat!! Added some soap, Voltaren gel for hubby's aching shoulder, a bag to store our silicone straws for Disney (I ain't drinking out of a paper one thank you very much!) and several bags of freeze dried cheese! Yes, that is a thing, and it's something i can chuck in my bag for quick snacks.

Didn't think I'd find a 3rd shop to complete but this was just a stroke of luck that i decided to search for somewhere to buy the stuff other than a tiny, over-priced health food store downtown. Pre-tax total was $52.67 and that will net me the extra 250 miles, pretty decent haul!!!!!

Hi J
Never mind I get what you mean if you had only done two shops you'd only get 50 so now you get an extra 250.
Sometimes I am a bit daffy,,sorry.Time for bed!!!

3 shops is 300 right?


Shop 3 Christmas in July categories 1

300
BONUS MILES

 

[Newcastle]

Okay Airmilesshops experts, I have a question for you. I just completed a purchase from Roxy to use as one of my qualifying purchases for the Christmas in July promotion. I made the order tonight at 9:15 EST and when I checked my email receipt, it says that the order was placed on July 29, 2019. I thought this was a little weird so I scrolled down to check the contact address for Roxy and they are in California so that's probably why the order date is listed as July 29 (i.e. 9:15 EST would be 12:15 AM PST). Strangely enough, on the order summary page on their website, there is no date mentioned. I was going to take a screenshot of that page to 'prove' that I purchased the item on the 28th but no such luck. Anyone ever encountered something like this? I'm just worried that the purchase is not going to count as part of the Christmas in July promotion considering that the order date is documented as July 29th. Lesson learned to not leave purchases until the last minute .

ETA: Well, I'm even more confused now because I screwed up and realized that the west coast is three hours behind us, not three hours ahead so there goes that theory as to why the order was listed as being placed on July 29th. Any idea what might be going on here?