How do you do it?

[star72232]

Boo, none near me. But how are people getting AM on gift cards, it said on the promo GC purchase excluded.

It's only Shell GC that are excluded, not the other GC. It's an odd loophole.

 

[AngelDisney]

Sobeys and Foodland give bonus AM on giftcard purchases as a special promotion about 3-4 times a year.

 

[Spotthecat]

I collected 47,000 in one year, and it helped offset almost $5000 on my Disney cruise. I used the buy 50$ at Rexall get 110 airmiles quite often if it was on. Like 7 times in a day. My credit card is airmiles, and I do a lot of shopping through airmilesshops.ca especially when they have multipliers on (so you sometimes earn 15 times the regular airmiles). I buy the giftcards at Shell when they have their airmiles promotions, then Iuse those same giftcards through airmilesshops - so Amazon and Chapters especially. Between the shell gift cards purchases giving me airmiles to using them on the portal, Ican sometimes get 10-15% of a return of my money spent directly in airmiles. But really, it's all about the bonus points, not the 1 AM for buying an item. Buy 2 yogurts, get 15 am? Get 10 yogurts, get 150 airmiles. Buy 2 cans of soup, get 30 airmiles. Well, buy as many cans of soup as the store lets you or you can store or donate. Thanks to Rexall and trying to rack up the airmiles for my cruise, I probably have shampoo for a year, along with toothpaste and advil. But you know what? It runs out eventually! And those offers to get 150$ airmiles by buying giftcards for groceries - that's a bonus. And I convinced my husband to get an additional airmiles card to use when these big promotions happen like megamiles and the giftcard offers. The surveys that give you airmiles, they also add up - piddly amounts but it all goes to the same account so it's all good. Of course, I don't have a metro, foodland or sobeys near me, but find driving to them to get the airmiles worth it most of the time. I only pay cash for stuff like a chocolate bar, everything else is on my credit card.

 

[CdnCarrie]

If you have a AM credit card you can get 1 mile for every $15 you charge. Also here on the prairies we often have spend a $100 get 100 AM at Safeway/Sobey's/IGA. Like all the time. I easily get 600+ AM from grocery shopping a month plus about the same from the credit card. I put everything through the card - car/home insurance, phone plans, groceries, charitable donations, etc.

There is a good FB group called Air Miles for Disney. Also a thread of Smart Canucks https://forum.smartcanucks.ca/23424-safeways-sweet-airmiles-deals-canada/.

Often an ongoing thread here as well.

 

[Northernlites]

I have the Elite AM MC which gets 1 air mile per $10 purchase. I buy everything with it which results in the annual fee waived. I only redeem air miles for groceries at Metro. Usually I end up getting $1,200 to $1,500 per year in free groceries. I also got an extra air miles card so my husband can use it when he remembers.

 

[FLVacationGirl]

My big ones are Shop the Block and Mega Miles. Otherwise it's just the bonus offers here and there. Blue Friday at Sobeys, etc. It's still adding up though! One Disney World pass done. 3 to go!