PC OPTIMUM, Lets share deals, offers, info

[marchingstar]

I gave up on AM, I just don't have enough places to shop that I can accumulate them enough. So I have been concentrating on Optimum and Petro points.
The Petro points take forever, but with all 3 of us buying gas, it will pay for 1 hotel night with itravel2000

So far this year I am up to $275 in Optimum points, we go to Disney the first week of October...then I will be Xmas shopping!! So these points will give me some $$ to get started! It's way easier for me to get these points to add quicker, between SDM, Zehrs and RCSS.

i haven’t totally given up on air miles, but in the past i put basically all my energy into them. now i split things between AM and PC points. I like the mix.

275 is great so far! and i hope you have a great time in disney i’ve always wanted to go in october.

 

[Pumpkin1172]

I gave up on AM, I just don't have enough places to shop that I can accumulate them enough. So I have been concentrating on Optimum and Petro points.

I work both programs as well as I can. We don't have many places here either for AM. I get the bulk of mine at Safeway. And honestly, this year, their offers have sucked...did you hear that Safeway!!!!! Sucked the big one!!!! I don't have a rexall near me. We are starting to fuel up at Shell now. They hubby like the way the truck runs on Shell gas compared to Costco. So it's some extra AM for gas. I'll take what I can get.

I maximize the points at Shoppers when I can, and watch for their bonus days. I just like that they give you offers based on what you would normally purchase weekly. I do what I can when my schedule allows me to shop in various places and do the run around town.

I like the flexibility of being able to take the free groceries - turn that around and instead of the free groceries, take out that cash- put it away into the trip fund to use towards what we want, whether we want extra tickets for an amusement part ( because I couldn't collect enough AM for them ), hotel room for a weekend get away, or towards food/meals while on holidays. It is fun free money for me, as my bank account doesn't need to free groceries. I budget for those...and would rather earmark the savings for something else

 

[wdwgirl1]

Hi All! I opened up my offers this morning and have a question- hoping someone with a bit more knowledge can help me out...
I have a 20x the points offer if I spend $75. I also have- earn 20000 points if I spend $60 (both for shoppers). They both expire on the 7th. Will I earn points for both if I spend $75 or more? Or will I just earn one of the offers? Seems a little too good to be true that I would earn both....

 

[marchingstar]

Hi All! I opened up my offers this morning and have a question- hoping someone with a bit more knowledge can help me out...
I have a 20x the points offer if I spend $75. I also have- earn 20000 points if I spend $60 (both for shoppers). They both expire on the 7th. Will I earn points for both if I spend $75 or more? Or will I just earn one of the offers? Seems a little too good to be true that I would earn both....

i think you will get just one deal, whichever is more points.

 

[star72232]

Hi All! I opened up my offers this morning and have a question- hoping someone with a bit more knowledge can help me out...
I have a 20x the points offer if I spend $75. I also have- earn 20000 points if I spend $60 (both for shoppers). They both expire on the 7th. Will I earn points for both if I spend $75 or more? Or will I just earn one of the offers? Seems a little too good to be true that I would earn both....

You'll only earn one of them. The system will work out the better option for you.

 

[Disney Addicted]

Hi All! I opened up my offers this morning and have a question- hoping someone with a bit more knowledge can help me out...
I have a 20x the points offer if I spend $75. I also have- earn 20000 points if I spend $60 (both for shoppers). They both expire on the 7th. Will I earn points for both if I spend $75 or more? Or will I just earn one of the offers? Seems a little too good to be true that I would earn both....

If you want to stick as close to the spend threshold as possible and best bang for your buck, I would do the Spend $60 for 20,000 points.

The "Spend $50 get 20x" gives 15,000 points (assuming you are dead on $50 or a few cents above).
So "Spend $75 get 20x" gives you 22,500 points. That's 300 points for every $1 spent.
With "Spend $60 get 20,000 points" it works out to 333.33 points per every $1 spent.

I believe I have done the math correct. If not, someone please tell me.

 

[Disney Addicted]

LOL I have two offers for Shoppers.

Spend $60 get 20,000 points OR Spend $60 get 20X points.

Thankfully on two different days. If I do one of these, it will be the "Spend $60 get 20,000" as it's 2,000 more points than I'd get with Spend $60 get 20X.

 

[CanadianPaco]

So, I tried something today and I thought I’d share. Yesterday I bought groceries at No Frills and redeemed 50000 for a $50 pc gift card.

Today I purchased $30 groceries at our Zehrs and a $50 Disney gift card.

I said I’d like to use a gift card and gave her yesterday’s card. Balance remaining was $30 to pay. We were chatting through the checkout and she says that you can’t use a gift card to pay for another gift card and yet .... I did.

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Was your total purchase total larger than 50.00 that you redeemed? My bet is yes. When I was a cashier at No Frills, the total of the entire purchase had to be more than what you were redeeming with the points - if that makes sense.

And yes...you can't purchase a gift card with a gift card. You can use the cash that you would " save " by using the gift card for something else, other than groceries, and then use the savings of the gift card purchase towards the gift card...but you can't straight buy a gift card with another gift card.

 

[CanadianPaco]

Was your total purchase total larger than 50.00 that you redeemed? My bet is yes. When I was a cashier at No Frills, the total of the entire purchase had to be more than what you were redeeming with the points - if that makes sense.

And yes...you can't purchase a gift card with a gift card. You can use the cash that you would " save " by using the gift card for something else, other than groceries, and then use the savings of the gift card purchase towards the gift card...but you can't straight buy a gift card with another gift card.

But that’s just it - I was able to buy the Disney gift card using a pc gift card. $30 of groceries plus $50 g/c was $80 and I gave her the $50 pc gift card. It took and I then paid for the difference- $30.

 

[CanadianEmily]

I got slightly over $40 in PC points today!! I had a 20x points if I bought $60 or more, so I got about $100 of stuff (groceries, batteries we needed, and some other staples) and walked out with over 28,000 points. Went back again later to get 12,000 points for buying $30 or more in sunscreen. We just happened to be out of the stuff I use for my son. I got two bottles for $15.99 each, so I just barely had to go over the $30 to get 12,000 points. I'm sure I would have got those points if I got them in with my first trip, but I didn't want to risk it. I knew I would be going near a different location later in the day anyway.

Pretty proud of myself, lol.

 

[CanadianEmily]

But that’s just it - I was able to buy the Disney gift card using a pc gift card. $30 of groceries plus $50 g/c was $80 and I gave her the $50 pc gift card. It took and I then paid for the difference- $30.

Interesting. I'm surprised they let you redeem points for a PC gift card. I guess in case you wanted to pass the rewards onto someone else. I wonder if you could do the same thing just by redeeming points on a larger order that includes a gift card?

 

[marchingstar]

Interesting. I'm surprised they let you redeem points for a PC gift card. I guess in case you wanted to pass the rewards onto someone else. I wonder if you could do the same thing just by redeeming points on a larger order that includes a gift card?

if i’m understanding you right, that’s how lots of us redeem our points. put a shop together that’s 50$ groceries and 50$ disney gift card, redeem 50,000 points. their system takes the discount off the grocery total, our minds take it off the gift card. it works great!

I think it’s awesome and lucky that CPaco was able to redeem towards another card. I definitely wouldn’t count on it being an option long term though. My guess is the cashier was a bit confused and made a mistake.

 

[tlcdoula]

I am so excited to find this thread!! Anything that can help me with our disney trips is great!! I have not noticed the Disney GC at our local shoppers but I will be looking this weekend.

I understand you can't use the points directly to purchase the cards but do I have this correct, If I spend $30 on merchandise and get a $30 disney GC and use 30,000 points I will just pay technically for the gift card plus the tax on the merchandise I get?

 

[scrappinginontario]

I am so excited to find this thread!! Anything that can help me with our disney trips is great!! I have not noticed the Disney GC at our local shoppers but I will be looking this weekend.

I understand you can't use the points directly to purchase the cards but do I have this correct, If I spend $30 on merchandise and get a $30 disney GC and use 30,000 points I will just pay technically for the gift card plus the tax on the merchandise I get?

Pretty much except, I believe they only carry $50 Disney gift cards so you need to spend at least $50 on merchandise, a $50 Disney gc then use 50,000 points and pay for the balance.

 

[tinkerone]

Pretty much except, I believe they only carry $50 Disney gift cards so you need to spend at least $50 on merchandise, a $50 Disney gc then use 50,000 points and pay for the balance.

My shoppers has the loadable ones where you can put any amount on them from $25 to $500. They are out there just sometimes tricky to find.

 

[Micharlotte]

My shoppers has the loadable ones where you can put any amount on them from $25 to $500. They are out there just sometimes tricky to find.

Mine does too. They used to have lots of them, but when I went in to get one the other day there were only 4 left.

 

[marchingstar]

My shoppers has the loadable ones where you can put any amount on them from $25 to $500. They are out there just sometimes tricky to find.

mine too! i actually have only seen the variable ones.

the best return i’ve figured out so far is to save points for the bonus days (redeem 50,000 points for 65$ off and so on) and then get a disney card for the bonus $.

 

[tlcdoula]

Pretty much except, I believe they only carry $50 Disney gift cards so you need to spend at least $50 on merchandise, a $50 Disney gc then use 50,000 points and pay for the balance.

Perfect. I stopped before work and grabbed some stuff to get my bonus 20,000 for spending $60. Shoppers had the Disney gc that were loadable in different denominations.

Does Superstore also carry them??

 

[scrappinginontario]

Perfect. I stopped before work and grabbed some stuff to get my bonus 20,000 for spending $60. Shoppers had the Disney gc that were loadable in different denominations.

Does Superstore also carry them??

Personally, I have only ever found $50 Disney cards at Superstore.