Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[cari12]

Time to put this offer into perspective. That is a ridiculous amount of work for $15 worth of AM. You are better off waiting for a deal at Rexall spend $50 get 100AM and doing that twice. Or shop a Blue Friday and only pick up a few things. Don't get hung up on the thrill of the hunt. Keep it real.

Exactly how I feel, 8 partners for 120 AM. It’s more work than STB or mega miles yet such a small reward.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Time to put this offer into perspective. That is a ridiculous amount of work for $15 worth of AM. You are better off waiting for a deal at Rexall spend $50 get 100AM and doing that twice. Or shop a Blue Friday and only pick up a few things. Don't get hung up on the thrill of the hunt. Keep it real.

Yup just what I was thinking. I can get better deals shopping at Sobeys with my targeted offers and I only have to shop once. Thanks for thinking like me and making me think about this offer. I was really happy when I first read it until I realized that it was 10 partners and then it wasn't such a good offer.

I haven't receive any of these fast track offers! So frustrating! I'm really not into air miles these days. ugh

Yeah, there's no way I'm gonna even TRY to complete this offer ... nope, not happening! The last one was a bit hard but I was able to go to the same store multiple times , just not more than once a day and only needed to earn 1 mile. I added up my receipts last week and i only spent a bit more than $10 to complete it so I'm happy with that return. But i would need to spend a heck of a lot to do it this time!!

OH, and @ilovetotravel1977 these ability to get these offers came to a select few of people via an email we needed to opt-in thru, only one of our cards got it and based on this one, I'm not sure I'll finish them all.

 

[bgula]

If I recall correctly, the Canadian ones (5D/7D after tax) are worth around $350/$368 USD. The flex ones are worth either $489/$521 USD (pre March increase amount) or $611/$627 USD (current Disney website value).

Thanks for the info. Looks like the flex tickets are the slightly better deal $-wise -> 8.1cents/AM vs 7.7 cents/AM on the 7-day ones.

 

[Aladora]

Just got my next Fast Track offer and it will be a tad trickier ! Same bonus and i only need to do 10 transactions BUT it has to be at 10 DIFFERENT partners, I'm not even sure i have access to 10?? This is going to be a challenge I'd welcome comments from others who get this offer -- it doesn't mention that online doesn't count, or credit cards

1. Metro
2. Shell
3. Staples
4. Urban Fresh
5. Rexall
6. ????
7. ??
8. ?????
9. ???
10. ?!?!?!?

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Good thing you read the small print because I didn't notice it was 10 different partners. Looking below I may be able to make the 10 but I don't have any airmiles credit cards so that is out but you are correct - what about online shopping - at Chapters and stuff? Does that count as 1 for a partner or just 1 for online? Tricky tricky. Also some stores like Action Car and Truck need $40 to earn 1 airmile and 150 air miles is only $15 so is the expense worth the bonus?

1. Metro - easy use targeted offer
2. Shell - spend $10 on lottery
3. Staples - 1 mile for $40 and I don't really need anything.
4. Sobeys - my normal shop
5. Rexall - find a targeted offer
6. LCBO - find a targeted offer
7. Lowes - 1 mile per $20 and it is garden season
8. Rona - same as Lowes
9. Chapters - online though
10. Thought about Best Western but it is a better value to earn Best Western points than convert to air miles. So I will probably still need to find a tenth????

I’ve got a new fast track offer too. Mine is 8 partners, earn 120. I can come up with 6 easily and possible 7th but the 8th It expires on May 22nd so that’s another hurdle...I typically only get out once a week to do any shopping.

I have not received a targeted offer like this so I don’t know if you can use partners from another province but if you can and I can help someone out please let me know! I know that there are no Thrifty Foods outside of BC so that might be a good one for someone in another province!

Let me know if I can help!

 

[hdrolfe]

Kiddo has been obsessed with popsicles lately. I haven't bought any because they aren't on sale. I am hoping for a good deal soon!

 

[osully]

I’ve had absolutely no temptation to go back to Sobeys since last Blue Friday. I am actually enjoying FreshCo / WalMart and price matching / saving money over earning AM!

 

[osully]

Kiddo has been obsessed with popsicles lately. I haven't bought any because they aren't on sale. I am hoping for a good deal soon!

Should be about that time soon!!

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Thank goodness there aren't any "great" air miles offers next week. I leave for Cancun on Sunday morning (finally!). I got a $25 gift card for Administrative Professionals Day for Sobeys which will come in handy buying all my last-minute first aid things for the trip.

 

[Days In the Sun]

Airmilesshops, 15x, April 25-30.

 

[Days In the Sun]

Thanks for the info. Looks like the flex tickets are the slightly better deal $-wise -> 8.1cents/AM vs 7.7 cents/AM on the 7-day ones.

We convert to APs as well. For us, the more the ticket is worth the better as the less out of pocket. Also, airmiles never seems to discount the airmiles on Canadian tickets to the same amount Disney does. For example, if Disney discounts 20%, airmiles has the tickets at 15% less airmiles than regular tickets.

I'll try to remember to check all our tickets and post next week. We are taking 5 and 7 day Canadian tickets from this year as well as 7day flex with us. There are quite a few people on this thread going to Disney in May I believe, I'm sure you'll see some posts on their values.

 

[Silvermist999]

Kiddo has been obsessed with popsicles lately. I haven't bought any because they aren't on sale. I am hoping for a good deal soon!

Same here...I remember stocking up on a ton of Haagen Daz and Nestle during those good ol’ Blue Fridays.
To satisfy my craving, I did pick up a few boxes at RCSS with their PC points offer last night, plus price matched too so not too bad.

 

[tinkerone]

Has anyone requested a quote from the Onyx special request team for Annual passes to Universal?

 

[flower_petals]

Those who get vitamins at Rexall, do you find that they are a resonable price? Compared to shoppers, or superstore. I would like to take advantage of the spend $70/100 but I don't want to overspend for miles.

 

[Disney Addicted]

Has anyone requested a quote from the Onyx special request team for Annual passes to Universal?

No, but if you do please post! I'm tempted to ask for a quote on four 3 day 3 park-to-park tickets as this point. I'm getting so impatient that Air Miles has yet to post tickets good past May. I know they want to get rid of their current B2G2 tickets, but seeing how those are only good for people going until the end of May...

 

[Pumpkin1172]

The amount of AM out west is dismal for me. AM do you hear me Safeway...you have not had many good offers - even my personal offers are not great either. Loblaws is getting all my money these days because of sucky Am promos and prices. We need some decent offers again that will keep us engaged and wanting to spend out hard earned dollars in stores that offer AM.

On the other hand...I have made some great scores at Shopper's and Superstore / No Frills the past couple of months. My optimum points are climbing. Now, this momma needs to decide what we are going to spend those " free " grocery money on

 

[Disney Addicted]

I want to say thank you to everyone for this amazing thread and to Donald for frequently updating it!

A few weeks ago I finally reached out to the personal shopper program for computer quotes. My system is 10 years old. I now have a new computer! The miles were deducted from my account on the 11th and it arrived on the 15th. I’ve spent all last week transferring files; installing software; backing up and setting it up to the way I like it.

For any computer people that like these kind of details it's an OMEN 880-139 with an i7-8700 (3.2 GHz), Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB, 12 GB RAM. My old computer was custom made with an Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 3.33 GHz, 4 GB RAM and upgraded to a Geforce GT 1030 2 GB in the last year. I couldn't upgrade the RAM. I found more 2 GB ram sticks but my computer would not accept them. I can't believe how much faster 3.0 USB is versus 2.0 USB when I started transferring files via an external hard drive!

For some reason the post put the pic above but there’s the AM cost for my new computer. Between what’s left on my card, my husband’s and daughter’s we’ll still be able to get our park tickets for August!

 

[bababear_50]

My Sobeys shop today..........................
No granola bars for me--I didn't like the types and expiry dates.
No Dasani water available for purchase--they said that they might get some in tomorrow.Mississauga store.
I actually asked the cashier if they were closing the store as some of the shelves were bare. She said "no why what have you heard".
They gave me a raincheck for the water but I am doubtful the manager would honor it like the last time she refused to honor the raincheck.

I ended up going to Milton Sobeys and picked up some water and a few targeted items.
150 airmiles in total.

Hugs
Mel

 

[bababear_50]

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I want to say thank you to everyone for this amazing thread and to Donald for frequently updating it!

A few weeks ago I finally reached out to the personal shopper program for computer quotes. My system is 10 years old. I now have a new computer! The miles were deducted from my account on the 11th and it arrived on the 15th. I’ve spent all last week transferring files; installing software; backing up and setting it up to the way I like it.

For any computer people that like these kind of details it's an OMEN 880-139 with an i7-8700 (3.2 GHz), Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB, 12 GB RAM. My old computer was custom made with an Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 3.33 GHz, 4 GB RAM and upgraded to a Geforce GT 1030 2 GB in the last year. I couldn't upgrade the RAM. I found more 2 GB ram sticks but my computer would not accept them. I can't believe how much faster 3.0 USB is versus 2.0 USB when I started transferring files via an external hard drive!

For some reason the post put the pic above but there’s the AM cost for my new computer. Between what’s left on my card, my husband’s and daughter’s we’ll still be able to get our park tickets for August!

Congrats Hon
Nothing like a new computer.
I am saving my airmiles for a new one to.

Hugs
Mel

 

[bababear_50]

Thank goodness there aren't any "great" air miles offers next week. I leave for Cancun on Sunday morning (finally!). I got a $25 gift card for Administrative Professionals Day for Sobeys which will come in handy buying all my last-minute first aid things for the trip.

Ohhhh Cancun!!!
Have an awesome Holiday!!
Hugs
Mel

 

[bababear_50]

Jacqueline
Have an awesome time at the Movies Hon!
I've heard it is supposed to be an excellent movie.

Hugs
Mel