Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[marcyleecorgan]

WAHOO! So according to the website, all of our shopping AM-consciously has earned us 735 AM over the last few months! Considering we had zero in January... this is definitely better!

Now only eleventy-billion-nine-two points to go, until we have enough points for a Magic Your Way package... LOL

 

[momtoARQ]

I think the STB miles have been added to my status for the year. I was very close to Onyx anyway and now I'm waaaaay over.

What's STB? If you don't mind me asking!

 

[Donald - my hero]

What's STB? If you don't mind me asking!

There was a promotion that took place late last year called Shop The Block --- a whole bunch of coupons, varying levels of rewards depending on how many you used with the maximum being 1900 Cash Miles. It was a huge headache for a lot of us with coupons not working properly, not posting correctly, not getting full credit for all coupons getting redeemed and then finally not having those miles count towards Gold/Onyx status.

 

[momtoARQ]

There was a promotion that took place late last year called Shop The Block --- a whole bunch of coupons, varying levels of rewards depending on how many you used with the maximum being 1250 Cash Miles. It was a huge headache for a lot of us with coupons not working properly, not posting correctly, not getting full credit for all coupons getting redeemed and then finally not having those miles count towards Gold/Onyx status.

It was a 2016 promotion and the points are just going through now?? Yikes, I was hoping to use the Mega Miles points for a car rental in mid-August. Not likely?

 

[DizzyDis]

Were you able to use your credit card to purchase the Sobeys GC or did you have to use debit? Did the AM show up on your receipt?

Yes and yes, used credit (for each $100 separately), and got a receipt for each one with the AM listed on it. Have also showed up account quickly, within a week.

 

[Donald - my hero]

It was a 2016 promotion and the points are just going through now?? Yikes, I was hoping to use the Mega Miles points for a car rental in mid-August. Not likely?

No, it was bad but not THAT bad! Some of us only got credited 1/2 of the total bonus (I was one of those lucky ducks) initially and we had to chase down the full amount. For me i got the 1st 950 on Feb 3rd but the extra 950 didn't appear until March 6th after numerous on-line chats & several phone calls. So well within the 120 day mark just a hassle. What didn't work properly was crediting those miles to the Onyx Status. If you look at your account you can see you total cash & dream miles but if you click on the top right where it says what your status is you will see how many of your total miles count towards your gold/onyx status. They were having a problem getting the STB miles to properly count towards this section of our accounts.

***so to be clear, the bonus miles posted to our accounts but weren't counting towards ONYX

I'm hoping to see these miles post by mid-july, any earlier will be cause for celebration! We should take bets as to when they will appear

 

[marchingstar]

along with wondering when the mega miles will show up (the ducks guess of mid-july sounds about right!) i'm also watching my account for the bonus miles for 2 MM offers: mastercard and airmilesshops. I can't imagine they'll take until july, but then again !

 

[AngelDisney]

Just hope that the Canadian discounted tickets can last till mid-July, so I can grab one more!

 

[osully]

I've only been following this thread for a few months - it inspired me to shop for airmiles so my husband and I can go back to Disney World in the next few years for less...

But is the Disney or Disneyland tickets something that's consistently offered? Or were they recently added back but not a staple reward?

 

[ottawamom]

I've only been following this thread for a few months - it inspired me to shop for airmiles so my husband and I can go back to Disney World in the next few years for less...

But is the Disney or Disneyland tickets something that's consistently offered? Or were they recently added back but not a staple reward?

They are usually there. They disappeared last week for some unknown reason (very odd).

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

There was a promotion that took place late last year called Shop The Block --- a whole bunch of coupons, varying levels of rewards depending on how many you used with the maximum being 1250 Cash Miles. It was a huge headache for a lot of us with coupons not working properly, not posting correctly, not getting full credit for all coupons getting redeemed and then finally not having those miles count towards Gold/Onyx status.

It was 1900 cash miles

 

[Donald - my hero]

It was 1900 cash miles

Caught the duck when she should have been in bed instead of posting .... I've corrected my post

 

[Donald - my hero]

along with wondering when the mega miles will show up (the ducks guess of mid-july sounds about right!) i'm also watching my account for the bonus miles for 2 MM offers: mastercard and airmilesshops. I can't imagine they'll take until july, but then again !

This time around I've kept copies of all of the e-mails, terms & conditions of every offer, as well as multiple coupons so i can follow-up on missing miles easier!
Mastercard states :The Bonus Miles will be posted to your AIR MILES Account by July 15, 2017.

Airmiles Shop states : The bonus miles will be posted to your AIR MILES Account within 75 days after the offer ends. That will be August 14 th

 

[Donald - my hero]

Here's this week's Rexall coupon

Spend $40.00 get 60 AM valid June 5th - 8th

 

[Pumpkin1172]

I think she's misinformed - I put through 3 orders yesterday, and got the bonus 100 airmails all three times. Did you get the bonus when you went back?

I did go back...And I did get the bonus 100 miles again! I scored another 295 miles for 105.00...for a grand total of 730 miles for 210 dollars!!! I'll take it!!!!

 

[Donald - my hero]

I've only been following this thread for a few months - it inspired me to shop for airmiles so my husband and I can go back to Disney World in the next few years for less...

But is the Disney or Disneyland tickets something that's consistently offered? Or were they recently added back but not a staple reward?

They are usually there. They disappeared last week for some unknown reason (very odd).

I'm glad you're getting the help you need to get back to see the Duck sooner (ok ok, Mickey too )
The tickets for both Disney World & Land have been offered for years but they will disappear from the site briefly when they run out of stock (or like last week for no apparent reason!) There is a real push for people to earn more miles at the moment since the AM site still has the discounted CDN tickets in stock. When these run out you can bet the increase in miles needed will jump significantly.

 

[Donald - my hero]

I still don't see Universal Studios Orlando tickets ---can anyone see them?
I do see Universal Studios/Hollywood/California tickets.
Hugs Mel

Does Airmiles ever offer Universal Orlando tickets?

I sure hope the Universal tickets come back. Disney tickets came back quite quickly.

I know a bunch of you were waiting for the Universal tickets to come back -- just checked and they're showing now. No mention of it including the new water park area and only adult tickets ??

 

[Aladora]

Here's this week's Rexall coupon

Spend $40.00 get 60 AM valid June 5th - 8th

Has anyone managed to use this and a Load&Go spend$ coupon recently?

 

[bababear_50]

I know a bunch of you were waiting for the Universal tickets to come back -- just checked and they're showing now. No mention of it including the new water park area and only adult tickets ??

Thanks Hon
I think they will still be changing their description.
I thought Wet and Wild was gone and Volcano Bay was in?

This is the current description:
"And experience the fun of Wet 'n Wild® Orlando water park, just minutes away"

Hugs Mel

 

[dancin Disney style]

Interesting....
I have been making really good use of the Metro bonus card that I got. At the same time I have been using the emailed coupons they sent me. The coupons expire on the 7th so I just sat down and made a list of what I will buy over the next 2 days. I then wonder if I'm actually going to get credit for repeatedly using these coupons. It says in the fine print single use. They have however scanned and showed on my receipt every time. I just went into my AM account to check if they have credited or if they did but were removed. So far they are still there for the 4 times I've used them from 2 weeks back. Last week I used them 5 times that's not showing yet. Anyway, on to the interesting part. I notice that my status has changed to onyx, even though, yesterday it said it would update next week. AND there is now an extra 1000 AM on my total that wasn't there yesterday.