Airmiles Armchair Chatter

I think if you get one big gift card you may only get the bonus once. I also find it a little safer to have the $ on separate cards (they are like cash, once lost they're gone) I take one or two cards with me when I shop.

I picked up 4 separate gift cards and put them through as individual transactions (cashier suggested doing it that way). In the past at Sobey's I have picked up separate cards but lumped them together in one transaction (each card having $150 loaded onto it). Ask the cashier which way they want to do it. I also paid for them with my Airmiles credit card so I get more AM for that.
That's how I did my first gc last time (suggested by the cashier to double check that the airmiles had gone on correctly. Today, it was a young cashier, who hadn't done gc before. We put them through together, and I checked that my airmiles were on. Just bought 2 today. I'll get another 3 later in the week.
 
STUPID STUPID STUPID,
That was me today, dont go shopping with 3 little girls.
I was going down to an area where there was a foodland, none near my house, and had the 3 girls with me. Grabbed 3 GC and asked the cashier to put $150 on each. After ringing in all with the food, I turn and off the cuff ask if I can now pay for it all with the GC's,,heheh. Was distracted with the girls, cash is on the phone, so I just hand her my mastercard. She gets off the phone after its payed out and says YES. I could have used the GC, I am like what?????
But I wasnt going to reverse the transaction now. But you know where I will be buying my other 2 cards later this week? You betcha..

Kids yah gotta love them but shopping with them and collecting airmiles is not fun. Hugs to you.
I bought two Foodland gift cards (the cashier there told me I could only use them at Foodland) ahhhhh I don't think so I say and asked her to get a manager who did clear things up but my heart just about stopped when she said that. Off I went to Sobeys--bought all the specials and threw in a $100.00 Esso gas gift card,,figured I try and it worked.
Today's total for me is 800 airmiles but I will be picking up more of the sausage dinner deal.(yeah I donated the beans to the food bank too).
Hugs Mel

My Foodland Gift Cards were bought in one transaction but two separate cards for 150.00 each. I received 400 airmiles.
 
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I also ran three $150 cards through in three separate transactions.
Then I zipped over to Rexall which was in the same mall and did the Spend $50 get 100 airmiles (ended up with 110). I know I said I wasn't going to, but I ended up buying alot of the snacks for the drive in and some other things they had on sale and some discounted make up for dd's stocking.
I will do the 50 airmile meal deal at Sobeys tomorrow and I will actually use the beans in chili! I think I will do that deal twice and the breakfast items for 100 airmiles two times as well. When all is said and done I expect between 900 and 1000 airmiles for this weekend. That puts me above my first ticket and 30% into the next one . :yay:
 


I am loving my Posty today. 1st they put the mail early in the superbox, 2nd the put in my luggage tags for Sept trip, 3rd they put in our Wonderland tickets. WHOO HOO. Still cant believe 1AM per ticket. Too bad only limit of 2, would have scored big on that. And its not on the site anymore.:rolleyes:
The Wonderland deal is back up on the site this morning if anyone else is interested. It's an ONYX exclusive though.

New one just added
Sony Centre for the Performing Arts - E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Live in Concert Package for Two (2) - December 30th, 2016 @ 7:30pm (Toronto)
One Airmile only 1 Package per ONYX collector
 
The Wonderland deal is back up on the site this morning if anyone else is interested. It's an ONYX exclusive though.

New one just added
Sony Centre for the Performing Arts - E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Live in Concert Package for Two (2) - December 30th, 2016 @ 7:30pm (Toronto)
One Airmile only 1 Package per ONYX collector

I'd love the ET
I am so sad--come on airmiles update my account i know I have to be Onyx by now.
Hugs Mel
 


I don't have a Sobey's near me and never look at the ads, so I want to get the meal deals straight. If I wanted to buy 2 sausage, 2 beans and 2 garlic bread, would I then get twice as many AM? Is there a limit? DH likes sausages, so to buy 4 wouldn't be a stretch for us, and, if we happen to be buy :laughing: there...
 
As of this morning I am 22 miles from my Disney ticket.
I don't have a Sobey's near me and never look at the ads, so I want to get the meal deals straight. If I wanted to buy 2 sausage, 2 beans and 2 garlic bread, would I then get twice as many AM? Is there a limit? DH likes sausages, so to buy 4 wouldn't be a stretch for us, and, if we happen to be buy :laughing: there...
I just got back from Sobey's and bought three of the deal. The cashier couldn't tell me if I had to put it on separate transactions. I have done the meal deal before and NOT put them in separate transactions and the points only credited for one deal, so I didn't want to risk it. I don't know if it varies by store. I just put it through in three transactions today. I'm sure the lady behind me wasn't thrilled but oh well.:rolleyes1

So my sum total for this weekend is ... the three gift cards for 600 airmiles, spent $56 at Rexall for 105 airmiles, and spent $37 at Sobey's for another 256 airimiles.

Total.. 961 airmiles :smooth:

Now I'm going to make sausages and garlic bread and a salad for lunch:)
 
I'd love the ET
I am so sad--come on airmiles update my account i know I have to be Onyx by now.
Hugs Mel

If you're worried about them not being up long enough for your ONYX to come through, I can order them and send them along to you (there's lots of time).
 
I'd love the ET
I am so sad--come on airmiles update my account i know I have to be Onyx by now.
Hugs Mel
You can go into your account and check how many miles you've accumulated since January 1st (ONYX is from Jan 1-Dec 31) If you've made the 6,000 in that time frame you *should* receive an e-mail letting you know this has happened -- if not i would hop onto the live chat and find out why. I've always had great success with the agents thru the chat and when i was questioning the removal of over 1,100 miles towards the end of December last year (we exchanged a non-functioning Surface at Staples that we had bought on a day we earned 20X and our Airmiles were "stolen" based on how they dealt with the stupid process) they gave me a number to phone (different that the one anywhere on their site) to speak to a *real person* and the points were back in our account and they manually re-instated our ONYX level (those miles dropped us under the 6,000 mark)

These tickets are one of the benefits we've received and I LOVE it!
 
The Wonderland deal is back up on the site this morning if anyone else is interested. It's an ONYX exclusive though.

New one just added
Sony Centre for the Performing Arts - E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Live in Concert Package for Two (2) - December 30th, 2016 @ 7:30pm (Toronto)
One Airmile only 1 Package per ONYX collector

Thanks! Got Wonderland tickets this time as I missed it last time.
 
If you're worried about them not being up long enough for your ONYX to come through, I can order them and send them along to you (there's lots of time).

Hi Ottawamom
That is very sweet of you but I don't want to impose,,I just checked and I am 475 away from Onyx,,hopefully they will be posted this weekend--Rexall is pretty fast,,thanks for the offer though.
Hugs To You
Mel
 
You can go into your account and check how many miles you've accumulated since January 1st (ONYX is from Jan 1-Dec 31) If you've made the 6,000 in that time frame you *should* receive an e-mail letting you know this has happened -- if not i would hop onto the live chat and find out why. I've always had great success with the agents thru the chat and when i was questioning the removal of over 1,100 miles towards the end of December last year (we exchanged a non-functioning Surface at Staples that we had bought on a day we earned 20X and our Airmiles were "stolen" based on how they dealt with the stupid process) they gave me a number to phone (different that the one anywhere on their site) to speak to a *real person* and the points were back in our account and they manually re-instated our ONYX level (those miles dropped us under the 6,000 mark)

These tickets are one of the benefits we've received and I LOVE it!

Thanks Jacqueline
I checked hopefully I will reach it this weekend,,,475 to go.
Hugs Mel
 
I don't have a Sobey's near me and never look at the ads, so I want to get the meal deals straight. If I wanted to buy 2 sausage, 2 beans and 2 garlic bread, would I then get twice as many AM? Is there a limit? DH likes sausages, so to buy 4 wouldn't be a stretch for us, and, if we happen to be buy :laughing: there...

Hi Hon
I am doing this x4 (maybe 8 if my sister is home from up north and wants some) tomorrow,,
Best wishes
Hugs Mel
 
I'd love the ET
I am so sad--come on airmiles update my account i know I have to be Onyx by now.
Hugs Mel
Mel, I have more than enough Miles to let you have one tiny one! Hubby and i priced out the actual cost (you know transportation and probably a night over somewhere) and we won't be doing the ET concert thingee. If you hadn't started posting so many offers that I missed i wouldn't be earning mine so quickly!! Shoot me your email so i can forward you whatever you need to pick these up!
 
Mel, I have more than enough Miles to let you have one tiny one! Hubby and i priced out the actual cost (you know transportation and probably a night over somewhere) and we won't be doing the ET concert thingee. If you hadn't started posting so many offers that I missed i wouldn't be earning mine so quickly!! Shoot me your email so i can forward you whatever you need to pick these up!

Thanks Hon
I will send you my email,,last round up of cleaning and helping my son to move today--exhaustion is setting in---thank-you so much Jacqueline.
BIG HUGS
Mel
 

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