Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[Days In the Sun]

I have a question for the air miles math aces here. I placed an order for Le Chateau through the Air Miles Shops, and the subtotal without tax and shipping was $309.45. Le Chateau has a 5X deal on the Air Miles Shops, plus there's the 15X deal. So, question is, I believe I'll get the base air miles (15), plus 5x the base (75), plus 15X the base (225) for a total of 315 air miles, amirite?

15x really is base plus 14 more, likewise 5x is the base plus 4x more.

So base 15 plus 4*15 (5x Le Chateau) plus 14*15 (15x AMS promo) = 15 + 60 + 210 = 285 am

 

[Days In the Sun]

I have a question for the air miles math aces here. I placed an order for Le Chateau through the Air Miles Shops, and the subtotal without tax and shipping was $309.45. Le Chateau has a 5X deal on the Air Miles Shops, plus there's the 15X deal. So, question is, I believe I'll get the base air miles (15), plus 5x the base (75), plus 15X the base (225) for a total of 315 air miles, amirite?

Example from Black Friday:

 

[kerreyn]

15x really is base plus 14 more, likewise 5x is the base plus 4x more.

So base 15 plus 4*15 (5x Le Chateau) plus 14*15 (15x AMS promo) = 15 + 60 + 210 = 285 am

Ahhh - Gotcha! Wishful thinking I guess, lol

 

[Days In the Sun]

Ahhh - Gotcha! Wishful thinking I guess, lol

I'm with you on that! I did Rona yesterday (2x), spent $520 plus tax, waiting for the posting.

 

[mort1331]

You've been a chatty bunch this week! We just came back from California and DLR today and my new Onyx card was waiting for me. What I find weird is that I got my Onyx status even though I haven't reached the 6000AM yet (my account shows I accumulated 5 611 AM so far this year).

welcome home, need to chat about Cali, heading down in Aug

 

[isabellea]

welcome home, need to chat about Cali, heading down in Aug

You’re welcome to ask me any question! I was thinking of writing a short trip report in the Disneyland section of our mini roadtrip/DLR stay if that would interest someone!

 

[isabellea]

So if any of you is interested in reading my trip report for our trip to California, here's the link: https://www.disboards.com/threads/w...rip-in-ca-and-dlr-stay-in-april-2018.3680007/

 

[kuhltiffany]

I checked at March Road when I was there tonight, they just moved them to a display across from the customer service.

BTW speaking of gift cards, I mentioned that Sobeys on Terry Fox in Kanata has chopped out their non-corporate gift cards. Apparently Sobeys Stittsville as well. Does anyone know if this is a new store-wide thing? They run AM offers on GCs but I've found these two stores to repeatedly reject the offers in the flyers. In Ontario some stores are corporate, some are franchise....I'm not sure how the Air Miles works as my knowledge was deeper around Club Sobeys.

I may check out the Sobeys way up on March Road - they are the ones that always let me convert Sobeys GCs over to Shell GCs.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Here's this week's coupon from Rexall -- as someone else mentioned it's not really worth a trip even if you combine it with the LnG offer for the same threshold

Spend $50 get 50 AM Valid May 2nd & 3rd

 

[TFC_UNTIL_I_DIE]

I checked at March Road when I was there tonight, they just moved them to a display across from the customer service.

ok good to know...that March Road is the store that I have had luck buying Shell GCs with Sobeys GCs.....waiting for the next big AM offer on Sobeys Gift cards that I can lay off onto gas gift cards. Honestly I work in the derivatives and options markets and its not always as complicated as some of the strategies that we come up with on this board. Iron Butterfly? Child's play compared to stacking flyer, L&G and gift card conversion

 

[osully]

I had a pretty good week but stocked up a bit more than usual for good AM offers! 2 trips to Metro for 130 AM and 50 AM and about $75 spent total. 1 trip to Sobeys for regular groceries + targeted offers for 60 AM for about $65.

 

[Pumpkin1172]

I had received an email from shell that if I did 3 fill ups...I got 100 Am. I wasn't sure I would be able to get them all done...but I got the son to fill his car once instead of using the bulk gas card. Just received my bonus 100 Am. Hubby looked at the visa statement and asked why I was filling up at shell instead of where we usually go... when I told him, he was like...ok . He is slowly getting on board for collecting more Airmiles. When he sees how many airmiles I collect in the year to go towards the DD wedding...or an extra vacation for us and the boys...he will understand my strategic AM and points collecting.

 

[swill78]

Has anyone noticed that the Disney Passes are now 5400 airmiles for a 7 day pass. Does anyone know if they will have the 5 day passes again?

 

[Donald - my hero]

The Offer Hub is up for May (they call it Spring but only for this month??) Looking thru the Ontario offers and i see a few for products at Shell, (ice cream treats & coke products) a couple for using cash miles at the Sobeys chain of stores, bunch of booze at LCBO & Rexall has one for this weekend (looks like it will be in the flyer since you don't need a coupon) Spend $75 get 20 X base miles which would mean you would get $75/20 *20 = 60 AM not even worth my time! Sounds like "WOW that's amazing" but not once you do the math, come on Rexall get back to the real bonus miles

Go to this website and select your region to see what there is,looks similar to the offers from StB & MM promos but no extra big bonus for finishing a specific number of offers.
Spring Offer Hub

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Well my offers SUCK more than usual!

 

[isabellea]

QC offers are ridiculous.

 

[marcyleecorgan]

The Offer Hub is up for May (they call it Spring but only for this month??) Looking thru the Ontario offers and i see a few for products at Shell, (ice cream treats & coke products) a couple for using cash miles at the Sobeys chain of stores, bunch of booze at LCBO & Rexall has one for this weekend (looks like it will be in the flyer since you don't need a coupon) Spend $75 get 20 X base miles which would mean you would get $75/20 *20 = 60 AM not even worth my time! Sounds like "WOW that's amazing" but not once you do the math, come on Rexall get back to the real bonus miles

Go to this website and select your region to see what there is,looks similar to the offers from StB & MM promos but no extra big bonus for finishing a specific number of offers.
Spring Offer Hub

Good to see that Albertans are still able to earn 15x AM/25L minimum on Premium fuels this May... hey, I'll take the small chunks of AM I get!

I downloaded all my May coupons for Safeway. I love the idea of personalized offers, except that in practice, they send you the coupon AFTER you stock up on the item! Airmiles people! I have purchased $100 of cereal in the last 60 days - whyyyyyyy did you send a cereal coupon in May? After just having a $35/100 AM special on Jumbo boxes... where in my house do they think I'm gonna put any more cereal?

I am looking at our household meal planning and I *think* I can get away with "just milk" for at least another 2 weeks! I find that more exciting than the AM... wow...

 

[TFC_UNTIL_I_DIE]

None of those offers are good for me

Wonder what sobeys has in store for their flyer coming out tonight

 

[ottawamom]

Me thinking out loud. I am predicting nothing great this week. But next week when I'm not here you're going to have a Blue Friday with lots of great deals that I won't be able to take advantage of. Or can I. I have gift cards in the house and I could get my in-laws to stop by and pick one of them up and then do a shop for me. Here's hoping there are some decent deals in the next few weeks. We need the "???" promotion of 2018. (pickles 2017, powerade 2016). Come on airmiles get with it.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Me thinking out loud. I am predicting nothing great this week. But next week when I'm not here you're going to have a Blue Friday with lots of great deals that I won't be able to take advantage of. Or can I. I have gift cards in the house and I could get my in-laws to stop by and pick one of them up and then do a shop for me. Here's hoping there are some decent deals in the next few weeks. We need the "???" promotion of 2018. (pickles 2017, powerade 2016). Come on airmiles get with it.

So long as it isn't another stupid thing like the Marvel pop-up dudes!! That was a JOKE!!!