I just wanted to add something here. When cashing in dream miles for items on Air Mile's dream reward website, the value is good! Especially the park tickets. I believe it's because Air Miles purchases the items in bulk and are able to offer them at a discount.
However, I discovered when going through the Personal Shopper Program, everything is marked UP. Also, if an item goes on sale, Air Miles will NOT give you a quote on the sale price - only the regular price. My computer retailed $2,000. It went on sale for $1,600 which is when I discovered no quotes on sale prices. I worked out the math afterwards and discovered if I had been cashing out my miles and putting them aside at $10 for every 95 miles, I would have "spent" way less miles on my computer and could have gotten it at the $1,600 price. Then I could have used the extra money to purchase additional hard drives, which I did anyways using survey money.
So now for me Dream Miles are for Dream Rewards only, not the Personal Shopper program, and Cash Miles tucked away to use for rewards I cannot get through Dream or to spend on vacation in the manner that I want.
Ohh and a friend ran into an issue, that I'm sure is quite rare to happen, but I thought I'd mention. She went through the Personal Shopper Program for a quote on a laptop. She agreed and Air Miles took the miles out of her account. You know how Air Miles says the quote is good for 2 weeks? Well, if the price goes up your quote is no good. Tt turns out Best Buy increased the price of the laptop by $100 the very same day Air Miles took the miles out of her account. My friend waited about 2 weeks and finally e-mailed Air Miles back to ask about the laptop. At that point she was informed the price went up and it would cost more miles. Air Miles did not contact her to explain this and tell her how many more miles she would need. At any rate, she was able to get the extra miles so Air Miles would finally order the laptop for her.