Finally some decent airmiles bonus offers

Since my last post Airmiles has had some great offers that we have taken advantage of.

1. Airmiles.ca 10x the points event.

We had been waiting for this for a long time and started to wonder if it would ever be offered again. We took advantage of this deal and ordered an iMac and an iPad. We haven't tallied up the total airmiles that we will be receiving from this purchase because the bonus points are not posted yet and it can take up to 60 days before they appear.

2. Accomodations booked through airmiles site

We went to Chicago and chose to stay at Best Western. By booking through airmiles.ca we receive 1 airmile for every 20 dollars spent. Best Western also offers 20 base miles for each stay, but on top of that, we took advantage of Best Western's current Fall offer and stayed at two different 'types' of Best Western's and hence earned triple the reward miles for our second stay. Again we have not been able to count the actual bonus miles earned yet because the bonus Airmiles will not be posted until 2-3 weeks after the promotion ends on November 20, 2011.

3. Sobeys Gift Cards

This weekend Sobeys is offering 50 bonus Airmiles with the purchase of a $100 Sobeys gift card. We haven't taken of this offer yet but we will be doing so before the weekend is over.

My Airmiles count on my iPad is now showing 8707.

Has it really been a year?

I decided to check on the blog today and I am shocked to see it is now over a year since I last posted. There are many reasons for that:

1. Frustration

I used to enjoy grocery and pharmacy shopping (ie. Sobeys and Lawtons) but with the airmile collection obsession I developed, that all quickly changed. I found more-frequent-than-not errors where the bonus points advertised and the bonus miles credited were not jiving. With each error I had to make a trip to customer service to have it corrected. Not fun times

2. Diminishing bonus offers

When I first started recognizing how fast you could accumulate bonus airmiles, I was collecting on average about 500-600 airmiles a month. Over the last two months I have averaged about 250 a month. Why has airmiles decreased their bonus mile offerings and increased the number of miles it takes to obtain a 'free' trip?

3. My lack of stick-to-it-tive-ness.

I tend to get bored very easily. Hence the reason for this three point sermon. I do hope to begin blogging at least bi-weekly now. Not sure that my posts will all be about airmiles though.

BTW...airmiles toolbar (which is another point of frustration) now shows 8322.

First trip booked with airmiles!

...and we are headed to downtown Boston, MA for a long weekend in October. The trip for two return cost us 1912 airmiles...just under what it costs for one return trip to Florida. I had to book the flight by phone and was on the phone about an hour in total...the girl that booked the reservation was very nice and I was even convinced to buy insurance...and I NEVER buy insurance. Anyway...so we have to pay about $400 for taxes/insurance. Still a good deal seeing as though the cheapest return flight we could see for two to Boston was about $1400.

Sad to see the airmiles toolbar go down...but I guess that's what we are collecting them for. Our toolbar is now showing 6589 airmiles. We need 1435 airmiles to have 4 return trips to Florida! I'm hoping we will have that by the end of December 2010.

Just 6 more airmiles!

...and we have 4 return trips to Florida on airmiles!! We made a trip to Sobeys today and actually picked up 80 airmiles (and it only cost us 67 dollars!) They have a deal this week that we took advantage of...buy 10 participating Kraft products and receive 60 airmiles... we bought 10 thinsations for $2.50 each. So our snack cupboard is stocked up again...but that's okay because we are sure to eat them in the next month or so.

August looks like its going to be a great month for collecting airmiles. We've already received our 1000 bonus airmiles from our BMO gold Mastercard and our toolbar is now showing 8022!

Not much exciting with airmiles offers this week...

not in the flyer's anyway. Hopefully there will be more offers in store. We did receive an email from Sobeys this week with several coupons that we can use to get bonus airmiles. The coupons are good until September 9th...hope we don't forget them.

This month according to our AMEX platinum card statement, we accumulated 186 'regular' airmiles and 156 airmiles from 'sponsor spend' alone! I thought that was interesting...with this AMEX card we get one airmiles with each 10 dollar purchase at sponsors. Unfortunately we don't have that advantage with the BMO gold Mastercard which only gives 1 airmile for each 15 dollars spent. BUT...the Mastercard is accepted more than the AMEX card so hopefully it will balance out.

The toolbar just updated and we now have 6581 airmiles! That's three return trips to Florida with our BMO gold mastercard...working on the fourth. :O)

Pretty good week for collecting airmiles

We managed to collect 66 airmiles at Lawtons today and 121 at Sobeys. Of course we did not receive all the airmiles that we were suppose to receive. We did happen to notice one 'incident' at Sobeys while being checked out. So it was just a matter of going directly to customer service and getting it corrected. Lawtons also fell short this week and 'robbed' us of 5 bonus airmiles. Very frustrating. We hate to bug the cashiers/supervisors/etc about it but...they are advertising the bonus airmiles and that is the reason we are buying the products...so get with the program people!!! We still haven't heard back from Lawtons regarding our missed airmiles in the previous post. NOT impressed. When we emailed Sobeys about our missing airmiles they were pretty prompt in responding.

Anyway...this has been a pretty negative post. The positive side of it is that we did manage to get 187 airmiles today. In July, according to the airmiles transaction website, we collected 774 airmiles and our tool bar is now showing 6185. :O)

Lawton's 2x the point event!

This week Lawton's has a pretty good offer with 2x the base points. We went and took advantage of one of the bonus offers. Bought $75 of Proctor and Gamble products...should have accumulated 150 airmiles but only received 100. I have emailed Lawtons about it...haven't received any word back yet.

Since we've started collecting these airmiles there have been some pretty frustrating times because we don't get the airmiles that we should. It's happened so far with Sobey's (several times), Lawtons, and Dell.ca. It's a pain in the @ss that you have to hassle with the sponsors at times to receive what they are advertising.

This week our tool bar is showing 6120 airmiles!