[Merged]Bonus Air Miles & HBC pts thread: bonus 50 Air Miles, free 100 Air Miles...

[Dancing Dancer]

What this means is:
- air miles expire after two years of inactivity;
- air miles expire after five years, no matter what;
- monetary value of air miles is going down, again.

I've bailed out with whatever I could salvage in Shell cash cards.

Bah humbug!

I wanted to redeem out my points too, but there's just really not much I'm interested in. On the other hand, if I could use my points on ALL retailers they partner with I'll have a lot more choices, although it'll be $5 less than if I redeem for GC right now. hmmm... what to do

[Spidey]

What this means is:
- air miles expire after two years of inactivity;
- air miles expire after five years, no matter what;
- monetary value of air miles is going down, again.

I've bailed out with whatever I could salvage in Shell cash cards.

Bah humbug!

IM not a huge air miler, Ill get them when available, etc, but dont play close attention to what they do.

What your saying is Airmiles I have been collecting and saving can now expire?

I dont have a lot, maybe 1000, we cashed alot this past summer for a week long hotel stay in Halifax.

So with this new change, whats the best way to use them now?

[D-Roc]

IM not a huge air miler, Ill get them when available, etc, but dont play close attention to what they do.

What your saying is Airmiles I have been collecting and saving can now expire?

I dont have a lot, maybe 1000, we cashed alot this past summer for a week long hotel stay in Halifax.

So with this new change, whats the best way to use them now?

I like some of the merchandise they have. I tend to go that way or for a cineplex night out or 2 for 1 deal. I just received my new cam corder that I redeemed for. It was a pretty nice deal.

Oh and there is a thread about this in the Finance section.

[pnyknights]

It's late so someone please correct me if my math is wrong....
$20 = 1 AM
95 AM = $10 'air mile dollars'
~0.5% return on purchases

[game]

What this means is:
- air miles expire after two years of inactivity;
- air miles expire after five years, no matter what;
- monetary value of air miles is going down, again.

I've bailed out with whatever I could salvage in Shell cash cards.

Bah humbug!

will they at least warn us that our air miles are going to expire?

[crimsona]

I like some of the merchandise they have. I tend to go that way or for a cineplex night out or 2 for 1 deal.

Is the 2 for 1 deal still around? Couldn't find it under rewards when I was looking

[helloyouall]

two offers for 10,000 HBC points each or more(***):

1) simple three words about you shopping experience:
https://www.askingcanadians.com/wix5...d=hbc_es012012

2) joining or for every referral if you are already a member of Asking Canadians survey co.: (+ 10,000 for every referral that joins***)
https://www.askingcanadians.com/comm...hbc_st2&dlvl=9



enter before 31 Jan 2012

[helloyouall]

not freebie but join up with zip ca and get 160,000 HBC points for credit card holders until 29Feb2012

http://www.hbc.com/hbcrewards/progra...E1288FCE7C04BC

[songzier]

Hi there,

Recently I was trying to redeem my HBC points to AM so I can use them all up, however, even though my HBC points is about 50,000, it wouldn't let me redeem all, it says only 19,500 are redeemable.

Anyone knows what's that mean? Where can I find the rules about redeem for AM?

[nutttbar]

Hi there,

Recently I was trying to redeem my HBC points to AM so I can use them all up, however, even though my HBC points is about 50,000, it wouldn't let me redeem all, it says only 19,500 are redeemable.

Anyone knows what's that mean? Where can I find the rules about redeem for AM?

Only HBC points earned shopping at the stores (ie Bay & Zellers) can be converted to AM. Any received thru special promotion (ie surveys) cannot.

https://www.hbc.com/HBCREWARDS/progr...F7FA443D1F00F1

[alanbrenton]

Only HBC points earned shopping at the stores (ie Bay & Zellers) can be converted to AM. Any received thru special promotion (ie surveys) cannot.

https://www.hbc.com/HBCREWARDS/progr...F7FA443D1F00F1

That's good to know.

Most of the HBC points I obtained are from purchases + coupons shared by nice RFDers posting their copy. I have never received those myself.