Locked: AirMiles (2018 General Discussion)

loonie wrote: ↑ Great thread! I accumulated only 2517, and I redeemed 2485 in 2017. All thanks to RFD, expecting to hit Onyx soon with many Air miles coming from STB promotion and new BMO AM card.

newfbc wrote: ↑ Almost 14000 earned in 2017 for me, and spent most of them. On travel, and deals on merchandise rewards (some of which I flipped to get close to $1/Mile in return).

Have the Amex Air Miles Reserve card, so not need to qualify for ONYX (It's included).. but I don't think I's have a problem doing so otherwise.

Ron.

jackrabbit000 wrote: ↑ I redeemed 62,000 in Nov/Dec 2016. Earned 18 in 2017.

Gee wrote: ↑ I’ve been a collector since 93 and in the last 25 years only managed to collect just under 5000 miles.

When I heard about the miles expiring, I gave up and haven’t collected since.

mikka2017 wrote: ↑ so i need to collect 6500 ams this year, thats the goal...man thats gonna cost me some serious $$$ i think ...2100 of that will be from the shoptheblock..then hopefully some more amex promos where u spend like 400$ and get 800 bonus...then i gotta shop for bonus items at sobeys or foodland/metro ...then the 20x days from airmilesshops promo, hopefully some mega airmiles promo and more shell costa coffees for 50 each! , either way getting 6k ams a year will cost one at least 2-3k in cash i think (thats if u don't get the 2100 ams from last years STB promo) so 4000 ams in 2018 should be attainable by me..im estimating its gonna cost me like 2$ grand to get the rest of the 4k points

btw lowes is fast in posting AMs to account...i bought that lyric t5 on 31st dec and it already posted today!

edit: its only 6k for onyx per year!

benhamil wrote: ↑ I have a question about gift card redemptions. I have my eye on the Staples card, but they've been shown as "temporarily unavailable" for a couple of weeks. Does anyone have any experience with how long cards remain unavailable? I'm wondering if it's perhaps a seasonal thing (e.g., Staples not wanting a wave of people using cards during boxing week sales for some reason).

mikka2017 wrote: ↑ so i need to collect 6500 ams this year, thats the goal...man thats gonna cost me some serious $$$ i think ...2100 of that will be from the shoptheblock..then hopefully some more amex promos where u spend like 400$ and get 800 bonus...then i gotta shop for bonus items at sobeys or foodland/metro ...then the 20x days from airmilesshops promo, hopefully some mega airmiles promo and more shell costa coffees for 50 each! , either way getting 6k ams a year will cost one at least 2-3k in cash i think (thats if u don't get the 2100 ams from last years STB promo) so 4000 ams in 2018 should be attainable by me..im estimating its gonna cost me like 2$ grand to get the rest of the 4k points

btw lowes is fast in posting AMs to account...i bought that lyric t5 on 31st dec and it already posted today!

edit: its only 6k for onyx per year!

Sea wrote: ↑ I earned over 10,000 miles in 2017 - was really trying to maximize my miles to do some travelling. Miles covered 4 nights in a hotel in New Jersey back in Oct, and I have a 5 night stay at a Westin in Vancouver booked for March that would have been about $1,000 without miles, but is only costing me $200 in the fees/taxes that miles couldn't cover,

Also briefly switched to cash miles and used about 1,000 towards Christmas shopping, now I've set to 90% dream and 10% cash so I have cash miles available for offers like the redeem 95, get 95 at Sobeys from last week.

Still have 4,300 miles pending from Shop the Block (opened a second AM account just to get the 2,000 bonus twice, secondary account will be exclusively cash miles so I can redeem at Shell and Metro and for Starbucks gift cards online) and the 300 miles for adding my Amex to Apple Pay and using it 3 times in Dec. Earned a ton of miles with Amex's Soar into More in 2017, sad that it's done! Hope they'll do more promos in 2018. Eyeing a possible trip to California in Nov as well, want to cover flight + hotel + maybe a rental car with miles.

mikka2017 wrote: ↑so i need to collect 6500 ams this year, thats the goal...man thats gonna cost me some serious $$$ i think ...2100 of that will be from the shoptheblock..then hopefully some more amex promos where u spend like 400$ and get 800 bonus...then i gotta shop for bonus items at sobeys or foodland/metro ...then the 20x days from airmilesshops promo, hopefully some mega airmiles promo and more shell costa coffees for 50 each! , either way getting 6k ams a year will cost one at least 2-3k in cash i think (thats if u don't get the 2100 ams from last years STB promo) so 4000 ams in 2018 should be attainable by me..im estimating its gonna cost me like 2$ grand to get the rest of the 4k points

btw lowes is fast in posting AMs to account...i bought that lyric t5 on 31st dec and it already posted today!

edit: its only 6k for onyx per year!

akaManny wrote: ↑ One way to get a few easy extra miles is to take advantage of gift card bonus offers. Here in Ontario, Foodland and Sobeys occasionally have 150 Bonus Miles if you buy a $150 gift card. The tricky part, of course, is to try to find reasonably priced items when you use the gift card.

akaManny wrote: ↑ One way to get a few easy extra miles is to take advantage of gift card bonus offers. Here in Ontario, Foodland and Sobeys occasionally have 150 Bonus Miles if you buy a $150 gift card. The tricky part, of course, is to try to find reasonably priced items when you use the gift card.

Sea wrote: ↑ The Sobeys gift cards can also be used at FreshCo - get the miles at Sobeys and then buy the cheaper groceries at FreshCo! I should have bought more during the last offer.