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Offer valid Jan 05,2015 - Mar 01,2015 https://www.airmiles.ca/arrow/IssuanceMilesSingleOffer?offerId=23168SHELO7554087E20 Quote: Terms and Conditions * Offer valid from January 5 - March 1, 2015 at participating Shell locations. Minimum 25 litre Shell V-Power®† premium fuel purchase required per transaction to earn the 20x offer. Minimum 25 litre Shell Bronze, Silver or Diesel fuel purchase required per transaction to earn the 4x offer. Bonus Offer applies to the base reward mile offer of 1 reward mile for each transaction of a purchase of at least 15 litres of fuel. Offer may be combined with other in-store offers but not with other Bonus fuel offers. No coupon required. |
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they do this all the time, i've went to NYC twice (if not 3x) on airmiles because i have to buy premium i think they've upped the ante to 20x the points but calculate based on litres purchased vs dollar spent |
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^right. i just wait for the card in the mail |
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Sweet, I'll be grabbing diesel there for the next little while. Thanks for the heads up! |
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Can someone give me a breakdown on airmiles...it seems to me as if it's the biggest scam ever. I've been filling up with Shell since forever and started collecting airmiles 3 years ago...my premium gas fillups on average are 1 - 2 tanks a month. So for argument's sake, lets say it's 2 tanks of premium/month at $60 over 3 years, or ~$4,320 spent on 91 octane gas and collecting air miles. Then one day I thought to myself I probably have a ton of airmiles, so let's start using them. Handed my card to Harpinder and told him I want to redeem airmiles for a carwash, now wait for it....wait.....waiting...."You don't have enough airmiles" Ever since then I stopped *collecting*. DAFAQ /admittedly I've never looked into how collecting airmiles works, the value proposition, etc. |
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What's your balance? |
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Here's the new 'formula', nice and simple.. Do 5 washes @ Premium prices, and it's worth $10. https://www.airmiles.ca/arrow/Overview?_requestid=6710701 |
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I'm guessing AirMiles is losing massive market share to all the other offers out there... I've been collecting for like 15 fucking years.... and typically I only get like 1-2 AMs per transaction ... so I'd be lucky to get 5-10 AM/month (I only use that CC for Shell, and a few other retailers...) Now, with this... boom.. 20 AM per transaction. |
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If I'm reading the T&C correctly, it's pretty much per transaction. So even if you bring a tanker, you're getting 20AM per transaction, end of story. * there is a minimum of course. Originally Posted By: c_snapper Ii think they've upped the ante to 20x the points but calculate based on litres purchased vs dollar spent |
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i'm by no means a points expert like others, but i do pay more attention than one should lol. collecting airmiles the "traditional" way, you can be collecting for gerenartions and generations and you may be able to get a flight from Pearson to Hamilton. Bonus events is where you really get your bang for buck. Like furball mentioned, a regular fill up will net you 2AM, 3 if you have a huge premium guzzling car, but with with the bonus events which happens every other months for a 6 week period, you'll really see your points accumlate. i buy gas once a week, prior to the beating gas prices took this last month, i spend an average of $80/fill up. That's 2AM but during bonus events when it was 10x, 20AM x 4 = 80AM a month during the bonus months. In around 14-16 months, I earn enough for a roundtrip flight to NYC (1150AM) another one that really helped me get my point was i bought my computer during one of those bonus AM events where i get 20X the points through the Airmiles Mall. 1 AM for every $35 spent at Apple.ca, $1200 for the computer, and I got almost 800 points for that transaction. Throw on a few months of gas during bonus months, boom, another ticket to NYC. the key with AM is not to save them for the long haul trips. earn them and use them quickly. |
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Originally Posted By: furball If I'm reading the T&C correctly, it's pretty much per transaction. So even if you bring a tanker, you're getting 20AM per transaction, end of story. * there is a minimum of course. Originally Posted By: c_snapper Ii think they've upped the ante to 20x the points but calculate based on litres purchased vs dollar spent the offer is 20X the Airmiles. traditionally, i believe it's $30 for the first AM, and then 1 AM for every $20. with gas prices being so high, they were probably giving more points than they wanted...same reason Petro Points went to litres bought vs dollars spent a couple years ago. not sure how they give out Airmiles now. I'm filling up tonight/this weekend, i shall report back. |
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For the 20X or 4X bonus Air miles, you need to buy minimum 25 litres of fuel to qualify |
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For those who collect Air Miles, do you set your card to collect a) Air Miles Cash or b) Dream Rewards ? |
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Mine are set up as Dream (That was created a few years back) |
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Originally Posted By: Risky Business Can someone give me a breakdown on airmiles...it seems to me as if it's the biggest scam ever. I've been filling up with Shell since forever and started collecting airmiles 3 years ago...my premium gas fillups on average are 1 - 2 tanks a month. So for argument's sake, lets say it's 2 tanks of premium/month at $60 over 3 years, or ~$4,320 spent on 91 octane gas and collecting air miles. Then one day I thought to myself I probably have a ton of airmiles, so let's start using them. Handed my card to Harpinder and told him I want to redeem airmiles for a carwash, now wait for it....wait.....waiting...."You don't have enough airmiles" Ever since then I stopped *collecting*. DAFAQ /admittedly I've never looked into how collecting airmiles works, the value proposition, etc. wtf me too! so i gave up collecting them at the pump, but my insurance company started to give 1mile/$1, so i've hopefully been racking them up. i need to call and get another card; i figure i might aswell start collecting since my tanks of gas are $100 give or take at a time. is it even worth it? or do i need like 50 million points to fly to flippin ottawa. |
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I don't know, I don't spend much money as is at establishments that give airmiles and no fucks given, i gave up on that scam. I get the whol bonus points events, but it's not like i can stock up on gas during promotions and then not buy it for the rest of the year Well I suppose I could. Since I am too lazy for CC churning and simply don't have the interest or time to spend on it I stick to one card. My Capital One Aspite travel Mastercard, 2% travel cashback on all purchases made on card. Pays for all annual airfare between wife and i. |
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^I did the same. got the TD aeroplan, there are probably better ones out there but whatever it's something. all i want possibly out of it is for it to pay for airfare for the disney cruise when i take the kid in a year or two. |
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Originally Posted By: Risky Business I don't know, I don't spend much money as is at establishments that give airmiles and no fucks given, i gave up on that scam. I get the whol bonus points events, but it's not like i can stock up on gas during promotions and then not buy it for the rest of the year Well I suppose I could. Since I am too lazy for CC churning and simply don't have the interest or time to spend on it I stick to one card. My Capital One Aspite travel Mastercard, 2% travel cashback on all purchases made on card. Pays for all annual airfare between wife and i. Too bad Kijiji doesn't offer Air Miles As for the Capital One Aspire Travel Mastercard. I was reading it, the annual fee of $120 is fine as each year you get 10,000 bonus points for renewing ($100 value). I plan to make a switch soon when my Gold Visa is coming up for renewal on annual fee. I was leaning toward TD Aeroplan Visa but I don't want to restrict to Air Canada only. |
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I get the equivalent of just under 2,000 cash with my card every year |
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^ $2G rebate every year? You must be racking that CC up every month. That's not the Vas I know (spending money)! |
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Originally Posted By: Risky Business I don't know, I don't spend much money as is at establishments that give airmiles and no fucks given, i gave up on that scam. I get the whol bonus points events, but it's not like i can stock up on gas during promotions and then not buy it for the rest of the year Well I suppose I could. Since I am too lazy for CC churning and simply don't have the interest or time to spend on it I stick to one card. My Capital One Aspite travel Mastercard, 2% travel cashback on all purchases made on card. Pays for all annual airfare between wife and i. Originally Posted By: Risky Business I get the equivalent of just under 2,000 cash with my card every year To get $2k rebate at a rate of 2% - so you're spending $100k a year? Now I feel like a peasant. Some serious ballers in this forum, y0! |
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Originally Posted By: hyper-s2k Originally Posted By: Risky Business I don't know, I don't spend much money as is at establishments that give airmiles and no fucks given, i gave up on that scam. I get the whol bonus points events, but it's not like i can stock up on gas during promotions and then not buy it for the rest of the year Well I suppose I could. Since I am too lazy for CC churning and simply don't have the interest or time to spend on it I stick to one card. My Capital One Aspite travel Mastercard, 2% travel cashback on all purchases made on card. Pays for all annual airfare between wife and i. Originally Posted By: Risky Business I get the equivalent of just under 2,000 cash with my card every year To get $2k rebate at a rate of 2% - so you're spending $100k a year? Now I feel like a peasant. Some serious ballers in this forum, y0! he probably puts EVERYTHING on his CC - his ult, cell bill, food, whores and blow. only thing I dont think you can do is to put your mortgage payment on it - but that would be fucking sweet - put it through to get points and then pay it off monthly. |
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Originally Posted By: c2k Originally Posted By: hyper-s2k Originally Posted By: Risky Business I don't know, I don't spend much money as is at establishments that give airmiles and no fucks given, i gave up on that scam. I get the whol bonus points events, but it's not like i can stock up on gas during promotions and then not buy it for the rest of the year Well I suppose I could. Since I am too lazy for CC churning and simply don't have the interest or time to spend on it I stick to one card. My Capital One Aspite travel Mastercard, 2% travel cashback on all purchases made on card. Pays for all annual airfare between wife and i. Originally Posted By: Risky Business I get the equivalent of just under 2,000 cash with my card every year To get $2k rebate at a rate of 2% - so you're spending $100k a year? Now I feel like a peasant. Some serious ballers in this forum, y0! he probably puts EVERYTHING on his CC - his ult, cell bill, food, whores and blow. only thing I dont think you can do is to put your mortgage payment on it - but that would be fucking sweet - put it through to get points and then pay it off monthly. I put everything on my card except mortgage payment. But nowhere I am getting $2000 cashback rebate every year (at 2% according to Risky). To get close to $2000 rebate you need to spend close to $100,000 a year on the card. Do the math c2k |
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Just under a hundred. |
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All those Sam smith concerts eh? |
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airmiles take foreeeeever... i just use my rbc avion for most things and use them often for travel. |
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Originally Posted By: iamfob Originally Posted By: c2k Originally Posted By: hyper-s2k Originally Posted By: Risky Business I don't know, I don't spend much money as is at establishments that give airmiles and no fucks given, i gave up on that scam. I get the whol bonus points events, but it's not like i can stock up on gas during promotions and then not buy it for the rest of the year Well I suppose I could. Since I am too lazy for CC churning and simply don't have the interest or time to spend on it I stick to one card. My Capital One Aspite travel Mastercard, 2% travel cashback on all purchases made on card. Pays for all annual airfare between wife and i. Originally Posted By: Risky Business I get the equivalent of just under 2,000 cash with my card every year To get $2k rebate at a rate of 2% - so you're spending $100k a year? Now I feel like a peasant. Some serious ballers in this forum, y0! he probably puts EVERYTHING on his CC - his ult, cell bill, food, whores and blow. only thing I dont think you can do is to put your mortgage payment on it - but that would be fucking sweet - put it through to get points and then pay it off monthly. I put everything on my card except mortgage payment. But nowhere I am getting $2000 cashback rebate every year (at 2% according to Risky). To get close to $2000 rebate you need to spend close to $100,000 a year on the card. Do the math c2k what does dat manufacturing spending doe. but you also forgot that risky and his wife are a DINK. |
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I collect about 200-300AM/month. Round trip to NYC is under 900. |
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Originally Posted By: 355-Si I collect about 200-300AM/month. Round trip to NYC is under 900. What? How? |
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Originally Posted By: Risky Business Just under a hundred. owowowowwowowowowowowowoowwowowowowowowowowowowoowowowowowwowowowo wwowowowowowowowowwowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowwow owowowowwowowowowowowowoowwowowowowowowowowowowoowowowowowwowowowo wwowowowowowowowowwowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowwow owowowowwowowowowowowowoowwowowowowowowowowowowoowowowowowwowowowo wwowowowowowowowowwowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowwow owowowowwowowowowowowowoowwowowowowowowowowowowoowowowowowwowowowo wwowowowowowowowowwowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowwow owowowowwowowowowowowowoowwowowowowowowowowowowoowowowowowwowowowo wwowowowowowowowowwowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowwow owowowowwowowowowowowowoowwowowowowowowowowowowoowowowowowwowowowo wwowowowowowowowowwowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowwow owowowowwowowowowowowowoowwowowowowowowowowowowoowowowowowwowowowo wwowowowowowowowowwowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowwow owowowowwowowowowowowowoowwowowowowowowowowowowoowowowowowwowowowo wwowowowowowowowowwowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowwow owowowowwowowowowowowowoowwowowowowowowowowowowoowowowowowwowowowo wwowowowowowowowowwowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowwow owowowowwowowowowowowowoowwowowowowowowowowowowoowowowowowwowowowo wwowowowowowowowowwowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowwow owowowowwowowowowowowowoowwowowowowowowowowowowoowowowowowwowowowow |
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My mastercard is an air miles card and i accrue points for every $15 spent. I also use my AM card on top of that so i earn double the points immediately. For purchases like the Shell promotion, i use both cards. So if i spent $45 on vpower gas, i would earn 120points. And, the reason my trip to nyc was 875AM instead of like 1200 is because if you make purchases at 5 different AM stores, you get bumped to gold status and it lowers your required points by 25%. So Shell, LCBO, Indigo, Metro and rexall to name some. |
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^ I don't understand the Gold level status. So if I shop at 5 different stores that offer Air Miles, I am automatically a Gold status collector? I am pretty sure I have shopped at all 5 stores you mentioned above but I checked my status online, I am still a regular collector |
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Originally Posted By: iamfob ^ I don't understand the Gold level status. So if I shop at 5 different stores that offer Air Miles, I am automatically a Gold status collector? I am pretty sure I have shopped at all 5 stores you mentioned above but I checked my status online, I am still a regular collector |
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Oh yeah. .. And earn 1000AM in a calendar year. |
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I just logged in to AirMiles earlier today and realized I have so little points. Been collecting AirMiles for years, and only have 1600 miles from fueling up my gas guzzlers... equivalent to $130 cash reward. |
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Originally Posted By: 355-Si Oh yeah. .. And earn 1000AM in a calendar year. don't think I can earn 1000 AM in a calendar year no Gold status for me! |
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i filled up at shell over the weekend. it was 3 cents less per ltr with the airmiles card 4 times points for my amex 4 times airmiles.. not bad. |
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^this man knows! If you shop at 5 locations and then rely on shell promotions and lcbo promotions you will hit 1000 easily. |
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I just got 25 free AMs from Shell for being a loyal shell customer year. |
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lol 25 |
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Originally Posted By: 355-Si I just got 25 free AMs from Shell for being a loyal shell customer year. booya i got 60! |
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From shell? I got an email from them saying they were giving me 25. As for my fill up i got 8... No v power here. |
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I just got an email saying I got 60 |
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ok i just called for a replacement card. i have 1,070 miles now, and they say the disney cruise starts at 3g's. how can i point up quick? i already use shell v-power. gift card azns, learn me your ways! |
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Churn their CCs. Start with this one... https://m.americanexpress.com/ca/en/content/air-miles-platinum-credit-card/ |
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I've been collecting like a retard all these years... Earn a bonus of 2,000 AIR MILES reward miles when you charge a total of $500 in purchases to your Card within your first three months of Cardmembership ... and, the first year the $65 annual membership is waived. Motherfuckin' AM inflation wtf! Originally Posted By: c_snapper Churn their CCs. Start with this one... https://m.americanexpress.com/ca/en/content/air-miles-platinum-credit-card/ |
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Originally Posted By: furball :o I've been collecting like a retard all these years... Earn a bonus of 2,000 AIR MILES reward miles when you charge a total of $500 in purchases to your Card within your first three months of Cardmembership ... and, the first year the $65 annual membership is waived. Motherfuckin' AM inflation wtf! Originally Posted By: c_snapper Churn their CCs. Start with this one... https://m.americanexpress.com/ca/en/content/air-miles-platinum-credit-card/ highlighted the key point for you |
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I just signed up for that Gold Amex card, will trade over the MR points to Aeroplan. Sweet! |
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Originally Posted By: LNXGUY I just signed up for that Gold Amex card, will trade over the MR points to Aeroplan. Sweet! fuck. if only i had known, i would've given you a link giving me 10k points too! next time!!! |
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Originally Posted By: c_snapper Originally Posted By: LNXGUY I just signed up for that Gold Amex card, will trade over the MR points to Aeroplan. Sweet! fuck. if only i had known, i would've given you a link giving me 10k points too! next time!!! Shiiiiit... Once it's canceled and I sign up for something else I'll let you know! |
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Originally Posted By: furball :o I've been collecting like a retard all these years... Earn a bonus of 2,000 AIR MILES reward miles when you charge a total of $500 in purchases to your Card within your first three months of Cardmembership ... and, the first year the $65 annual membership is waived. Motherfuckin' AM inflation wtf! Originally Posted By: c_snapper Churn their CCs. Start with this one... https://m.americanexpress.com/ca/en/content/air-miles-platinum-credit-card/ wut does dat manufacturing spending doe. Thanks for the link, I just signed up. |
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is the spend really manufactured if it's money that i'm already spend ie: cable bill, hydro bill etc. |
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Originally Posted By: c_snapper is the spend really manufactured if it's money that i'm already spend ie: cable bill, hydro bill etc. Im just gonna use the AE for 3 months for my other spending (gas, beer, food, amazon, coffee, bullshit, etc). I already have my other CC for the ult. |
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but yeah, it's money you're gonna spend anyways. get some free points. Winning! |
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All you fuckers should be getting referred by c_snap: As a Cardmember, you can refer a friend and earn a referral bonus of 500 reward miles for each approved referral |
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My cable/internet is on my credit card. I checked Hydro, Gas, Water bill, don't think pre-authorized credit card was an option. Hmmmm |