This may be my most controversial post yet. The concept of “Tied Selling”, as defined by Investopedia is:
Tied selling is the illegal practice of a company providing a product or service on the condition that a customer purchases some other product or service.
How close does that sound to “multi-product rebate”? Let’s look at what RBC promotes as “multiproduct rebate”:
Most promotional offers are running until the end of October, so few changes from last month.
Note that we also have two other types of monthly lists going on:
Top Cash Back Credit Card Offers
Top Higher than Normal Sign Up Bonus Offers
After some more back and forth, it looks like Aeroplan is finally being bought out by the Air Canada, TD, CIBC, Visa consortium. Looks like me that Aimia was not happy with the initial offer that they rejected at the beginning of…
Today, we feature Jeremy Rabe, the CEO of Aimia (owner of Aeroplan) who has answered as many of the questions asked by our readers as they could. Thank you Jemery for taking the time to answer all the questions. We really appreciate it and look forward to all the new Aeroplan initiatives!
Pointshogger: So tell us more about this new Porter Airlines arrangement
JR: We’re very excited about this partnership and the other preferred arrangements we’ve announced to take effect in July 2020 These preferred relationships help us to further differentiate and strengthen our air offering come July 2020 by giving members increased flexibility and great value.
Several promotions came to an end from last month, but got extended. You will find that most promotions run until the end of October.
Keep in mind that we also have an going Top Cash Back Credit Cards page which consists of permanent and temporary offers, while this post focuses on temporary offers only.
Note that we also have two other types of recent monthly lists going on:
Best Current First Year Fee Waived Cards
Top Higher than Normal Sigh Up Bonus Offers
I am a little late on this list compared to normal. The reason is because there were very few changes to this list, so I wanted to give it more time to see if something comes up. Unfortunately, nothing significant has come up.
Note that we also have two other types of monthly lists going on:
Today we are interviewing Meg McQuillan, one of the co-founders of a new rent service, Get Digs, newly launched in Ontario by RBC Ventures. Get Digs wants to make rent a great experience rather than a series of annoying hurdles…
I was interviewed by Global News today about the Aeroplan and Porter Airlines team up (Use points or keep saving? What Canadians should know about the Aeroplan-Porter deal).
In addition to this announcement, Aimia (owner of Aeroplan) has rejected the offer by the Air Canada, TD, CIBC and Visa Canada consortium to purchase the Aeroplan program.
In light of the Aeroplan and PC Optimum theft reported by CBC, I thought I’d share my thoughts on how to safeguard your information. Basically, criminals are redeem miles and points of members. The question is, how do we better protect our personal information?
Aeroplan’s website has some suggestions that can help:
Marriott announced more details of the merger with Marriott Rewards, Ritz-Carlton Rewards, and Starwood Preferred Guest. According to my sources, the official effective date is now August 18, 2018. Initially Marriott just said in August 2018, without a specific day.
Either way, below are some of the expected changes to watch for.