Originally Posted by
andreagiani
Thanks MtlFire a lot for your detailed reply. This information is really helpful. I did go from Aeroplan eStore site to eBay, and placed a bid and also set the maximum bid at the same time. Because of the maximum bid I set, subsequent bids were automatically made (and therefore I didn't go back to rebid). I didn't close the active eBay tab till I won the auction and paid for the item. Is that similar to the "bidding service" you used?
Also, could you let me know how long it takes for the miles earned from eBay to be posted to your Aeroplan account? Thanks!
I'd say that sounds similar. Without knowing exactly how it tracks your purchases, I assume its a session based cookie in your browser. Hence I try to limit all my aeroplan store purchases to just one session starting fresh and ending fresh to make sure I don't overwrite any cookies. Once I started doing it this way I stopped losing transactions.
Points posting is always complicated with the aeroplan store, best I can figure is that most companies seem to do it monthly. I don't buy enough, or spend enough time following it figure out each one though. But typically you shouldn't expect more than a month or so for them to post. Regardless of WHEN they post the points, remember that most (including ebay from what I've noticed) will be back dated to the original transaction date and show up in your transaction history on the purchase date and not the posting date. So if you have a lot of transactions, when it does show up, it will be several pages back and you might miss it if you are looking for something "recent".
Some stores also don't seem to allow you to combine deals. At Christmas Paypal had 10-20$ cash back deals if you paid with pay pal with both Ebay and Tiger Direct. I got both the cash back and the miles from Ebay, but with Tiger Direct using the Paypal link appeared to eliminate the Aeroplan points.