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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
Depends though...I was looking at Aeroplan merchandise and often a $400 item costs more points to redeem than getting 4-$100 gift cards.
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Don't plan on using Aeroplan to redeem merchandise as it will never equate to the same as 1% or even 2% because you can also collect miles for the miles you fly vs the money you spent on the ticket.
AP is perfect if you want to get a cheap flight ticket. Example, a $500 GC from Futureshop will set you back 63000 points. Where 1 flight from Calgary to Toronto will set you back 25000 points. The flight usually cost $600, but you do pay the airport tax which cost me 100 bucks/ticket. Still a saving of 500 bucks with 25000 points.
The PS3 bundle is 73K.. that's almost 3 return flights to anywhere in NA... If you cash out your 170k in AP, you would get close to 1400 in FS GC...