| Cheap gas! 13+ cents per liter discount. - Click HERE for Original Thread |
| Superbeast2 |
Hey all.
The price of gas has convinced me to invest some time in figuring out how to get the best discounts when filling up my cars and bike.
After a lot of research, I finally found what I think is the best deal, I'm getting between 13.8 and 14.4 cents discount per liter at the moment, which helps driving from Morinville to Spruce Grove everyday.
If anyone is interested in benefiting from this, please pm me or email at sean underscore strang at hotmail dawt com
Once you have it set up, it is pretty easy to maintain. I know everyone is thinking I will make money from this, and I'll be honest, one stage of discounts comes from a referral site where I'll get 0.5% or something ridiculously small if you sign under me. I'm more interested in helping out other car enthusiasts, but the 0.5% helps to justify the research I've put into this.
Anyway, let me know if you want me to explain it to you. |
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| Superbeast2 |
Hey all, I've got about a half-dozen responses from this, and a few people have asked why I don't just post the information in the thread. After sitting down for minute, I couldn't remember why I didn't do this in the first place. It's a fairly long guide, and you've gotta carefully read the whole thing. With that being said, it doesn't really make sense for me to copy and paste this every time in a PM. I'm not really making any money from it, so I have no idea why I would want to spend more time than I need to.
With that being said, on to the deal!
Best Gas Discount in Canada
It's actually pretty easy to do. Took me a while to figure out that this was the best deal, but it works flawlessly. It’s a three step rebate process consisting of rebates from a credit card, rebates from a cash-back web site, and rebate from Canadian Tire.
Step 1) Sign up for a credit card of your choice.
Start off by reading:
http://www.redflagdeals.com/deals/m...ticles/credit1/
If you see something in there you like, pick it.
Two other good options:
BMO MOSAIK - For Air Miles
http://www3.bmo.com/mosaik/perform_...p;&PUID=505
CIBC Aerogold Visa / Aerogold Infinite - For Aeroplan Miles
http://www.cibc.com/ca/visa/aerogol...inite-card.html
I usually use my CIBC Aerogold. There is a yearly fee, but I like the aeroplan miles, and they don’t expire for 7 years. (no fee on the regular Aero Classic, but less rewards)
A little financial tip that has nothing to do with gas. Once you get this card, put EVERYTHING you can on here. I mean EVERYTHING, and it ends up being a free airline ticket or two every year.
Anyway, depending on the card you choose, you'll get different rewards. With my card, it works out that I can redeem for flights at about 1.6% to 2.5%.
Step 2
Sign up for greatcanadianrebates.com
Please use this link: http://www.greatcanadianrebates.ca/register/108100/
It doesn’t cost you anything to use this link, and it is the only place where I can recover the time required to research and type this out. You get your normal rewards, and then they give me another 10%. This really isn’t a lot, but hopefully it’ll justify my time spent typing all this out for other people to use.
This site has a LOT of vendors, and each has a different deal. Some are free shipping, some are cash discounts, some are percentage discounts.
After you sign up, you go to greatcanadianrebates.com, and click on the vendor you want to purchase stuff from.
IMPORTANT: You have to go to the vendor through the greatcanadianrebates site, otherwise you will not get the cash-back discount.
Have a look around the site, I do a LOT of my shopping here and it ends up saving me quite a few bucks every month.
You can redeem your gcr.ca rewards through paypal (if you have one), or you can get them to mail you a cheque if you prefer.
Anyway, on to the fuel. Use the search box to find Canadian Tire. Gcr.ca gives you a 3.33% discount on all purchases at Canadian Tire. Click through to the Canadian Tire site, and do a search for “gift card”. You can buy in any increment; I usually buy a couple $100 gift cards per month.
Fill in your shipping information, and pay using the credit card you obtained in Step 1.
Step 3) After about a week, your gift cards will arrive in a brown envelope in the mail. As far as Canadian Tire is concerned, these cards are the same as cash. This means that you will qualify for 5% Canadian Tire money on all in-store purchases, and $0.075 per liter at the gas pumps.
Use your gift cards to buy gas and then collect the Canadian Tire money they give you. Once you get $25, take it into the store to customer service and redeem it for another gift card, which you can use at the gas pumps.
Total Savings
Credit Card: 1-2%, depending on the card you choose (about $0.0195/liter at the moment using a conservative 1.5%)
Gcr.ca: 3.33% (about $0.0433/liter at the moment)
Canadian Tire: $0.075/liter
Savings = 13.78 cents per liter
I’ve researched many different options (safeway, esso points, airmiles, etc…), and this seems to be the best.
If anyone else can find a better deal, please let me know. Thanks for adding me to gcr.ca, as you can calculate out, I’m not doing this to make money. If someone uses my code and gets $200 of gas in a month, I get $0.60.
However, if you think that 10% off all fuel is helpful in any way, I'd not too proud to accept a paypal donation to sean_strang@hotmail.com. If you don't use it, or don't think it's worth anything, don't pay anything. I like to help people out more than I like to get paid (probably why I need gas discounts, hahaha) . Happy shopping!
I have a bunch of deals like this. If the response is positive to this one, I'll post some more. |
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| fugumerkur |
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| Flex |
What we do is buy everything for our store on our mosaik mastercard to collect airmiles. We also buy supplies at safeway for our store so we buy them with the mastercard to get the miles plus every $35 spent at safeway we get a 7 cent/litre coupon for gas. We use the self checkout at safeway and start the transaction over so for every $35 purchased we get a coupon.
Then we use the airmiles and buy $20 gas gift cards. we usually get $80 to $100 worth of gas cards per month. So all in all it saves us a nice little chunk of money on fuel. |
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| Superbeast2 |
Yeah, I analyzed the safeway route with this as well.
If you watch the safeway fliers very closely and buy all the stuff that comes with bonus air miles, you can do quite well.
However, the Cdn Tire deal is still better. You can still shop @ safeway and get the bonus airmiles (along with some slightly overpriced groceries, but worth it if you shop smart), and then you still get airmiles for the fuel purchases. Plus you get 7.5 cents/liter back instead of 7, and an additional 3.33% that you don't get at the safeway gas bar.
But buying the airmiles deal items at safeway is a great way to save money. Once in a while, you get so many bonus air miles that it is worth it to buy the item even if you don't need it. |
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