HBC -AIR Miles

[Draggy]

I know we lose 50% of the value but is it still worth it to convert? If I cash in my HBC points for a gift card , can I then use it to buy a different gift card like second cup or Gap?

[ahatt]

I had my HBC card setup to auto-convert to airmiles. I recently stopped this after learning that I'm losing out by converting to airmiles.

80,000 HBC points = $10 HBC giftcard

2,000 HBC points = 1 Airmile

So for 80,000 HBC points, you'd get 40 airmiles.

A $10 Second Cup giftcard is 85 airmiles.
A $50 HBC giftcard is 400 airmiles...which would be equivalent to 800,000 HBC points which would be enough to redeem for $100 HBC giftcard if you didn't convert your HBC points to arimiles.

So you're exactly right, basically you are losing 50% of the value by converting to airmiles.

As far as I know you can't redeem for an HBC giftcard and then use that to buy a different giftcard.

[grumpy]

Ooh wow! Thanks for pointing this out. I had no idea, Better change it back to HBC points!