tesco 5p off a litre tip

[mikeouk]

sorry if this has been mentioned before, i did a search and nothing came up.

I did a shop at tesco the other day and it occured to me that it would probably go over £100 so i asked the checkout girl to put it through as 2 transactions and i got 2 vouchers for the 5p off a litre of fuel offer.

[30111987]

It's a good tip but on Marton has already written about:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/cheaper-fuel#pay ;)

[Poppy9]

The 5p off per litre voucher does expire after so many days though so you need to use on second care or pass to a friend.

OH make me go with him when we have only 1 voucher. He parks both cars so pump with reach them both and fills up his then mine on same transaction. We then get 5p per litre from both tank fulls.:T

[jonathon]

isnt there a limet asto how much you can put in on 1 voucher ?

[Poppy9]

isnt there a limet asto how much you can put in on 1 voucher ?

We fill up both cars no problem; 1 Mondeo and 1 Fiesta, not sure how much they both hold.

[Wig]

isnt there a limet asto how much you can put in on 1 voucher ?

From rusty memory the limit is 100litres and you are restricted to one vehicle, but if you do as poppy said, they don't bother to tell you not to do it - they are probably too busy to notice.

[Yorkshire-Lady]

My friends hubby goes into the store, and buys something over £50 in just a few items (He once bought a £51 hoover, ando ther time some whiskey)
Gets the voucher and fills up his car.
Then returns the item/s saying he's changed his mind.

Seems pretty far fetched for 5p a litre if you ask me, but it's each to his own.

Y-L

[eggy1]

Can you believe that its TESCOs "policy" not to tell customers that phone up, what the price of diesel/petrol is today!! Why?! My elderly mother phoned Morrissons and Sainsburys so she could decide which supermarket to use and thus save her pension pennies- they obliged immediately ... and then phoned Tesco in Evesham ... they wouldn't tell her!!!

[Crabman]

Can you believe that its TESCOs "policy" not to tell customers that phone up, what the price of diesel/petrol is today!! Why?! My elderly mother phoned Morrissons and Sainsburys so she could decide which supermarket to use and thus save her pension pennies- they obliged immediately ... and then phoned Tesco in Evesham ... they wouldn't tell her!!!
That just happened to me - they said it was an email from head office but at a different store they wouldn't give the info out "by law".

I asked which law that was and when it came into force... "Err, erm, it's a contract" came the eloquent reply :rolleyes:

A supervisor however, was happy to give me a price (119.9p).

Interestingly Morrisons is selling unleaded at a very competitive 111.9p... so toodleoo Tesco :wave:

[loofer]

We never really do £50 worth of shopping at Tesco as we have an Asda nearby.

I fill up at Tesco every other week anyway so I got a Tesco Clubcard Credit Card last year to collect points on. Got over 3000 points so far which is worth about £30 at Tesco or 4 x £30 in deal tokens so I'm going to use it for a service at Nationwide Autos.

I have only just opened a Tesco Clubcard Plus (savings account) for which you get 4 points for every pound spent at Tesco (rather than 1 point per pound). I just top the account up with £60 every other week.

Anyway, here's my tip for this thread... I've found alot of eBay sellers selling their 5p off petrol/diesel reciept. I've just bought my first one for £1.05 (incl p&p) yesterday. It's possible to pick them up for less than that. It's got expiry date of 10/08/08.

I normally fill about 50 litres so using the reciept will reduce the price by £2.50... less the initial £1.05 'investment' = £1.45. That's like 3pence off per litre.

Not alot I know but this site is about money saving.:confused::D

[scbk]

Anyway, here's my tip for this thread... I've found alot of eBay sellers selling their 5p off petrol/diesel reciept. I've just bought my first one for £1.05 (incl p&p) yesterday. It's possible to pick them up for less than that. It's got expiry date of 10/08/08.

I normally fill about 50 litres so using the reciept will reduce the price by £2.50... less the initial £1.05 'investment' = £1.45. That's like 3pence off per litre.

Keep an eye on the prices though as I often notice tesco isn't the cheapest, espicially when they have offers on

[peediedj]

sorry if this has been mentioned before, i did a search and nothing came up.

I did a shop at tesco the other day and it occured to me that it would probably go over £100 so i asked the checkout girl to put it through as 2 transactions and i got 2 vouchers for the 5p off a litre of fuel offer.
there not actually allowed to do this,so if its hsppened to you your lucky

[Gewens]

there not actually allowed to do this,so if its hsppened to you your lucky
Where did you get that from?
I often do shopping for work at the same time as my own. Therefore I put them through seperate so I have my own receipt and a receipt for work.
Never had a problem doing this in Tesco or any other shop.

[Wig]

Can you believe that its TESCOs "policy" not to tell customers that phone up, what the price of diesel/petrol is today!! Why?! My elderly mother phoned Morrissons and Sainsburys so she could decide which supermarket to use and thus save her pension pennies- they obliged immediately ... and then phoned Tesco in Evesham ... they wouldn't tell her!!!

Well from a company like Tesco I can believe it. Everyone should boycott buying petrol at Tesco if they have a nearby alternative like Asda etc.

Tesco has thrown customer service and low prices out of the window. It's about time the consumer fought back.

I did once phone Asda store to get petrol price, they refused to give it to me citing company policy. So I phoned the freephone helpline and asked them how much the petrol was at the XYZ store. The lady asked me to hold on and then came back to me with a slightly different tone in her voice and told me the price, I asked where she had obtained that info from, she said she had phoned the store. Which led us on to the fact that 5 mins earlier they had refused to give me that information. She told me that she had told them there was no such policy about not releasing petrol prices. I asked her to formalise my complaint about the matter and to let me know the outcome by letter.

A week or so later, got a reply saying the people in the store have been told by manager that prices are not a state secret and I had £10 voucher :D

I don't think Tesco will give you a voucher though. They probably do have a new anti customer policy in force. All the more reason to avoid them.

[Poppy9]

there not actually allowed to do this,so if its hsppened to you your lucky

This is common practice of one customer putting through 2 or 3 transactions. Lots of people shop for elderly relatives and they like a receipt just for their goods. I've never seen Tesco refuse.

[Wig]

This is common practice of one customer putting through 2 or 3 transactions. Lots of people shop for elderly relatives and they like a receipt just for their goods. I've never seen Tesco refuse.

As the poster has not returned, I think they were referring to the double issue of the petrol vouchers rather than the splitting of the shopping into 2 transactions. But there would be nothing stopping the customer from buying half and leaving half in the trolley in aisle 9, going to car and coming back to buy the second half at another till. So it's all a bit silly, rather like the checkout staff who sit idly chatting and doing nothing in the "10 items only" till only to complain to the customer who decides, as they are doing nothing they can serve me and my 12 - 15 items, which is made even more ridiculous when you are with your OH and you could theoretically split the trolley of 20 items into 2, but the little hitler has to have a moan - even though the bleeding shop is empty and they were doing sod all.