Never Spend Tesco Clubcard Vouchers In-store!!!

bylromarha · 10 August 2005 at 5:46PM

I have been mocked and laughed at.

I have been told I’m mad

I have been told that I’ve gone too far trying to save money

I have a holiday in New Zealand for 3 weeks for two and a half people for £1000 and lots of homeless people have had a large amount of food given to them.:j

Who’s laughing now?;)

OH and I were going to NZ anyway this year and intended to use our existing Clubcard vouchers towards the holiday. However, when Tesco sent me a magazine detailing the burgers and chips offer, the little grey cells started ticking…I phoned the holiday company Tesco used that went to New Zealand… did some sums and figured I could save half the cost of our holiday through buying burgers and chips.

The next dilemma was where to deposit the food. OH and I would not do the offer if it meant we had to bin the food (4000 burgers effectively), as that was just wrong. I thought about donating them to the school I used to work at, but then realised that would mean each pupils had to eat 10 burgers each…. not so good.:eek:

I then thought about who would really benefit from lots of free food, so rang up a few friends who work with underprivileged people. They were quick to give me the phone numbers of the local homeless shelters. I rang them up and they agreed to take the burgers and chips off my hands.:T

As Tesco wouldn’t let me bulk buy, I had to go round several stores in the area each day and deliver my goods to the shelter at the end of the trek. The first day the shelter were extremely grateful…I asked if they had more room and they did, so I returned the second day. Still more room, so off I went on the third day and dumped my load on their doorstep. No more room at the inn! Their “very large” freezers were full up. We had to go to NZ in November, so needed to get the Clubcard vouchers amassed before the August mailing of vouchers. Had to keep going to Tesco…

But I still had to get £100 more Clubcard vouchers to get, so I managed to give some to a church who work with youth in their area and friends managed to take the rest of my hands. Thankfully, not 1 piece of food was thrown away.

So costs:

Tradewinds are charging £3200 for the holiday. I could source the very same holiday for £2200 using independent companies.

I already had £770 in deals, leaving a balance to find for a Tradewinds holiday of £2430.

This equated to £1215 spend on burgers, chips etc. As the beef deal appeared at the end of my point spree, I got this cost down even less to about £1000 spend as beef at 66p per item was even cheaper than the burgers at 99p per item. And as Tesco takes coupons for products you haven’t bought, I was able to buy £6 of coupons on cereal packets for £2.28. Every time I bought burgers, I used one coupon, so was glad I hadn’t bought in bulk, as the cost of every transaction could be chipped away using the coupons too.

Therefore my holiday in real money cost me £1000 –all spent on food to get the points, compared to a cost of £2200 we would have had if I'd sourced the holiday independently. So even though Tradewinds is £1000 more for the holiday to start with, the actual cost is cheaper. Unfortunately I’ve had to pay £425 which is the deposit lost on cancelling flights we'd already booked. Oh well!

This means I've saved £800 by buying beef and chips…would have saved £1225 if I hadn’t already booked my flights. And there are lots of homeless people who are enjoying the delights of burger curry (the shelter’s recipe, not mine!)

Tesco-every little helps!

Miroslav · 10 August 2005 at 6:21PM

deanos wrote:

Car servicing ? thats what im saving for

I don't drive :rotfl:

Miroslav · 10 August 2005 at 6:23PM

soolin wrote:

I use my points for Yates vouchers, £2.50 of Tesco coupons equals a £10 Yates voucher. My local Yates does meal deals BOGOF all week, two meals for £6.99 plus wine at £4.99 a bottle. So for £20 of Yates vouchers 4 of us can eat and have a bottle of wine which I think is a great bargain.

I also used some Tesco vouchers to get Blockbuster vouchers for the children in the school holidays. Oldest son is 17 on Friday so I have applied for BSM vouchers as an extra birthday present. The BSM vouchers aren't quite as good a deal as the others, but it is still a saving.

Soo

Sounds good, but we don't have a Yates.

Sounds like you can use for lots of things I had no idea about though

Miroslav · 10 August 2005 at 6:24PM

nightsong wrote:

Do you eat out at all? You can use the tokens in some restaurants - Bella Italia is the one that I remember, but there are others.

Very rarely, but will keep it in mind. I thought it wass all holidays etc. Must brush up on my Tesco Clubcard Point Ciricular

thepearce · 10 August 2005 at 7:26PM

I recently bought 1,104 packs of beef (all given to homeless hostels) courtesy of a special order at my local tesco. Spent £750 and have almost £2400 in deals altogether now.

Will post in full tomorrow.

Labasheedy · 10 August 2005 at 7:38PM

the Bristish airways airmiles offer is:
https://www.britishairways.com/execclub/tesco/
You’ll receive 600 BA Miles for every £2.50 of Clubcard Vouchers exchanged and for every additional 50p of Vouchers you’ll receive 120 BA Miles.
the airmiles.co.uk offer is:
http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/clubcard/deals/airmiles_howwork.htm
You can exchange your Clubcard Vouchers for AirMiles through Tesco Freetime. You'll get 60 AirMiles for £2.50 worth of Clubcard Vouchers and for every additional 50p worth of Clubcard Vouchers you'll get an extra 12 AirMiles.

anyone have any idea why BA Airmiles is 10x more than AirMiles?

mossy · 10 August 2005 at 7:41PM

I'm soooo excited some very close friends are moving to Texas in September and I would really love to go out next year to see them, looks like it might be possible through airmiles

Will post again later as I'm a bit confused about it all and would also like some advice on the best way to build up airmiles, would it be worth getting a tescos credit card, paying it off each month so avoiding interest but earning points??

All advice would be very very much appreciated.

Labasheedy · 10 August 2005 at 7:45PM

Just figured it out.
Considering they are charging 20,000 BA Miles from uk to Italy, I guess they just use 10 times the distance.
What an odd arrangement.

gjchester · 10 August 2005 at 7:53PM

We were looking at the Macdonalds Hotels for a weekend break, however they have weekend special on the website and the tesco vouchers can only be used agains standard brochure prices (which were a lit more!!) So we're still collecting the vouchers for something new...

mossy · 10 August 2005 at 9:29PM

Labasheedy wrote:

Just figured it out.
Considering they are charging 20,000 BA Miles from uk to Italy, I guess they just use 10 times the distance.
What an odd arrangement.

How did you manage to find out how many miles it takes for a journey, I can't seem to find anyway of working it out...starting to get frustrated

Never Spend Tesco Clubcard Vouchers In-store!!!

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