Massive Tesco points loophole. Spend £27, get 6 bottles of wine & £36 Tesco Rewards

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There’s a way to get six bottles of Torres wine for £27 (which is 25% off) and get 900 bonus Tesco clubcard points on top of the usual points – these can then be traded in for £36 of Tesco Rewards (or £18 of further Tesco Wine) which means you’re £9 up.

Important Update! 07 July 09. Loophole restocked, though not quite as good

In many stores the wine's sold out, unsurprising with over 300,000 viewing this thread in just a couple of days (see the Tesco swamped with MoneySavers news story) yet now it's restocking. However, the new deal isn't quite as good as you can no longer get 25% off six bottles or more, yet it still means buy a £6 bottle of wine and you get £6 in Rewards vouchers.

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This is all about combining deals, Tesco has confirmed that they can be used in conjunction. The deals are as follows

• Buy any 6+ bottles of wine before Sun 5 July, get 25% off (Update: now ended ignore in explanation below)
• Buy a bottle of Torres wine (red, white or rose) and get 150 bonus clubcard points
• Each 1 clubcard point while worth 1p in store can be swapped for 4p of Tesco Rewards.

So nip down to your local Tesco before Sunday buy 6+ bottles of Torres, you get the discount and the extra points, then you can swap them later for rewards. Though there’s no official limit on the number of bottles you can buy so you could get more (though it has a fair usage clause, so don’t go overboard!)

The offer's is now available online, however 25% off is only available when you buy a case of wine rather than six bottles individually. So if you want to buy online you can have either the points or 25% off, not both. You can see a picture of the wine here (http://www.tesco.com/superstore/xpi/9/xpi50985589.htm).

There's an alternative deal on Marques de Monistrol Vintage Cava Brut bottles are 10.99 each but you get 300 bonus points per bottle. Meaning for an £11 bottle you get £12 worth of Rewards (thanks to MoneySaver m_will for this top spot) do note this Cava can be bought cheaper elsewhere though.

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They used to be called Tesco Deals, and they can be used to buy days out, RAC membership, magazine subscriptions and more (see Tesco Rewards page).

While each clubcard point is worth a penny if used for instore shopping, and they’re sent out in vouchers of a minimum £1 each quarter. Convert them to Rewards vouchers and they’re worth four times the amount to spend on days out, magazine subscriptions, holidays, gifts, hotel rooms and more.

Obviously the 'loophole' element of this only works if you can use the vouchers for something you'd buy anyway. Otherwise its just a good deal... one other option is if you're a wine connoisseur you can instead trade in 1 point for 2p worth of “Double Up” vouchers (so £18 worth in total), which you can use on more Tesco Wine.

Read the Loyalty Point guide for a detailed explanation of Tesco Points Boosting and how to maximise it.

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If you already have Tesco vouchers, then you can convert them into 'double up vouchers' and use that towards buying the wine in the first place. And you still get the extra points on top, as they're treated as cash.

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This is a fun deal, but please drink sensibly... see Drink Aware for more info.

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[thanks]Thanks to MoneySaver mustbemoreorganised for this fab spot!
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mustbemoreorganised

Hi
couldn't find this elesewhere. My partner has just called to say he is in Tesco, he has bought some Torres white wine, don't know the exact one, it's £5.99 a bottle but there's 150 points on each bottle. He bought 6 which after the current 25% discount was £27.99 and he got 903 points which as you know is worth £36 in deals. He's just gone back in for another 24 bottles, you can't have too much wine or too many tesco points, grab it while you can.

meinnit

Shouldnt that be 927 points?

sarahg1969

And don't forget to use up any points vouchers from the recent wine mailing.

meinnit

Found this online. No mention of extra point so may be instore only


Torres Vina Sol 75cl

From the White Wine Spanish shelf

£5.98

thepearce

So.... double-up 1400 points to £28, pay for the wine with those.....and get 927 points back?

= 473 points for 6 bottles of wine.

sarahg1969

Just nipped into Tesco. It's on the red, white and rose.

White = £5.98
Red = £5.99
Rose = £6.49

Unfortunately, I didn't have my wine club mailing with me, so I'll have to buy some later on.

Idiophreak

Thanks for this, OP - think I'll pop in and have a look

meinnit

sarahg1969 wrote: »

Just nipped into Tesco. It's on the red, white and rose.

White = £5.98
Red = £5.99
Rose = £6.49

Unfortunately, I didn't have my wine club mailing with me, so I'll have to buy some later on.

Someone couldn't wait!

upallnight

mustbemoreorganised wrote: »

Hi
couldn't find this elesewhere. My partner has just called to say he is in Tesco, he has bought some Torres white wine, don't know the exact one, it's £5.99 a bottle but there's 150 points on each bottle. He bought 6 which after the current 25% discount was £27.99 and he got 903 points which as you know is worth £36 in deals. He's just gone back in for another 24 bottles, you can't have too much wine or too many tesco points, grab it while you can.

I make 6 bottles @ £5.99 = £35.94 less 25% = £26.96.
Have they done you for £1, or is it a typo? The website says 25 pts per bottle, mistake in store?

meinnit

upallnight wrote: »

The website says 25 pts per bottle, mistake in store?

How did you find this?