Get paid £2 for spending £1.25 on marg! Plus other Tesco bonus points offer

meinnit

jamespir wrote: »

in the rewards catalouge all the deals are 4x your points

Yes but take the Cineworld deal for example. £3 worth of Clubcard vouchers gets you an adult ticket and x4 this is £12 however an adult ticket is not £12! Price direct from Cineworld ranges from £5 to £8.20 depending on the time/day.

MrsBartolozzi

jamespir wrote: »

in the rewards catalouge all the deals are 4x your points

While this may well be the case, most of the deals can be got elsewhere at cheaper than the equivalent 4x cost from Tesco.
The cost of holidays for example need to be taken straight from the brochure price, but anyone paying cash will get discounts. From what I've read here it's only worth your while booking a holiday through Tesco if you are paying wholly in points as the price can cost as much in points plus cash as cash on it's own.

Magazines are another example, I recently paid £12 in points (£48 cash equivalent) for a subscription I could have got elsewhere for less than £30.
The 4x points thing is a bit misleading, especially if you are buying food purely to get the extra points. You need to check the deal you are interested in and what it's real world value is and work from there. I generally work it out as 3x, personally, but I do remember that while it may cost me a few extra points to get into the zoo for example it does mean that I can save more of my hard earned pennies for something else, and it is FREE to me as I only buy what I need and go for deals I would normally buy or my family will use. Oh and I use the clubcard credit card for everything and so get 1 point per £2 that way too .

loobyloo2

davetrousers wrote: »

Potentially, but the margarine is freezable

I have been buying this stuff for weeks now, but it is in my fridge, in fact, it has rather taken over my fridge:D

But sorry...... nowhere on the packet does it say it can be frozen!
I know you can freeze some spreads, but I am not too sure on this one, you can't fry with it either,

just Spread,Bake or use for Sauces.

baldeagle09

That Lanvin Oxygen Aftershave 30ml now costs £8 - bonus points 500, so effectively getting £20.32 in clubcard deals points for an £8 spend - £12.32 'profit'. Not bad at all.:beer:

udydudy

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

While this may well be the case, most of the deals can be got elsewhere at cheaper than the equivalent 4x cost from Tesco.
The cost of holidays for example ................................Magazines are another example, I recently paid £12 in points (£48 cash equivalent) for a subscription I could have got elsewhere for less than £30.
.......................for everything and so get 1 point per £2 that way too .

Its how you look at it. firstly let say you bought the wine deal with the 25% off. The wine cost you £4.50(25% of £5.99 when bought in quantity of 6-- the deal is closed now). and then you got £6 worth of points(150 pts x4).

the magazine deal you say is available for £30 elsewhere
a) remember you still are paying £18 extra over the clubcard deal and
b) you still enjoyed the wine.

if you had bought elsewhere you would only be reading the magazine and £18 poorer in the pocket. Whilst someone who went for the deal would be sippingwine whilst reading the magazine and £18 richer as such.:beer:

Likewise I have been using RAC offer (Roadside & Recovery) whilst it is now for £28 the list price is £112 even at buy one get one free offer it costs £56. so i find it still worthwhile especially when the points are earned whilst buying liqour - beer, wine , spirits which have no shelf life and is anyway consumed.

gill377

neas wrote: »

Is this site and i guess tesco encouraging people to mass buy butter and waste it?

The 'loopholes' are on items that are perishable.. and most of us wont actually use... so while it is 70p profit per tub bought you'd have to waste literally hundreds of them just to get 70 quid+ profit from this. Add in the cost of the 6 limit per tesco and really its balanced against time and petrol costs.

Its not a loophole btw... its simply an offer... no 'intelligence required'... Buy item, scan clbucard, pay... hardly a loophole.

hiya, hopefully most folk will do as I do and give the produce to friends and family or freeze if possible.

MrsBartolozzi

udydudy wrote: »

Its how you look at it. firstly let say you bought the wine deal with the 25% off. The wine cost you £4.50(25% of £5.99 when bought in quantity of 6-- the deal is closed now). and then you got £6 worth of points(150 pts x4).

the magazine deal you say is available for £30 elsewhere
a) remember you still are paying £18 extra over the clubcard deal and
b) you still enjoyed the wine.

if you had bought elsewhere you would only be reading the magazine and £18 poorer in the pocket. Whilst someone who went for the deal would be sippingwine whilst reading the magazine and £18 richer as such.:beer:

Likewise I have been using RAC offer (Roadside & Recovery) whilst it is now for £28 the list price is £112 even at buy one get one free offer it costs £56. so i find it still worthwhile especially when the points are earned whilst buying liqour - beer, wine , spirits which have no shelf life and is anyway consumed.

That's why I said :

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

You need to check the deal you are interested in and what it's real world value is and work from there. I generally work it out as 3x, personally, but I do remember that while it may cost me a few extra points to get into the zoo for example it does mean that I can save more of my hard earned pennies for something else, and it is FREE to me as I only buy what I need and go for deals I would normally buy or my family will use. Oh and I use the clubcard credit card for everything and so get 1 point per £2 that way too .

I didn't fancy any of the wines on offer or I might have taken advantage of the offer you mention - I don't think it would have been worth my while spending cash on something my family won't use or that would be wasting £4.50 cash on 150 pts (worth up to £6 in deals - more likely £4.50ish).
To use the magazine example you quote
I might have spent £30 cash on the mag "elsewhere" but you might have had to buy 8 bottles of wine @ £4.50 a pop (£36) =£6 extra to get the 1200 points required for the magazine through Tesco. If you were going to buy the wine already then that's fine you get the mag for free, but some people would buy the wine purely for the points and then it's not such a good deal.
As you say, it's how you look at it.

Plentyofish

MY OH got extra 50 points added for buying a four pack of beer.
Beer was £3 and he was buying it anyhow, so got £2 in deals and his beer too.
He is happy, keeps him smiling too.

jenniewb

Not that jammy, but the "pure" milk 2L size (Tesco imitation of Cravendale) has 40 points extra when you buy.

£1.60 a bottle. Good if you buy it anyway.

davetrousers

loobyloo2 wrote: »

But sorry...... nowhere on the packet does it say it can be frozen!

I have a 1kg tub of tesco Olive Spread and it says on the bottom that it can be frozen.