Tesco Clubcard Points Bonus Discussion

magic_crayon

This link: http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Produ...x?id=L00000845 posted in the other thread (boosting points) seems to work!

stphnstevey

ooooooowwww, free easter eggs!

catz747

Hi, the extra points don't show in my balance on checkout after adding the Easter items, do I get them at some later date?

Oh. I see it says

1. Points will go onto your Clubcard account for your next statement

so they shouldn't show up now? is that right?

dk2401

Hey, I can't find the Tesco Finest Tomato Crisps on the Easter 300 points offer page, which reduces the 'profit' a bit...

johnfthetraveller

MSE has saved me a lot of money, so I don't enjoy complaining, but I find it sad that MSE continues to mislead it's subscribers about Tesco Clubcard Points, as it has done for a long time, despite me making regular attempts to bring it to his attention.

Tesco do three types of points redemption "Pay in Full" (obviously means no multiple), "Double Up" (only for in-store use, and means multiply by two), and "Four times" (where you get 4 times the value) vouchers. But for at least a year now (possibly for longer, but that's when I noticed what was happening) MSE's promotion talks as if most (if not all) the deals are 4x, which they're not. For example in the latest email there's a link to "Boost Tesco Points" which takes you to a page which says:

"While worth 1p in store, Clubcard points values are quadrupled when converted to Tesco Clubcard Rewards Vouchers, which include days out, magazine subscriptions, holidays etc; eg, Alton Towers ticket for £7 of points, or a year's Cosmo subscription for £9."

SOME OF the deals are x4 (about half), but the Alton Towers is NOT x4, (and it's £10, not £7). Neither is Cosmopolitan Mag x4 either, (and it's £10.50, not £9).

It's hardly surprising that some of the info MSE gives out is out-of-date or just plain incorrect, but it's slack that MSE don't have a means that people can report it so they can sort it out. Used to be that you could email Martin personally, but now they're too big for that. Come on Martin. If there was a company that didn't have any means for people to report problems, you'd be complaining yourself, but who can tell you now?

Doc_N

johnfrith wrote: »

MSE has saved me a lot of money, so I don't enjoy complaining, but I find it sad that MSE continues to mislead it's subscribers about Tesco Clubcard Points, as it has done for a long time, despite me making regular attempts to bring it to his attention.

Agreed. It's extremely difficult to get a genuine x4 deal these days, and it's a shame MSE continues to promote the Tesco scheme in the way it does. Not good for a consumer site. Tesco deals are good - but not that good.

nickyhutch

It may not be x4, but if it's a choice between paying with Tesco vouchers or not at all, it's free to me. I'm going on holiday this year, for a fortnight in France - 5 of us, in school holidays - for free. That's the holiday and a ferry crossing. If we'd had to do it in cash, we couldn't have done it, simple as that.

Doc_N

nickyhutch wrote: »

It may not be x4, but if it's a choice between paying with Tesco vouchers or not at all, it's free to me. I'm going on holiday this year, for a fortnight in France - 5 of us, in school holidays - for free. That's the holiday and a ferry crossing. If we'd had to do it in cash, we couldn't have done it, simple as that.

Totally agree with you - used to do it myself when Cresta Holidays were in the scheme.

The point we're making, though, is that it's highly misleading for this of all websites to keep on and on and on about the points being worth 4x face value when for almost all purposes they're not.

Something to do with click-through commission, I imagine?

fatboyonadiet

Doc_N wrote: »

Totally agree with you - used to do it myself when Cresta Holidays were in the scheme.

The point we're making, though, is that it's highly misleading for this of all websites to keep on and on and on about the points being worth 4x face value when for almost all purposes they're not.

Something to do with click-through commission, I imagine?

I doubt it, whenever MSE use links that benefit them they make it clear, in the case of Tesco it looks like they don't.

Lets not forget it is a free service so when they do use links that benefit them I don't seem the harm if you don't want to click through you don't have to

Doc_N

fatboyonadiet wrote: »

I doubt it, whenever MSE use links that benefit them they make it clear, in the case of Tesco it looks like they don't.

Lets not forget it is a free service so when they do use links that benefit them I don't seem the harm if you don't want to click through you don't have to

Again, I agree. MSE isn't a charity, and I'm quite happy for it to make its profit. I just want it to give accurate, rather than misleading, information. Surely we'd all agree with that, wouldn't we?