Tesco Clubcard Points Bonus Discussion

Mumto2

supersaver09 wrote: »

Maybe i'm being thick , but do you have to buy 5 totally "different" items from the list or can you buy say 3 x Easter Eggs and 2 x Daffodils?

I've always taken it to be 5 different items - not multiples of the same item.

supersaver09

Mumto2 wrote: »

I've always taken it to be 5 different items - not multiples of the same item.

I thought as much.
Thanks for that.

Any

donny909 wrote: »

We accidently added somebody's points to our card today!. Don't know if this is something that aught to be mentioned on here but we (after doing some shopping for a friend) added the points off her receipt to our own clubcard today when we do with all our own receipts when forgetting to take the card with us.

Her points got added ok, all 56 of them, but it's got me thinking. If anyone can use other peoples receipts to add the points to there card. Is not the entire scheme open to abuse where people can simply pick up left receipts from the checkouts etc and then add them to there own card at the cs desk?. If this is fine to do is it very suspicious of me to suggest there are a lot of Tesco staff who may be doing just this by getting the likes of free holidays of the back of customers discarded receipts?.

Does anyone actually do this with friends receipts who don't bother with a club card to use as bonus points for there own card?

You can even buy a non-registered Tesco card with points on it on Ebay and merge it with your own so I cannot see why you couldn't be able to have someone elses points..

Doubt there is many receipts left at any counter, it's not in our town - most people pay by card and they are too afraid to leave anything behind with any of the details of their card on it...

I think staff is told what is and what isn't acceptable - I know at our local Coop there was a woman who always swiped her Coop loyalty card when customer didn't have one and she got into trouble for that...

cagsd

One way to avoid possible fraud would be to do what Boots do with Adv. Points, and only add them when there is an authorisation code which is given when the customer has genuinely forgotten their card - well, I say "genuinely", my mum actually doesn't have an Adv Card and doesn't want one, so when she buys from Boots she always tells the SA she's forgotten her card, and gets the receipt authorised for me to add the points to my card!! But in general, this scheme isn't open to abuse as people wouldn't ask for an auth. code and then leave the receipt lying round. Tesco ought to think about that one!

nickyhutch

Any wrote: »

You can even buy a non-registered Tesco card with points on it on Ebay and merge it with your own so I cannot see why you couldn't be able to have someone elses points..

Doubt there is many receipts left at any counter, it's not in our town - most people pay by card and they are too afraid to leave anything behind with any of the details of their card on it...

I think staff is told what is and what isn't acceptable - I know at our local Coop there was a woman who always swiped her Coop loyalty card when customer didn't have one and she got into trouble for that...

On PaidToShop, this is called wombling, and very much frowned upon. People have been spotted picking receipts up from car parks and trolleys and banned from the scheme.

kitschkitty

My local branch told me it was a week so I have missed out on some points in the past, but I already know they are liars (and I mean that literally as they have lied to my face before). Sadly my local Tesco is awful. *sigh*

Hey_Dude

nickyhutch wrote: »

On PaidToShop, this is called wombling, and very much frowned upon. People have been spotted picking receipts up from car parks and trolleys and banned from the scheme.

Most of what you can find on Paid To Shop has been lifted from MSE - indeed the core members came from MSE - the precise reason they formed PTS escapes me but I think they wanted to vet members and really kind of attempt to keep their Tesco/Boots finds to themselves.

Anyhow I discovered that one of the core members was abusing the trust of other members - in essence they were asking for and taking free items from other members and proceeding to sell these on for a personal profit.

When I publicly objected about 4 or 5 other members approached me privately with information relating to this person - details of them basically ripping members off - however these others Dudes feared that they would face censure if they went public due to the popularity of the offender.

As for me - the core members rallied around the offending person - who denied any wrong doing - hey ho, I just wanted to blow the whistle.

I value the openness and community of MSE - the fact that it's not an exclusive self-serving club where the central theme is promoting self-interests.

And in fairness I drop into PTS from time-to-time - believe me it's not crammed full of secrets - all this sounds like I have got a problem with PTS but really I have not - I just don't like people being ripped off.

Wombling - term originated on MSE by Leadhead or one of his gang I think - problem with wombling is that if you do it too much then Dundee will spot it and there have been accounts closed because of this - a few receipts here and there will not hurt.

Duder

nickyhutch

Hey Dude, I agree completely. I'm there regularly, don't post much as all the pals gang up if you dare to disagree with any of the clique. They're far too polite, too!

rapunzelz86

Only really good if youre buying anyway, and sorry its a short expiry but i only just found it
link to cheapest one ;
http://direct.tesco.com/basket/
full list ;
http://direct.tesco.com/promo/?id=S00016475

some cheaper laptops have 500 points.
if i had the capital id be doing the same with these as people did with the mobiles lol!

Anyone know of any low spend points boosters?

Doc_N

Doc_N wrote: »

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.

At it again in today's email:

[FONT=&quot]Tesco £13 profit loophole[/FONT]

Shame they can't just quit the misleading headlines like this one and stick to the facts................