Tesco Clubcard Points Bonus Discussion

Tomasz

A business class flight to Thailand costs circa £2000. However, if you convert £1000 worth of clubcard vouchers that gives you 24000 airmiles. 24000 airmiles will get you a business class flight to Thailand! Excuse my ignorance, but how much would you need to spend in tesco to get £1000 of clubcard vouchers? I understand it would be £100,000 using standard spend, does the above loophole help at all? Or is there anyway you can buy tesco pounds with real pounds? Ebay? Is this a non starter?!

Cheers

bearcy

I have recently renewed both of our cars with Tesco Motor Insurance. The renewal premium in both instances was higher than quotes obtained from price comparison sites. I contacted Tesco and after speaking to the renewal dep,t I was put through to the loyalty dep,t. After quoting cheaper prices they offered to reduce the Tesco premium plus give me 150 points for 12 months equal to £18 or £72 using them for Tesco deals. Although the premium was still slightly higher if you take advantage of the the deals it meant considerable savings. It pays to go back to tesco and haggle.:T

cranhill

Hi, I have visited Tesco.com to fnd out about the extra 500 points for buying 2 Cds or 2 DVDs. I see no mention of this deal anywhere on the site. The only deal I could see was for 300 points on a MP3 download.

Any

Tomasz wrote: »

A business class flight to Thailand costs circa £2000. However, if you convert £1000 worth of clubcard vouchers that gives you 24000 airmiles. 24000 airmiles will get you a business class flight to Thailand! Excuse my ignorance, but how much would you need to spend in tesco to get £1000 of clubcard vouchers? I understand it would be £100,000 using standard spend, does the above loophole help at all? Or is there anyway you can buy tesco pounds with real pounds? Ebay? Is this a non starter?!

Cheers

Oh yes, there is, but it will not cost you less then face value... but slightly more. Because the conversion into deals can be UP TO 4x the face value..
So to buy £1000 worth of Tesco points (ie 100000 points) can cost you up to £2000.... Just put "Tesco clubcard" or "Tesco points" into search on Ebay and you will see. It might not come up that much cheaper buing the points then the ticket.

Lots of people collect that amount of points over longer period of times, there is number of things you can do to boost your balance...

I myself can't do it to that extent, but I do pay for everything by my Tesco Credit card (a point for every £4 spend anywhere) instead of by my debit card and clear the balance each month. That helps to boost my points, especially because my OH buys lots of work related items on his card and then gets it paid back via his expense claims.

Others is to go through your draws (or recycling bin at work:D) and find empty ink cartridges that Tesco accepts (100 points each). Or old mobile phones (also to recycle).

Hope this helps

I-LOV-MONEY

I went to two branches today. One small and one largish (Brent Cross). Both stocked CDs, but neither had any cheap CDs, only the more expensive ones. The shelf label was marked with the offer.

rapunzelz86

Tomasz wrote: »

A business class flight to Thailand costs circa £2000. However, if you convert £1000 worth of clubcard vouchers that gives you 24000 airmiles. 24000 airmiles will get you a business class flight to Thailand! Excuse my ignorance, but how much would you need to spend in tesco to get £1000 of clubcard vouchers? I understand it would be £100,000 using standard spend, does the above loophole help at all? Or is there anyway you can buy tesco pounds with real pounds? Ebay? Is this a non starter?!

Cheers

I personally wouldnt bother with buying points from ebay. There are many ways to boost your points - but the best way is over time as said above, not in a rush. I have a tesco mobile (payg), which gives you 3 points per pound topped up, im with Eon for my gas/elec, which gives 1 point per £2 spent,and try to take advantage of as many extra points deals as possible. It is certainly possible to get £1000 cc points without spending £100,000 :eek:
Trawl all the threads on here relating to clubcard,the guys on here have a wealth of knowledge for these thigs. i believe theres also a site called paidtoshop that talks about cc alot

rapunzelz86

cranhill wrote: »

Hi, I have visited Tesco.com to fnd out about the extra 500 points for buying 2 Cds or 2 DVDs. I see no mention of this deal anywhere on the site. The only deal I could see was for 300 points on a MP3 download.

It has been said that its not advertised clearly online, but you dont even need to buy 2 cds/dvds. in my local store all chart cds/dvs had 500 points stickers on them (and "chart" goes up to 40") some as cheap as £4. there was one for a pound with 500 points but tesco seem to have removed them now
Youre prob better to go to a store they have a better selection too

Jami74

donny909 wrote: »

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?.
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It is highly unlikely that staff are doing this. Anyone working for Tesco who is also a points collector probably values their job too highly to risk losing it for a few points. There was a case recently where a member of staff got into trouble for picking up and using a till spit that a customer left behind. So receipts, till spits and petrol coupons are given to the customer and if the customer doesn't want them they go in the bin.

I-LOV-MONEY

Well when the petrol promotion was on, someone was selling vouchers on Ebay. She offered so many over the course of the promotion that she couldn't have possibly got them from shopping.

I wonder if Ebay would ever reveal someone's true identity if a fraud case were ever instigated ?

scootw1

I've had my shopping tonight and it appears that the items included in the Easter promotion have actually changed since I placed my order so I wonder if I will still get the points? Wait and see