MSE news: Tesco boosts Clubcard rewards scheme

A_little_stressed!!

MEMBER02 wrote: »

Called clubcard earlier and they told me its 2 points for every £ spent instore and 1 point for every £ spent with clubcard+.

so normal CC is 2 points per £1, CC+ is 3

Vdavis

Just wondering if someone can confirm something regarding the "double up" on Tesco vouchers... If I doubled up a £5 (500points) voucher for wine, which would give me £10 to spend (1000 points) and bought 1 bottle of wine @ £5...would the change of 500 points be put back into my account?..if so then I would have got a bottle of wine and still have the 500 points I started with.

Fire_Fox

Vdavis wrote: »

Just wondering if someone can confirm something regarding the "double up" on Tesco vouchers... If I doubled up a £5 voucher for wine which would give me £10 to spend (1000 points) and bought 1 bottle of wine @ £5...would the change of 500 points be put back into my account?..if so then I would have got a bottle of wine without spending anything!

Nope, you have to spend the £10 coupon in one hit. If you tried to double-up a £5.50 vouchers the extra 50p would go back onto your Clubcard. Just get three bottles for a tenner or, if you have enough Clubcard vouchers, 2 x three for a tenner AND 5% off for buying six AND double clubcard points.

Vdavis

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Nope, you have to spend the £10 coupon in one hit. If you tried to double-up a £5.50 vouchers the extra 50p would go back onto your Clubcard. Just get three bottles for a tenner or, if you have enough Clubcard vouchers, 2 x three for a tenner AND 5% off for buying six AND double clubcard points.

thanks for the reply..what it says on the Tesco site that if you don't use the full amount of your double up voucher any change goes back into your account...so if I only spend £5 of a £10 voucher then 500 points should go back into my account...

There is a bottle of wine for £5 in store that is also giving an extra 100 points...so buy that with a double up £5 voucher get change of 500 ponts back into your account..+ the 100 points makes Tesco giving you £1 for taking a bottle of wine away!

Primula

Vdavis wrote: »

thanks for the reply..what it says on the Tesco site that if you don't use the full amount of your double up voucher any change goes back into your account...so if I only spend £5 of a £10 voucher then 500 points should go back into my account...

There is a bottle of wine for £5 in store that is also giving an extra 100 points...so buy that with a double up £5 voucher get change of 500 ponts back into your account..+ the 100 points makes Tesco giving you £1 for taking a bottle of wine away!

I think what it means is if, say you had a £6.50 voucher, they would double it up to £10 and then the £1.50 "change" from your voucher would be converted back to points on your clubcard. But you would have to spend the whole £10 off wine voucher, or say you only spent £8, you would lose that £2. Hope that makes sense!

Vdavis

Primula wrote: »

I think what it means is if, say you had a £6.50 voucher, they would double it up to £10 and then the £1.50 "change" from your voucher would be converted back to points on your clubcard. But you would have to spend the whole £10 off wine voucher, or say you only spent £8, you would lose that £2. Hope that makes sense!

That does make sense..ho hum.. I thought it was to good to be true!
still double up a £5 voucher( 500 points) to £10 for wine... buy 2 bottles of the £4.99 wine offering extra 100 points would give 200 points back into account ... so 2 bottles of wine for £3.
Just been down my local Tesco to double up the voucher for wine...I was told the system was down and they could not double the voucher...ah well..another plan up the swanee!

withabix

I suspect the Deals conversion rates will change, because this is partly controlled by the Deal providers themselves. If they start taking a significant hit on profits,they will be start leaving the scheme.

Most of the companies who's Deals got a hammering left the scheme fairly quickly....MFI, Motorpoint etc, because people were getting too many free kitchens, holidays and, yes, free cars!

We do shop almost exclusively at Tesco - virtually all shopping and fuel comes from there, unless they don't actually sell the item.

We also take advantage of as many bonus points deals as possible, providing we actually need the item or the value of the points significantly outweighs the cost of the item or the item can be re-sold on eBay at little or no loss. Tesco is our corner shop though...

In doing this, we have had at least two holiday flights on BA, paid for by Tesco (exc taxes and surcharges), every year for the last 5 years.

This year, due to a combination of a good Clubcard Points year in 2008 (50,000 Points) and a BA Miles flight sale, we are going to Vancouver in BA Club Class next weekend - flights that are worth upto £13500 when compared to flexible tickets, or £4000 for cheapest non-flex tickets. BA Miles flights are cancellable right up to the day of departure with full refund, so they are much more like a fully flexible ticket.

BA Miles deals DO NOT tend to be good value for European/short haul flights or Economy mid/long haul tickets, when compared to budget carriers however, if you are one of these people who values the points at the same level as real money out of your own wallet, which of course they aren't.

Crabman

Just noticed this article about Tesco's relaunch...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/6030370/Tesco-propping-up-trading-with-200m-Clubcard-promotion.html

muffin_man

I read a similar article in the Daily Mail...I didn't realise Tesco were struggling in respects to other supermarkets. Hopefully this means they won't risk enraging their existing clubcard customers by changing the prices of deals. I just hope that if/when they do change the deals they give plenty of notice, despite their terms saying they can withdraw the offers without giving notice.

Torby

muffin_man wrote: »

I read a similar article in the Daily Mail...I didn't realise Tesco were struggling in respects to other supermarkets. Hopefully this means they won't risk enraging their existing clubcard customers by changing the prices of deals. I just hope that if/when they do change the deals they give plenty of notice, despite their terms saying they can withdraw the offers without giving notice.

they really do need to give plenty of notice if they change the rewards...otherwise they will be ripping us off:mad: