Boost Your Tesco Clubcard Points Discussion

russianlinesman

I have been collecting clubcard points for some time and now have £800 worth of deal tokens. I wanted to use these for a holiday, but the following occurred. I went to the holidayco website and having checked dates and availability was given a price of just over £1000. When I phoned to book the holiday I was told this price was discounted from the brochure price (though nothing on the website indicated this was some form of special offer), and that if I wanted to pay with deals vouchers the price was nearer £1600. This of course made it completely unworthwhile.

Having gone to the effort of selecting a holiday, I couldn't be bothered to start again so will now pay them the £1000 in cash. However I have already sent off for the deals tokens so will now have a battle with tesco to get them re-credited, and would be interested if anybody has managed this before. Secondly, I would not have selected this holidayco and its brochure were it not for the ability to use the deals vouchers, so am feeling highly miffed and want to complain to someone, but whom? I am not sure trading standards or tescos will be particularly interested. Any views.

rl

MrsGrey

Having gone to the effort of selecting a holiday, I couldn't be bothered to start again so will now pay them the £1000 in cash. However I have already sent off for the deals tokens so will now have a battle with tesco to get them re-credited, and would be interested if anybody has managed this before. Secondly, I would not have selected this holidayco and its brochure were it not for the ability to use the deals vouchers, so am feeling highly miffed and want to complain to someone, but whom? I am not sure trading standards or tescos will be particularly interested. Any views.

Actually, Tesco could be more helpful than you imagine. They have a reputation to look after, after all. The were really good with me when I had sent some vouchers in that got lost in the post. Good luck. Also, give the OFT a whirl....
Jinnny

veruccasalt

I buy groceries from tesco.com every 4 or 5 weeks, but I hardly ever pay for delivery. I use e vouchers from mailings, usually they are 5 pounds off if you spend 50.00, so if you have a delivery on one of the cheaper days the 5 pounds voucher will cover it. Similar vouchers can be found on their website if you log on to 'accounts and policies' and also on some of there own brand products - I have remembered and used the code from the outside of tescos own cereals, without even buying the cereal. Some of these vouchers are for points rather than cash - so you have to wait longer for the reward - but you sound like you would prefer the points.
On 2 occasions they have emailed me with a 5 pound off e voucher just because they noticed I had not used them for a while.
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Hi, what do you mean by log on to 'accounts and policies'. Where is that? Thanks!

Joscar

to use accounts and policies you have to register to use Tesco finance on-line. I have used this in the past to view my credit card account, but recently they have introduced additional security and split the credit card away from the other finance products...... here is the link

https://www.tescofinance.com/personal/finance/register_insecure/input_customer_no.jsp?hub=true

TBH, I am sure the 'XX-????' codes that periodically appear here will be on the web pages listed below in no time at all


Jeppy has given links to
https://www.tescovouchercodes.blogspot.com
https://www.hotukdeals.com

cindyted

russianlinesman wrote:

I have been collecting clubcard points for some time and now have £800 worth of deal tokens. I wanted to use these for a holiday, but the following occurred. I went to the holidayco website and having checked dates and availability was given a price of just over £1000. When I phoned to book the holiday I was told this price was discounted from the brochure price (though nothing on the website indicated this was some form of special offer), and that if I wanted to pay with deals vouchers the price was nearer £1600. This of course made it completely unworthwhile.

Having gone to the effort of selecting a holiday, I couldn't be bothered to start again so will now pay them the £1000 in cash. However I have already sent off for the deals tokens so will now have a battle with tesco to get them re-credited, and would be interested if anybody has managed this before. Secondly, I would not have selected this holidayco and its brochure were it not for the ability to use the deals vouchers, so am feeling highly miffed and want to complain to someone, but whom? I am not sure trading standards or tescos will be particularly interested. Any views.

rl

I booked a holiday year before last and went last year with Tradewinds. I did not have any problems with getting the holiday I wanted, even though I was booking 1 year in advance. You will find that your vouchers have a 6 month shelf life on them, and the books are out now for up to next April , in fact you can book beyond that if you phone the company direct. So I think you should be able to book for next year with your £800 vouchers Dont forget all your vouchers are useable for any holiday in the clubcard scheme, hope this is of some help.

Joscar

Coupon-mad wrote:

I must admit I feel a little bit of a twit when I pick up receipts outside and people see me. In fact sometimes when I have 10 mins to spare before collecting my kids from an evening club, I now drive to Tesco first. Sometimes I'll actually go in (to get some points from previous days added!) but often I'll just park up and wander towards other shops and back again, checking out trolleys and the ground for barcoded receipts and till-spit extra points slips. OMG this is sad but I'm hoping for a super holiday too!

My husband was bewildered when we walked past our mini-tesco yesterday on the way back from the pub, at first he thought I dropped something, when he realised I was actually looking for receipts dropped in the car park he just shrugged his shoulders, shook his head in disbelief and said, well I suppose there will be a little bit less litter on the street now.

I figure if it was a coin on the street I would pick it up - finders keepers!

(So I now have my first 4 receipts totalling 96 points):D

esthomizzy

Just looking at my receipt for a recent tesco visit. I appear to have 35 points for a £35.90 spend. I thought you got double points for using your tesco credit card in a tesco store? Surely that's just single points. Is it better if you do clubcard plus instead?

hannah2082_2

esthomizzy wrote:

Just looking at my receipt for a recent tesco visit. I appear to have 35 points for a £35.90 spend. I thought you got double points for using your tesco credit card in a tesco store? Surely that's just single points. Is it better if you do clubcard plus instead?

You'll get your other 35 points separately with your crdit card statement

esthomizzy

jeppy wrote:

There are several posts on the discount forum giving you up to 1000 extra points for shopping online.

Also check https://www.tescovouchercodes.blogspot.com or https://www.hotukdeals.com
for tesco codes.

I think maybe I'm doing something wrong but some of the codes don't work for me even though I'm buying the right things. Do you have to sign up to something different to use online codes if you normally get paper vouchers?

jasper12

esthomizzy wrote:

jeppy wrote:

There are several posts on the discount forum giving you up to 1000 extra points for shopping online.

Also check https://www.tescovouchercodes.blogspot.com or https://www.hotukdeals.com
for tesco codes.

I think maybe I'm doing something wrong but some of the codes don't work for me even though I'm buying the right things. Do you have to sign up to something different to use online codes if you normally get paper vouchers?

From what I've heard I don't think these codes (the ones which are for , say 50 points for a ready meal) work for anyone but the original recipient. The consensus seems to be these codes are sent out to those people who choose to have 'e vouchers' extra points coupons rather than the more normal pink and blue ones you get with your vouchers at the end of each quarter.

So it's nothing you are doing wrong!!!!!!