MSE News: Tesco cuts rewards in Clubcard overhaul

surfsister

shop-to-drop wrote: »

Cancel those Tesco credit cards and get cashback cards. They were already poor value and now will be even worse!

hiya which card you recommend?? Ta

comping_cat

Any wrote: »

Something had to give earlier or later. Either prices rising to sustain it or rewards going down.

Actually, in the last year Tescos prices have gone up so much, i refuse to use them now and shop at Morrisons - i even find Sainsburys and Waitrose cheaper for some items and only use Tescos for points items (had a shock on a weekly shop, my basket cost £20 more than it wouldve in Morrisons)

They will loose a lot of customers through this! (i will also change my credit card now, it wont be worth using for clubcard poiints anymore).

Crabman

comping_cat wrote: »

Actually, in the last year Tescos prices have gone up so much, i refuse to use them now and shop at Morrisons - i even find Sainsburys and Waitrose cheaper for some items and only use Tescos for points items (had a shock on a weekly shop, my basket cost £20 more than it wouldve in Morrisons)

They will loose a lot of customers through this! (i will also change my credit card now, it wont be worth using for clubcard poiints anymore).

There are so many products that are now more expensive in Tesco than at Sainsbury's/ASDA.

I'll get petrol at Shell now, their rewards scheme is pretty good when the bonus points offers are factored in. There is a new ASDA petrol station opening locally in a few months which means Tesco, Sainsbury's et al. will have to start competing for business instead of just matching each others prices (which are about 4p/litre higher than a few miles away).

auntiepam

I am not happy, as I have made purchasing decisions on the basis of the current set up and I may well have made a different choice. I am one of those who saves up for holidays so it will impact upon me. I'm interested to read some could see a change due - I could see that changes had been made ( like Woburn), but was not anticipating anything of this magnitude.

*manda*

collis wrote: »

I recently changed some of my clubcard vouchers to a £40 voucher for use on wightlink ferries,
After getting quotes for prices i called to use them and then discovered that the savings made by crossing in the non-peak times (ie after 6pm) were negated by the voucher as it could only be redeemed on the premium rate fares.

In my opinion, your best to use the clubcard vouchers for your christmas shopping or fuel and use the normal MSE ways to get the better discounts on items through the clubcard voucher scheme.

It's always best to shop around yes I agree- but there are still lots of offers that can be cheaper with points than with other deals e.g. restaurants- with tesco x4 at present that always works out better than the 2-4-1's that restaurants do even if you aren't actually getting the full x4 value from it. Besides many restaurants dont do promotions on saturdays. We usually have a stash of generic restaurant vouchers at home from our clubcard points, then when we do go out for a meal (which is usually a saturday) I check on here to see if there are any 2-4-1's etc and then decide which offer will be better for us. They last 6 months so I don't feel under pressure to use them up.

Another example would be with the Merlin entertainments- there are frequently BOGOF's for Thorpe Park etc but we get our annual passes using around £37 pounds worth of points. That isn't even half of our weeks shopping bill yet it'll get us unlimited days/evenings use of all the Merlin facilities.

I'm disappointed they're changing it, but most of our points are accrued through Fuel as my partner gets through usually £100+ per day with work. It genuinely is something for nothing for us.

It would be nice to get some more of the real bonus point offers though- I did so well with the CD's and mobile phones before. Got enough points to convert into 4,500 airmiles so that's flights for us 2 to zone 1 and 2 for free.

neilpost

no1catman wrote: »

1) There's no change if you pay with a Tesco credit card.
2) Nectar card halved the points for fuel purchases sometime ago, and
3) You won't get any 'points' from Morrisons!

3) Morrison Miles....................

neilpost

FOUND SOME MORE ON THIS ELSEWHERE

http://www.moneywise.co.uk/news-views/2010/10/15/tesco-clubcard-holders-should-act-fast?utm_source=Newsletter2010-10-15&amp%3Butm_medium=Email&amp%3Butm_campaign=ContentPromotion


Sounds like they are clawing back any gains to be made from making double Points permanant. I'm still smarting from double points being withdrawn on fuel earlier in the year, with 0% is the marketing puff of its introduction. Net resullt, i buy my fuel at Asda as it is always cheaper there, or the neighbouring BP when the price is the same as Asda as i get my Nectar on top. Both are paid for on my Tesco World Mastercard for TPF bonus points.

Makeandsave

Hi, I save my points for the xmas club and have £65 i am thinking of using £20 for eating out on the x4 system will i still be able to do this in time and get £80. Also from what i have been told they send you one lot of vouchers to be used at all the restaurants.

PhylPho

Oh, sods it. Rather than using my ClubCard points on an RAC breakdown Deal -- which seems to have got progressively more expensive every year in terms of points/Deal conversion -- I've just bought a £28 AA subscription via Top Cashback with a return of £21 -- so the sub is actually just seven quid.

I have several £100s of x4 value sitting here at the moment and apart from recently buying the 'Family Tree' software package (hey, it's great value if you're interested in that kind of thing: mine arrived a couple of weeks back and it's the new 2011 version) I've no clue what to do.

I note that some folks on here say they are saving points for next year's holidays.

But I also seem to recall other posters, on other Clubcard-relateed threads, saying the deals were far from being good value, because you were exchanging points for a product priced at its maximum, and you could get a better deal by negotiating with the supplier yourself (or taking up one of their offers: apparently, ClubCard Deals cannot "buy" anything that's at a special offer rate.)

I'd appreciate any advice, then, from anyone here re the subject of using the x4 ratio to buy a holiday next year -- obviously, it's better value than when the ratio goes down to x3, but is that still a sensible way of spending these points I've amassed?

Thanks, gang.

HonestJohn

swood75729 wrote: »

I bought this a couple of years ago and I seem to remember that they were valid for 6 months. HTH

You are correct.


How long are Clubcard rewards tokens valid for?

Rewards tokens are valid for 6 months unless otherwise stated.