Are Tesco Clubcard Deals worth it?

louisewestlake

we had a holiday at Haven in August for £250 (remainder paid in Tesco vouchers) a couple of years ago. Last year we went to Centerparcs in Holland for about £400, again in August. I've just booked a 10 days in Florida in February 2007 for 5 at Disney Hotel (Port Orleans) for £1800 (1600 paid in vouchers) Yes I would have got a discount of £200 if I hadn't paid with vouchers, but as I had paid so much in vouchers, didn't really matter. I did check other companies and Virgin was a good price compared with others. I buy vouchers off my mum and that pays for a yearly trip to legoland for the kids. So yes, I think the deals are great. I look for codes on various websites, I bought wine for lots of people for xmas. I have tesco mobile, tesco phone tesco broadband and opened tesco savings. Also was with powergen, but switched.

hambrook

louisewestlake wrote:

we had a holiday at Haven in August for £250 (remainder paid in Tesco vouchers) a couple of years ago. Last year we went to Centerparcs in Holland for about £400, again in August. I've just booked a 10 days in Florida in February 2007 for 5 at Disney Hotel (Port Orleans) for £1800 (1600 paid in vouchers) Yes I would have got a discount of £200 if I hadn't paid with vouchers, but as I had paid so much in vouchers, didn't really matter. I did check other companies and Virgin was a good price compared with others. I buy vouchers off my mum and that pays for a yearly trip to legoland for the kids. So yes, I think the deals are great. I look for codes on various websites, I bought wine for lots of people for xmas. I have tesco mobile, tesco phone tesco broadband and opened tesco savings. Also was with powergen, but switched.

How do you buy vouchers off your Mum, all the deals I have got are provided in my name and not transferable.

miss_bargainmad

We wanted to stay in a 5 star luxury hotel but have found that with most of the hotels using Tesco deals you have to book 2 rooms and the price is astronomical.

After saying that, we have just booked the Marriott 5* County Hall in London over Easter for 2 nights using £500!! pounds worth of Tesco deals vouchers. It's a superior river view family room and I've checked on different web sites and we wouldn't have got it that much cheaper. We wanted to spend the deals on something luxurious that we would never spend the cash on, not run of the mill stuff.

We've also used them for days out this year (Jorvik Centre and Longleat), used them at lots of restaurants (although you do find that the drinks prices are extortionate at most of them).

I think I would still shop with Tesco without building up my points as I don't drive and once you've shopped with them for a bit and built up your favourites list I really can't be bothered starting again on another supermarket's web site. If something is really overpriced at Tesco then I won't buy it and will buy it elsewhere. I'd say I do 75% of my shopping with them and spend about £60 a week. I don't think my husband could face the dreaded weekly visit to the supermarket ever again and most of the time I use a code for £5 off if I don't get any good points codes, so most of the time it's free delivery.

I've got around 7,500 points coming in February and will probably use these towards our trip to London - London Zoo, Tower of London and Livebait restaurant vouchers.

I see them as something for nothing as I'm not the sort of person to build up a "wine lake" just to get points and I only buy what I need. I wouldn't buy say a TV from Tesco just to get the points as you could probably shop around and get it cheaper. Some people's houses must be piled high with stuff just to get the points (I see that a few people can collect up to 15,000 - 20,000 a quarter).

I build up my points using Tesco clubcard, Tesco credit card (though not very good) and have joined most of the clubs.

topbanana2803

I do a lot of my shopping on-line as I have a disabled child and it's just impossible to go to a supermarket with him, I'm also a single mum who has always had to take my 2 kids out of school for a Sun £9.50 holiday for 4 nights (which inevitably ends up costing around £100 exc spending money), as I just could not afford more. This year, thanks to clubcard deals we are holidaying for a whole week in the 6 weeks holidays in a 'gold caravan' at a Haven site and it has cost me £50.
We have to eat and as I tend to shop every 2 weeks I usually have a big enough order to earn the extra points on offer.
As for the spending money for a 7 night hol?????, well since Oct 06 I have earned £270 in cashbacks from Quidco and Greasypalm.
Although shopping at Asda can be cheaper my local is not particularly great and when I have shopped on-line before it has quite often been essential items, milk, bread etc that are oos, Tescos' are more reliable when it comes to delivering what I've ordered and if Mr T wants to help me and my kids have a fab holiday then I'm not going to stop him.

albacore1854

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote:

an example of the extra club card points.... for things that i dont normally buy....

i have had lets say a 100 point voucher for buying x product which costs say £1.50....

as long as i use my club card points in deals i an gaining...£2.50 in the long run.....

so i look at it as though my £1.50 spend has just gained me £2.50 interest.....

yes i will use that product that i dont normally buy....

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But Tesco have plugged that one now haven't they. you only get 100pts on £5 plus items. The ones I see generally are 25% of the item price so get 25pts on £1 in effect.

I got about £500 quids worth last year, and that was putting in a bit of work nipping off now and again to get that bottle of fizz i won't like just for 50 pts.Darn pointless, if I spent an hour a week doing it, even at the average wage its still lower than the hourly rate i could get working.

phague

Bossyboots wrote:

I use mine to buy the whole family Tussauds Group annual passes. This means we can do family days out in any combination as often as we like over the year. I can take my niece and nephews if I choose at no cost to anyone so for us, it works out as exceptional value for money.

Bossyboots - That is exactly what we use our Clubcard points for. Would never pay £80 for an Annual Pass, cos we never have that much spare money, but over the years, thro shopping at Tesco's we have had Tussauds Annual Passes for the past 5 years. We have even got them for Grandparents (our Parents), so we can all have family days out (and then used them for Thorpe Park and Chessington when Travelodge used to do £10 rooms)

To the original poster - we have just booked a new kitchen with MFI. Total cost is £5k, but we have £2k worth in Clubcard points. We just couldnt afford a new kitchen otherwise - luckly it is the Space Black kitchen, which is the only one we like anywhere, so (money permitting, we WOULD be buying it anyway)

We LOVE Tesco's and wouldnt shop anywhere else (unless there are bargains to be had of course!!) We also find their prices comparable to any other supermarket, but that is another can of worms I suppose.

stephi103

I love my Tesco deals vouchers!!

We have bought about £1000 worth of bedrooom furniture for our first house
£250 Dishwasher when we did our kitchen
and we have just bought my son a new £250 bed

So for me it was all things that we would have not been able to buy without the deals. All these we bought in the sales. Big sales. NEVER BUY ANYTHING from MFI at full price as it is VERY expensive! Wait, there is always sales there!!

We are now saving up for Goldsmiths vouchers to buy our wedding rings for Dec 07!! Yes we if we were buying them ourselves we could gone to argos and got cheap rings as that would have been all we could afford and they wouldn't have been very good quality. Instead we are getting them from a decent jewelers and spending much more on them so they will be nicer and better quality rings.

Great thing in my eyes!! At the end of the day whatever you buy with them you are getting them for free!

Beckety

I definitely think they're worth the effort if you shop there anyway. When I get my Feb mailing I'll hopefully have enough to book 2 flights to Sharm in June. We've booked our hotel independantly and got it at a very good price so the holiday will cost us next to nothing. Can't grumble at that :T I've also had Alton Towers tickets, airport parking, had my car serviced twice and got a years RAC cover.

louisewestlake

hambrook wrote:

How do you buy vouchers off your Mum, all the deals I have got are provided in my name and not transferable.

She gives me the vouchers, I fill in the form, and she forwards me the ticket vouchers when she gets them. I don't think there's any name on the voucher, and even if there is, you don't need id to get into legoland.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

albacore1854 wrote:

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote:

an example of the extra club card points.... for things that i dont normally buy....

i have had lets say a 100 point voucher for buying x product which costs say £1.50....

as long as i use my club card points in deals i an gaining...£2.50 in the long run.....

so i look at it as though my £1.50 spend has just gained me £2.50 interest.....

yes i will use that product that i dont normally buy....

QUOTE]

But Tesco have plugged that one now haven't they. you only get 100pts on £5 plus items. The ones I see generally are 25% of the item price so get 25pts on £1 in effect.

I got about £500 quids worth last year, and that was putting in a bit of work nipping off now and again to get that bottle of fizz i won't like just for 50 pts.Darn pointless, if I spent an hour a week doing it, even at the average wage its still lower than the hourly rate i could get working.

as far as the extra point vouchers that i have had up until december....i would say no...... but ...not everyone recieves the same extra point vouchers.....

even if you have 25 points for something thats a £1... in effect you are having that item for free.....

but normally those types of vouchers are stuff i would buy anyway.......

as with comapring it with a wage.... i personally dont think you can think of it like that.... as you shop anyway.... so ...with us lot that use the extra pooint vouchers...it just a matter of seconds to work out if the voucher is going to be of any value to us....( points wise )....

but the op wanted to know if club card points/deals were worth it.....and in my case they deff...... are......

with the wine...... 50 points extra.... i am not a wine drinker.... but you dont buy the large bottles you buy the small bottles.... and use them for cooking.....and you still make over 50p in the deal value .....