Tescos Clubcard Boost - Careful you don't get ripped off!

CAJM_2

Hi folks,

So enraged was I, that I thought I'd join and make a post.

We've been doing the Clubcard points for years, and pretty much every penny we spend in this household earns us points.

The boost came along, and we're sitting with about £500 of vouchers. Joy of joys I thought, time to buy that kitchen machine we've always wanted.

Turns out Tesco have circumvented any loss through the Clubcard boost by simply selling everything at RRP, far above standard rates.

Almost every single kitchen machine they're selling is often over £100 cheaper elsewhere from reputable stores. I looked further, and this applies to pretty much most high end goods under the Boost label.

So be careful if you've not spent your points yet! Shop around and work out the maths to decide if it's actually that good a deal. It turns out we'd be better off just buying the machine outright off Amazon and using the boost to do standard grocery shopping.

F**kers.

Edit - In fact, we might just buy £500 worth of flour, sugar and butter for the machine!

Middlestitch

Tesco are still selling plenty of things at competitive prices - find something else to buy. Life is all about shopping around....

catswiththumbs

CAJM wrote: »

Hi folks,

So enraged was I, that I thought I'd join and make a post.

We've been doing the Clubcard points for years, and pretty much every penny we spend in this household earns us points.

The boost came along, and we're sitting with about £500 of vouchers. Joy of joys I thought, time to buy that kitchen machine we've always wanted.

Turns out Tesco have circumvented any loss through the Clubcard boost by simply selling everything at RRP, far above standard rates.

Almost every single kitchen machine they're selling is often over £100 cheaper elsewhere from reputable stores. I looked further, and this applies to pretty much most high end goods under the Boost label.

So be careful if you've not spent your points yet! Shop around and work out the maths to decide if it's actually that good a deal. It turns out we'd be better off just buying the machine outright off Amazon and using the boost to do standard grocery shopping.

F**kers.

I was thinking of buying a George Foreman grill to replace my old one - having checked out Argos I can get a slightly better model about 25% cheaper than Tesco. Might just save my vouchers for another time.

CAJM_2

That they do, but the sheer nature of the Boost incentive is that it hopes to make people blind to a rip off because they think they're getting it for free. Realistically, that item they're buying may have cost them thousands of pounds, plus any real cash they top up with if they fall short.

I have a few friends who've bought stuff through it and are now kicking themselves because it was over-priced and they would've been better spending it elsewhere.

Just reminding folks to, as you say, shop around and not get sucked in.

redfox

the Grabbit board is only for reporting short lived bargains, so your thread has been moved to a more appropriate board.

dacouch

CAJM wrote: »

That they do, but the sheer nature of the Tesco is that it hopes to make people blind to a rip off because they think they're getting a good deal.

I've fixed that for you

Kaye1

We have found this- looking to buy one of the pub style bench and table- all in one type things. The one we looked at via Tesco was at least £100 than the same model elsewhere. Same with garden sheds.


We have decided to use some of the the vouchers through Florence and Fred to put towards a new suit for OH.

gettingtheresometime

How is it a rip off though?

If Tesco is telling you that they are charging X for a product then its up to you to decide whether X is a fair price for that product and if you decide to use your clubcard vouchers to buy that product then again that's your decision,

About time people remembered that Tesco don't issue these vouchers because they're a charitable organisation - they see it as a cheap way of getting marketing information about you

shegirl

CAJM wrote: »

Hi folks,

So enraged was I, that I thought I'd join and make a post.

We've been doing the Clubcard points for years, and pretty much every penny we spend in this household earns us points.

The boost came along, and we're sitting with about £500 of vouchers. Joy of joys I thought, time to buy that kitchen machine we've always wanted.

Turns out Tesco have circumvented any loss through the Clubcard boost by simply selling everything at RRP, far above standard rates.

Almost every single kitchen machine they're selling is often over £100 cheaper elsewhere from reputable stores. I looked further, and this applies to pretty much most high end goods under the Boost label.

So be careful if you've not spent your points yet! Shop around and work out the maths to decide if it's actually that good a deal. It turns out we'd be better off just buying the machine outright off Amazon and using the boost to do standard grocery shopping.

F**kers.

Edit - In fact, we might just buy £500 worth of flour, sugar and butter for the machine!

You can't use the boost on groceries. You either have £250 of clubcard vouchers which would double to £500 in the boost to buy the 'kitchen machine' or £500 clubcard vouchers which would boost to £1000. For groceries you'd just have the original voucher value.

p00hsticks

I agree you need to check the prices to make sure they're competitive, but not all are hiked - I've just traded my vouchers in for a Game of Thrones box set, which was almost exactly the same price as Amazon were charging (actually 2p more expensive, to be precise), and £20 cheaper than on some other sites

Azari

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

How is it a rip off though?

One of the normally understood meanings of 'rip off' is being charged more than you would be elsewhere, without some reasonable justification.

So a 'rip-off' does not have to be illegal.

'Rip-off prices' simply means prices that are higher than you would expect to pay elsewhere for a similar product.

Hope that helps.