MSE News: Tesco's 'Big Clubcard Voucher Exchange' restarts on Monday

Former_MSE_Natasha

Tuesday 2 November 2010

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Tesco's 'Big Clubcard Voucher Exchange' restarts on Monday

Anon

Good to see this (hopefully a Christmas toy sale coming up ...?), but you can't help but suspect that this is another chance for them to effectively get a lot of their clubcard points back out of circulation. Looking at the changes in T&Cs you will see that as well as the advertised x3 rather than x4, there are a number of other changes in there including, for example, not re-issuing tokens if you mislay them or if they have expired (which they have done up to now).

Anon

scottishminnie

I've only ever used them for Goldsmith's vouchers or straightforward reduction off food bill before however am I right in thinking on this particular scheme I could convert £50 of vouchers for £100 token which I could then use in store to buy/put towards a nice 19" LCD TV for my parents? I suspect I'm missing something obvious as it seems to good to be true.

jenster

shame its not on pets this time but hay ho cant have everything

Crazyangel

Yes I'm a bit disappointed they aren't going to apply it to pets too! I thought the previous offer was excellent for buying kitten food, so shame it won't be included this time around.

jenster

scottishminnie wrote: »

I've only ever used them for Goldsmith's vouchers or straightforward reduction off food bill before however am I right in thinking on this particular scheme I could convert £50 of vouchers for £100 token which I could then use in store to buy/put towards a nice 19" LCD TV for my parents? I suspect I'm missing something obvious as it seems to good to be true.

no its true thats what the double up is for convert 10.00 get a 20.00 voucher BUT check that the item you want IE televison will be available on the scheme before u convert

busylady_2

when the article says 'bedroom' does that include beds?

Ann1e

jenster wrote: »

shame its not on pets this time but hay ho cant have everything

http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/clubcard/bigexchange.asp#exclusions

According to this page it does include pet food but even this page is quite vague and has taken me an age to find. Couldn't find anything about this scheme on the actual Clubcard site.

I suppose you just have to click on each hyperlink to find out exactly what you can get - or ask in store.

Tesco don't seem to make things easy - as far as I'm concerned anyhow, maybe I'm thick!!

Ann1e

busylady wrote: »

when the article says 'bedroom' does that include beds?

http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/clubcard/bigexchange.asp#exclusions

Beds seem to come under furniture - if you click on furniture on the above page beds come up! Come to think of it, I need a bed!!

Ann1e

My brain hurts!

Do be careful getting these exchange vouchers as there are "exclusions". The hyperlinks on this page (again, sorry):

http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/clubcard/bigexchange.asp#exclusions

take you straight to the page selling ALL items but you need to look at the exclusions at the bottom of the page above, otherwise you may change up your vouchers and then find, for instance, that you cannot buy electric toothbrushes! I wish Tesco would be more straightforward!!

Exclusions from The Big Clubcard Voucher Exchange

• Opticians
  
  Excludes: NHS sight tests and optical purchases from other departments in store.
• Baby & toddler
  
  Excludes: 0-6 months infant formulae milk.
• Toys
  
  Excludes: Games consoles, software, adult toys, all bikes, arts and crafts, stationery and books.
• Flowers, plants & gardening
  
  Excludes: Camping.
• Pet food & accessories
  
  Excludes: Pet insurance.
• Clothing
  
  Excludes: Back to School embroidery service, luggage, sports bags.
• Phones & accessories
  
  Excludes: All pay monthly phones, all i-Phone4 handsets, home broadband, SIM packs, Top-up and all purchases by phone.
• House, home & DIY
  
  Excludes: White goods, electric toothbrushes.

Ann1e

scottishminnie wrote: »

I've only ever used them for Goldsmith's vouchers or straightforward reduction off food bill before however am I right in thinking on this particular scheme I could convert £50 of vouchers for £100 token which I could then use in store to buy/put towards a nice 19" LCD TV for my parents? I suspect I'm missing something obvious as it seems to good to be true.

As far as I can see it is - too good to be true that is - see the page I've posted several times on here - I can't find anything to do with TVs at all!