If I top up a Tesco Christmas Saver with a large amount, how will the vouchers be broken down?

elpasi

Anyone here who has used Tesco Christmas Saver in previous years, perhaps you can concretely tell me something that no member of staff has been able to.

Christmas Savers allows you to top up cash and get a bonus (£12 if you top up £200, for example) and then you'll get clubcard vouchers for the full amount either in late October or early November.  Great.

Except the one thing that no FAQ states, and that three different members of their staff (twitter, email and phone) haven't been able to tell me (and their support just ignored my followup to the existing enquiry) is what denomination do Tesco vouchers come in if you've done a very large topup like £200 or the maximum £360?

Let's say over the course of the year I save £10 of normal vouchers because of the clubcard points which haven't paid out, plus £200 I directly top up into the saver account from the till (ignoring the £12 bonus because I know that comes separately because it only has a two month validity)...

• Will I just get one giant £210 voucher which would make it impossible to shop for a single or dual person household, unless I was to go to a Tesco Extra store and start buying electricals and clothing with it?
• Will I get a few medium sized vouchers that are still somewhat hard to spend for anything except a proper major shopping trip (e.g. 3 x £70 or 4 x £50 + 1 x £10)?
• Will I get many smaller vouchers that are even going to be small enough that a top-up shop could benefit from them (e.g. 8 x £25 + 1 x £10)?

I suspect at least a few of the members on this forum have used Christmas Saver in past years, and at least a couple have probably been swayed to top up to the highest bonus tier, so could you please tell me how much your payout was, and what the actual breakdown of coupons was as a result?  I don't want to make a stupid mistake, lock away money with Tesco in the hunt for a bonus, and then find that I have no reasonable way to actually spend it again.

Thanks very much!

unclerbh

Last year I topped up £100 solely to get the £6 bonus for that. The £100, when it became accessible, was broken down into 4 x £16.50 and 2 x £17 vouchers. The £6 bonus was a separate voucher, and I had a separate one again for my Clubcard points.

Hope this helps. I suppose, of course, if one found the voucher denominations too large one could always buy something one could return on the next visit to take the bill over the voucher amount. I will be topping up £200 next week in order to get £12, and if the vouchers are too large that is what I'm going to have to do... but I expect they'll come in similar values to before, only twice as many.

Anyone here who has used Tesco Christmas Saver in previous years, perhaps you can concretely tell me something that no member of staff has been able to.

Christmas Savers allows you to top up cash and get a bonus (£12 if you top up £200, for example) and then you'll get clubcard vouchers for the full amount either in late October or early November.  Great.

Except the one thing that no FAQ states, and that three different members of their staff (twitter, email and phone) haven't been able to tell me (and their support just ignored my followup to the existing enquiry) is what denomination do Tesco vouchers come in if you've done a very large topup like £200 or the maximum £360?

Let's say over the course of the year I save £10 of normal vouchers because of the clubcard points which haven't paid out, plus £200 I directly top up into the saver account from the till (ignoring the £12 bonus because I know that comes separately because it only has a two month validity)...

• Will I just get one giant £210 voucher which would make it impossible to shop for a single or dual person household, unless I was to go to a Tesco Extra store and start buying electricals and clothing with it?
• Will I get a few medium sized vouchers that are still somewhat hard to spend for anything except a proper major shopping trip (e.g. 3 x £70 or 4 x £50 + 1 x £10)?
• Will I get many smaller vouchers that are even going to be small enough that a top-up shop could benefit from them (e.g. 8 x £25 + 1 x £10)?

I suspect at least a few of the members on this forum have used Christmas Saver in past years, and at least a couple have probably been swayed to top up to the highest bonus tier, so could you please tell me how much your payout was, and what the actual breakdown of coupons was as a result?  I don't want to make a stupid mistake, lock away money with Tesco in the hunt for a bonus, and then find that I have no reasonable way to actually spend it again.

Thanks very much!

Giammy85

Same this year. I have made a £200 top up and was expecting to get a gift card. I got these £16.50 and £17 vouchers (plus the 12£ bonus voucher) when I usually made small but frequent top up shops at Tesco :S Now I have till 2025 to try to spend these voucher denominations.