What's the loophole?

Tesco is currently selling a packet of 128 Johnson's baby wipes for three pounds, but if you get them it'll award you 100 Bonus Clubcard Points. While these are only worth £1 if redeemed in Tesco, if you go to Tesco ClubCard Deals brochure their value is quadrupled and thus you get £4 worth. This means buying the baby wipes makes you a £1 profit.

Who's this for?

Previous similar deals include the infamous 'Beef in Gravy' and 'Baby Powder loopholes' but there the profit was greater. Thus this is only worth doing in the following circumstances.

A. You need something in the Clubcard Brochure:

You are intending to buy something, or saving up for something, that's in the Clubcard Deals brochure.

B. You can't find it more cheaply elsewhere:

What you intend to buy can't be bought more cheaply elsewhere. If you think about it this effectively means you're buying anything in the brochure at a 25% discount to its list price. As this is a big, but not huge, discount; you may be able to find it cheaper through other routes.

Yet if this does work for you... head to Tesco and Stock up!

Tesco's rules on the subject

According to Tesco, bulk buying of more than ten of the same product, in one go, is frowned upon (in general the till will flag this up to the cashier), but this differs from store to store depending on stock quantity.

It should be noted though, if Tesco believes you're abusing the deal, it does have the right to not give you the points; though it'd be a big PR problem for it.

More info on Tesco Clubcard Deals

Let me stress something; 100 Clubcard points are only worth £1 if you use them in-store. This loophole only works if you use them on Tesco's special Clubcard Deals vouchers, where you can redeem four times the vouchers' face value (e.g. if you have £100 worth of vouchers in store, you can, for example, exchange these for £400 in holiday vouchers).

Deals available include money off holidays, theme park entrance, restaurant dining, jewellery, car hire, hotels plus many, many more; though do carefully look at the deals; often the price is on the list price, whereas you may be able to get it cheaper (e.g. list price £40, yet it's usually discounted to £30; yet as you're only spending a £10 voucher it's usually still a big gain). Have a look at Tesco's website to check out all the ClubCard Deals available and see if you'd use them before doing this.

For full details read Loyalty Schemes: Tesco ClubCard.

Haven't got a ClubCard?

Pick one up at your nearest store and start collecting points straight away

PS Thanks to Music Man (post below) for the original post. This post has been inserted to add extra explanation for people coming from the weekly e-mail.