Update on generating free Avios from 3V Virtual Visa cards

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• Jules Verne says:

  28 Jun28 June 22:09

  Last batch I bought I purchased only two at a time as I wasn’t sure if it was 150 CC points per £50 or per purchase of at least £50.

  Could someone please confirm if I buy £100 worth in one transaction I’ll get 2x 150 CC points?

  • Simon says:

    28 Jun28 June 22:14

    Yes if you buy £100 worth in one transaction you’ll get 300 points. I bought £250 in one transaction and got 750 points.

    • Jules Verne says:

      2 Jul2 July 20:53

      Thanks for the confirmation; now just to find some more.

  • takke says:

    28 Jun28 June 22:14

    Yes, you will. You get 150 points for each £50 spent.

  • Sinizter says:

    28 Jun28 June 22:54

    Someone on FT even bought 26 of the 3V cards in one transaction.
    My personal best is £300 worth of gift cards (12 cards) or £250 (23 cards) depending on which way you prefer to look at it.
    The points were correctly credited as 150 points per £50 spent.

• Roger says:

  29 Jun29 June 08:28

  I mentioned in a previous discussion that the gift cards in Tesco were supplied by an outside merchandiser and not through Tesco’s normal distribution systems. It could be worth finding out when your local store has its merchandiser visit. 😉

  For Potters Bar Superstore, it looks like Thursday morning. For Hatfield Extra, it also seems to be Thursday. Certainly, the three occasions on which we have bought 3V cards have been on Thursdays at Potters Bar and Hatfield.

  I liberated 24 at Potters Bar on Thursday, in smaller transactions with different credit cards and Clubcards. There was an element of rejection which entailed a further visit yesterday but all now seems OK.

  I have paid our tax using these cards (apart from £3.40 on our bank debit card, didn’t want to break into a new £25 3V card). Council Tax and water bill were already paid using MasterCard, gas and electricity are paid by monthly direct debit, so no logical use for any more 3V cards. We have some left. They will incur £2 monthly charges in March, April and May which gives us a few months to redeem. If all else fails, we’ll buy shopping vouchers.

• ComeFlyWithMe123 says:

  29 Jun29 June 11:50

  This is getting seriously addictive. I hope I get them all activated and lodged into my NS & I account before the plug is pulled.

• Jules Verne says:

  2 Jul2 July 20:55

  One more question – do you have to use a cashier to buy and activate these – or is it possible to use the self-service checkouts, thereby avoiding the hassle of strange questions?

  • Rich says:

    2 Jul2 July 20:55

    Need to go through a “manned” till- no self service

• Michael says:

  2 Jul2 July 22:17

  Just bought another 66 cards at the weekend in glasgow and Perth which will help with the new target for the 2-4-1.

  Cheers raffles

• Jules Verne says:

  4 Jul4 July 00:13

  I seem to have wiped out a local store as they’ve not replenished since I went in a month or so ago…fear not though, I found five other stores with varying numbers of cards in stock.

  Only trouble was the first store – had 10 scanned all at once, and it became a right palaver when one of them was activated but scanned twice (i.e double charged me) whilst on the second batch of ten, three failed to activate and a further one activated (charged) but the slip never printed…

  Took a while to get the non-activated ones identified and re-scanned and then some time to get the till to unfreeze…in the meantime some fools decided to join the check-out queue when there was an obvious problem and then got arsey about the wait (despite the neighbouring till being empty at the time).

  Then it was off to customer services to get a refund for the double charging and unactivated cards….took some time but got a cash refund for those and left…..only to realise I should have still kept hold of the activated card that I got double charged for…so back to the store and found someone to receive the said card and receipt.

  Didn’t put me off trying the other stores on my way home though! Took a good 2.5 hrs to get home..

• What's the Point says:

  9 Jul9 July 19:05

  Found some today at Tesco Solihull. Bought my fill and left 4 on the shelf.
  Went to two other Tesco stores on Monday and found a very lonely 1 x 3V card in each of them – how annoying!

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