3V cards are still alive and kicking, surprisingly

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• Mr Bridge says:

  9 Aug9 August 08:12

  my local tesco did not have any last week, which was the first time ever that they have been out.
  I thought this was the end, but yesterday, as raffles says alive and kicking

• Scott says:

  9 Aug9 August 08:17

  One of mine got restocked last week for the first time as far as I’m aware. 3 left at present after I bought a few so might as well pop in and buy 2 of them.
  Used a £10 off £70 spend voucher yesterday to drop the cost of a couple of them to make things sweeter (couple of shopping items mixed in as well including some milk that had 85 bonus CC points).
  Haven’t checked the other local store yet.

• Nodrog says:

  9 Aug9 August 08:21

  My local stores did a restock every 3 weeks but since the end of June this stopped. The same apllies to the full range of cards so i am hoping the stockist is just on a long summer break

• Toby says:

  9 Aug9 August 08:26

  I think I’ve just had an idea…

  Homebase is on the list of official retailers, yes? Buy Homebase Gift Vouchers in Tesco (2x£25) and get the 150 points. Then use the homebase gift vouchers to buy 3V Cards in Homebase and collect (Nectar?) points again…. ?

  I’ve not tried it but would it be possible?

  • Rob says:

    9 Aug9 August 08:45

    Some people have tried this. Homebase gift cards cannot be used to buy other gift cards – it says this on the back. Some Homebase shop assistants do not enforce this, but others do.

  • Eric OMara says:

    9 Aug9 August 08:46

    I did this last month with £50 worth and got Nectar points too. It does however say on the back of the card, that it CAN NOT be used to purchase “gift cards”
    So its probably down to individual checkout op or store.

  • Dan says:

    9 Aug9 August 09:12

    When Homebase had their 15% off everything the other weekend, I bought £300 worth of £25 Homebase vouchers in Tesco on the Saturday morning (and got the Clubcard points). I tried to spend them on tiles in Homebase on Saturday afternoon but the cards hadn’t been activated! I had to buy the tiles on my Amex in the end. Apparently it takes up to 72 hours to activate the Homebase gift cards you can buy in Tesco. I didn’t realise this, and I probably wouldn’t have believed it if someone told me.

    Anyway, the point of my story is that I did manage to use my Homebase gift cards on the Tuesday after to purchase 3V cards, and the assistant put them through without question.

  • Mr Bridge says:

    10 Aug10 August 08:55

    homebase is now whited out on 3v website

• Jay says:

  9 Aug9 August 08:53

  I am planning to buy Nexus from google play store. And play store does not accept Amex ( in UK). I guess I should be able to buy Play gift cards from Tesco using my Amex Nectar card and get bonus CC points.

  If I am buying £200 worth gift cards, should I be buying in 4 different transactions or just one transaction of £200 fetching 4×150=600 club card points ?

  • Dan says:

    9 Aug9 August 09:06

    One transaction will be fine to get you 600 Clubcard pints.

    • xcalx says:

      9 Aug9 August 09:31

      Now that is a good deal.

  • Jonny says:

    9 Aug9 August 09:09

    1 transaction should work fine

  • Alex says:

    9 Aug9 August 13:16

    Unfortunately, you cannot purchase any hardware with Google play store cards. Read the T&C… I was really disappointed too.

• bill says:

  9 Aug9 August 09:07

  my local tesco doesnt stock gift cards at all. i’ve looked in boots but they dont stock 3v. they have another visa brand which runs at almost 10% premium. i will have to travel further afield

• Jonny says:

  9 Aug9 August 09:09

  I found some too yesterday, for the first time since I started looking (a few weeks ago). Perhaps a number of stores were restocked yesterday.

  Tentatively bought 10 to see how it works out, though much to the chagrin of the guy behind me (whom i did warn!), particularly after the woman in front had produced a novel-sized pamphlet of vouchers…

  Am I right in that they can be invested in national savings products?

• Arabmoney says:

  9 Aug9 August 09:09

  The guys who are saying there are loads in stock are the same guys who are going in and clearing out the 30+ they have on the shelves and leaving one. because they cant collect the 150 cc on an odd number.

  its first come first serve on these, you really need the hustle if you want to get any.

  • James67 says:

    9 Aug9 August 16:14

    You can say that again! Wednesday I found around 20 cards in my local extra. I took 8 of them to check-out and thought I had nothing better to do than immediately turn around and pick up another 8. Imagine my shock and disappointment to find they were all gone. Seems like I was not her only HFPer around early Wednesday morning! Lesson learned, from here on in they all go to check-out with me on sight!

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