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2,400 Avios / 2,500 Flying Club miles for £5 at Tesco when you order ‘Call of Duty: Ghosts’

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When will Tesco ever learn?  Hopefully not for a while.

On Tesco Direct, there is an offer for 1,000 bonus Clubcard points when you pre-order the video game ‘Call of Duty : Ghosts’ for £40 on Xbox 360 or PS3. This is not a bad deal – especially as code TD-G9DW gets you a further £5 off, so you won’t lose much if you sell the game on eBay later.

However, in store, something even more interesting is back.

Tesco is offering 1,000 bonus Clubcard points when you pre-order ‘Call of Duty : Ghosts’ for £5.  This is 2,400 Avios points or 2,500 Flying Club miles for just a fiver.

How it is meant to work is that you get a display box scanned at the check-out, pay £5, and receive a special receipt. Visit the store on the day the game is released (5th November) and you are guaranteed to get a copy and you will get your £5 back as a discount. The 1,000 bonus Clubcard points are credited with the pre-order payment.

There is no obligation to ever buy the game when it is eventually released. This means that you can treat this as a chance to buy some Avios airmiles for 0.2p each!

You need to be very careful not to overdo this promotion. Tesco has removed bonus points in the past. Buying one copy is obviously fine, two is probably OK, especially if you buy one of the Xbox versions and one of the PlayStation versions. I would get very nervous beyond two copies (one of each).

The boxes tend to be on a separate stand to the usual video games. You take an empty box to the checkout, it is scanned, but you do not keep the box – it goes back on the shelf. You will only tend to find these in larger Tesco stores. Note that the yellow label on the edge of the shelf will say 500 bonus points, although it goes through the till as 1,000 bonus points.

There is no stated closing date for this offer, although it is only likely to run for a few days …..

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Comments (153)

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  • John says:
    13 Aug13 August 14:44

    Picked up 2 (1xPS3,1X360) copies from Tesco Hoover Building in Greenford Ealing today and it tracked at 2000 points on my receipt.

  • Richard says:
    13 Aug13 August 15:37

    This points offer seems to have just vanished from the Tesco Direct web page.

  • Ted says:
    13 Aug13 August 15:40

    Is this available anywhere in central London? I’ve check out a couple of Tesco Metro stores but didn’t see it anywhere.

  • chris says:
    13 Aug13 August 15:53

    the SEL in my local also says 1000 points,

    tho like a few people have said either the box is currently going around the store with someone else, or staff are just to lazy to put it back after use,

    will check again later to see if the box is back, if not will think about looking up the barcode of the item and using an online barcode gen to just print one out and use self scan if they moan about scanning paper than ill just moan back, since they should keep stock up, and really whats the diff from me scanning a bit of paper to scanning an empty box, still paying for it either way

    • sandgrounder says:
      13 Aug13 August 16:37

      See the replies to the book preorder post from a couple of days ago for the COD barcodes. They can be keyed at a self scan till, HfP users have had success with this technique.

  • What's the Point says:
    13 Aug13 August 17:50

    Picked up my Xbox and PS3 copies today. One for me and one for Mrs WTP! Although the Mrs has already pre-ordered one back in May when the promo first came out.
    There were lots of other pre-order games on display today. Does anyone know if they come with 1,000 points bonus as well?

    • chris says:
      13 Aug13 August 18:18

      thers always lots of other preorder games,

      im pretty sure its only COD ghosts that is currently on the CC points offer (tho tescos seems to change the game on offer every few weeks),

      tho if you see a shelf label that says others are in the offer than try if not return them

  • James Adamczuk says:
    13 Aug13 August 18:01

    Thanks Raffles 1 of each in Swindon today – 2000 points. No promotional literature at all on the shelves.

    Told my OH about it and she said the XBox 360 game will do for our eldest son for Christmas.

    • AndyWP says:
      13 Aug13 August 18:43

      If you’re going to keep the game, wouldn’t you have been better ordering it online and using the £5 off code? 🙂

  • Stephen Franks says:
    13 Aug13 August 18:49

    Argh Tesco Extra Royston know nothing about the game, none on the shelves! Their telephone enquiry line is rubbish so I suppose I will have to dedicate part of tommorrow driving around different stores.

    • Simon85 says:
      13 Aug13 August 19:09

      If you go Cambridge way, Milton have got them. I picked up one of each earlier today.

      • Stephen Franks says:
        13 Aug13 August 19:10

        Thanks for that, I was going to head to Bar Hill as I’m in Meldreth and not too far but Milton good too.

    • xcalx says:
      13 Aug13 August 19:12

      Dont waste your time driving around different stores, go to your local Tesco and ask the checkout operator to tap in these barcodes.

      PS3 barcode 5052910 938206
      XBox 5052910 938190

      Just in case no boxes are on display

      • Stephen Franks says:
        13 Aug13 August 19:16

        That’s brilliant! Thanks i’ll stay local!!

        • Stephen F says:
          14 Aug14 August 18:09

          Worked a treat though people got annoyed in cue as teller made me read out code x 2 games 6 times!

      • Richard says:
        17 Aug17 August 15:47

        Just managed to use those codes at the local store. They couldn’t do it at the till so I had to go to the Service counter. She didn’t seem to know anything about it and was quite suprised when the code worked. She was even suprised at the amount of points. Thanks for the tip.

    • Hugh says:
      15 Aug15 August 14:15

      try Rutherglen Metro Store- they had them tuesday night – mind, if you want to actually purchase the games, don’t go to a self service till – it wont give you the receipt you need

  • pompeyyorkblues says:
    13 Aug13 August 18:50

    Thanks Raffles… Got 6 on 3 accounts today.. 30 Pounds for 6000 points worth 180 Pounds to me for what I am saving for in clubcard deals!! Brill!!

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