Buy cheap Avios points with Tesco Fuel Save

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• signol says:

  15 Mar15 March 09:22

  It’s even better with the £7 off a £50 spend coupon I’ve been given the last couple of weeks!

• callum says:

  15 Mar15 March 10:15

  Discriminate against people without cars!? That hardly seems fair… Do credit card offers discriminate against those who don’t use credit? Chocolate offers discriminate against diabetics?

  And I’ve yet to see an offer on anything that wasn’t more lucrative the more you spend. Its kinda how offers work! Nor can I see people lining up with jerry cans just so they can save a couple of quid.

  Thanks for the analysis though.

  • Rob says:

    15 Mar15 March 10:22

    I wrote this in the context of Tesco losing share to Aldi and Lidl and thinking this promo would win those people back.

    • squills says:

      15 Mar15 March 10:58

      Aldo lol – there speaks a man who doesn’t deign to cross the threshold of the discounters 😉

      You should give them a try, I can’t speak for Aldi as we don’t have one close but Lidl can be brilliant, if you treat it like a continental deli you can find top quality food at discount prices. Obviously the range is limited but the VFM can be superb.

      • Janeyferr says:

        15 Mar15 March 11:11

        The car park at the Aldi I use is full of BMWs, Audis and late model, fuel efficient cars.

        • N says:

          15 Mar15 March 17:40

          The car park at our local Lidl is full of people filling up with cooking oil…

      • Rob says:

        15 Mar15 March 13:48

        I simply don’t have one to visit! My Mrs is German so she is used to discount food retailers!

      • Lady London says:

        16 Mar16 March 15:48

        My German friend told me a while back that it is quite trendy in Germany for wealthy people to do their shopping at Aldi or Lidl now.

        Getting back On Topic, I received a survey about Tesco Fuelsave just before it was launched. I told them that if I wanted to make these savings I’d already be getting my petrol at Morrisons, and that the only reason I ensure part of my groceries come from Tesco is Clubcard and that if the Clubcard program devalues any further [since the recent booster devaluations] then I won’t bother with Tesco at all.

• Erico1875 says:

  15 Mar15 March 10:52

  I think it could Raffles. Most people wont be hitting the gift cards. They will just shift their monthly food shop to Tesco if the petrol deal is perceived to have added value

• Luke says:

  15 Mar15 March 10:59

  Ah Norwich have been testing this for about a year. Its works well if you pay @ the pump but not in store at the kiosk (It often will not come up on their screen).

• needroos says:

  15 Mar15 March 12:05

  I have gone down this route with the AMEX Gold around London.

  Still have the usual problems. First time I bought 5 and the Fuel Voucher points appeared on the receipt. Customers services went into overdrive saying that Voucher points cannot be earned on gift cards. I dont have a car so I wasnt bothered, but they made me wait 10 minutes to sort this out until they relented that all was good.

  At Canary Wharf I was told day before yesterday that you can only buy 1 on a card and maximum 2 in cash. :/ This was allegedly because of their wish to protect all credit card users. I think perhaps someone had caught on.

  The alternative ofcourse is Morissions where I pleasantly found that I could but as many gift cards as I wanted using the self service till. They also stock plenty. The fuel voucher may come in handy if I can palm it of to friends and family and get something back on the card fees.

  • Blenz101 says:

    15 Mar15 March 18:18

    Check out how much the Morrison fuel vouchers sell for on eBay – Ive averaged a £70 sale for a £1 per litre voucher

    • needroos says:

      15 Mar15 March 21:55

      When you buy the 3.95 Visa gift cards at the till do you have to open the barcode and then scan it? When I tried they insisted that I didnt need to and I should scan the barcode on the packet itself. It didnt work.

      • Rob says:

        15 Mar15 March 21:55

        Yes, the back of the packet must be ripped open and scanned

• Sideysid says:

  15 Mar15 March 13:16

  Im currently using up various dated £7 off £70 spend Tesco coupons.

  I buy £100 worth of 3V (plus a few everday litre apple juices -16p at the mo!) use the money off coupon.

  I use my Tesco credit card for the points (as thats the one you’ll need to use for the max cc points on fuel) and pay with the gold Amex.

  Then at the petrol station fill up and use the Tesco credit card for points (which activates the fuel save and gets 1cc point per £) and use the santander 123 credit card to pay (further 3% cash back)

  • Kwab says:

    15 Mar15 March 14:08

    Very impressive! You definitely seem to have the numbers down to a tee. Carol Vorderman eat your heart out!

    • Blenz101 says:

      15 Mar15 March 18:21

      If your tesco credit card is on the same account as your regular clubcard there is no need for the card switch in store – you can use the regular c/card at the checkout and the fuel save will still appear on your credit card when used for point in the petrol station

      • Blenz101 says:

        17 Mar17 March 16:49

        Yes – I understood. I was commenting on “I use my Tesco credit card for the points (as thats the one you’ll need to use for the max cc points on fuel) and pay with the gold Amex.” – there is no need to use the tesco credit card to collect points instore, if you use your regular club card at the checkout the fuel save will still be available against your tesco credit card clubcard when used for points at the petrol station i.e. a linked clubcard account will also link the fuelsave.

• philipb says:

  15 Mar15 March 14:33

  Raffles – do you know whether there is any limit to the number of gift cards you can buy at Tesco each month and still qualify for the 150 points per £50 spend?

  • Rob says:

    15 Mar15 March 14:40

    No limit, except the 30,000 points per quarter cap that Tesco MAY at its discretion impose on your account, removing all points above that. And they DO do this occasionally.

    • philipb says:

      15 Mar15 March 15:08

      Thanks for clarification. BTW your maths on the (Non-3v) cards is indisputable and 0.59 per Avios point is good value for me as I always use my Avios for First or Club World seats.

• squills says:

  15 Mar15 March 16:47

  A couple of things to bear in mind:

  1. You can’t mix months (ie 10p/ litre in month 1 + 10p/ litre in month 2 is not usable as 20p/ litre in month 2. Though you CAN use ‘points savings’ from month 1 in month 2 (at the end of which they expire).
  2. But the ‘points savings are used up in date order. So this means if you (say) accumulate 22p worth of savings (per litre) in month 1, and you fill up once @ the max 20p/ litre rate, then you need to ‘flush through’ the remaining 2p/ litre BEFORE you can get the max 20p saving again in month 2. The big mistake would be to not realise this, do a 60+ litre fill up in month 2, then only get offered 2p/ litre saving instead of your expected 20p/ litre. Do you see what I mean?

  You’d need to first ‘flush through’ the remaining 2p/ litre saving with a minimum purchase of fuel either at the end of month 1 or beginning of month 2. Then you could access the max 20p/ litre saving again.

  3. As noted, you CAN make 20p/ litre savings multiple times in any one month.

  • Rob says:

    15 Mar15 March 19:24

    Painfully complicated (as I thought when I first looked at it). Which is another reason why it is a bad promotion.

    • squills says:

      15 Mar15 March 19:36

      And although you can see your fuel savings points online, it’s too early to see if they split it month by month. You’d have to check several times to see if you were in command.

      Eg 25th of month 1, you see you have 25p/ litre, you can fill up with the 20p/ litre saving and know you have to flush through 5p. Provided you don’t buy anything more @ Tesco that month, you should be OK to reset for a 20p/ litre saving on a big tanking in month 2.

      • Fenny says:

        15 Mar15 March 20:08

        Each month’s savings show separately, with an expiration date of the end of the following month. So March amounts expire at the end of April and have to be used before any savings accrued in April.

        • Polly says:

          15 Mar15 March 23:17

          V useful information , thank you. That is a pain if you have not filled your tank by beginning of April and have to start shopping again every week! Does that mean you won’t accrue in the new month? Hope folks are fully aware of that. It reads though on the leaflet that the balance is left for further use. Well spotted!

        • Fenny says:

          16 Mar16 March 00:11

          On my Tesco account page, it shows I’ve currently accrued 9p worth of fuel savings. These are based on how much I’ve spent so far in March and expire on 30 April. (I’ve actually spent £237 so far in March, so another £13 spend would bring it up to 10p of fuel savings).

          You can only use the fuel savers in increments of 2p, so I could wait until the end of March to see whether I hit the 20p max to redeem at any one time. If I think I’m going to exceed 20p, I can fill up, use the 20p/l off, then spend and accrue more before the end of March. If I don’t fill up again in March, the next, say, 2p, will be valid for any petrol I buy in April.

          On 1 April, the count resets, so I start building up April’s savings. But I have to use the 2p left over from March before I can use April’s savings.

          The amount you spend is reset to zero each month, but you can carry over any unused saving to the following month, but expires at the end of that month. It’s a case of timing your petrol purchases to maximise the savings based on your spending!

    • Rob says:

      17 Mar17 March 13:17

      I agree. It is farcically stupid. I admit that the complexity of Avios etc lets me earn a living, but there is no excuse for making a ‘simple’ fuel discount so complex.

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