Big news – you can now transfer ALL TopCashback money to Avios

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• Anon says:

  14 May14 May 07:03

  Wonder if Virgin will jump on the bandwagon too?

  Let’s hope they are watching and follow suit (bit like when BA have a web fare sale)

  • Jason says:

    14 May14 May 09:30

    Mine was 7.5% at the time! however I did use one of Raffles codes which saved £100 on both bookings, plus another £100 with the Amex trip advisor offer.

  • RogerWilco says:

    14 May14 May 11:53

    For me some tracked originally as £5,5 instead of 5,5% – I raised a claim at once they tracked and the claim form calculated the correct amount of missing CB. Those are all still pending, so no idea about the final outcome.

    Of course sub £100 orders tracking £5,5 were not claimed

  • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

    14 May14 May 15:05

    Affected me too

• Manuel says:

  14 May14 May 07:33

  Hello,

  Is it the first 50 at old rate of 0,39 and the rest at 0,95. Or did all went to 0,95?

  • squills says:

    14 May14 May 07:37

    It’s a completely different payout method. So you can do both.

  • Graeme Archer says:

    14 May14 May 08:08

    The first £50 goes to Tesco for Clubcard vouchers rather than directly into Avios.

    • squills says:

      14 May14 May 08:13

      Not exactly right. You can decide which withdrawal method to use.

• Brian says:

  14 May14 May 09:14

  True – but there are lots of restrictions on the use of hotel and restaurant vouchers obtained through Tesco. You can’t combine the restaurant ones with offers, as far as I know – so all the voucher deals that are available, or tastecard 2for1, can’t be used. This reduces the value of the voucher, since you’re missing out on great deals. So unless you happen to be eating at one of these restaurant chains on one of the (few) days when other deals are not valid, the chances are you aren’t actually getting 3-4 times the value of the Clubcard voucher.

  • Jason says:

    14 May14 May 09:36

    I suppose it depends what you collect clubcard points for? I only collect for conversion to air miles( Avios currently) and then to use for flying business or first. Travelling as a family of 4 is difficult in business, so have had to book in first. However now having a discussion with my wife about flying air Berlin next year on 2 separate flights( as only 2 business seats available per flight), the savings seem too good to ignore IMO, however my wife would prefer to travel together- decisions decisions!!!

  • squills says:

    14 May14 May 09:53

    Yep I’ve never found the Clubcard deals that brilliant vs Avios. Even boosts seem a waste of money vs Avs on the whole, though I suppose if you needed a Hudl and could find a MOC it wasn’t so bad. But that’s just us – we fly quite a bit (x5 in family) so Avs means good savings vs alternative air fares especially if you can get their real cost down to the sub 0.5p mark 😉

• Idrive says:

  14 May14 May 10:01

  i am working towards the £50 limit for this year (missing a few quids) and have £50 lined up for september already, when i enter year 2, to be converted straight away to CC. I don’t know if I will benefit of the direct exchange (but it is definitely good news! to have this direct connection. but you might consider this as a “travel fund”, so you work out a little “tax” on everyday life expenses for the leasure piggybag!:-)

• Joel says:

  14 May14 May 10:30

  Just performed a transfer of £35 to Avios, the majority of which was BA Holidays (i.e. flight plus hotel). Seems to have allowed it, so apparently BA is not a travel company!

• Tim says:

  14 May14 May 11:26

  Also remember that there are many, many creative ways of generating cash back – many more so than there are opportunities to accrue large amounts of Tesco CC points. Some particularly lucrative ones are life insurance policies where one is only required to pay £5 or £6 per month for a few months to obtain £100-£150 cash back. These drastically change the Avios arithmetic, though, yes, as the cash back can always be taken as actual cash, a value equation does nominally still apply.

• James67 says:

  14 May14 May 11:33

  Like the BA buy avios promo caution is needed here. If you can get avios at about 0.75p each via cash & avios redemption then these transfers make no sense. Best to just do cash & avios redemption. Also, if you are going to buy maximum avios now (and assumming you don’t want more avios than that) then it would still be brtter just to take the cash from TC and buy the avios under current promo at the maximum bonus.

• Idrive says:

  14 May14 May 12:59

  did anyone manage to find a way to split the pay outs? ie a 140 from sky into 40tesco/50cash/50paypal or 50/90

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