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Last chance to get 4,800 Avios for £20 with blinkbox books

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If this article sounds familiar, it is because I originally ran it last month.

Blinkbox then extended the closing the date of the offer by a month.

It is worth mentioning again though.  You have just two days to take advantage of the Blinkbox Books offer which ends on July 31st.

Blinkbox Books

This is how the promotion works:

You receive 100 Tesco Clubcard points (worth 240 Avios, 250 Virgin Flying Club miles) for every ebook you buy

The minimum price to qualify for the 100 points is £1

You can receive the bonus on up to 20 books, for a total of 2000 Clubcard points

The last day to order is 31st July

Here are the terms and conditions in full. It works out at 0.4p per Avios point which is clearly a good deal.

It is easy to find books priced at exactly £1.

Go into a category, such as ‘Childrens Fiction’, search by price and you will find 15 titles priced at exactly £1. There are plenty more across other categories.

Unfortunately, you can only buy one book per transaction. You will need to make 20 separate transactions to order the maximum 20 books which are allowed under this promotion.  Use a variety of different credit and debit cards to avoid your card getting blocked due to ‘suspicious transactions’.

The bonus points are posting OK so far. They post in arrears and appear to be posting for everyone at the same time. You may have to wait a few weeks until the next posting run but experience so far shows that you will get them without a fight.

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As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

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Comments (35)

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  • barney says:
    30 Jul30 July 06:47

    Is this open to non-UK residents?

  • Kipto says:
    30 Jul30 July 07:13

    I did this back in May and got the full 2000 points. I have two different clubcards. Can I use the other clubcard to do it again or is it the case of a new blinkbox account with a different email address ?

    • Idrive says:
      30 Jul30 July 07:34

      The point is having another clubcard account (ie your oh,sister) .if you have another card it must not be linked to yours.

  • Idrive says:
    30 Jul30 July 07:33

    Task completed last night! If you want to be quicker open multiple tabs by right clicking on the book cover to buy more books at once

  • Simon says:
    30 Jul30 July 08:01

    There is 1000 points for a £60 spend at Tesco Wine using code XXKART. There are only 5,000 available and the code came from MSE so you’ll probably have to be quick.

    • squills says:
      30 Jul30 July 08:19

      Makes using the current double up boost just about worthwhile as opposed to storing them for Avios redemptions, particularly if you find a decent discounted wine.

      £30 in vouchers to buy £60 of wine. With 1000 points back (= net £20 in vouchers).

      So for £20 in vouchers you’re getting £60 of value, where £20 = 4800 Avios or £48 in my books.

      • Brendan says:
        30 Jul30 July 14:09

        You cant get the x2 boost on Tesco Wine AFAIK?

        • M says:
          30 Jul30 July 16:34

          Yep. No x2 boost on wine.

          • squills says:
            30 Jul30 July 21:04

            OMG sorry etc – I assumed it was still OK 😉

            Out of the UK at the mo so I didn’t bother to run a dummy order.

      • nick says:
        30 Jul30 July 18:41

        There are currently 50 bonus cc points on finest wine. Do you know if you earn these when buying wine through boost?

        • Rob says:
          30 Jul30 July 19:45

          Is this just Scotland again or nationwide? Tesco seems to be using points promos on booze in Scotland to respond to pricing curbs.

          • Alan says:
            30 Jul30 July 19:47

            Interesting – they may well be doing that – probably cheaper for them too! Lots of 3V cards in my local store, bought £100 worth, still 150 per £50 bonus posting and after using the £7 helping hand voucher it went and spat out another one! (plus the 3V cards counted towards fuel discount!)

          • idrive says:
            30 Jul30 July 20:05

            is Tesco issuing helping hand vouchers at the moment?

          • Alan says:
            30 Jul30 July 20:10

            Sorry I’m not sure if they’re actually called Helping Hand vouchers or not this time, but they’re £7 off £50 spend style ones, printed by the till 🙂

  • Roger says:
    30 Jul30 July 08:22

    Thanks for the timely reminder. I didn’t jump on this before so wanted to take part now.

    However,
    ‘The blinkbox books site is down at the moment because. we’re upgrading. Bear with us – we’ll be back up as soon as possible.’ (Their superfluous full stop, not mine.)

    I’ll try again later.

    • Jonathan says:
      30 Jul30 July 08:46

      It’s been working fine for me this morning! I realised that this is a good way to get to the points I want to use my 2-4-1 voucher! 🙂

  • CountryKerry says:
    30 Jul30 July 09:55

    Just a heads up – I have to different club cards linked to one account.

    Did the promo first time round many weeks ago. Did it again on a different blink box account with the other club card last week and the points posted yesterday. 9,600 Avios for £40 – not bad!

  • Czechoslovakia says:
    30 Jul30 July 10:31

    Got my £20`s worth, thanks Rob, another single MAN-PRG, thanks Tesco.

  • Scott Nelson says:
    30 Jul30 July 10:53

    Thanks Raffles. Used the tab method and completed deal in under 5 minutes.

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