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Get 480 Avios for £10 with an Olly Murs CD

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Tesco Direct has launched a new CD pre-order promotion.  This one is for the new album from Olly Murs, Never Been Better.

You will receive 200 bonus Clubcard points (480 Avios, 500 Virgin Flying Club miles) when you buy a copy for £10.  It will be delivered at the end of November.

There is a snag with this deal.  Unlike most pre-order promotions, the points for the CD are not added to your account immediately.

The terms and conditions of the accompanying competition (you could meet Olly!) say:

“All customers who pre order the Olly Murs album will receive a bonus 200 Clubcard points. Clubcard points will not show up in a customer’s Clubcard account immediately upon purchase. These will be available prior to their next statement being issued in February 2015.”

This is frustrating, because you need to remember to keep an eye out on a statement which you won’t receive for three months.  That is extra paperwork I could do without.

Because of this rule, I would not risk ordering multiple copies of the CD.  If the points did not post and you had to ring up Customer Services to get them added on, there is a chance that they would refuse on the grounds that buying more than one broke Tesco rules on bulk buying.

It isn’t worth buying this CD purely for the points – at 2p per mile it is far too expensive.  However, if you know an Olly Murs fan then it might be worth picking one up and keeping it for Christmas.  The link to buy is here.

PS.  It may still be possible to get a grocery order placed for delivery or ‘click and collect’ on Monday – the last day – to earn 1,500 Clubcard points via this offer.

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Comments (28)

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  • andy stock says:
    18 Oct18 October 07:17

    I can think of far less painful ways to collect avios points

  • Adam says:
    18 Oct18 October 08:33

    When i looked at this in the week i also thought £10 a cd for a pop chart artist was expensive. I am sure you could get this £7.99 on the day of release from other places so be mindful in case you wanted to chance selling a few or more on ebay. Seems a lot of risk for this route if they didnt give you the points at the end of next quarter.

  • signol says:
    18 Oct18 October 08:35

    I read on another forum this is almost how the instore game preorders will work: spend £5, get coupon for game and a second coupon for the 500 points when you actually buy the game in person…

    • Simon says:
      18 Oct18 October 08:51

      I read that as well, possibly on the same forum. The 500 points were a till split in this case but clearly stated 500 points for pre-ordering and purchasing the game. When the game was pre-ordered the coupon for 500 points was stapled to the £5 pre-order receipt and would be added when you purchased the game.

    • Fenny says:
      18 Oct18 October 08:51

      Sounds like they’ve noticed how the number of preorders isn’t being converted into sales. I gave my preorder vouchers for a couple of Xbox games to a colleague who has a bunch of grandchildren.

  • squills says:
    18 Oct18 October 09:13

    £15 off £75 existing customer code TDXR-WRTP

    • squills says:
      18 Oct18 October 10:11

      The answer to that would be to have a look in your local store. If the Hudl2 comes in a promotional pack (ie with £60 of vouchers in the box) – that’s what you’d get in your Groceries order. Because the pickers just pick from store stock; they don’t wait for Hudl2 to get delivered to store especially for you.

    • squills says:
      18 Oct18 October 10:31

      TDXR-WJXD, TDXR-NGTP (Direct)

    • squills says:
      18 Oct18 October 10:45

      Works on mine TDXR-WRTP

    • Adam says:
      20 Oct20 October 11:19

      Is the £10 off £50 direct code a generic xx code or a long code on the voucher?

      • sqills says:
        20 Oct20 October 18:11

        If you mean the £10 off £50 Direct code in the box, I haven’t bought a Hudl2 yet so I don’t know. But T could hardly offer it as an incentive to buy, without it working. I guess the codes will be unique and will work just once.

        • sqills says:
          20 Oct20 October 20:24

          Looks like I am wrong, see what sb else says: [if it’s FIRST groceries & direct codes, worth diddly]

          RIGHT……Got the info at last – verbally at least but it seems to add up.

          The £60 of offers inside the box comprise:

          £10 BlinkBox movies credit – Unique Code
          £5 BlinkBox Premium Music for 30 days – Unique Code
          £10 Off F and F Clothing (£50 order) – Unique Code

          £10 BlinkBox Books – Generic Code
          £15 off your FIRST Grocery order of £60 – Generic Code
          £10 off your FIRST Tesco Direct order of £50 – Generic Code

  • squills says:
    18 Oct18 October 11:04

    This one should appeal a bit more if you’ve never had a Tesco car insurance quote (no code needed, just put your clubcard number in):

    Reads: Tesco Car Insurance Quote – 500 Clubcard points! …Just received this leaflet through the post from Tesco…It’s offering 500 clubcard points to every potential new Tesco Bank Car Insurance customer who obtains a quote between 10th October 2014 to 30th November 2014…This offer applies to new customer’s and it’s not available if you get a quote or purchase from any price comparison sites…Clubcard number must be provided during quote. One offer per customer. The clubcard must be in your name and the points will be added to a future clubcard statement.

  • Mark2 says:
    18 Oct18 October 14:13

    I believe that you can get a Hudl at half price if you pay using ClubCard vouchers but many would prefer to swap for Avios (I certainly would).

    • Erico1875 says:
      18 Oct18 October 21:18

      it would be crazy to use vouchers to half the price when you can get it for £86 .

  • Pol says:
    18 Oct18 October 16:31

    Can’t find anything on the website about 500 bonus bonus points for a quote. Do you have a link?

  • JD says:
    18 Oct18 October 17:10

    I find more often with these buy now, credited later deals that you have to call (usually several times) to have the points added. They very rarely get added when Tesco say they will.

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