Tesco adds e-gift cards online – and you still earn 150 Clubcard points per £50

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• Peter Taysum says:

  12 Jul12 July 06:58

  Thanks,

  I recently bought vouchers online and the points haven’t posted. T&C state it will appear on next statement but most things appear on clubcard statement online, after I’ve been finger print checked, had a tooth extracted, and given a blood sample for genetic testing for ID (OK I exaggerate) I contacted The Card outlet who pointed towRds Tesco. I was going to wait for next statement and then follow up. Any similar problems!

  Cheers.

  • Tom H says:

    12 Jul12 July 08:58

    Still waiting for my points to post too.

    Will they award points for multiples of £50 spent, i.e. 300 points for a £100 gift card?

    • Andy says:

      12 Jul12 July 09:23

      To be on the safe side I would by them in multiples of £50

  • StephD says:

    12 Jul12 July 14:43

    I’ve also not received points for a purchase I made about one month ago. I’m planning on holding out for a bit longer before chasing up. I really hope the points do post as I don’t have a tesco store nearby that sells the type of giftcards I’d like to purchase.

• Tilly71 says:

  12 Jul12 July 07:45

  Does anyone know if you can use pay.com cards to pay for these egift cards.

  • Erico1875 says:

    12 Jul12 July 07:55

    Pay.com cards are only £25. You need to buy in multiples of 50 to get the CC points. Even if Tesco took them, there would be no point. High street vouchers and TopGiftcards do though

    • mark2 says:

      12 Jul12 July 08:15

      In my experience the amount that you can buy from TopGiftcards is very limited, but I have had no problems with HSV,

      • Joe Yates says:

        12 Jul12 July 08:47

        Another way of spending 3V/pay.com is using the new buy and sell gift card app called ZEEK. Sellers discount unwanted cards by 5-32%.
        So if you can mix it with a 3V your laughing points + a discount, problem is your limited to £25 cost. For bigger purchases they also take AMEX Via Paypal

        Use promo code 2amkfy for £5 off your first order..

        Rob – Maybe something you should sign up to?

        • Jason says:

          12 Jul12 July 09:37

          Do they do pizza express gift cards?

        • Joe Yates says:

          12 Jul12 July 10:00

          Zeek do £25 Pizza Express for £23 at the moment.

          Prices are always subject to change, as sellers set the price, send the gift cards / codes to zeek, who send to you.

        • Tilly71 says:

          12 Jul12 July 17:52

          Thanks for the code

• mikeact says:

  12 Jul12 July 08:51

  What are ‘HotelVoucherShop’ vouchers for ?

  • Rob says:

    12 Jul12 July 09:49

    Not idea, think it is a booking site so very restricted in how you use them and would not get hotel points.

    • Mr Bridge says:

      12 Jul12 July 12:19

      and hotels are much more expensive than other websites

      • Rob says:

        12 Jul12 July 14:18

        Had a feeling that would be the case.

  • Ryan says:

    12 Jul12 July 10:52

    I used them around 3.5 years ago to empty out an etihad account. I remember getting codes with no fuss and them being straightforward to use. I can’t vouch for the pricing of hotels but you can look that up before you make a decision.
    However, if you’re looking at 3% back in club card points (£50=£1.50 in points) any difference between hotel voucher code rate and trivago etc. is likely to dwarf the points benefit.

• Tracy says:

  12 Jul12 July 08:56

  Hi
  I contacted Tescos about the online gift cards and they replied saying that the 150 cc points did not apply toe gift cards. Are they wrong? Kind regards. Tracy

  • Joe Yates says:

    12 Jul12 July 09:02

    Probably talking about their own

• Patrick says:

  12 Jul12 July 09:06

  Slightly off topic.

  The pay.com cards come as £25 prepaid visa cards each with their own card number. If you want to purchase something online at a store that excepts visa for £250 for example , how do you use 10 pay.com cards when you can only input one set of card details on the website.

  Is there any way of amalgamating the cards without paying the fee that pay.com are quoting?

  Thanks

  • Joe Yates says:

    12 Jul12 July 09:20

    HI Pat,

    Unless its somewhere that allows a deposit, don’t think you can really split payments.
    Know people have booked things with travel agencies through them, paying the deposit on their normal card and redeeming pay.com for the rest.

    Do they sell gift cards at tesco for them. Another option would be if they sell gift cards on high street vouchers, zeek or topgiftcards or even via their own website.
    You’ll be able to buy £25 gift cards with pay.com & spend at the website.
    But check how many gift cards the site will accept first!

    • mark2 says:

      12 Jul12 July 10:43

      But first check that the retailer accepts their own gift cards online. Many don’t e.g. Halfords, Currys (last time I looked).

  • bob says:

    12 Jul12 July 10:19

    Yes, there’s a way. Over-pay a bill to a provider who is happy to refund overpayments to your current a/c.

    • Joe says:

      12 Jul12 July 10:32

      Who’s happy to do that?

      • mark2 says:

        12 Jul12 July 10:42

        I certainly am. I have had lots of refunds from Scottish Power, sometimes without asking!

        • Joe says:

          12 Jul12 July 10:46

          I meant company wise, do you just do through scottish power?

          How do you put through?

        • mark2 says:

          12 Jul12 July 13:57

          I just use the ‘make a payment’ function on the web site.

        • bob says:

          12 Jul12 July 11:33

          Generally utility cos will all do it, they have your bank details thanks to your direct debit mandate so naturally refund to your bank instead of back onto your pay.com card.

  • rich says:

    12 Jul12 July 10:34

    PayPal.
    Gift each £25 individualy to a friend or your 2nd account. Takes a while buy then you can add to a bigger and bigger balance. Hopefully where you want to spend it will accept paypal

    • CC says:

      12 Jul12 July 11:25

      Can the pp account you send to make withdrawals into their bank account once a large balance has been acquired?

      • Paul says:

        12 Jul12 July 11:47

        Yes but lots of £25 payments from one account to another followed by bank withdrawal is likely to be flagged up and may result in one or both Paypal accounts being restricted. Paypal are very quick to act on anything that doesn’t look like “normal” behaviour

      • JQ says:

        12 Jul12 July 18:05

        Do it VERY slowly, and shhh!!

    • Nick says:

      13 Jul13 July 12:57

      This has always been the most blindingly obvious way of processing 3v cards, but as others say, there is a risk. The problem I have is that you need to process hundreds of these cards to make it worth doing, and paypal are bound to notice that level of activity.

      • CC says:

        13 Jul13 July 14:12

        i might give a go and just do 2 at a time with a couple of weeks in between, you reckon Id get away with that? I know this is long but if you have a few other ways of using the gift cards up it all adds up. Just not all in 1 pot.

• Deborah Loth says:

  12 Jul12 July 09:09

  This is probably a stupid question, but if you buy a gift card using a credit card, how is the transaction treated by the credit card company. Is it treated like a cash withdrawal?

• James Ward says:

  12 Jul12 July 09:09

  I never see 3V cards any more in any of the Tescos local to me.

  Christmas 2013 was a lucrative period as you could add another 100 CC points per 3V card using a coupon snipped from their Christmas magazine. This would net 700 CC for every four 3V cards = 1,750 Virgin Flying Club miles for every £100. Happy days!!

  • Joe Yates says:

    12 Jul12 July 09:14

    They are now called Pay.com cards, and are readily available in most stores.

    When redeeming for you visa card, you go to the 3V website, so guessing its just another trading name.

  • Kipto says:

    12 Jul12 July 09:24

    They had those vouchers in Christmas 2014 as well. 350

  • Nick Burch says:

    12 Jul12 July 10:26

    My local Tesco had 3v cards only a couple of times in 2013, no sign of them returning. The next nearest, which is quite a bit bigger, has started stocking Pay.com cards at some point in the last month. It’s worth checking again!

• Waribai says:

  12 Jul12 July 09:17

  I don’t think as a family we’ve ever set foot inside a Pizza Express. Cafe Rouge…tick. Prezzo…tick. Am I missing something?

  • Jason says:

    12 Jul12 July 09:32

    I love pizza express and so we do visit as a family and fortunately the kids love pizza as well, although not as much as Macdonalds (unfortunately), however we rarely visit Macdonalds these days as there isn’t one where we have moved to!
    There aren’t many pay.coms where I am, and when there are stocks I will try and buy as many as possible as they don’t get re-stocked for weeks 🙁

  • Rob says:

    12 Jul12 July 09:48

    Yes, easily best of the casual dining chains.

  • rich says:

    12 Jul12 July 10:36

    Pizzas mainly

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