Get a 20% bonus on Tesco Clubcard conversions to Avios

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• Andrew says:

  31 Oct31 October 12:20

  I auto exchange to Avios – and not BA Executive Avios, so does this mean I won’t be included with he promotion as I see they’ve already been exchanged?

  • Mikeact says:

    31 Oct31 October 13:50

    Of course not. They are two different schemes.

  • Rob says:

    31 Oct31 October 14:01

    Yes, seems to.

• Idrive says:

  31 Oct31 October 12:44

  Well the cap is really a bad thing. Starting to think that if i am not going to fly to a direct US destination than Virgin may kick in as they would probably allow you to buy a London to secondary city in US. Not that i have it in my plans but still..could be an alternative routing…

  At this point i really hope to get regular £500 off J tickets promos…

  Just one question..so i convert £100 and get the bonus but i have to wait till 01 Dec to convert an additional £00s just because i would otherwise jeopardise the bonus transaction?

  • Daniel says:

    31 Oct31 October 13:49

    No, you just wouldn’t get a bonus on the vouchers over the £100 amount.

• harry says:

  31 Oct31 October 12:57

  I agree that Tesco customer services used to be quite appalling on clubcard points. They had a stock answer – an untruth in many cases – that you would get the bonus points at the end of the quarter. For Grocery online deliveries this was patently false – you get the points the day after the delivery or thereabouts. Do any of you remember the 2 x Gillettes c*ck-up which ISTR offered 1500 Tesco clubcard points? Getting my various multiples of 1500 points was pot luck – a knowledgeable supervisor would award them, others refused always with that end of the quarter rubbish.

  In the case of this Avios promotion, there’s an obvious reason why this line ‘at the end of the promotion’ is true, so the main worry is that there’s some kind of manual intervention leading to denials and mistakes.

  However, Tesco’s current sorry performance may come to the rescue. I had it from the inside that CS have now been told to say yes to all reasonable requests, eg you lost a receipt and want a refund, or you’re outside the time limits for a refund etc. So my guess is that anybody missing points will get them.

  As for the obvious slightly cheating bit – the auto converts going to avios.com with no prior warning of this promotion – I’d try to get some kind of compensating gesture back from Tesco if I were you.

  • Mikeact says:

    31 Oct31 October 13:53

    But they are two separate schemes, why the compensation ?

    • Rob says:

      31 Oct31 October 14:00

      To be honest, I would also be pushing for something here. BA / avios.com want you to auto-convert (even though I recommend you don’t) because it in their interests. If it turns out that auto-converters have been legged over then it will put people off. Who knows, for eg, if next quarter there is a bonus for avios.com but not BAEC and that BAEC auto-converters lose out?

      The idea that they are two separate schemes, whilst technically true, doesn’t really wash because of Combine My Avios. I’m sure there are people who set up auto-convert to avios.com purely because they didn’t have their BA number to hand at the time, and of course you can set it up to avios.com without having your account details.

      • Mikeact says:

        31 Oct31 October 15:52

        ‘Because they didn’t have their BA number to hand’

        I would expect BA members to be far more savvy in this respect with all things Avios than Avios.com members. Just look at the number of questions they all keep asking on Twitter.

        • Brian says:

          31 Oct31 October 18:49

          Obviously not savvy enough to turn off auto-convert!

      • Callum says:

        31 Oct31 October 18:16

        So because you couldn’t be bothered to think through your options and chose the wrong one, you should be compensated?

        • harry says:

          31 Oct31 October 18:25

          My point was merely that Tesco are doing their utmost to say yes to customer requests & queries in customer service at the moment. There’s a 3 line whip on being nicer. So it’s worth a go.

          The reason I personally don’t do auto convert is precisely because of getting caught out like this & of course because keeping your Tesco clubcard points @ Tesco leaves you free to convert them all once every couple of years when a bonus conversion comes round [except for the £100 limit!]

        • Callum says:

          31 Oct31 October 18:50

          It wasnt that I was questioning – if I can get any compensation from any company for any reason I will!

          I was questioning the insinuation by Raffles that Tesco is at fault here. They aren’t.

  • Rob says:

    31 Oct31 October 14:01

    This is true. Never believe anyone at Tesco who tells you “the points will go on at the end of the quarter”.

    • Andrew says:

      3 Nov3 November 09:26

      The line they seem to be trotting out though is ‘end of the promotion’ – which is similar to the way some other companies do things for some of their promotions… spend x in a given period in n transactions (springs to mind, albeit from Sainbury’s…) points awarded at the end…

• James67 says:

  31 Oct31 October 13:40

  For three years we have all been moaning about the lack of a transfer bonus; now we’ve got one at last but started moaning that it’s capped at £100. IIRC Rob has been advising for years that autoconvert is best used on dormant accounts or those with low balances, and should be turned off again after the autoconvert bonus was paid. Given the moaning about that too, a surprisingly high number of people appear still to have active autoconversions in place if comments today are anything to go by. Seems like us HfPers are quite an unhappy, dissastified, pessimistic, moaning bunch at the best of times. Fortunately, however, our mood changes quickly: it just takes a half dozen 3V cars somewhere inside the M25 or an £800 exEU J fare to put a smile on our faces, and a £500 longhaul First fare error is positively euphoric! Who needs legal (or otherwise) highs when we have points, miles and HfPs.

  • Brian says:

    31 Oct31 October 13:49

    Indeed – once you’ve got the bonus, why would you have auto-convert on? Surely the whole point about collecting these things is to have flexibility to redeem for what you need at any given time.

    • Mikeact says:

      31 Oct31 October 13:57

      Thing is, half those on Avios.com have no idea what Avios is all about…auto convert ? .. you must be joking.

  • Polly says:

    31 Oct31 October 14:01

    James, you did make me laugh.. My sentiments exactly. Just love the buzz when we got those ex EU fares, etc and manage a 241 F on BA LH. So yes, any bonus is better than none. We are just so lucky to be able to avail of these bargain flights… Makes us very happy. But we really are missing the 3v extras. For most people £100 bonus transfer would be fantastic, but we have different goals on this site to those folks out there…

    • James67 says:

      31 Oct31 October 14:34

      The cheap fares have taken the edge off for me and I increasingly find myself agreeing with Ladylondon but I still collect avios because my partner strongly prefers ‘direct’ flights with BA (or I suspect it’s really the stopovers in London), and redemptions offer cheap flexibility. I now get more of a buzz from finding cheap fares and the holy grail will be if/when I can find four return J fares a year from UK to se Asia for <£4000.

  • Al says:

    31 Oct31 October 14:30

    Any autoconvert bonus currently on? 🙂

• Andrew says:

  31 Oct31 October 15:46

  As it happens, I have a ba and avios account. When it comes to transferring I didn’t really know there was much of a difference between them as you can transfer between them and they have the same value. I think the lesson learnt here is not to auto convert

• Andrew says:

  31 Oct31 October 17:44

  So sad/cross with myself, didn’t realise it was from 01/11…

  • Liz says:

    31 Oct31 October 20:08

    Oh Andrew I hope you didn’t transfer too many over. i spotted the date on the t&c’s early this morning and posted it up.

    • Andrew says:

      31 Oct31 October 23:31

      Thanks Liz!

      Spilt milk and all that; nothing to be done now…

      Just hope the next vouchers come through before this bonus ends…

      • Liz says:

        1 Nov1 November 07:27

        They should arrive in the post next week but you can access them online as well under your club card account / your vouchers and redeem from there. You don’t need to wait for the paper ones to arrive. Mine weren’t there yesterday but I keep checking each day.

• Caroline says:

  31 Oct31 October 18:38

  Hi, two questions.

  1. Does the email address you use on Tesco have to match the email on your BA accounts?

  2. Does your actual home address on Tesco have to match BA?

  Thanks

  • JQ says:

    1 Nov1 November 09:14

    Don’t know, I guess not, but it’s easy to change details on Tesco (I think including your name but not sure)

• Rob says:

  31 Oct31 October 19:54

  You’re losing your touch, I had that up on the Facebook feed ages ago 🙂

  • harry says:

    31 Oct31 October 20:43

    Apologies. Only got a monitoring a/c on FB. Does much end up on there that never sees HFP main site?

    • Rob says:

      31 Oct31 October 21:37

      Only joking (although it is on there). Answer is no. There is the odd thing on Twitter which doesn’t go on the main site, but really not enough for anyone to worry about.

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