TopCashback stopping Tesco Clubcard (and on to Avios) as a payout option

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• David says:

  1 Jun1 June 05:06

  This is most frustrating, as my next 12 month cycle begins on 1st August. I’ll miss out on converting another £50 into Avios by one day 🙁

• Olly Loosemore says:

  1 Jun1 June 06:23

  I’ve only recently started doing this thanks to Your site 🙁

• Andrew Stock says:

  1 Jun1 June 07:00

  How long will Tesco keep the 2.4 avios per clubcard point rate?

  • James67 says:

    1 Jun1 June 07:22

    I’m guessing it will be devalued or eliminated within a year along with most of clubcard scheme. I can see no benefit to tesco maintining the current scheme, I doubt it is keeping customers in tesco at expense of aldi and lidl, and clubcard seems to me at least to be very expenive to run in comparison to Sainsburys and Morrisons loyalty schemes. Consequently I suspect it us facing the chop, just remins to be seen whether tesco will do this gradually or take a bigger risk by doing it all at one go.

    • Yuff says:

      1 Jun1 June 08:14

      we don’t have an aldi or lidl, where we live, but even if we did I wouldn’t shop there.
      Since I really got into the points collecting game I’ve only ever bought shopping from tesco, albeit that’s helped by there only bring a tesco and co-op near where we live so it’s not a difficult choice.
      The tesco brand match is very handy and I used it last week to pick up some good wines plus some Tattinger at 16.75 in their wine and champagne promotion.

      • James67 says:

        1 Jun1 June 08:37

        Personally I’ve always tended to shop at my nearest supermarket regardless of brand. Never considered the cc points on day to day spend a big attraction, I focussed more on the big cc promotions and loopholes. The facts soeak for themselves though, all four main supermarkets have been losing customers bug time to the discounters.

• Oyster says:

  1 Jun1 June 08:26

  I’m more worried by Clubcard becoming instantly redeemable. I presume this means my Clubcard has now become an £800 pile of cash attached to my car keys?

  • Rob says:

    1 Jun1 June 09:01

    Nectar has a (modest) security element by only letting you redeem at a store where you have made a purchase in the last 6 months. All that means, though, is that anyone who nicks your key fob has to buy a newspaper, wait 24 hours and then clear you out.

  • Michael says:

    1 Jun1 June 09:50

    I’m glad. I missed the transfer for this current statement by a day or two and now need to wait months to transfer to BA points.

• Steve R says:

  1 Jun1 June 08:26

  Luckily my wife’s & mine are eligible to transfer to CC (again) at the end of this month, so that’s £100 on its way then onto Virgin.
  Hopefully we might gat some nice promotions from Tesco bank. Just got my 4000 points from the home insurance

• Pol says:

  1 Jun1 June 08:48

  Very concerned this is the start of Clubcard devaluation and payouts to Virgin/BA may be next. Went to concert my CC vouchers to Avios.com but, unlike when converting to BA or Virgin I can’t see anywhere to put my account number, any ideas how they know where to send it?

  • Liz says:

    1 Jun1 June 08:59

    They just match up your info – I converted £50 last week and it posted into my Avios account a couple of days later.

• Kathy says:

  1 Jun1 June 08:55

  This does worry me, long-term, as if Avios become harder to collect via clubcard I will struggle to build up enough to fly business class again. I don’t travel for work, and with only c. £7k-£8k credit card spend a year I simply can’t build up that many from sign-up bonuses and daily spend.

  • Alex says:

    1 Jun1 June 11:03

    Get a Lloyds Avios dual pack. 7k spend will let you fly BA’s (admittedly premium economy-like) Business for the price of Premium Economy.

    The ongoing QR C sales make even that redemption route look poor value though… Once you fly in their business pod (787, a350, a380) it would make BA C feel like taking the bus…

    • Kathy says:

      1 Jun1 June 12:17

      That was my long term plan – to get the Lloyds card and build up enough Avios to do LHR-SYD return in club using the upgrade voucher (obviously depending on midnight booking a year in advance for the availability!). But I’d still need to save c.150k Avios for that to work, and I was relying to Clubcard points for a lot of that. Those QR ex-EU fares are looking better and better – unless I really luck out and win a million Avios!

• NS says:

  1 Jun1 June 10:06

  I’m just checking the payout tab and the tesco clubcard option appears to have disappeared. is anybody else seeing it as an option?

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