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News in brief:

3,600 Avios and £10 off with LEGO Friends

As we covered on Shopper Points yesterday, there is a VERY generous LEGO deal running again this week on Tesco Direct.

As you can see on this page, you will receive 1500 bonus Clubcard points when you spend £75 on LEGO Friends before Saturday.  That is worth 3600 Avios or 3750 Virgin Flying Club miles.

That means you are basically getting the LEGO for half price if you value the Avios points or Virgin Atlantic miles at 1p each.

Even better, code TDX-PKMH gets you £10 off a £75 Tesco Direct spend.  The snag, though, is that you need to spend £75 after the discount to get the 1500 Clubcard points.  This means that you need to buy £85 of LEGO Friends, for which you pay £75 and get 1500 points.

Oddly – and I tested this – you cannot buy £75 of LEGO Friends and £10 of something else and then apply the £10 coupon.  It wipes off your bonus points.  There needs to be £85 of LEGO Friends in your basket.

Click and Collect delivery is free to your local Tesco store.

Lufthansa discount code

£15 off your next Lufthansa flight

Lufthansa is offering £15 vouchers valid against your next flight from the UK to Germany.

They are easy to claim.  Simply go to this site and fill in a few details and then go here to book.

You must book before 11th December for travel between 1st October and 31st March.

British Airways A320

Flying with a Samsung Galaxy Note 7?

British Airways has now issued guidance for anyone with a highly inflammable Samsung Galaxy Note 7.

On US flights, Note 7’s must not be turned on or plugged in during your journey and should be kept in hand baggage.

On other BA flights, the airline recommends:

Turn off the device.

Disconnect the device from any charging equipment.

Disable all applications that could inadvertently activate the phone (e.g. alarm clock).

Protect the power switch to prevent its unintentional activation.

Keep the device in your hand baggage or on your person (do not place it in your checked baggage).

Buy a proper phone next time.

OK, I made the last one up ….

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British Airways and Avios, Lufthansa and Miles & More, Tesco Clubcard, Virgin Atlantic and Flying Club

Comments (53)

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  • Peter K says:
    21 Sep21 September 10:03

    OT
    The 5000MR points for adding an additional supplementary Platinum cardholder posted yesterday for me. I had issues applying and ended up getting the same person THREE (!) supplementary cards…and got 3 bonuses, though it was only meant to be for one extra card.

  • Zild says:
    21 Sep21 September 10:19

    S7 (the airline!) and Lufthansa are both issuing warnings with the pre-flight announcements (a bad time if you ask me, as many frequent fliers will be doing all they can to avoid hearing this!)

    However I do not recall either making any mention of S7s (the phones!) in checked luggage…

  • Lady London says:
    21 Sep21 September 11:07

    Poor Samsung. What awful publicity for them. Never been a fan of their phones myself, but I have always like the look and screensize of the Note series.

  • Rich says:
    21 Sep21 September 12:05

    Just had a call from Tesco Direct to say three of the items I ordered yesterday as part of this promotion were now out of stock, but they had sent the other items. I questioned if I would still get the 1500 clubcard points, and was told I would (although they didn’t sound very convincing).
    Does anyone know if I am likely to receive the points?

    • John says:
      21 Sep21 September 13:06

      If you don’t. complain to clubcard and they will give you some points as compensation (and you can probably return the items too – presumably you don’t really want them)

    • harry says:
      21 Sep21 September 17:29

      I don’t think you will – I’d be happy to be proved wrong – because they cancelled £75 out of an £81 order for me 🙂

      I’m going to pick up the £6 item just in case.

  • roberto says:
    21 Sep21 September 16:16

    Another O/T data point :- My 500 bonus Virgin miles for the train journey “I took” in July posted today. Mrs Roberto who “accompanied” me has yet to have hers allocated thus far.

    I emailed customer.services@fly.virgin.com forwarding the booking conformation from VT together with my VS ff number and a short request for my miles. They did ask to see a copy of the email I received from them promoting the offer in the first place as I don’t think they quite knew anything about the deal.

    Anyways we are half way there, I trust her miles will follow later this week..

    • harry says:
      21 Sep21 September 17:19

      my wife & I both now got the 500 Virgin miles – I sent chaser emails maybe 10 days ago but not sure if this helped

  • Simmo says:
    21 Sep21 September 17:33

    OT/
    SPG Moments has loaded another round of o2 events!
    Rod Stewart, Red Hot Chilli Pepers, Just Bieber, Andrea Bocelli, Madness, Status Quo,

    Best Credit Card sign up value around!

  • Ben says:
    21 Sep21 September 18:09

    Sorry O/T. I have had to cancel my Hilton free weekend night booking for this weekend in Dubai. I called and they said it will be going back as points. Is this correct? It says that it is worth 60,000 points. But, if I decide to stay at a later weekend this year, the rooms are 80,000. Would they honour the voucher or will I have to find an extra 20,000 points?

    Thanks

    • Kipto says:
      21 Sep21 September 19:47

      Interested to see the replies for this. My wife has a Hilton voucher that needs to be used by mid November which we don’t intend using. Is it therefore an option to book one night knowing we won’t be staying there and ring up to cancel nearer the time. Is 60000 points the set amount or does it vary depending on location ?

    • harry says:
      21 Sep21 September 21:32

      they’ll crystallize the points & that’s it

    • Nick M says:
      21 Sep21 September 23:00

      I cancelled 2 seperate bookings and hoped I’d get points back – no such luck unfortunately

  • harry says:
    21 Sep21 September 19:44

    seen this Raffles? http://www.saudiairlines.com/portal/site/saudia/template.WELCOME

    50% off Saudi Airlines

    don’t chop my hands off 🙂

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