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Excellent Avios / Virgin and Tesco deal – act now for very cheap miles

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Tesco Direct has launched an exceptional new promotion on HP printer inks.

This is so generous that I cannot imagine it lasting long and may even be an error.

You receive 1,000 Tesco Clubcard points for every HP printer ink you buy.  Those points convert into 2,400 Avios or 2,500 Virgin Atlantic miles.

The cheapest ink in stock is £12.

Even if you throw the inks in the bin, you are only paying 0.5p per Avios point and a little less for the Virgin miles.  However, these inks sell perfectly well on eBay so you should be able to recoup much of your £12.

You can combine this offer with ‘money off’ discount codes, eg £10 off £75, which show on the individual ink pages online. Your miles will get even cheaper.

You even get FREE ‘click and collect’ delivery to your nearest Tesco store.

Remember that Tesco caps Clubcard accounts at 30,000 points per quarter.  They have also been known to remove points for ‘excessive’ buying, although as these inks are consumables they would be on sticky ground here.

I recommend ordering sooner rather than later.

The list of inks available is here on the Tesco site.

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2024)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

Barclaycard Avios Plus card

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There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

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You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points. These points convert at 1:1 into Avios.

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You should also consider the British Airways Accelerating Business credit card. This is open to sole traders as well as limited companies and has a 30,000 Avios sign-up bonus.

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There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

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Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.

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Comments (277)

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  • Andrew H says:
    3 Jun3 June 15:15

    I have ordered one at £19. Hopefully it will go through…

  • John says:
    3 Jun3 June 15:34

    Just placed an order for 4 cartridges, but forgot about the base points you get – this takes me 9 points over the quarterly 30,000. Is this likely to cause any more problems other than it just being reduced to the 30,000? I.e. are the points I had accumulated so far this month (Lego/NowTV) at risk? Wondering if I should cancel and reorder just 3 cartridges.

  • S says:
    3 Jun3 June 16:05

    I used to be amazed that people managed to get 30,000 points in one quarter…

  • Vijay Odedra says:
    3 Jun3 June 16:22

    Got a email saying my order is cancelled! Trying again but the more expensive cartridges…still only £19 X 4

  • Pangolin says:
    3 Jun3 June 16:38

    I just put through an order with the 364XL cartridges at £19. I bought 8 for £152 then applied the £20 code to bring it down to £132. I can flog these on ebay for around £120 so that will net me nearly 20,000 avios for about £12. Not bad for an afternoon’s work!

    • Adam says:
      3 Jun3 June 18:39

      Have you taken into consideration all the fees involved in selling those inks. I make it more £55 you have paid for those avios which is still very good but a long way off £12.

      • Genghis says:
        3 Jun3 June 18:51

        Even if I end up throwing away the inks, I got a decent deal. I’m not really into the resell on eBay game but I’ll give it a few months and may dabble a little.

      • Pangolin says:
        3 Jun3 June 22:12

        I may sell them in batches or pass some on to my brother-in-law but even for £55 it works out at 0.28p and I won’t be complaining about that.

      • barnaby100 says:
        8 Jun8 June 08:41

        Wait for a £1 final sale listing fee offer_ I get them about every 3 weeks and often £3 in between.

  • Andrew H says:
    3 Jun3 June 16:48

    Judging by Vijay’s comment above, ordering four is when your order is likely to get cancelled… I’ll be surprised if the orders in those last two comments make it through. But good luck for it!

    • Vijay Odedra says:
      3 Jun3 June 17:12

      First order was for 5 so not sure if the orders are being cancelled due to this offer being a mistake or because the stock has run out hmmmmm

    • Genghis says:
      3 Jun3 June 18:52

      I’ve got 5 x 5 ready for despatch.

  • Not a freeloader says:
    3 Jun3 June 16:58

    Great, more crap going in a landfill…

    • Alex H says:
      3 Jun3 June 17:15

      Time to get a life and read a different website me thinks

    • barry Cutters says:
      3 Jun3 June 17:27

      people are not going to throw these in the bin.
      they will be sold on eBay to people who are needing them.

      Robs comment was ‘If ‘ and was nearly to demonstrate how good a deal this is .

    • Zoe says:
      3 Jun3 June 17:36

      If anyone really can’t be bothered with eBay but wants to offload them getting a few pounds back I could be interested…

      • Fadi says:
        3 Jun3 June 17:39

        Right here. I have HP 364XL on the way.

        • Zoe says:
          3 Jun3 June 18:46

          zoe (dot) bryant (at) aol.co.uk . If this isn’t okay Rob then please delete.

          • Andrew H says:
            3 Jun3 June 20:56

            I have one available. It’s only one but you can buy that as well if you want more than Fadi has?

  • ian duncan says:
    3 Jun3 June 17:16

    does this extra points apply/work for in store off the shelf buys?

    • Roger C says:
      3 Jun3 June 17:35

      They’re showing *100* Clubcard points in my local store.

      • Simon says:
        3 Jun3 June 17:37

        Me too but was told by someone collecting them in the store that they will automatically get converted but not sure as 100 points was only showing on the receipt per item

    • Simon says:
      3 Jun3 June 17:36

      Keen to hear whether store bought items are included

      • a says:
        3 Jun3 June 17:43

        I have just been to a tesco store and they were 100 points/item. I raised this at customer services, showing a screengrab of the online offer and asked if they would honour this, but they said it was 100 points in store.

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