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Tesco Direct has launched another attractive pre-order deal for a ‘soon to be released’ entertainment product.

This time, it is for John Whaite’s new cookbook, “John Whaite Bakes”. John won the Great British Bake Off in 2012 …. apparently.

Anyway, I’m sure he’s a great bloke, whoever he is. Tesco loves him enough to be offering his new book for just £10, a 50% discount. You also receive 400 bonus Clubcard points!

400 Clubcard points are worth 960 Avios or 1,000 Virgin Flying Club miles, which makes the book a good deal even if you give it to Oxfam. Although your Mum would probably like it.

Unfortunately, there seems to be an issue with the Tesco website at the time of writing.

As per this link you can clearly see the book advertised with 400 bonus Clubcard points. However, on the order page, it is not mentioned. You would expect to see the 400 bonus points showing when you click ‘pre-order’, but it only shows the 10 base points.

Keep an eye on this page, though, because Tesco will presumably fix the glitch soon. Alternatively, order now and keep a screen shot showing the 400 Clubcard points offer so you can ring up to claim them if / when they do not post automatically.

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Comments (42)

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  • John Mun says:
    16 Apr16 April 16:11

    Mine was cancelled too.
    I only ordered one copy

  • Rome77 says:
    16 Apr16 April 16:18

    Could it be that Tesco realised that they’ve accepted too many orders on this item and are therefore deleting orders in a reverse chronological order?

    • Colin says:
      16 Apr16 April 16:27

      i dont know how there can be a stock issue on a pre-order, or that as a collective Raffles readers could make a dent in their stock.

      But my order was made at 1153 this morning, so would be interesting to work out what Tesco are doing, perhaps they are targeting those who already have a lot of clubcard points?

      • Rome77 says:
        16 Apr16 April 16:51

        Agreed – would be interesting to know Tesco’s approach here. My order was around 11:30am and has so far not been cancelled. There has been similar issues regarding seemingly random cancellations for the Dan Brown Inferno pre-order as well.

  • VS says:
    16 Apr16 April 17:28

    I just tried again and it seems to be working… Let’s see if they cancel it later!

    • LInda says:
      16 Apr16 April 17:52

      My order for one copy has been cancelled too.
      Tesco have since sent me an email with an evoucher giving £13 off a £90 grocery shop. Don’t think I’ll bother.

  • MD says:
    16 Apr16 April 18:11

    Order now failing with the following. I only asked for 1.

    Sorry, we don’t have enough John Whaite Bakes items in stock right now. This item (s) has been added to your save for later basket. You can try to purchase this item again by reducing its quantity.

  • Tim81 says:
    16 Apr16 April 18:35

    My order just went through ok…we will see! Did any one see the pre-order of the Anchorman/Oldschool boxset for £3 with 100 bonus points?

    • Dan says:
      16 Apr16 April 19:13

      I think the release date for this was Monday 15th April so the pre-order option would have been removed?

      • Tim81 says:
        16 Apr16 April 20:38

        I ordered on Sat so it was a pre-order at that point. I posted a comment on the main dvd/blu ray discussion post to try and tip people off..

  • Colin says:
    16 Apr16 April 19:14

    I called Tesco Direct. The reason they give is that the release date changed, so they cancelled order! Hmm. The release date has disappeared off website.

    They advise to place order again, if they ecoupon doesnt work then call them and they will add the points.

    So will try and order one book.

  • Steve says:
    17 Apr17 April 13:44

    I ordered one copy yesterday. This morning it showed up in my account as “cancelled”. I contacted Tesco to enquire why and said it was “supplier issues” – even though it is still advertised on the website. Very annoying – not least because I didn’t receive any email from them telling me it had been cancelled; it was only by logging into my account that I had found it out.

    Tesco does seem to be a bit of a joke – I won’t bother ordering from them in the future.

    • Sir Stamford says:
      17 Apr17 April 16:51

      I might be tempting fate but my orders for four John Whaite books are still pending and not cancelled. So, you may just been unlucky on this occasion.

      Sir Stamford

  • YKW says:
    18 Apr18 April 09:21

    Just ordered again – the voucher was not valid. Rang Tesco and they said they will add the points manually and they should appear in 24-48 hours.

    • Sir Stamford says:
      18 Apr18 April 12:21

      Well done, I think you have been quick lucky to be able to get Tesco to manually add the points.

      The voucher appears to have expired –
      “Sorry, this eCoupon had a limited number of uses and is no longer valid.”

      Sir Stamford

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