Is Tesco withdrawing 3V cards?

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• Matt says:

  5 Jun5 June 21:06

  I think the dream is definitely over. My local Tesco had a full supply on Monday night. When I checked tonight, the rack from which they’d previously hung was empty. Although it’s possible there’s another HfP reader who went mad for the 3V cards in Bethnal Green, I am assuming the store has removed them from sale.

  • What's the Point says:

    5 Jun5 June 21:11

    I bought 10 today at the Doncaster Extra store. I reckon there were about 5 left on the hook.
    I won’t be going back, so good luck to anyone that can be bothered to go!

  • louie-m says:

    5 Jun5 June 22:08

    I’d be very surprised if they removed them from sale. I reckon someone else got there first. However…. I made hubby stop off at the Lakeside Tesco yesterday lunchtime as he was passing and there were none, despite the lady apparently having filled up the racks that morning. So it looks as they were not restocked despite there being none on the shelves before restocking, which suggests to me that they are simply not putting any more on sale.

• Mr Bridge says:

  5 Jun5 June 22:13

  any one thought that maybe tesco reads HFP, and puts up post to create ‘excietment’

  • Fidelityutensils says:

    6 Jun6 June 01:09

    I do no think for a minute that massive companies like BA an Tescos don’t have a very close eye on the blogosphere (particularly high profile elements of it like HFP) And following on from this surely would look to use it to their advantage! How naive are we to think otherwise!?

• RB says:

  6 Jun6 June 09:16

  Did anyone else have a chuckle after hearing the news from Visa that spending was “1.3% higher in May than in the same month in 2012…its fastest rate since September 2012”!!

  • Ed E says:

    6 Jun6 June 16:48

    I was gutted that all of us HFPers and the like were unable to halt the 1% drop in like for like sales at Tesco that was announced yesterday. If there had been more cards on shelves there would have been well up on sales!!

    • What's the Point says:

      6 Jun6 June 16:50

      I am just about to activate my last £25 card, I feel like a drug addict that has sold his last possession and knows there is no more candy forthcoming!

      • Ed E says:

        10 Jun10 June 09:13

        14 cards from Tesco in Swansea on Saturday morning! Visiting my Uncle and Aunt on Gower has never been so rewarding!

        • Ed E says:

          10 Jun10 June 09:16

          Put them through in 4 batches (there was a bit of a queue so didn’t want to pi$$ off the whole of Swansea) and have now also got 4 x £5 off £40 spend vouchers to use today on the £50 normal visa ones. This is such fun!

• takke says:

  6 Jun6 June 17:25

  Just thought I’d report on my experience at Tesco Hall Green…

  I saw 18 3V cards on the shelf – in itself surprising – and thought that I would buy 14.
  I went to a till, and the person serving asked the server at the next till ‘Is there an age restriction on these, as they’re Visa cards?’ (I’ve never had this before, even on the physical Visa which I can understand a little more given that it’s processed as a credit card, which could be used as an age verification for example for mobile phone providers maybe?)
  His server did not know, so he called over his supervisor, who said ‘no, there’s no age restriction, but you can’t buy that many in one transaction.’ I asked ‘How many can you buy?’ and she said ‘About 5, but I’ll need to go and check.’
  Meanwhile my server asked me why I was buying them, and I explained the points promotion, and he said ‘I think I’ll buy a couple myself!’ The till supervisor shortly returned with someone who appeared to be a store manager. He asked me what I wanted the cards for, and I said for shopping online, as it says on the front of the cards. He said ‘I’m sorry, I can’t let you do that.’ I also explained the points promotion, to which he said ‘That promotion can only be used once per customer.’ I asked how many I could buy, and he said ‘you can buy one.’ I said no thank you, thanked the server for his time, and left.

  So it seems now they are placing restrictions on existing stock as well – or maybe this was simply a one off.

  • James Ward says:

    6 Jun6 June 17:33

    You should ask him to call head office. I got a similar response from Leeds store and when pressed the duty manager called up and was told that there’s no restriction.

  • Rich says:

    7 Jun7 June 19:02

    That’s obviously them making up a number- I would have asked why they have a promotion that requires you to spend £50 on giftcards if they only let you buy £25 in one transaction.

    I am still finding them out and about- been on holiday so have stopped at any Tescos I have passed whilst driving across Hampshire and found 10 remaining in Winchester which I bought (in one transaction) and also a further 3 in Andover.

    I genuinely don’t think the store staff know much about these based on some of the conversations I have had, and the only reason the management are wary about large volumes is because of credit card fraud- a pal of mine is a manager in a Tesco and I spoke to him about this to see if he could order in £5k for me- he spoke to his store manager and said that even though they know me there is too much nervousness about it for them to risk it.

• Danksy says:

  6 Jun6 June 20:27

  I haven’t done this yet, but my local tesco extra had 20x£25 gift cards when I checked last night…going to head back with my advantage card as this will count towards my spend to get 35k a aadvantage points yay!!

  • Sinizter says:

    7 Jun7 June 19:28

    Did you manage to grab these ?

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• steve says:

  9 Jun9 June 19:02

  I’ve managed to always buy at least 6 in one go, At one point I managed to get 16.
  The only question I get asked is if I want them all.

• Mr Bridge says:

  10 Jun10 June 22:26

  3v restocked at mt tesco, and yes i hid them again>>>phl;pps: to those who disagree, but look behind the other cards, there is a bonus for hfp readers,jsut reggular tesco shoppers wont find them……….bye the way bought £22 shopping, £50 in 3v used a £7 off £70 spend coupon plus £5 of £40 in same trani.

  love you all

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