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2,400 Avios / 2,500 Flying Club miles for £5 at Tesco when you order ‘Call of Duty: Ghosts’

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When will Tesco ever learn?  Hopefully not for a while.

On Tesco Direct, there is an offer for 1,000 bonus Clubcard points when you pre-order the video game ‘Call of Duty : Ghosts’ for £40 on Xbox 360 or PS3. This is not a bad deal – especially as code TD-G9DW gets you a further £5 off, so you won’t lose much if you sell the game on eBay later.

However, in store, something even more interesting is back.

Tesco is offering 1,000 bonus Clubcard points when you pre-order ‘Call of Duty : Ghosts’ for £5.  This is 2,400 Avios points or 2,500 Flying Club miles for just a fiver.

How it is meant to work is that you get a display box scanned at the check-out, pay £5, and receive a special receipt. Visit the store on the day the game is released (5th November) and you are guaranteed to get a copy and you will get your £5 back as a discount. The 1,000 bonus Clubcard points are credited with the pre-order payment.

There is no obligation to ever buy the game when it is eventually released. This means that you can treat this as a chance to buy some Avios airmiles for 0.2p each!

You need to be very careful not to overdo this promotion. Tesco has removed bonus points in the past. Buying one copy is obviously fine, two is probably OK, especially if you buy one of the Xbox versions and one of the PlayStation versions. I would get very nervous beyond two copies (one of each).

The boxes tend to be on a separate stand to the usual video games. You take an empty box to the checkout, it is scanned, but you do not keep the box – it goes back on the shelf. You will only tend to find these in larger Tesco stores. Note that the yellow label on the edge of the shelf will say 500 bonus points, although it goes through the till as 1,000 bonus points.

There is no stated closing date for this offer, although it is only likely to run for a few days …..

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Comments (153)

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  • swissy says:
    15 Aug15 August 11:01

    Well I have maxed out on my six accounts!
    One of each format per card.

    Plenty of both formats at Tesco Extra Maldon, Essex

  • JAY20 says:
    15 Aug15 August 11:06

    In my local Extra today the yellow shelf sticker has been replaced with “£5 DEPOSIT ONLY” so guessing offer may be on way out

  • swissy says:
    15 Aug15 August 11:19

    I purchased my last two at 10 am today.
    2000 points were posted on the till receipt

  • Winters_ says:
    15 Aug15 August 11:39

    Noticed some changes on the Tesco Direct website regarding the promor this morning. On the main entertainment page it says 1000 clubcard points when you pre-order the Call of Duty – Ghosts ‘Hardened Edition’. After delving further, the following versions now seem to have 1000 points associated with them (on top of the XBox360 and PS3 standard £40 versions):

    – XBox 1 Standard and hardened editions
    – PS4 Standard
    – XBox360 Hardened Edition
    – PS3 hardened edition

    Haven’t had chance to go into a tescos yet but has anyone had experience putting these through for a £5 in store pre-order? Seems like a definite chance to make hay here if 7 different products are under the promo

    • Rob says:
      15 Aug15 August 12:49

      The Metro ad also mentions the Hardened Edition. That may mean you can buy the basic version and Hardened on each format. I guess that if they have different SKUs then they don’t track as multiple purchases of the same item.

      • creampuff says:
        16 Aug16 August 11:20

        Not having any intention to actually buy these games – or even playing computer games in general – but what does “hardened edition” mean?

        • Rob says:
          16 Aug16 August 14:08

          Get a feeling it may be a ‘more violent’ version!

          • creampuff says:
            16 Aug16 August 14:23

            Great! The last 1st person shooter game I played was Doom about 15 years ago and I remember I did some good work with the chainsaw 😉

  • Stephen F says:
    15 Aug15 August 13:32

    My points appeared on till receipts but have yet to appear on my online clubcard account. How long should it normally take?

  • Andy says:
    15 Aug15 August 14:34

    Just got back from Tescos and they still had the games with yellow 1000 point stickers on the shelf, picked up a couple and the points went on fine so its still working.

  • Sideysid says:
    15 Aug15 August 14:42

    If anyone would be so kind as to post the barcodes for the ‘hardened edition’ it would be most kind…. 🙂

    • Mike says:
      15 Aug15 August 15:19

      Yeah. Really struggling to find any preorder boxes in London. I’ve tried Tesco hammersmith, Kensington, Wembley extra. Surely we can just print out the barcode. Anybody tried the self check out?

      • Andrew says:
        15 Aug15 August 15:30

        Typing the codes into the self-serve tills work but it doesn’t generate the £5 off slip but as I had no intention of buying the game down the line, wasn’t bothered. Also it needs something to go into the bagging area – I just chucked my wallet in which worked. Oh and a supervisor will need to confirm your age as it’s an age-restricted product, so maybe buy a bottle of wine too so as to not alert them to query what is age restricted.

        • Andrew says:
          15 Aug15 August 16:53

          Looking for a few more data points on this tactic. Has anyone tried this in Tesco Metros or smaller non-“Superstore” stores? I’ll try the local small Tesco first and move on the “superstore” (which doesn’t sell games) if that fails.

          • chris says:
            15 Aug15 August 17:36

            keying in barcodes will work and need approval (witch to avoid questions tho dont really matter just slows you down as said above just add wine or razors or pills ect)

            tho if you ment for doing more than one set on the same CC card in other stores, im sure tesco will flag it and remove the points, they might give you them but i doubt they would let you keep them

          • Molasis says:
            15 Aug15 August 18:01

            Liverpool street Tesco Metro worked by typing the two sku numbers into the till as of 5 mins ago. 3 accounts, 6k points. Didn’t bother with extra items, just said I was preordering games for friends. Would certainly go back if we had the skus for the hardened products as well.

      • Rob says:
        15 Aug15 August 17:31

        Needs supervisor approval as it is an age restricted product

        • Matt says:
          16 Aug16 August 07:31

          I got asked for ID, heading towards my forties I was bemused and a little flattered

          • chris says:
            16 Aug16 August 12:24

            just policy in some stores no matter how old you look,

            (mostly the stores that have been selling to underage people before so now have plain clothed people checking once in awhile, since the managers dont really want to lose they store)

  • xcalx says:
    16 Aug16 August 08:01

    Tesco have just aired an add for the COD games with the 1000 point offer on TalkSport

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