Get 1,200 Avios or 1,250 Flying Club miles for £5 at Tesco when you pre-order ‘Skylanders’

Here we go again!  Some elements of this post may feel familiar.

On Tesco Direct, there is an offer for 500 bonus Clubcard points when you pre-order the video game ‘Skylanders Swap Force’ for £55-£60 on Xbox 360, Wii, Wii U, 3DS or PS3.

Back in your local Tesco store, however, the game is also available to pre-order for £5.

Tesco is currently offering 500 bonus Tesco Clubcard points when you pre-order ‘Skylanders Swap Force’ for £5! This is 1,200 Avios points or 1,250 Flying Club miles for just a fiver.

(This offer is clearly only half as good as the ‘Call of Duty: Ghosts’ offer recently.  However, you need to look at it in context – it is still a very cheap way to pick up some miles.)

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 (18th October) and you are guaranteed to get a copy and a free poster and you will get your £5 back as a discount. The 500 bonus Clubcard points are credited with the pre-order payment.

As usual, 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 points for 0.4p each.

You need to be very careful not to overdo this promotion. Tesco has removed bonus points in the past.  Someone also posted on Head for Points yesterday about having ‘Call of Duty’ points removed.

Do not buy more than one copy of each format per Clubcard account if you want to be 100% certain of not having your points taken away.  There are five different versions of the game, so that is still 2,500 Clubcard points to aim for.

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.

There are reports of two different closing dates, with 28th August (tomorrow!) and 8th September both being spotted on in-store shelf labels.  Let’s see.  I would be surprised if it was closed tomorrow after just a couple of days.

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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:

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

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.

Run your own business?

We recommend Capital on Tap for limited companies. You earn 1 Avios per £1 which is impressive for a Visa card, along with a sign-up bonus worth 10,500 Avios.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 12th May 2024, the Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa card is offering a bonus of 30,000 points, convertible into 30,000 Avios. You must have a Limited Company to apply. Click here to learn more and click here to apply.

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.

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.

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