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Excellent Tesco deal – 442 Clubcard points (1,060 Avios) on a £15 video game

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Tesco Direct has launched a new bonus points promotion on selected video games.  I can only imagine that this is some sort of World Cup promotion (4-4-2, geddit?) although the games on offer are not football games!

This is the special page you need to visit.

At the time of writing there are 76 games available.  The cheapest is just £15.

The 442 bonus points are immediately added to your basket when you order.

Because you would be earning 1,060 bonus Avios or 1,105 bonus Virgin Flying Club miles per purchase, this may be a deal which can be scaled up.  You could either sell the games on eBay or trade them in via CEx.

Here are a couple of examples:

God of War Ascension on PS3 – CEx is buying this for £5.  Your net cost, assuming you pick up your Tesco order to avoid postage, is therefore £10.  You are paying under 1p per Avios.

Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2 on Xbox 360 – CEx is buying this for £11.  Your net cost is only £6 for over 1,000 Avios.

You need to play around with the CEx page and the Tesco games list to see which appear best value.

There are also some Tesco Direct codes for NEW customers if any of your family members have not ordered before and share a BA household account with you:

TDX-DLCD – £10 off £50

TDX-HQ9T – £5 off £30

You can remove all risk from this transaction.  You can pre-sell the games to CEx at the same time as placing your order with Tesco Direct, as CEx guarantees the price as long as they receive your material within 5 working days.  Tesco should be able to deliver to your letterbox (store collection not possible) within 2-3 days, giving you time to turn them around.

Note that CEx will only accept one copy of any particular game per order.  Do NOT send them multiple copies of the same game .  You will probably get a better price via ebay but it depends on how much time you want to put in.

The offer runs until May 27th.

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Comments (42)

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  • Rob says:
    10 May10 May 08:51

    Seriously?! They have such dodgy IT?! Thanks.

  • Mick says:
    10 May10 May 09:28

    If you want use that £10 code,mu need to open a new tesco account. How would I then get those tesco points into my main existing tesco account, or into my existing avios account?

    • Rob says:
      10 May10 May 09:31

      You can’t merge the Clubcard accounts (well, you can, you can try ringing Tesco and say the 2nd was a mistake but they might not go for it). However, you can transfer from 2 different CC accounts into the same BA account.

  • Rob says:
    10 May10 May 09:32

    As CEx will only accept one copy of each game per person, you would need to find 3 games where the maths worked like that.

    • Richard says:
      28 May28 May 14:32

      FYI I emailed CeX about selling multiple copies and this was the reply…

      “Yes. If you want to sell 10 or more of the same/similar item a bulk discount may be applied. This applies for a 28 day time period. We will email you of any changes, and you will have 5 working days to respond. If we don’t get a response we’ll take this as your agreement to accept the new value offered.”

      So looks like I am ok with the 7 copies of one game I will be sending them.

  • paula says:
    10 May10 May 09:55

    How long does it take bonus points to add, bought 20 blinkbox books last sunday for the 2000 points, but they’re not showing yet, is this normal?

    • Jason says:
      10 May10 May 10:02

      I bought 1 book on Wednesday, just to test to see if it works. Still not showing.
      Annoyingly, I also bought £40 of blinkbox gift vouchers, thinking they would be redeemable( not enough costa gift cards to get to £100 spend and already have too many pizza express gift cards) on blinkbox books-can’t use them for books yet:-(
      Not only that they also didn’t trigger towards the 150 pt bonus for gift cards. All in all a poor performance in my quest for clubcard points.

      • Paula says:
        10 May10 May 10:49

        Did that about 6 weeks ago, still haven’t appeared.

      • Brian says:
        10 May10 May 12:57

        WH Smith vouchers (available in £15 denominations at Tesco) are a good one to get, if 3V vouchers aren’t available, since you can buy mobile top-up vouchers there, even if you don’t buy books and magazines.

    • squills says:
      10 May10 May 10:37

      It’s normal, ie the T&Cs state Blinkbox bonus points will be added before the quarter end. Unfortunately Tesco has a poor track record here and you may need to make a few phone calls to CS to get them added manually, good idea being to take a screenshot of the offer as well.

  • mrtibbs1999 says:
    10 May10 May 10:19

    Anyone considering buying a few of these, especially God of War or Castlevania, should note that the price on Ebay has collapsed and the price on CEX will likely collapse within a day or 2. Buying one of each and selling to CEX at the current price is a good buy, but any more and it will get rather expensive!

  • PJK says:
    10 May10 May 11:17

    Great post – I thought it looked good, but risky if the delivery is late & CEX price falls etc. but took a punt on 3 games to get a few thousand miles from CC points:

    Bought
    1 X Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2 17.00
    1 X Gran Turismo 6 (GT6) 18.00
    1 X Battlefield 4: Standard Ed (XBOX 360) 20.00
    £55

    Selling
    1 x Battlefield 4 @ £15.00
    1 x Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 @ £11.00
    1 x Gran Turismo 6 @ £12.00
    £38

    Total cost £17

    For 1381 Clubcard points … not bad!

    (I decided not to open yet another Clubcard account)

    Fingers crossed for Royal Mail this week!

    • David says:
      10 May10 May 12:00

      If you are selling Battlefield 4 for £15 via CEX, have you selected the right one? The Xbox One version is selling for £15, but the Xbox 360 (2 disc) version is only £10?? I am not sure if Tesco are selling a 2 disc version or not… They may have just changed the price, however.

      • PJK says:
        10 May10 May 16:07

        Thanks David … looks like I dropped one :O(

        Oh well, if I can’t find a reasonable outlet I might be invoking the distance selling regulations on that title & returning it to Tesco …

  • What's the Point says:
    10 May10 May 11:20

    Bought 4 games, outlay of £70 for 1,800 Tesco points.
    Have 2 options to sell (both submitted)
    CEX for £54 store voucher
    Amazon for £46 gift card

    I await the postie to deliver!

  • James says:
    10 May10 May 12:25

    I have also got the back up of Amazon gift cards for a return of £28 should I decide not to send to Music Magpie

    • Oly says:
      10 May10 May 14:29

      Good call on the music magpie, although that barcode is the US barcode. Hope they dont mind

      • James says:
        10 May10 May 15:42

        Yeah that’s my only concern, hence the Amazon backup plan. When I added to Music Magpie it found the game so I guess it’s ok. Will defiantly be checking before I post it though as they don’t return. Also going to Tesco later so hopefully they’ll have a copy there that I can check the barcode on.

    • jason says:
      10 May10 May 17:42

      James how does selling them to Amazon work?
      thanks
      Jason

      • Nick says:
        11 May11 May 09:04

        I see there’s a limit of 2 per title – so I’ve gone for castlevania (17 on tesco to get 14 amazon vouchers). Are there any titles with similar small spreads?

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