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It’s back.  When will Tesco ever learn?  Hopefully not for a while.

On Tesco Direct, there is a very average offer for 500 bonus Clubcard points and £5 off when you pre-order a selection of new video games.  Fifa 15, Battlefield Hardline, Call of Duty – Advanced Warfare and Destiny are all included.  It’s an OK deal if you are buying it anyway, but nothing to get excited about.

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

Tesco is offering 500 bonus Clubcard points when you pre-order ‘Call of Duty : Advanced Warfare’, Destiny’ . ‘Disney Infinity 2.0’. ‘Fifa 15’ or ‘Battlefield Hardline’ for £5.  This is 1,200 Avios points or 1,250 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. (You don’t keep the box.)  Visit the store on the day the game is released and you are guaranteed to get a copy and you will get your £5 back as a discount.

The 500 bonus Clubcard points are credited with the pre-order payment.  You have NO obligation to actually go back to the store and buy the game on the day of release.

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 0.4p each.

You need to be very careful not to overdo this promotion. It is acceptable to buy ONE copy of each game ON EACH FORMAT per Clubcard.  For each of the five games that means you could do a pre-order for the Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox 1 versions, netting yourself 5,000 Avios points. 

There seem to be 20 different variants available – five games across four different games consoles.  This means you can earn 24,000 Avios or 25,000 Virgin Flying Club miles for £100 per Clubcard account.

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.

It is possible that your local store will not have the special sticker up promoting the 500 points.  However, the points WILL go on at check-out.  Note that whilst the label in the image above does not mention that ‘Fifa 15’ and ‘Battlefield Hardline’ give you a bonus, they will.

(There is also a game called ‘Alien’ which is available for pre-order.  This is not included in this promotion and does not give any bonus points.  Do not buy any of these.)

If someone can provide the barcode numbers, it will also be possible to pay for these games at a self-service check-out in ANY Tesco store (except Express, as they have a different IT system) by manually inputting the bar code.  The problem is that all of the games except for ‘Fifa 15’ are age-restricted and a check-out supervisor would be required to approve the purchase.

This will also combine with the ‘£5 cashback for spending £10 in Tesco’ American Express deal that I posted about on Tuesday.

To summarise the above, this is how it works:

Visit the video games corner in a large Tesco store

Pick out empty ‘pre-order’ cases for any of the five games listed above, across any of the four formats

Pay £5 at check-out for each empty case you hand over.  Do not take the case home!

Your till receipt should show the 500 bonus points

Do NOT buy exactly the same game twice on the same Clubcard, whether in the same transaction or in different transactions.  If you do that you have crossed the Tesco ‘bulk buying’ line.

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  • squills says:
    12 Jun12 June 07:12

    You can get round the age restriction/ anonymity/ barcode issue on self-service by buying aspirin/ booze first in order and asking the assistant to clear you for over 18. After that, the till won’t ask twice when you input the barcodes.

    • ankomonkey says:
      12 Jun12 June 10:05

      I love the smart thinking of some people to avoid troublesome run-ins with staff. Hats off to you for the Aspirin advice, squills!

      Rob, you need a new category in the site header: Hassle avoidance techniques when exploiting offers (aka HATWEO)

  • EvilGazebo says:
    12 Jun12 June 07:23

    Tesco Extra Reading used to serve me well for these deals but I’m working in London now.

    What’s my best chance for finding these on display in Zone 1? Earls Court?

    • Rob says:
      12 Jun12 June 08:20

      I have looked in Earls Court in the past for these but not found them, although obviously that was a different promo and last year.

    • Sideysid says:
      12 Jun12 June 08:20

      Turn right out of Earls Court station (facing Earls Court) keep walking for 1/2 a mile and there is a large Tesco Extra.

      See you there (as that’s my area too) and return the boxes!!! 😉

      • JT says:
        12 Jun12 June 11:34

        Let me know if they have it there, planning to drop by after work 😉

        None in Bishopsgate Metro

      • vonnie says:
        12 Jun12 June 11:59

        Waiting at customer services right now. No boxes on display and the guy is on a break :/

      • Idrive says:
        12 Jun12 June 14:26

        anyone found them today in earls court?

        • vonnie says:
          12 Jun12 June 16:29

          Earls court was a bust. No one knew their a*^e from their elbow, even after waiting 10mins for the so called manager to arrive ;/

    • Thomas says:
      12 Jun12 June 09:05

      Go to the large superstore up on Cromwell road, just 5 min walk from earls court.
      Sometimes they have the games but they certainly do the manual code entering too….

  • Erico1875 says:
    12 Jun12 June 07:34

    Thank goodness. I was starting to lose hope of getting a decent earning opportunity

  • Simon says:
    12 Jun12 June 07:36

    The pre order slips you get don’t have much information on, the Call of Duty ones are all the same regardless of the format purchased and some of the others just say Xbox One Title or PS4 Title so it might be a good idea keeping a note of the games you have pre-ordered so you don’t end up pre-ordering the same one twice..

    • Hugh says:
      12 Jun12 June 10:44

      If you use the self service tills, you don’t get this slip, but the points do get added

      If you really do want to pre order, then you cab goto Customer Services, who will print the slips for you.

      I just handed the boxes back to the staff looking after the self service area, albeit who had a very perplexed look on their faces

  • Matt says:
    12 Jun12 June 07:37

    Will it really flag if you buy more than 1 of the same game for the same format?

    • Rob says:
      12 Jun12 June 08:19

      Tesco has been quite strict on bulk buy rules recently. Some people who bought 2 copies of the last Dan Brown book (when it was 500 points for a £9 book) found that they lost the points on the 2nd copy.

      Just get another Clubcard in another name (linked to your BA household account) or even in your own name.

      Remember also that Tesco looks at all accounts which earn over 30,000 points per quarter and removes all points above that level if they feel you have not earned them ‘fair and square’.

  • James67 says:
    12 Jun12 June 07:46

    Anybody know the closing date for these offers?

    • Simon says:
      12 Jun12 June 07:52

      I’ve not seen anything with dates on instore, the Tesco Direct offer ends on June 15th so I’d guess that is when the instore offer ends.

    • Sideysid says:
      12 Jun12 June 08:22

      noooooooo, I’m out the country until the 19th!!!!

      • squills says:
        12 Jun12 June 21:52

        Unfortunately same applies for me as of Saturday 😉

        Always seems to happen like that with the fish lol

  • PJK says:
    12 Jun12 June 07:46

    Sounds great. I shouldn’t think it’s much of a risk to get all the games for 1 format together – all the PS3 for example? That way you just need 4 separate transactions instead of 10 or 20.

    • squills says:
      12 Jun12 June 08:13

      Maybe.

    • Rob says:
      12 Jun12 June 08:16

      Yes, that should be fine. You could buy all 20 different ones in one transaction, I reckon – as long as you aren’t buying two totally identical (same game, same format) ones.

    • chris says:
      12 Jun12 June 12:51

      you should be fine getting all 20 in order transaction, since non the same item

      tho doing 4 transactions one for all different game formats, and hoping for a helping hand coupons might be worth the extra time

  • Maximus says:
    12 Jun12 June 07:51

    Typical…a great offer whilst I am out of the country. I assume it will all be over by the time I return towards the end next week?

    • James67 says:
      12 Jun12 June 08:22

      Me too; missed the 3xotic vegs, 1500 for £60 and looks like this now too. Unfortunated all at a time when I need to restock on avios having burned 240k recently.

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