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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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  • whitenoise says:
    13 Jun13 June 09:36

    My local Tesco Extra doesn’t have the self-scanning handset things. Just had a thought, and a search on Google; any problems printing the barcodes using an free online barcode generator? You could then just take them to the till and get them to scan them?

    • whitenoise says:
      13 Jun13 June 09:41

      Forgot to add that I guess it depends which looks stranger, the barcodes or lots of boxes…

  • Lucas says:
    13 Jun13 June 09:45

    Could somebody please be so kind as to advise me how to deal with Tesco staff/stores who claim they don’t sell games or don’t have this promotion? Went yesterday to Tesco Express and Tesco Metro nearby Victoria in London and was told that they do not carry games and hence I cannot enter codes. I am not sure how to deal with that – any advice? Thanks in advance!

    • whitenoise says:
      13 Jun13 June 09:47

      It’s only the bigger Tesco stores that have games, so that’s the Superstores and Extras (which are bigger and better). Tesco Express are on a different It system so you can’t use those anyway, not sure about Metros.

      • thesaver79 says:
        13 Jun13 June 09:48

        You can use the code in Metro stores, as said before. And by the way some Metro stores do have games.

    • squills says:
      13 Jun13 June 10:32

      You just have to do it sneakily on self-service using the aspirin/ booze first trick (see above) 😉

    • CC says:
      13 Jun13 June 11:44

      Did you try the Tesco next to Westminster underground? Website says they do games was going to take a look but wont bother if one if you’ve tried already, cheers

    • Rob says:
      13 Jun13 June 11:48

      It won’t work at an Express so don’t try that ….

  • A. Fool says:
    13 Jun13 June 10:28

    So being a wally, I inadvertently bought one title twice. Will I loose all of the points or just the 500?

    • squills says:
      13 Jun13 June 10:30

      You probably won’t lose any. Buy 1 copy only is just good advice, as abuse is not welcome at Mr T and they can take sanctions. But buying 2 copies of 1 game is not a big deal.

  • Adam says:
    13 Jun13 June 10:40

    I purchased 2 games at tesco express using self checkout and putting in the bar codes not realising that the points do not credit correctly (did not check the receipt properly till i was back). Would a call to customer services fix this or better just to take the loss?

    • Rob says:
      13 Jun13 June 11:46

      You could try it but it would be an ‘interesting’ conversation since Tesco Express stores don’t sell video games – I did warn about Tesco Express!

      • Adam says:
        13 Jun13 June 11:54

        haha since when do men read instructions? All i saw was:
        ‘1,200 Avios for £5 in Tesco ‘
        next time il pay more attention, lesson learnt!

  • will says:
    13 Jun13 June 10:56

    I have read the entire thread which was entertaining and i understand how you deal with the age thing on self service. however if you go with bar codes only or their numbers how do you deal with the “weight” issue. e.g. “place the item in the bagging area” as you have no items?!

    • Lucas says:
      13 Jun13 June 11:03

      Also interested in that…

    • Simon says:
      13 Jun13 June 11:13

      Take some personal items with you and drop them into the bagging area each time you enter a code. I printed out some barcodes and scanned them in, which worked fine, and used my iPhone, followed by sunglasses, car keys and then wallet each time I scanned an item.

      The tills seem to just look for some weight rather than a specific weight as my phone is a lot heavier than my sunglasses, although after four items I ran out of things to put in the bagging area! 🙂

  • Djouzef says:
    13 Jun13 June 11:03

    Can any of you post the bar code number for:

    Disney Infinity 2.0 (PS3)
    Disney Infinity 2.0 (XBox 360)

    All the other have been posted above!

    Thanks a lot guys!!!

  • Kai says:
    13 Jun13 June 11:41

    Dropped by the nearest Home Plus and took Battlefiled x 4 and COD x 4. At the till the cashier lady looked quite calm and proficient, I think she knows what is happening 😛

  • Ben23 says:
    13 Jun13 June 11:56

    I hit Tesco Metro Regent Street (the one just south of Piccadilly Circus) yesterday afternoon with a list of the barcodes that had been posted by that time (9).

    I went to the self-service tills, had a couple of physical items with me but then nothing to trick the scales so had to get the attendant to verify after each manual barcode entry. I just said it was a game preorder so there is no box, he didn’t mind and just swiped his code each time.

    All good, and 4500 points better off. Will revisit with the rest of the codes later today.

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