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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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How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (May 2025)

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:

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

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British Airways American Express Credit Card

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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.

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Comments (440)

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  • Tom says:

    I am going to visit a Tesco which has does self scanner wands just to make the process more speedier. I am not sure how it would work with pre orders as in would i have to take the physical box as well or not? anyone that has experience would be great to hear from.

  • Peggowski says:

    I just did Fifa 15 on PS4 and XBOne as they had them instore but when i then tried to type in the barcodes for other games the self service checkout kept insisting that i put a dummy box on the bagging part of the till… so i only ended up with the two games! Still i did use the foursquare check-in so got 1000 points for a fiver…

  • Russ says:

    I tried the self service as well, but didn’t have dummy box! Impossible. Went to the basket till and after some persuading, cough, managed to get all bar a couple of the FIFA games on. That was because I may actually order that so left off on purpose. 6500 cc points! Thanks for the tip.

    (I printed the list of barcodes off and the lady entered them manually by the way).

  • Costas says:

    I tried the self service check outs but they asked me what I was buying, so ended going to the games section in the Yiewsley shop and they accepted 9 pre orders from the cases. Thanks for the tip off, I did eventually find a tesco that had this promotion.

  • Amanda says:

    Did anyone else get an adrenalin burst when they did this?
    Just scored 6000 CC points, 12 x pre-orders. Went through the Self Service till, no questions asked.
    For those of you using codes only & worried about the weight at the SS tills, just take any (empty) box, dont scan, place on the packing area, not in bag, and at the end just hand them back to assistant & say changed your mind. Or wander around the store & leave on a shelf.
    Didnt have as much success with Okra and Chillies, but looking forward to the next one…..

  • Flieduk says:

    What is T’s bulk buy policy and how rigidly is it enforced?

    • Rob says:

      The policy ‘if we decide you are bulk buying we can take away your points’. As I mentioned elsewhere, some people who bought just 2 Dan Brown books got targeted.

      • Michalis says:

        Raffles,

        I just got 2 pre-orders at the Tesco Canary Wharf for COD and FIFA.
        Because the girl at the self checkout had no clue about the pre-orders and a couple more people got involved, i forgot to scan the clubcard and mentioned that to the customer service. They scanned my clubcard and gave me a points adjustment receipt.
        The only things on the points adjustment receipt are the date and the transaction value.

        So that got me wondering if you could conveniently “forget” to scan the clubcard and repeat and get around the bulk purchase rule.

      • CV says:

        I only ordered on copy of that book and my order was cancelled same day with the excuse they were out of stock. However, next day as it was still for sale online i called Tesco Direct and asked for my order to be reinstated – which they did!

  • JT says:

    Tesco Extra Woolwich has all the games and a big display promoting the points. I bought 5 through the a normal cashier at the front, and she didn’t say a word. Went back and bought 5 more at the collection desk opposite the electronics section. No mention of any limit, she just said, ‘Wow, you really like video games, don’t you?’. ‘Yup’. 😀

    Going back tomorrow for the rest.

  • Randeep says:

    So I could brazenly walk into a Tesco Metro that doesn’t actually have any games, buy something, and then start keying in codes for 18 games? From reading a comment above somebody just explained that the games are for pre-orders (to explain the lack of boxes).

    • Rob says:

      If you don’t mind getting the staff to approve the purchase. The easier route is buy a bottle of wine, get the ‘over 18’ approval and then do a small number, repeating later with different games. Thus is trouble usually avoided.

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