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Good news! Tesco has launched a ‘Clubcard to Avios’ conversion bonus! The bad news is that it is strictly targeted to a few people, seemingly people who have not converted to BA or avios.com before.
This is the deal:
Exchange £5 of Clubcard vouchers to BA or avios.com before 7th September
You will receive 6,000 Avios instead of the usual 1,200 Avios
As you can see from the accompanying logo on the emails …
…. Avios is promoting this as a ‘Part Pay With Avios’ opportunity. They are NOT suggesting that you use the Avios for free flights – which is a good job, as 6000 won’t get you far!
This is the text:
For every £2.50 in Clubcard vouchers you exchange, you’ll usually receive 600 Avios. But as a specially selected Clubcard customer, if you exchange £5 in Clubcard vouchers by 7 September, we’ll top up your balance to 6,000 Avios. That’s enough for £40 off a pair or £20 off two British Airways flights to a European destination.
I doubt many HFP readers will have got this. If you did get it on the account of a family member, you might want to do it and then create a Household Account with that person – or simply use their account to book a redemption or get the discount for yourself.
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About Head for Points
This deal is not worth it anyway, for a mere 4800 bonus avios you compromise any future conversion bonus offers which have a 12 month without conversion clause.
If even a 20% bonus pops up then for anyone with lots of clubcard points it’s not worth risking a future bonus for avios amounting to just £20 of clubcard vouchers at regular rates.
It is very worth it – you only need to convert £5. How is it not worth it?
Will explained how it is not worth it. As an example, I have £138.50 in Tesco vouchers at the moment. If I were to opt for £5 for 6,000 Avios deal then I would get 4,800 bonus Avios, right? But then, if a 50% conversion bonus came up in the next 12 months, I would be precluded from converting at the 50% bonus rate because I’d gone for this offer instead, thus losing out on 16,620 bonus points, so it really isn’t worth it, that’s assuming that a 50% bonus conversion rate does come up in the next 12 months, of course.
Is it usual for conversion bonuses to be restricted to people who have not converted in the past 12 months? For example the current Virgin bonus has no restrictions on who qualifies.
Only once did BA and Tesco impose this
The conversion bonus to Avios is never going to happen! We have been waiting years, not even a sniff of one….
I gave up and swapped £495 of Tesco CC vouchers for £1,485 Goldsmiths last week.
Exactly. There is simply no point in waiting to see what might happen, just get on with what is happening.
Avios on facebook have stated they know nothing of this promotion and to refer to Tesco clubcard?
If you have converted Tesco Clubcard vouchers to BA before but have not converted them to avios.com before, would you get the bonus if you converted to avios.com?
If you got the email, I imagine you would get it regardless. And if you didn’t get the email, you won’t be getting it from either.
Avios have messaged a day later after not knowing about this offer with now a statement saying there is another offer inconjunction with Tesco for only invited people via an email. Nothing stated by them about non conversions, ave asked who to contact if no email received.
The other half has never converted to avios/BA and got no email. I converted a fiver and got the usual 1200 avios….
Wife got the email & assume my mum probably did too (I accidentally deleted the email address when changing hosting so I couldn’t check) so I did £5 for each.
Converted as 1200 avios each! When you click the email link it takes you to the same avios page that everyone sees, ie 9000 avios competition etc, no mention of 6000 bonus for £5 so it was a gamble.
My wife should have got hers so I will complain. Pretty mad really.
Avios on facebook asked us to email them our account details and they would look into why we didnt get the email as we have never converted before to avios from tesco vouchers,
Response today was basically if you did not receive the email then your not on their list and wont get the promotional offer. So for anyone who didnt get the email, you wont get the bonus avios by converting before the offer end date in tesco vouchers 🙁
Email was capped at 150,000 people
I got the email, converted and only got 1200 Avios. Disappointed if it was capped to 150,000 people and I missed out, as I’m fairly sure that was not made obvious to me.
I converted my first Tesco vouchers to Avios on the 16th August, they have just posted, i did an online chat asking about the targeted offer and the agent just said we have over four million collectors tough. Nice customer loyalty. One point though I also did a purchase through shops online and they gave me 50% extra AVIOS, so that I suppose was a nice surprise.