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Earn 1,200 Avios for just £4.99 with ‘Spiderman 2’ from blinkbox

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a new deal from Tesco’s digital download service blinkbox.

Until September 13th, you will earn 500 Clubcard points (1,200 Avios or 1,250 Virgin Flying Club miles) when you buy ‘Spiderman 2’ from blinkbox. Note that you need to buy the film and not rent it.

When I wrote the original article, the film cost £9.99 to buy.  You were therefore paying 0.8p per Avios point.

Blinkbox has now launched a half-price promotion for new customersYou need to click here to register.

Blinkbox will email you a code for a 50% discount on your first purchase.  There does not seem to be any restriction on using this, so you should be OK to use it to buy your copy of ‘Spiderman 2’ for just £4.99.

The code takes the cost per Avios or Virgin Flying Club miles down to under 0.4p!  This is a great deal and well worth doing.

Note that the half-price movie offer only runs to 7th September, even though the ‘Spiderman 2’ deal runs until 13th September.


How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2024)

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:

Barclaycard Avios Plus card

Barclaycard Avios Plus Mastercard

Get 25,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £10,000 Read our full review

Barclaycard Avios card

Barclaycard Avios Mastercard

5,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £20,000 Read our full review

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

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

25,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher Read our full review

British Airways American Express

5,000 Avios for signing up and an Economy 2-4-1 voucher for spending £15,000 Read our full review

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.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

40,000 bonus points and a huge range of valuable benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Run your own business?

We recommend Capital on Tap for limited companies. You earn 1 Avios per £1 which is impressive for a Visa card, along with a sign-up bonus worth 10,500 Avios.

Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa

Huge 30,000 points bonus until 12th May 2024 Read our full review

You should also consider the British Airways Accelerating Business credit card. This is open to sole traders as well as limited companies and has a 30,000 Avios sign-up bonus.

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express

30,000 Avios sign-up bonus – plus annual bonuses of up to 30,000 Avios Read our full review

There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

American Express Business Platinum

40,000 points sign-up bonus and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Business Gold

20,000 points sign-up bonus and FREE for a year Read our full review

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.

Comments (22)

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  • James says:

    The 500 points for this haven’t posted for me yet, I suspect everyone will get them at the same time like the books?

    Also the wrap around ad was kind

    • James says:

      Caught the done button there :/ kind of amusing since it was promoting the same offer you were writing about!

  • Laurence says:

    Sadly that offer wasn’t there for me just now but still took the cash back.

  • James67 says:

    Presumably you mean new customers and not new sales? Anyway, great work. My Mum and my partner will soon both be wathing spiderman! Thanks

    • Globetrotter7 says:

      Sort of… It said all new customer sales.

      Ga! I hope they both enjoy their movies lol

  • Gabriel says:

    Oh, shoot. It seems there are two different “Spiderman 2” movies on Blinkbox, be careful to buy The amazing one… and not the older one I bought 🙁

  • Ian says:

    The deposit £1 offer seems to have gone

  • signol says:

    Note that this is “First Movie Purchase” for the discount – I’ve already bought Game of Thrones but this works too 🙂

    • Globetrotter7 says:

      Yep. That’s because GoT is classed as a TV show not a movie. I did the same on my partner’s account.

  • Ian says:

    Thanks for this. It was difficult to add the tesco clubcard, for some reason 2 of my cards weren’t being accepted. Anyone had any issues with this?

    • TimS says:

      Have you previously bought physical DVDs from Tesco (or more accurately, Tesco Direct I think) using these clubcards?

      If so what I believe they sometimes do is create a Blinkbox account with that Clubcard number attached to it as some DVDs bought at Mr T’s give you the online copy of the film free via Blinkbox.

      One of my cards is permanently tied to a Blinkbox account because of this. With other Blinkbox accounts I have created myself I can add/delete clubcard numbers at will but this one account doesn’t have the option to remove the linked card.

  • chris says:

    tescos might (if they stick to they only t&c only pay you the real money part of the order in CC points so £1.51

    9) Customers making purchases with Promotional Credit will not receive any Tesco Clubcard Points for such purchases. If Promotional Credit is used to partially cover the cost of the movie or TV show purchased, then points will be allocated only to the part that was paid by Debit/Credit card or gift card credit.

    • RIccati says:

      I would argue that if Clubcard points are on receipt (I saved Purchase Summary) then they must be credited.

      • ankomonkey says:

        This isn’t true of online grocery orders. The delivery receipt points are sometimes different to the order summary points.

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