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Tesco deals – even more giftcard points, 2880 Avios on wine, 360 Avios on DVDs

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Tesco has launched a number of generous Clubcard promotions.  All of these will give you bonus Clubcard points which can be converted into Avios points or Virgin Flying Club miles.

Deal 1:  100 Clubcard points on a £20 gift card purchase

Page 120 of the new Tesco magazine (the Christmas edition) contains a coupon for 100 bonus Clubcard points when you spend £20 on any gift card (Tesco giftcards excluded).

This will work on top of the standard promotion of 150 Clubcard points for spending £50 on gift cards.

250 Clubcard points (600 Avios) is an excellent deal for buying £50 of gift cards.  You may even get 350 points for a £50 purchase if you can persuade the cashier to scan two coupons.  If you are a regular visitor to Pizza Express, New Look, Debenhams or the many other retailers whose gift cards are sold by Tesco, it would make sense to stock up.

Deal 2:  1200 Clubcard points for £120 wine spend or 500 points for six bottle purchase

These codes offer a great return if you are stocking up for Christmas drinking with a visit to the Tesco online wine store.

Code XXPL7G gets you 1,200 points (2,880 Avios) for a £120 spend.  This code will NOT work for everyone.

Codes are XX4MJH and XXLLG4 offer 500 bonus points when used for a six bottle purchase.  This code came with the Tesco Wine magazine so may be easier to redeem.

The £120 code should work on the price before any discounts – such as the current ‘25% off 12 bottles’ deal – are taken off so your actual spend needed may be lower.

Deal 3:  150 bonus points when you pre-order a DVD

Over at Tesco Direct, the following DVDs are available to pre-order.  You will receive 150 Clubcard points (360 Avios, 375 Virgin miles) with each one.  This offer should double up with any bonus points DVD coupon you may have received in the post recently.

Prices start at £10.

Seven titles are shown via this link (expire 23 November)

Three more titles are here including Inbetweeners 2 (expires 30 November)

Two more are here including the latest Expendables (expires 7 December)

And finally Into The Storm is here (expires 14 December)

There are also five Blu-Ray disks offering 200 bonus points (480 Avios) which you can find here.


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 (159)

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  • startupflyer says:

    Hmmm, none of the wine codes worked for me either other than a targeted £5 off. Ah well, back to somewhere that does decent wine then :).

  • Paul says:

    I’ve failed to find the Tesco magazine anywhere in London (including checking the Extra at Surrey Quays). Anyone had any better luck?

  • oyster says:

    Do 3V (or indeed any gift cards) count towards fuel save at Tesco?

    Today when buying £50 of 3V and £3.29 of other stuff, my receipt showed a line called qualifying spend of £3.29.

    • Fenny says:

      They always have done for me. Most of my fuel save comes from buying 3V cards.

    • squills says:

      I think they do. My fuel savings increased by 2p every time I bought 2 x 3Vs

  • squills says:

    Bonus Avios offer

    Collect 1,000 bonus Avios when booking 3 or more days and Group C or above. Book and travel by 14 December 2014.

    http://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/flights-and-holidays/car-hire?Ref_Site=AvisFlyerT1

  • Rob says:

    Pardon my ignorance

    I can see people are buying the 3v cards but unless there is something I’m missing, it seems I’m paying a fee of £3.95 to receive £250/£3.50 in cc points. Not to mention the £5 off the next £40 spend does not work with the purchase of gift cards according to the cashier.

    Any feedback?

    • Mark2 says:

      You are confusing 3V cards with the silver cards which have a fee. 3V cards have no charge unless you want to amalgamate them.
      The £5 voucher does work; I have used many of them and have two to use this week and hope to find some magazines too. The £15/10 off when you spend £100 work as well.
      Get the cashier to scan them; the gift card exception refers to Tesco gift cards.

    • GB says:

      There is no fee on a 3v (but is on a visa). The 5 pound off 40 will often work if you ask the cashier to scan the coupon

    • Paul says:

      As others have said the £5 off will work, providing the cashier is willing to scan it. And there’s no fee for buying 3V. So providing you have a way to spend the 3V (or a sneaky means to turn it straight back into cash), you get a free £5 cash, 150 tesco pts, bonus points from the magazine coupon, and credit card points for the spend.

      • Rob says:

        Just got a £6 off £40 spend coupon taken by cashier for 3x£20 Pizza Express cards along with 3×100 point vouchers. Just a shame the 20 per cent discount on PE gift cards is over.

        Still huge piles of mags at Earls Court, one pallet by front door and another behind the tills.

        • Paul says:

          Thanks for the tip off, Raffles. Mission accomplished at Earls Court; £50 of gift cards, with the cashier accepting 2 bonus point vouchers from their stack of magazines.

      • Mark2 says:

        Not forgetting the 2p off per litre of fuel for each £50 spent. I noticed that petrol was down to 120.9 when I just called at Tesco Evesham.
        They had no magazines and I button-holed the deputy manager who said that they would just appear with no notice to him, or not.
        To contradict my previous comment about Helping Hands vouchers they refused to take them for 3V, so I just bought £18 of groceries. To my surprise I was awarded a £15 off £100 voucher which I was told I could use, but all the cards failed the activation so I retired hurt to fight another day.

  • AmandaB says:

    No magazines last week in St Neots, asked via twitter, they confirmed no more expected, but lo and behold stack of em in there today, many of which are now in my car.
    Question: if buying £50 vouchers to get normal 150cc points can I use 2 vouchers ie one per £20 spend?
    Question: has anyone had any luck using self scan for gift vouchers? Went horribly wrong last time I tried and ended up getting manually added cc points
    Thanks

    • Rob says:

      No, you can’t self scan.

      If you have 2 vouchers, it seems you can hand over 2 coupons.

  • David says:

    I find it terribly wasteful to take all the mags just for a coupon. I managed to use 50 coupons I just copied and printed thanks to a friendly FTer. No waste and staff were happy to take them. I cannot see the harm. I do live in a small town though and I’ve met the contractor who brings in the 3V’s and she leaves extra ones just for me. I’m the only one who seems to buy them anyway. The benefits of being hours away from an airport!

  • Alan says:

    Sadly no magazines in my local Tesco although plenty of 3V, so had to put up with just buying 4 of them for the 300pt bonus (plus fuel save and use of a £6 helping hand coupon)

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