Earn Avios via Clubcard with The Orchard at Tesco

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• Graham Walsh says:

  25 May25 May 06:10

  I’m on the Orchard programme and have had some good vouchers to test out products. You are meant to get more invites to the programmes the more active you are at blogging, tweeting, sharing on Facebook etc about your experience.

• Rob says:

  25 May25 May 06:28

  My wife has been a member of orchard for ages. To be honest the points she gets doesn’t seem worth it to me for the amount of effort she has to put in, but she mostly does it for the free goods.

  The way it seems to work is that every couple of months she gets some vouchers, one to get an item free for her and a few offering a discount that she has to give to others, after trying the product she has to review it, and write about it on social media (which caused an argument when I found out she had been using my Twitter account.) one thing I have found surprising is that it doesn’t seem highly prescriptive as the vouchers are quite generic – so they have been for finest cheese rather than for a specific cheese type for example.

  I think this is an ok way of getting points if you have the time and don’t mind everyone you know knowing you will sell your soul for a packet of streaks, but it isn’t something I would do personally.

  I’m also not sure how many points you get but it isn’t enough for me to ever notice them on my clubcard account – we do have two credit cards, insurance and mobile phones as well as regular shopping going on our statements so it is hard to tell what has come from which source but whatever we get from it won’t be many points.

• ee says:

  25 May25 May 07:41

  i agree with the above – the programme is more about the product vouchers than earning points. You do earn some points, but likely less than 100 per quarter.

• Tilly71 says:

  25 May25 May 08:01

  You average about 10cc points per activity completed. Easy to get between 80-100 per survey and free coupons for items in store or online. Also you get money off coupons to pass onto your friends which you can use on your accounts also.

• andy L says:

  25 May25 May 09:16

  all sounds like far too much effort for such small rewards….. Where have all the decent Avios earning opportunities gone? It feels like collecting and redeeming is withering on the vine to me. Shame, a real shame.

  • pj says:

    25 May25 May 09:27

    See EON thread, easy pickings are back 😉

    • Dave R says:

      25 May25 May 09:47

      Have you got a link please?

      • pj says:

        25 May25 May 09:49

        https://headforpoints.com/2015/05/17/how-to-earn-clubcard-points-taking-gas-and-electricity-from-e-on/#comment-117612

• Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

  25 May25 May 09:31

  I’ve been doing it since the start. From my point of view, I get to try something new every couple months and get a few clubcard points. I don’t do much of the ‘buzz spreading’, but do write short reviews etc. They’ve really dialled back the CC earning rates (it was perhaps 25pts/tweet at the beginning, now 5 maybe), which is a shame, but understandable.

  The programme did put me on to their Finest Hazelnut Gelato. Yum!

• BlueThroughCrimp says:

  25 May25 May 10:04

  I joined The Orchard and signed up for 1 test. Never received the vouchers from them, so I can’t comment if it’s any good!

• Tilly71 says:

  25 May25 May 10:16

  Hi Raffles,
  In a previous topic you said flights from mewquay to gatwick that connect to a long haul ba flight do not pay APD. I done a dummy run and did not reduce any APD so contacted Avios live chat and they told me that full APD applies?

  • Rob says:

    25 May25 May 13:32

    Just priced this on ba.com:

    Newquay-Gatwick, Heathrow-Dubai, 2nd August, one way – 24,500 Avios + £146 in economy

    Heathrow-Dubai, 2nd August, one-way – 20,000 Avios + £205 in economy

    It may well be that avios.com is not pricing this properly. avios.com is STILL ripping people off on one-way short-haul redemptions by not adjusting for the lower fuel surcharge, eg Dublin to Heathrow one-way has £2 tax when booked on ba.com and £17.50 on avios.com.

    Simply move your Avios from avios.com to ba.com / BA Exec Club via Combine My Avios and book from there.

    • Tilly71 says:

      25 May25 May 15:35

      Hi,
      Thanks for searching this route out but when i search on ba.com/baec i get the message error with a number of possibilities like route network not flown that time of year. I then took your dates and i got the same message.
      Is there a special section on ba.com i have to click into to get flybe flights?

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