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Tesco adds e-gift cards online – and you still earn 150 Clubcard points per £50

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One of the longest running, and most generous, Tesco Clubcard promotions is ‘150 Clubcard points for spending £50 on gift cards’.

When you buy gift cards in Tesco – to the value of £50 or a multiple of £50 – you receive 150 points which converts into 360 Avios points or 375 Virgin Flying Club miles.

Tesco Gift Cards are excluded, not surprisingly, as are Tesco subsidiaries such as F+F.  xbox cards are also excluded.

We have covered 3V / pay.com in the past and I will be doing another piece on those soon.  Of the retailer gift cards, it is particularly worth mentioning Next.  If you buy from Next Directory and have an account, you can pay off your balance using Next gift cards, bought in Tesco.

Personally, I try to stock up on Pizza Express cards when I see them.  We spend a lot of money in there as a family and you can use gift cards alongside any other promotions they are running.

Gift cards now available online

Last year, Tesco opened an online gift card shop – see here.

This allowed you to buy some, but not all, of the physical plastic gift cards sold in-store for home delivery.  Unfortunately, the £2.95 postage fee and the £100 maximum order means it is not attractive as a cheap way of getting points.

New(ish) – e-gift cards now available

I’m not sure how new this is, but many gift cards are now available for immediately delivery by email.  This is fantastic for online shopping.  In most case, you can also print off e-gift cards for use in-store – check the website.

The following retailers are currently offering e-gift cards via the Tesco gift card website – click on ‘Digital Gift Cards’ in the left-hand menu:

  • Aeria Games
  • ASK Italian
  • Bella Italia
  • Bin Weevils
  • Cafe Rouge
  • Cineworld
  • Currys PC World
  • Debenhams
  • Ernest Jones
  • H Samuel
  • HotelVoucherShop
  • House of Fraser
  • iTunes
  • Nintendo
  • Pizza Express
  • Spafinder Wellness
  • Ticketmaster
  • Treatme
  • Zizzi

Another benefit of e-gift cards is that they work for spontaneous purchases.   Hopefully, if you decide to head to Pizza Express for dinner tonight, you would be able to order a £50 e-gift card, receive it and print it off in time.

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Comments (75)

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  • Paul says:
    12 Jul12 July 09:27

    Is there a maximum purchase allowed? We are going to be spending maybe £5000 at Debenhsms. Is there a catch or can I just fill me boots?! Paul

    • Jason says:
      12 Jul12 July 09:35

      Depends who serves you, some say a maximum of 5, some let you buy as many as you want or the store I cleaned out ,of nospendits, during the esso promotion would only allow me 1 at a time on Wednesday, needless to say I didn’t buy any but cleaned out 2 stores the following day in anger 😉

    • Rob says:
      12 Jul12 July 09:46

      No in-store purchase limit but buying more than 4 per transaction can cause Tesco till issues. Need to ask Debenhams as well – Harrods tills cannot handle more than 4 different GC’s per sale.

      • Joe says:
        12 Jul12 July 10:31

        My store and the CEOs office (after store refused to sell me any going forward & complaining) has limited me to 6 Visa & 20 Branded.

        Think Debenhams online limit is 5 btw, but thats per txn

        You can however buy gift cards with gift cards in debenhams, Maybe you could buy a £500 one with 5 x £100 cards instore (biggest value in tesco)

    • JQ says:
      12 Jul12 July 18:07

      Debenhams can only accept 3 forms of payment per transaction, so you’d need them to put each item through separately, and then use 2.5 gift cards per item at a time (otherwise you’ll end up with lots of residual small amounts and/or unable to pay off the final balance as a payment card is counted as part of the 3)

  • pointsarb says:
    12 Jul12 July 09:49

    @waribai the attraction is 4x redemption value on tesco clubcard points when converting to pizza express, prezzo etc!

    • Waribai says:
      12 Jul12 July 15:50

      I see where you are coming from but as we have free taste membership we get a 50% discount anyway.
      Yes, I guess I’m just not a chain restaurant person especially when it comes to UK chains!

  • Andy says:
    12 Jul12 July 09:55

    Raffles, wouldn’t you be better off converting your Clubcard points to tokens to spend at Pizza Express at a rate of £2.50 to £10, instead of buying gift cards? Converting that £2.50 to Avios you are paying 1.66 per point.

    • Jason says:
      12 Jul12 July 10:04

      I don’t think pizza express let you use tesco vouchers with restaurant card schemes and as some of them allow 241, on 3 courses, your effectively halving your points.
      I could be wrong though as I need all my tesco points for Avios and Virgin.

    • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:
      12 Jul12 July 10:06

      You can’t combine the ubiquitous voucher code offers (e.g. 241, 33% off) with the clubcard tokens. A £10 token probably only has a real cash value of £6-7.

    • Rob says:
      12 Jul12 July 12:05

      Was never sure if the kids set meals were included. They don’t cover drinks either.

      Our local is also one of the handful in the UK which is usually excluded from other special offers.

  • Malibu Stacey says:
    12 Jul12 July 10:15

    It is not quite 4x face value when you exclude other discounts but is is an excellent use of clubcard points when dining with kids meals as the piccolo meals are never discounted.

    A little tip. The Dolcetti – a mini desert with a tea or coffee – counts as ‘food’ so can be paid for with Tesco vouchers. This is a nice way to finish off a meal or you can just nip in for a cheap coffee and brownie anytime of the day.

    • Malibu Stacey says:
      12 Jul12 July 10:21

      * mini dessert
      LOL

      • Jason says:
        12 Jul12 July 10:42

        I thought it was pizza express’ new play area for kids, which would make it an even better dining option 🙂

  • Duncan S says:
    12 Jul12 July 10:16

    Is this promotion available in store too? I’ve noticed the wide range of gift cards available, and my partner and I often go for a quick lunch at Nando’s who don’t offer a digital card.

    The in-store POS has no mention of the 150 points offer, and the online offer doesn’t clearly state that it’s available in-store.

    Any ideas?

    • Joe Yates says:
      12 Jul12 July 10:24

      Has worked instore for ages! Nando’s are only in £20 denominations, to get full value would buy multiples of 5, or 2 with a £10 starbucks or something

    • mark2 says:
      12 Jul12 July 10:50

      If you have a store handy you are sure of getting FuelSave, until end of August anyway. I have had 20p per litre off on almost every petrol purchase for last twelve months.
      Not sure if you get FuelSave if you buy from Tesco online.

      • Jason says:
        12 Jul12 July 11:18

        You can accumulate fuel save until the end of august and redeem until end of September 🙂

    • Rob says:
      12 Jul12 July 12:03

      Has been in store for the last 2 years! Has never been signed.

  • The_Real_A says:
    12 Jul12 July 11:38

    Oh just be careful. The gift card portal is run by SVM the gift card consolidator, and is flaky as hell. They send the digital giftcard via email. I have used 5 different email addresses (5 separate platforms, work, personal, web etc) and i have only ever received the email on googlemail.

    The email is NOT always instant. I have had to wait 12 hours before.

    There is a max of 6 cards every 30 days.

    Phone support is efficient however.

    I would not trust the website to credit me 150 points – and i certainly would not trust very large orders

  • Milton says:
    12 Jul12 July 12:41

    Robert… I have been to the website to look at the best way to use my points. I just am not confident I will get the best value …

    As an expert what would you do if you had 360000 amax points and you wanted to use them towards a trip to the US in august with a total of 6 travellers? Any pointers would certainly be appreciated.

    Thanks in advance

    • Rob says:
      12 Jul12 July 14:17

      Drop me an email Milton – on holiday until Tuesday and no PC access.

  • mij says:
    12 Jul12 July 19:03

    does anyone know the cut off for this quarter’s clubcard vouchers?

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