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Good Tesco promo returns – 100 Clubcard points (240 Avios) with £20 gift card purchase

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If you’re in your local Tesco this week, make sure you pick up a copy of the December ‘Tesco Food Family Living’ magazine.

Inside, you will find a full page advertisement for gift cards and a coupon.  It is on page 103.

It gets you 100 bonus Clubcard points (240 Avios) with the purchase of a single gift card of £20 or above.

This will, with 100% certainty, stack with the ongoing offer of 150 bonus Clubcard points when you spend £50 or more on gift cards, excluding Tesco-branded gift cards.

If you pick up two magazine and purchase 2 x £25 gift cards, for example, you would earn:

150 bonus Clubcard points for spending £50

2 x 100 bonus Clubcard points for spending two lots of £20

That would give you a total of 350 Clubcard points (840 Avios or 875 Virgin Flying Club miles).  Assuming that you would otherwise have spent £50 in cash at whichever retailer you go for, these are arguably virtually free miles.

This is a very decent offer and I would pick up a few copies of the magazine if you can.  The vouchers are valid until 31st December 2015.

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Comments (120)

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  • Danny says:
    20 Nov20 November 05:09

    Here we go…..

    Gospendits … do the maths!

  • Jason says:
    20 Nov20 November 07:12

    Don’t do what Rob says until after Sunday 🙂
    If you buy 5 PE £20 cards, add an iTunes £25 card, and you’ll get all your points for £100.
    20% off certain gift cards until Sunday, although most stores haven’t got the magazine yet 🙁

  • Nick M says:
    20 Nov20 November 07:21

    Are the cashiers quite happy putting through multiple vouchers in one transaction as per your example above?

    Could you also use 5 vouchers if you buy 4x£25 giftcards?

    • Jason says:
      20 Nov20 November 07:39

      1 per card.

    • Iain says:
      20 Nov20 November 07:47

      Yes this should work fine – I did this a lot last year when 3v was alive much to the bemusement of the check out folk ..

      • Fenny says:
        20 Nov20 November 19:49

        It worked for me on one occasion and didn’t on another. Despite lengthy discussions via phone and email, I never got the second set of 5 x 100 points for my £100 of Currys cards.

  • ee says:
    20 Nov20 November 07:41

    Hundreds if not thousands of copies outside the cheapside store now!

    • The Urbanite says:
      20 Nov20 November 08:52

      Two full pallets at Catford last night, can’t see them lasting very long!

    • Raffles says:
      20 Nov20 November 09:00

      I picked up a pile at Cheapside last year! I may be over there this afternoon.

      • ee says:
        20 Nov20 November 19:41

        7pm update from cheapside! The pile is dented but still masses left. Raffles, you’re a lightweight!!

        • Rob says:
          20 Nov20 November 20:42

          Didn’t get down there in the end – I had a meeting in Kensington and couldn’t face heading over to the office so worked from home instead! I can confirm that there were none in Piccadilly / Lower Regent Street yesterday and none in the Royal Hospital Road Metro about an hour ago!

          • Emma says:
            23 Nov23 November 15:31

            Cheapside Metro near Bank or the one near St Paul’s tube?

          • Rob says:
            23 Nov23 November 19:15

            Last year it was Bank, the mags were outside the door in the covered area.

          • Emma says:
            24 Nov24 November 07:42

            Thanks, half a crate at 8pm yesterday and half a crate at the Monument Express (but right in the middle of the self service tills, I couldn’t see them just by walking by)

  • Steve R says:
    20 Nov20 November 07:56

    If you have a Next account you can use the gift cards to pay off your account.

    I didn’t have an issue with buying multiple cards (3) last year. Cashier did query it at fist so I said you can put them through one at a time. All3 went through together fine

    • Raffles says:
      20 Nov20 November 09:00

      Indeed you can, there is a HFP article about paying Next accounts with gift cards if you search.

  • OverTheHorizon says:
    20 Nov20 November 09:18

    I think you can make the pre-Sunday discounted amounts work as well.

    First transaction:
    Buy 1 x iTunes @ £25 and 2 x Harvester @ £20 before Sunday, and you get them at a 20% discount, so you pay £52.00. This will earn you 3 x 100 Avios + 1 x 150 Avios = 450 Avios.

    Second transaction:
    Buy 1 x New Look @ £25, 1 x Pizza Express @ £20 and 1 x National Book Token @ £20, and you get the first 2 at a 20% discount, so you pay £56.00. This will earn you 3 x 100 Avios + 1 x 150 Avios = 450 Avios.

    So, grand total of 900 bonus Avios.

    As these gift cards are all for retailers where I would have spent the money anyway, I am getting a £22 discount and 1800 free Avios (assuming I convert 750 of the 900 bonus points).

    However, I will be paying with my Tesco Credit Card, so also expect to earn 1 point per £ on non-Tesco gift cards, that is 108.

    So my grand total would be 900 + 108 = 1008, of which converting 1000 would give me 2400 Avios and I get to keep my £22 discount 🙂

    • harry says:
      20 Nov20 November 16:22

      It’s only 1 Tesco point per £4 (in store in Tesco) these days – so you’re better off paying with Amex. If you had a 2-point Amex card like mine, you could get close, it works out at 2376 Avios

  • Liz says:
    20 Nov20 November 09:28

    Tesco is also offering 500 & 1000 clubcard points on their Gift Experiences up till 26/11 on their offers page for anyone looking for Christmas ideas.

  • Red says:
    20 Nov20 November 09:31

    Super I can’t get to Tesco till Sunday, the magazines will all be gone after everyone grabbing a huge bundle each 🙂

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