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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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  • Gavin says:
    20 Nov20 November 12:50

    None at Tesco in Taplow so perhaps not yet reached Berks / Bucks

    On the other hand this reminded me I had to get something at HofF tomorrow so 300 clubcard points picked up so nicely timed! Will try the bigger Tesco in Reading when I do my shopping this weekend as I think I will have some more spend at HofF coming up.

    • Quark999 says:
      20 Nov20 November 14:52

      You’re the one that bought all the 3V cards there – I thought I had found a niche in Taplow, but there was bound to be another one! 🙂

      They didn’t have any of the magazines ever last year, so I ended up printing out a pile of scanned in ones that I got off the internet. After about 400£ worth of 3V cards over the course of the months they started looking at me a bit suspiciously so I stopped doing that.

      In any case, I wouldn’t bank on them appearing at all in Taplow unfortunately…

      • ynot says:
        20 Nov20 November 16:38

        in travelling the length of the UK the most precious and bountiful seam of 3V was in Inverness! 2 huge Tescos fully loaded with pegs of 3V on every visit. There was one weekend i almost justified to myself driving from Glasgow to Inverness to stock up – there was a great amount of competition in Glasgow for them, and one culprit (on here) who would drive around 3 or 4 of the Glasgow stores in one trip and clear them out as soon as they were restocked. (they did miss out the Maryhill branch though 🙂 ).

      • Gavin says:
        20 Nov20 November 18:56

        Never got any 3V cards 🙁 A store so close to Heathrow was always going to be stripped piranha-style!

  • John McAuliffe says:
    20 Nov20 November 13:10

    Is the 150 pts offer still running – read on another forum that someone phoned Tesco and they stated the 150 points offer was not running at the moment:
    “I have just spoken to the tesco clubcard people and the extra 150 points when you spend £50 on branded gift cards is not running at the moment” – this message was posted on 12th November – so interested whether people have bought any since and the points have gone on?

    • Gavin says:
      20 Nov20 November 13:20

      300 on my receipt half an hour ago

    • john says:
      20 Nov20 November 13:28

      150points offer still valid – got some branded cards this morning

    • Tilly71 says:
      20 Nov20 November 14:52

      If that forum is HUKD then beware trolls operate on that forum and love to wind people up with spoof emails from Tesco etc.
      Sad but an unfortunately part of life these days when you read forums on the Web.

  • OverTheHorizon says:
    20 Nov20 November 14:20

    So, a question:

    Does the £50 have to be spent in one transaction ? Or will 3 x sub-£50 transactions on the same Clubcard trigger the bonus ?

  • Mike says:
    20 Nov20 November 14:30

    Come back 3v as is forgiven !

  • Tilly71 says:
    20 Nov20 November 14:50

    Time to stock up on all GC’s if you can find the mags. Tesco sell a gift card which covers a high majority of garden centres in the uk, if you have one nearby why not buy in bulk for next year’s gardening. Points can be earnt in bulk and at no cost if you plan ahead

    • Kipto says:
      20 Nov20 November 15:39

      I admire your forward planning but I think I’ll get Christmas out the way first.

    • mark2 says:
      20 Nov20 November 17:57

      But check carefully before you buy a lot; some garden centres only accept the paper certificates.

  • Anon says:
    20 Nov20 November 16:01

    No online code, ie is it in store only?

  • Janeyferr says:
    20 Nov20 November 16:19

    This not being able to drive malarkey is really hurting my pointsing, as I can’t go around the big Tescos looking for magazines, on top of not being able to go to cheap motorway-side IHGs.

    • ynot says:
      20 Nov20 November 16:31

      Count yourself lucky, think of all the time and effort you are not compelled to make for the sake of a few hundred clubcard points, the trepidation at the till when you hand over the coupons you cut out of a magazine, or travelling to a holiday inn express to check in and then leave (or worse, stay the night).

      A few months ago i had a Tesco till operator refuse to scan my clubcard when buying some 3Vs, advising ‘you dont get points on gift cards’ and having to inform her you do. Then watching as they all failed to activate. Her wanting to bin them all and then calling the duty manager over. Me telling her to scan them again and sub total them every time. She still refusing to take my clubcard! and then half way through deciding to stop sub totalling them, so some then failed again. And then advising that i was buying too many (4) which was why it didn’t activate the first time, and that she shouldn’t let me have so many points!

      • Gemma says:
        1 Dec1 December 15:37

        “travelling to a holiday inn express to check in and then leave” is this a common practice? Is this worth it? I’m keen to know / find out, Id hate to be missing out on all the tricks!

        • Rob says:
          1 Dec1 December 16:35

          Fairly common practice for me! I will be doing it at the HI Brent Cross in a few days to complete my Accelerate challenge.

          • Gemma says:
            4 Dec4 December 00:09

            I don’t seem to be able to sign up for this. I keep getting an error message. Perhaps I am too close to the end?

  • idrive says:
    20 Nov20 November 17:38

    is it only in Big Ts or also Metros?

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