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Tesco glitch – get 3,600 Avios or 3,750 Virgin miles for £60 LEGO spend

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Tesco Direct launched two new LEGO promotions on Monday:

1,000 Clubcard points (2,400 Avios) for a £60 LEGO spend

500 Clubcard points (1,200 Avios) for a £30 LEGO spend

These are both attractive deals if you have any lovers of little plastic bricks in your household.

LEGO Star Wars

However, up to midnight on Monday night, Tesco Direct was mistakenly giving BOTH bonuses on a £60 spend.  Buying £60 of LEGO got you 1,500 Clubcard points plus your base points – that was 3,600 Avios or 3,750 Virgin miles.

This deal is now over.  You will only receive the expected 1,000 points (worth 2,400 Avios) on a £60 order.

Even though the glitch has been fixed, you should still take a close look at this deal if you have kids or are expecting to give any presents to a child soon!  LEGO makes a great gift or can easily be resold on eBay.  .

The Tesco Direct home page for this offer is here.

‘Click and Collect’ delivery to your local Tesco store will be free as you are spending £30.  The deal runs until Sunday 31st July.


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 (72)

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  • Laurence says:

    How annoying, now that I’ve actually got time to order something it’s not working! Now it’s only showing 500 bonus points in my basket even though I’ve got £63 of applicable Lego products in there.

  • Lavar56 says:

    All finished now it seems.
    £60+ now correctly showing 1000points…

  • Waribai says:

    Jumped on this yesterday and did click and collect. Not sure now though if I can make it to Tesco before our holiday. If I don’t pick it up, what will happen to my points and any money paid?

    • Rob says:

      It would be automatically returned after a certain point and your money refunded. Not sure how long they give you.

      • James67 says:

        It’s two weeks, and it would appear they enforce it rigidly. I thought I might have a few extra days over Christmas and new year given my local collection store was closed for three days but this was not the case. I called customer support and eventually got to reorder (it was either chromecasr or nowtv) at the promotional rate with bonus points even though the offer had ended but they were reluctant.

  • Joy says:

    I got 1000 poits this morning. When I tried returning goods with points allocated a few months ago the points were taken off.

    • LEE says:

      were your points added into your clubcard acc mine are not showing yet ?

  • Andy S says:

    Slightly OT, got an email from BA today saying convert 5 quid or more of tesco points to avios and get entered into a draw for up to 1million avios. Including a nice big “convert now” button.

    But the small print says the promotion runs from 1st to 31st August, crafty bu&&ers! I wonder how many people fall for it and convert now – I almost did!

  • John says:

    The points for all my orders are now showing on my clubcard account – thanks Rob!

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