Bits: Tesco scrapping Avios on gift cards, Flying Blue Shop&Earn, 1000 instant IHG points

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• GH says:

  13 Sep13 September 06:51

  Have been earning around 30,000 Avios a quarter via this route – buying vouchers for everyday spending in M&S, Next, Frasers etc Effectively for me these were earning Avios at zero cost. I guess it was too good to last

• Swiss says:

  13 Sep13 September 06:53

  Presumably Opinion check-in is also a very simply way of stopping IHG points expiring. My partner has a few 000 (enough for a stay) but we never use them as I’m Spire and got a warning recently that we were about to lose them. So have done the survey for her. Agree clunky.

  • Russell says:

    13 Sep13 September 12:02

    The survey seems typical of these online surveys (which I find quite useful, being retired). The IHG one I just did was about the food I bought yesterday, which was breakfast at a Novotel (largely paid for with Accor points), a pub lunch and a pie in the evening bought from the specialist pie shop next door to the pub.

    The system asked for what the hotel breakfast inluded (such as sandwiches, wraps, cookies etc.) and could not cope at all with the village pub or pie shop (there was supposed to be a suitable option, but it caused the survey to hang) and I was forced to enter chain eating places.

    Plus beware of the American english – when it asks if you ater chiops it does not means ‘did you go to the chip shop’;-)

• Erico1875 says:

  13 Sep13 September 07:09

  Do you get Nectar points for gift cards via Sainsburys? I can’t see any reason to go near Tesco once the gift card promo finishes

  • Roger says:

    13 Sep13 September 07:24

    Interesting if that works.

    With Morrisons stopping fuel money off on GCs; I suspect this was long time coming.,

    • Brian says:

      13 Sep13 September 07:38

      At least Morrison’s give you the equivalent of 2.5% back in points. Not as good as the fuel deal, if you had a big thirsty car, but still something. Tesco ought to realise that nobody in their right mind would buy gift cards there without an incentive.

  • Grimz says:

    13 Sep13 September 08:20

    No you don’t i tried that route ) :

• MR Bridge says:

  13 Sep13 September 07:24

  I recently did a survey for Tesco, showing various print adds.
  A couple of the designs were for Fuel save, which I believe is coming back over the winter, otherwise why have they designed them?

  Last year I had 20p of every fill up, due to gift cards, plus the 150 points, I am sure this did not help Tescos p+l account.

  • Rob says:

    13 Sep13 September 08:04

    The Tesco P&L is already screwed. This promo was about propping up the top line.

• Andy S says:

  13 Sep13 September 07:51

  I tried opinions check-in, but after over half an hour and 4 surveys rejected I gave up and deleted my account!

  • Tilly71 says:

    13 Sep13 September 08:02

    Keep going, you will get a survey for an easy 1k points. I havnt bothered since with their other survey opps for 83 points for 20 mins. I tried one for 163 pts the other day, completed it and then it said you have already completed this survey so no points at the end, last time bothering with that site.

    • Peter K says:

      13 Sep13 September 08:49

      Yeah. I had similar issues with a second survey. I also therefore decided it was not worth doing any more. At least e-rewards give you the full points at the end if you get past initial screening and don’t kick you out just before the end.

      • YL says:

        13 Sep13 September 12:21

        I also find the process of signing up painful, they kept asking so many unnecessary personal questions which I found it simply annoying. Luckily I was able to complete my first survey for 1000 points…

        Actually, the interface of Opinion check-in reminds me a bit of the ‘Rewards for Thoughts’ survey which was awful…

• Rob says:

  13 Sep13 September 08:03

  There are only a fixed number of questions in the system during the current beta phase, you may have exhausted them.

• Phillip says:

  13 Sep13 September 08:20

  Big shame on the gift cards – since the introduction of M&S cards recently, it was great getting more Clubcard points for shopping at M&S than at Tesco.

  • Fenny says:

    13 Sep13 September 20:57

    I’m gutted at the loss of clubcard points on my Costa coffee! If I don’t have that incentive to take a walk at lunchtime, I’m going to have to find some other way of keeping moving.

• Brian says:

  13 Sep13 September 08:29

  About 2 months ago, I bought some gift cards in a Tesco superstore. There was a sign up promising 1 Clubcard for every £4 spent on gift cards. I thought this might be a new development and queried it with the supervisor, who had no idea about it. She said that she would manually add 150 points if I only ended up getting 1 for every £4. In the event, the 150 posted anyway.

  Made me think that this might be what Tesco are aiming to do – something that, while obviously (to us) devaluing the previous offer, could be passed off as an enhancement. After all, if somebody currently buys a £20 gift card, they get no points – under the offer outlined above, they’d get 5. A bit like the way Morrison’s devalued their gift card scheme while passing it off as an improvement, since you needed to buy a lot of petrol to get the maximum benefit and so those with small cars were not getting the full advantage.

  • Mr Dee says:

    13 Sep13 September 08:49

    I miss the free fuel at morrisons and just about to run out of it having used up my last vouchers, it was equivalent to 10 percent back if you filled up with 100 litres of fuel.

    Morrisons did try to make out there new offer was better when clearly it’s not but its better than alternatives such as asda and sainsburys that offer nothing. Without an incentive there is little point in buying gift cards at all from Tesco.

  • Mr Dee says:

    13 Sep13 September 08:50

    Even with a 60 litre furl tank that’s equivalent to a 6% saving.

    • Mr Dee says:

      13 Sep13 September 08:50

      *Fuel

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