Earn bonus British Airways American Express Avios at Tesco and Waitrose

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• Duncan Stevenson-Price says:

  13 Jun13 June 06:43

  Do we know if the additional Avios will be awarded when using Tesco Pay+?

  The offer doesn’t say either way, as far as I can tell.

  • Nick_C says:

    13 Jun13 June 08:15

    Hi Duncan,

    The details of the offer say “Offer only applies to spend made in Great British Pound (GBP) on the Card to which the offer is saved, including an American Express Card loaded into a mobile payment wallet.” So PayPlus should work, and if it doesn’t you should get the bonus Avios added manually if you call up.

    • Duncan Stevenson-Price says:

      13 Jun13 June 10:23

      Argh, how did I miss that. Thanks Nick!

      I guess there’s the chance they mean Apple Pay, but I think that gives me some confidence.

• Eugene says:

  13 Jun13 June 06:54

  Don’t count on it…
  However if you have a Tesco Premium Credit Card loaded to your Pay+ then this offer is still weak as you get approx 37.5% more Avios charging your shopping to that. 2 Cc points per £ of regular shopping at a 2.4 conversion rate to Avios.
  Good at Waitrose tho now the Virgin deal has slipped quietly away.

  • Duncan Stevenson-Price says:

    13 Jun13 June 07:06

    Don’t have the Tesco card unfortunately.

    There’s precedent for these offers to work with payment wallets (such as the Caffè Nero offers that are so common) but it does seem hit and miss. I guess we’ll find out this morning!

  • Genghis says:

    13 Jun13 June 07:12

    Really?

    BAPP = 3.5 avios + use cc card 1 cc point (2.4 avios) = 5.9 avios /£

    Or Tesco debit / premium credit = 1 cc + use of clubcard = 2cc = 4.8/£, 23% higher with BAPP?

    No pay plus offer currently, I believe?

    For petrol, set BAPP as the payment card and your Tesco debit card / credit card cc no as cc no for maximum points, no?

    • Eugene says:

      13 Jun13 June 10:19

      Well spotted. Thanks 😊

• Kip says:

  13 Jun13 June 07:24

  Strangely this wasn’t on my “my offers” page but I did get an email which let me save the offer to my card. Might be worth checking your emails if you don’t see the offer

• Tom Murray says:

  13 Jun13 June 07:51

  It’s not on our cards either – presumably because we already spend approx £100 a week at Waitrose on our BAPP cards. Kip, where did your email come from? I don’t think we get any emails from Amex?
  Tom

  • Rob says:

    13 Jun13 June 10:16

    Amex put out a press release on this offer so it should be for all BAPPs. Note that, on mine, it was at the very bottom of my offers list and I had to click ‘See more’.

    • Yorkieflyer says:

      13 Jun13 June 12:58

      Not on supps though!

    • DB2020 says:

      13 Jun13 June 13:00

      Received the offer by email. It did not appear in the offers tab, so I used the ‘Save to card’ link at the bottom of the email and used my BAPP card at Tesco yesterday. I will monitor the Avios awarded.

      Also, Amazon gift cards do not appear to earn Clubcard points, I bought one at the beginning of last week and did not receive any Clubcard points for it. Might be hit and miss. Perhaps it is still worth buying these gift cards at Tesco using the BAPP card because spend at Tesco should earn the additional Avios.

      • Rob says:

        13 Jun13 June 14:35

        Correct. Tesco-bought Gift Cards NEVER earned base Clubcard points but, for many years, you got 150 bonus Clubcard points for every £50-worth.

    • Luc says:

      14 Jun14 June 18:57

      Any chance we can get a link to the press release Rob? I didn’t receive the offer on my BAPP (primary card holder) and didn’t receive an email offer either. When I queried with Amex support, they asked me to produce the “press release” otherwise they were adamant that it was targeted and not all UK based BAPP card holders would get the offer…

  • Kip says:

    15 Jun15 June 03:00

    It came on Thu around midday if that’s of any help.

• BJ says:

  13 Jun13 June 08:03

  Thanks for the Malaysian competition, I’ll give it a go although my MIL is just two speedboats and a taxi ride away.

  • Boi says:

    13 Jun13 June 09:43

    Can I visit your MIL? Sounds like she lives in a beautiful area 🤣

    • BJ says:

      13 Jun13 June 10:59

      A visit with here is always like an appearance on The Apprentice.

      • BJ says:

        13 Jun13 June 13:26

        She has 6 kids, all are expected to have at least one thriving business and plans for at least one more at any given time. She’s over 70 but has never slowed down. All her children are expected to be at home to celebrate new year together which amounts to nothing more than a family business conference. It’s relentless.

• Tony says:

  13 Jun13 June 08:25

  Any chance you can drop a note back to your “friends” at Malaysian Airlines and suggest they do the right thing when it comes to making refunds for flights they cancelled, rather than foisting useless, time limited vouchers on folk? I know I’m not the only one to have been legged over by them.

  • Rob says:

    13 Jun13 June 10:14

    The UK team have no control over that. It these flights didn’t touch the UK you’re also relying on Malaysian law.

    • Tony says:

      14 Jun14 June 09:49

      Not sure that makes this large scale theft in any way acceptable. Just think it’s worth folk being aware that this company has no scruples when it comes to how they treat customers and is operating at the very sharpest end of practice we’ve seen in the current crisis.

• Angelo says:

  13 Jun13 June 08:37

  But you don’t get clubcard points on gift vouchers, from their website:

  “You can’t collect points on some products due to various legal, regulatory or contractual reasons. These products are: tobacco or tobacco related products, lottery, stamps, prescription medicines, infant formula milk, Tesco gift cards, 3rd party gift cards, saving stamps, in-store concessions, Paypoint payments or purchases of some Tesco Bank products. Other products may also be excluded at the discretion of Tesco.

  From 20 April 2020, you’ll no longer collect Clubcard points on the value of Clubcard vouchers and money-off coupons you use in your shop.”

  • Boi says:

    13 Jun13 June 09:46

    But the points are Earned through your spending on BAPP, so it doesn’t matter what you are spending on as long as the charge is from Tesco/Waitrose you get the 3.5 avoid/£.

    • Angelo says:

      13 Jun13 June 11:29

      aha – thanks Boi – I was still focused on the loss of the clubcard card points and bonuses you used to get, Yes still worthwhile – may bad – thanks for the correction 🙂

      • Boi says:

        13 Jun13 June 17:47

        👍 imagine if the 150 cc were still going…

        • Angelo says:

          13 Jun13 June 19:28

          i know, they were the days and the 3V cards 🙂

        • Matthew says:

          13 Jun13 June 21:18

          And the turkey mags 😂

• Adam J says:

  13 Jun13 June 09:01

  Does anyone know if the BA Amex offer would work with.waitrose gift vouchers?

  • Boi says:

    13 Jun13 June 09:47

    But the points are Earned through your spending on BAPP, so it doesn’t matter what you are spending on as long as the charge is from Tesco/Waitrose you get the 3.5 avoid/£.

    In short, yes it should work.

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