For old times’ sake …. earn bonus miles with a Tesco Clubcard deal

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• Colin says:

  24 May24 May 05:19

  500 clubcard currently is 1250 Virgin ( not 1200 )

• Colin says:

  24 May24 May 05:22

  Memories …. My OAP neighbour loved the “free” beef in gravy that I gave him !

• Paul says:

  24 May24 May 05:22

  Ah those were the days. We managed enough clubcard points to get a family trip to Bali (via Virgin holidays and a minor loophole).

• Colin says:

  24 May24 May 05:30

  Not sure I would use Halfords but nice to get. I still get some other points deals in the Tesco app… only today I got 25 extra points on mangetout . 🙂

• Polly says:

  24 May24 May 06:41

  And what about the tiniest cabbages, think we got 50 pts per cabbage… it was such a hoot…
  We also got c40k points for a printer we actually needed. Some amazing deals to be had back then…
  Genghis, where are you? was brilliant at spotting those deals…
  Those were the days… as for the poor chaps from 3V cards…. Let’s say no more. Those physics graduates from Trinity College Dublin were no match for us lot, once we got going on this site…

  • Cat says:

    24 May24 May 06:52

    I missed most of the cabbage / 3V madness, but I did have really quite a lot of fun buying up lego and Fisher Price toys, and then selling them on eBay. I was gutted when they shut down Tesco Direct!

    • meta says:

      24 May24 May 07:11

      Also £1 blinkbox books for 250 or 500 points, I can’t remember exactly.

      I also just searched my inbox and found a receipt for 99 rocket chilies and 99 eddoes. 7000 clubcard points for cca £19 spend.

    • JDB says:

      24 May24 May 07:12

      I hope you kept some of those c. £40 Lego sets. My son came across a couple still in their shrink wrap in our loft which he sold on eBay for £1200 each.

      • Cat says:

        24 May24 May 07:46

        😲 Wow, I wish I could have done, but space is at a premium in our tiny zone 1 flat, and my OH used to get quite upset when the Tesco Direct boxes took over. I always had to sell them on quite quickly before the boxes started to stress him out.

        Which sets were they, JDB? I had 4 sets of an amazing discontinued Technic helicopter which I suspected was going to rise in price exponentially the moment I sold them on.

        • JDB says:

          24 May24 May 08:22

          I’m not sure exactly which ones they were, but they were airport/aviation related as our son has been a plane nut forever! He did well never to open them. I think I bought about ten and gave the rest to charity, without a clue that they might one day become so valuable.

        • Cat says:

          24 May24 May 21:40

          😮

  • BJ says:

    24 May24 May 07:16

    Wonder if this article will provoke a comment from @Genghis today. I think he still reads the articles but the forum format fidn’t appeal to him so much.

    • Cat says:

      24 May24 May 07:47

      I miss Genghis! I wonder if he’ll make the summer party still.

      • The Original Nick. says:

        24 May24 May 12:10

        I did like Genghis too.

      • Genghis says:

        24 May24 May 12:17

        Hi guys. Thanks for your messages. I’m still around. Read the articles and the comments v occasionally but just don’t have the time these days what with baby no 2. Interest in points has waned a bit. Can’t make the party as likely travelling for work. Sorry.

        My mother in law still talks about the Mr Muscles I gave her from Tesco. Good times!

        • meta says:

          24 May24 May 12:26

          こんにちは Genghis-san! Good to hear you’re busy.

        • BJ says:

          24 May24 May 16:38

          Glad all is well with you. Agree the game has lost it’s sparkle but it still warrant at least a more passive effort.

        • Cat says:

          24 May24 May 21:39

          It’s the same for me Genghis – but the increased demands on my time are more work related. Kids are quite the time stealers though!

          Some of the sparkle has gone for me too BJ (I hope it comes back when CX start making flights widely available for Avios redemptions again!). While I’m waiting for flights heading East to open up more, I have Colombia booked for this summer, and Panama for next Easter. Bring it on!

          How have your travels been so far BJ?

  • BJ says:

    24 May24 May 16:33

    ISTR Genghis selling the NowTV passes that came with the boxes to colleagues at work or something like that.

    • meta says:

      24 May24 May 19:35

      @BJ Speak for yourself. I still find much pleasure even though time is limited. I am really looking forward to booking my RTW trip in J with ANA.

      • Cat says:

        24 May24 May 21:45

        Wow meta, that sounds absolutely incredible! I was saving Virgin miles for an ANA redemption too, but then lost the faith during the pandemic, and jumped on the 30% bonus transferring to Hilton (hence the Maldives trip).

        I’m looking forward to hearing all about more jealousy inducing travels from you meta!

        • meta says:

          25 May25 May 02:04

          The key now with Virgin and ANA is waiting till the last minute. Lots of availability opening up in the two weeks prior.

          You’re also getting around a lot. Colombia, Panama, not to mention Galapagos!

        • Cat says:

          25 May25 May 06:41

          Oh I know, I’m not complaining! Ecuador was amazing (and I must find time to write a bit about it in the forums), and I’m very much looking forward to 5 weeks in Colombia in 2 months. Bring it on!

          I will bear that in mind with ANA.

          Are you actually planning to do a round the world trip, but booking flights at the last minute? Meta – you have nerves of steel!

      • QFFlyer says:

        25 May25 May 02:44

        Agree, even though I haven’t been living in the UK for many years now, I still play the UK based part of the game and it’s not dead yet.

        I do remember the last time I was there being confused at how much Tesco had changed, the days of using a long dead Tesco credit card as a clubcard seemed dead too, but I focused on Tesco religiously because of the huge amount of points I could earn, it was prob second only to Amex (with MBNA third maybe, if we all ignore Creation ;)).

        I’d probably have switched to Nectar now, although parking at the Sainsbury’s where I lived was horrible compared to Tesco.

• Anthony Heather says:

  24 May24 May 06:42

  Don’t forget it was Sainsburys before Tesco, I did just as well buying up huge quantities of tooth paste and godness knows what with them!

  • Greenpen says:

    24 May24 May 06:52

    Aussie hair products, a nice offer which also applied to single sachets! I can’t recall the exact offer and the points given but I do remember buying loads of them.

• Erico1875 says:

  24 May24 May 06:47

  3v cards frenzy. My local independent plumbers merchant processed 100s of these when I was buying boilers😁
  My other favs were 1000cc points for a £5 bottle of Tesco Finest Cava and the 500/1000 points for the £5 game pre orders.

  • Erico1875 says:

    24 May24 May 06:50

    I dumped a few £K 3vs into National Savings too

    • Paul says:

      24 May24 May 06:55

      Yes I took a family of 4 to SFO in F using 3v, national savings and 2 x 241.

  • Paul says:

    24 May24 May 06:56

    So long as you weren’t one of the unfortunates who got burned when 3v were not allowed to be redeemed on NS without warning

    • Dubious says:

      24 May24 May 07:33

      Fortunately there were some other avenues to redeem them through too.

    • The Urbanite says:

      24 May24 May 09:04

      I got in just after NS&I stopped taking them and started paying them to the tax man instead.

      3V / Pay.com was a nuisance, availability was poor, sometimes there’d be people waiting in store on delivery day waiting to relieve the delivery bloke of the whole boxful! Failed purchases at the till, limited to 4 per transaction dirty scratch pads and liquidating £25 at a time! It was a madness!

  • BJ says:

    24 May24 May 07:19

    I had a whole carrier bag full of 3V cards by the time they ended vut had a love/hate relationship with them. Processing them was painfully tedious. In my local store somebody was hiding them all over the place.

    • Andrew says:

      24 May24 May 07:48

      Fond memories of work trips in the UK where I would schedule time to visit branches of Tesco to buy 3Vs. Vividly remember sitting in a restaurant in Birmingham, laptop out and processing about 50 or so cards while waiting for my food!

    • polly says:

      24 May24 May 12:53

      Same in our store… gosh, we missed out on the cava then.. that was brilliant…

• Mouse says:

  24 May24 May 06:55

  I fondly remember offloading a ton of printer cartridges on eBay after one of the last decent deals in 2017 or so. Thanks for the memories!

  • Cat says:

    24 May24 May 07:52

    Oh yes, the printer cartridges! I’m still making my way through all of the printer paper I got, during one bonus points offer, and gave away my last set of colouring pencils as a prize to students in a Maths competition last year.

  • JDB says:

    24 May24 May 08:30

    Those were the days, but I hated dealing with the eBay buyers. One person bought 20 cartridges and wrote an illiterate very unpleasant, aggressive message saying I was a thief because he had paid for 20 and I had only sent one and to send another 19 pronto or I would have a big issue with him etc. I sent a very polite response attaching the postage receipt showing the weight sent and saying I was very concerned that maybe there was a problem at Royal Mail, and asked him a few additional details so I could report it to RM and the Police. I didn’t hear back.

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