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

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• EvilGazebo says:

  24 May24 May 06:57

  Memories of the cashier calling a supervisor over because I was buying some insane amount of gift cards and/or preordering the same game for 3 different consoles…..

  Once they had decided it wasn’t fraud the look would generally morph from suspicion into confusion/pity. Great times😁

  • BJ says:

    24 May24 May 07:05

    Sundays were always best, everything was so much easier when the kids were running the stores.

    • Cat says:

      24 May24 May 07:52

      🤣

    • The Urbanite says:

      24 May24 May 09:08

      Trust me! Certain times of day and week were always the best for staff who genuinely didn’t give a damn, as opposed to what PTS described as “trouts!”

      • BJ says:

        24 May24 May 16:45

        One woman at Edinburgh Extra point blank refused to let anything smelly paat her and she had the mosw of a bloodhound.

• meta says:

  24 May24 May 07:00

  I still remember days of ordering many kilos of okra and my partner and I laughing when it was delivered.

  • BJ says:

    24 May24 May 07:11

    Oh no, I let one get away 🙁

    I usually had a problem with the vouchers in the magazine at Xmas as I was always overseas at the time.

  • supergraeme says:

    24 May24 May 07:46

    I’d just started a new job when that happened. I’d really tried to appear to be a nice normal bloke, then one day I turned up with bags full of okra for everyone. Lots of bemsed looks as I tried to explain the game to people that didn’t really know me!

• BJ says:

  24 May24 May 07:02

  I like the way you’ve written this article, it does indeed all feel so very retro, hard to believe all this was here but gone within the last 10 years, already feels like a lifetime ago 🙂

  • Cat says:

    24 May24 May 07:54

    Honestly, reading everyone’s memories of bonus points on okra is making my dull commute so much more entertaining this morning!

    • polly says:

      24 May24 May 13:00

      Great trip down memory lane…

  • Lady Londom says:

    24 May24 May 12:15

    Spare a thought for those of us who only came along at the end of this.

    Right ar the enf I did 2 cartridge shipments – don’t remember doing much else. The first shipment, of genuine office empties, Tesco denied receiving. I purchased some caetridges new, started again, they were 90- 95% of the next shipment as only a couple more empty cartridges in the offuce so soon after my first scoop.

    Tesco said only 45% of the cartridges were viable and refused to credit the rest.

    I gave up but by then the T. game was pretty much over anyway.

  • BJ says:

    24 May24 May 16:51

    Hopefully you all vet time to catch up on all the comments. I’ll have to wait until tomorrow. Sorry you missed out @LL, it’s hard to believe you’re still a relative newbie.

• BJ says:

  24 May24 May 07:09

  Did all of those that were worth £50+.

• Andrew says:

  24 May24 May 07:36

  Ahhhhhh the memories of the 3V cards and visiting virtually every large Tesco in London while on the hunt for them. I remember striking gold in one East London store which had obviously been restocked with 3Vs and had about 100 cards on the display, so bought a few with the intention of going back the next day. When I did, someone had cleaned out the stock entirely!

  There’s also a BA call centre agent still mentally scarred by the effort of trying to add 50 or so 3V cards to my BA holiday booking. He was absolutely convinced there was something dodgy going on!

  • supergraeme says:

    24 May24 May 07:58

    Somehow, in a branch relatively local to me in East London, there were usually as many as I wanted – I never understood why that branch flew under the radar. I got through a fair amount but sadly wasn’t as brave/bold then as I would be now. Got plenty of raised eyebrows at the checkouts though.

    • Andrew says:

      24 May24 May 08:06

      Towards the end of the madness it seemed to get harder and harder to find them, I suppose as more and more people got hooked into the deal. I started out only buying a couple, towards the end I was buying in bulk, great when combined with a voucher for extra points and it was the deal that got us started with Avios.

      Dirty tricks were going on too – I think it was Barking where someone was hiding every new delivery of 3Vs behind the Brewers Fayre gift cards, presumably to spread out their 3V purchases – I got wise to what they were doing very quickly…

      • Thomas says:

        24 May24 May 10:05

        Barking store you say?…er, that might have been me!!!

• Matt says:

  24 May24 May 07:40

  I happily remember trawling stores in London to try to find the frozen beef burgers in 2004 (I think). 85 points per pack made it simply irresistible. I ended up giving packs away outside the Surrey Quays branch on one occasion.

• SecretSquirrel says:

  24 May24 May 07:47

  Not trying to sound like a Clubcard gangster but Cars & Rolex’s were the best redemptions.

  • Lady Londom says:

    24 May24 May 16:57

    What you do that involved cars and Rolexz…anyone?

    • Rob says:

      24 May24 May 17:59

      Motorpoint was a 4x partner at one point. If you got enough points you could get a free car. Same with Watches of Switzerland.

• Gothbe says:

  24 May24 May 07:56

  I spent about £40k+ on 3v cards. Regular road trips visiting every Tesco in a 30+ mile radius. It was very lucrative around Christmas when the Tesco magazine had rip out coupons that gave bonus points for gift card purchases. I spent so much in my local store that I received an invite from the store manager to his Christmas drinks reception….decided it was best not to go

  • Dave H says:

    24 May24 May 08:41

    I had the same invite (much lower spend level), went and had a quite enjoyable evening. No questions regarding my unusual spending. My store even ordered an extra beef/chicken delivery for me, that raised a few eyebrows with the managers.

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