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

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• flyforfun says:

  24 May24 May 08:10

  “It wasn’t uncommon to, for example, get 300 Clubcard points (converted to 720 Avios or 750 Virgin Points) for a £5 DVD”.

  I’m sure a few years before this, probably before HFP’s existence, it was 500 Clubcard points. I spent £500 on 50 CDs and DVDs that I gave away as presents that xmas. I had something like £260 in vouchers arrive. I was looking at a trip to South America in WTP, using an Amex 241 as well, but when they converted, I didn’t know there was a double points conversion going on. I ended up with enough miles to go Club! And loads to spare! We went in May 2012, so that was probably Xmas 2010 or 2011 I “earned” the points. They repeated the offer the following xmas, but the CDs and DVDs weren’t new releases if I recall correctly.

• Alex W says:

  24 May24 May 08:11

  Wish I had bought more Lego from Tesco during those offers. I still have some of the models I bought and they have doubled if not tripled in value.

• Lev441 says:

  24 May24 May 08:12

  Tesco indeed given me hundreds of thousands of airmiles.

  I was clearing out my old room at my parents house a few weeks ago and found a bag of printer cartridges which expired long ago and found two huge boxes of lego unopened that I never sold as was too big and bulky to sell on eBay at the time.

  However fun it all was hunting around the various store for deals, the easiest Clubcard points was from simply using their debit card to buy premium bonds. Was a guaranteed £300 per quarter. That’s what I miss the most!

  • J says:

    24 May24 May 08:27

    Probably worth the hassle of selling them now. I’ve still got a few sets from 2016 orders, and they’re selling for 3-4x what I paid.

    • Lev441 says:

      24 May24 May 08:55

      Will look into that.. had no idea!

      • Rob says:

        24 May24 May 08:59

        My son hates Lego so a lot of gifts over the years are Sat unopened in his room. Some are getting valuable so I’m using it to teach him about business!

• J says:

  24 May24 May 08:25

  Tesco Direct also had a glitch where 3 for 2, and 2 for (say) £12 combined. You had a max purchase of 99 of an item, so it meant you could get 99 for £12 when a product had both these offers on.

• JDB says:

  24 May24 May 08:32

  The Sainsbury Air Miles offers, when they had the contract before Tesco, we’re even more generous than the Tesco ones.

• ChasP says:

  24 May24 May 08:39

  Heresy I know but I preferred it the when the BOGOF could be combined with the close to date or other offers when you could effectively get paid for taking stock off their hands

  • QFFlyer says:

    25 May25 May 03:04

    Haha yes! GBP5 (no pound sign on my keyboard) pizzas reduced to 50p on BOGOF, and it knocked 5.00 off the bill, so minus GBP4 for two pizzas…I had a freezer full of those, I bought them along with a load of DVDs and stuff, the confused bloke at the checkout even handed me the small amount of change the till told him I was owed, when it recorded the total as -0.27 or something!

• Yuff says:

  24 May24 May 08:41

  It was said day in October 2016 when they removed bonus points off gift cards 😪
  There were readers here doing £10k a day on Tesco GCs at Esso, to 3v or the pre paid master card gift cards into Ns&i
  I could do 35 Tesco gcs in 30 mins at Local Esso garages

• Yuff says:

  24 May24 May 08:41

  * a sad day

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