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

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• MrMcBurger says:

  24 May24 May 20:50

  Absolutely rinsed the ink cartidges to clubcard to miles.

• Cat says:

  24 May24 May 22:09

  I’ve caught up on the comments, and have now accepted that I am merely a rank amateur.

  Chapeau to you all.

  • polly says:

    24 May24 May 23:24

    Just a bit late to the party, you and lady London…
    Hope we can all get to the summer party next year, and even Genghis might make, just to give him a break from the nappies!

    • Cat says:

      25 May25 May 06:34

      Yes, we clearly missed an awful lot of fun with Clubcard points!

      I seriously hope so! It’s been far, far, far too long since I last went to one of the HfP parties. Was the last one we went to really January 2020? I spent the 2 weeks after the party rather nervous about the fact I’d been drinking in an enclosed space with some of the UK’s most well-travelled frequent flyers

• Metty says:

  24 May24 May 23:11

  Beef dinners still bring a smile to my face; several of us on a night shift would use a break to go to the 24hr Tesco in Bursledon and stock up on those beef meals, mostly donated to a homeless charity after my attempts to feed the family on them were firmly rejected after a taste test. My everlasting memory was one time when I was pulled for secondary inspection in the USA. The immigration guys were rather unfriendly and were rather thorough, going through my phone as well as luggage. What caused a 30 minute standoff was an Excel spreadsheet of numbers which they were convinced was some sort of code. It was, in fact, my spreadsheet of 40-50 Tesco Clubcard accounts. Try explaining extra points on beef dinners and the need to take my spreadsheet on holiday with me to a CBP official or two and their boss…. suffice to say I missed my connecting flight.

• John says:

  25 May25 May 03:57

  I don’t really want to say too much here but I did have about 20 paypal accounts which just sent 3Vs to each other using F&F and then cashed out to bank. Eventually this stopped working, but then I discovered what you could do with ebay to cash them out (then, by extension, just using normal money i.e. Amex). One thing led to another and met several new business partners through ebay.

• Dave says:

  25 May25 May 07:53

  When did they cut the conversion rate to virgin points? I must have missed this and have been planning to convert mine at some point.

  • Rob says:

    25 May25 May 08:26

    They haven’t yet, coming soon. Do a search for clubcard devaluation.

• Spurs drive me mad says:

  25 May25 May 08:28

  The best part of Tesco deals for me was my Son worked for them on nights, and I’d often text him when a sniff of new miles came up and got him to buy whatever it was for me and getting 10% staff discount, so made it even better value. I’ve still got some wine left over from the good old days, I had boxes of the stuff delivered to various family addresses which was ironic as I’m teetotal. Back in very early days on home delivery Tesco used to give you I think 2500 points for signing up to home delivery, I don’t think one family member escaped that signing up. Plus CD dvd books random toys all sorts of random stuff. Such happy times for points collectors. Think this year is my 20year of being a committed serious collector although not so hard core as before as my travelling habits have changed as got older but I’ve enjoyed the chase/hunt for points it’s my hobby.

• Kowalski says:

  25 May25 May 09:24

  I used to spend £10,000s on Tesco Direct everytime they had a 3 for 2 sale on. Buying high ticket items like inflatable hot tubs. Earned huge quantities of Avios and made great margin selling them on eBay.

• Gavin says:

  25 May25 May 10:25

  Birds eye Beef in gravy, I had so much of it I ended up giving a lot to a dogs trust.
  J&J baby products- had so much soap!
  Bananas
  1000 points on a £40 shop, ordering things you hope would be out of stock so you end up with 1000 points for next to no spend.
  Vitamins
  Tesco wine, remember the mystery cases and the 1000 points with no min spend, ordering a case of bucks fizz for £10
  I miss the old pay to shop days- the beef in gravy alone got me a Virgin holiday to florida.

  • Rob says:

    25 May25 May 10:28

    I had a few cases of the Bucks Fizz. It was, as you say, about £10 per case for 2500 Avios. That said, I think there would be a lot more pushback today about the environmental impact of shipping heavy cases of drink around which you may well have poured straight down the sink.

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