Reply To: Working out Avios value

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NorthernLass wrote:

You need to get into the mindset of earning points on all your spending, think council tax, car insurance, big household purchases (even cars) etc. The things most people pay by direct debit, but don’t generate any rewards. There are also threads on this forum with plenty more ideas.

And of course stacking bonuses where you can.

For example, my last £65 spend at Sainsbury’s netted:

* 730 Nectar points (triple points on £60 spend, “Count Up to Christmas” reward, “Shop for Points” reward, point bonuses on items)
* 110 Avios from the BA e-Store
* 56 Avios from the Ba e-Store 50% extra “Black Friday” promotion
* 97 Avios from paying for it on my BA credit card

Convert the Nectar to Avios and I’ve ended up with a total of 719 Avios for spending £65 on stuff I needed anyway.

Mind you, the glory days are long gone. Back in the day you would sign up to casinos with a cashback site, wager £20 on roulette, get £50 in cashback, convert it to Tesco points and then on to Avios when they had a 30% bonus. That mean you got 16,250 Avios for £20 (if you were unlucky), or were paid £20 *and* got 16,250 Avios (if you were lucky).

Then there was the time Tesco sold 3250 Avios for £5 (as in pre-order a game you didn’t want, pay the fiver, they gave you £10 cashback which you converted into Avios when a bonus was on). You could do that once for every game on every format, and some people did it far more than that!)

Others, more adventurous than me, made use of prepaid credit cards, or just filling shopping trollies with stuff which had bonus Clubcard points.

Sadly those days are long gone but there are still plenty of ways to get Avios. I find it fun, like a game – and points mean very nice prizes!