1,000 bonus Avios for a Clubcard conversion IF you’ve not converted for a year

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• Vlad says:

  14 May14 May 10:45

  Hi, as someone else here has also asked, I too am unsure as to what the best course of action here is. I used to have my Clubcard points set to auto-convert to BA Avios, but switched that off, based on the advice I read here (because Tesco runs these promotions every now and then where it increases the rate at which clubcard vouchers are converted to Avios). I now have £45 worth of vouchers sitting in the Clubcard account. I also read some rumours that this promotion might come soon, so was hoping to benefit from it.

  Would the best thing to do now be to convert the minimum £5 required to qualify for the extra 1000 Avios, and keep the rest in the hope the promotion will happen soon?

  Thanks!

  • Rob says:

    14 May14 May 11:24

    Yes, given your balance that is probably a sensible approach.

• tangey says:

  14 May14 May 10:48

  Unless there is a pressing need for the Avios, I don’t know why anyone would consider transferring more than the minimum of a £5.

  • gnarlyoldgoatdude says:

    14 May14 May 11:14

    I guess transferring more than the minimum £5 might be considered if Tesco have configured your vouchers in greater denominations.

    My minimum voucher is a £10 (well, actually 3 of them, as well as 2 x £11.50, 2 x £15 and 2 x £19.50). If I had a £6 voucher or maybe even £7.50, I might use that. £10 is too much….you’re down below the standard bonus level.

    The issue with using a voucher above £5.00 is that you either use it all, or you have to wait to the next quarter in order to receive your “change”.

    • Trevor says:

      14 May14 May 15:05

      If you have a lot more CC vouchers than you plan to spend immediately on an Avios transfer, then you have reserves if you want to use them for something else. Would you rather spend more than necessary on a transfer (ie £10 in your case) and get a lower % bonus (41.6% in your case), or spend the minimum necessary, £5, get an 83% bonus, and await your change? As mentioned by others, if you don’t immediately need more Avios for a redemption, then what’s the rush to convert or the need to convert more than necessary.

      BTW, for those with lower CC balances, if you only have £10 or less in vouchers, you’d break even or gain by transferring only the £5 required for this promotion, should it mean you lose out on a history-restrictive 40-50% transfer bonus in the next few months, so you may as well do it.

      This is a far cry from the “new partner” offer that BAEC and Avios started 18 months ago when you’d earn 2,000 Avios per quarter for the next year if you were a new collector with Tesco! Based on that, the lack of a recent % transfer bonus, my much higher CC voucher balance (£218.50 across 3 accounts), and no current need for more Avios, I’ll be waiting for a better offer in case the new offer is restricted by historical transfers (out of 3 Avios and 3 BAEC accounts, currently only 2 BAEC a/c’s would qualify for a restrictive transfer bonus such as this, so I wouldn’t want to potentially wipe out future opportunities of a much greater haul for 2 x 1,000 Avios).

      • James67 says:

        14 May14 May 21:01

        Trevor, are you feeding these 6 avios accpunts from a single clubacard account? Does tesco permit this? Does the CC and avios accounts not need to be comparable names and email addresses?

        • Trevor says:

          14 May14 May 22:31

          There are 3 CC accounts in different names, each feeding a BAEC and Avios account, and all with matching details between relevant accounts – me, my wife, and her maiden name make up the trio. While I think Tesco t&c state you can only have 1 account per name, I believe some people do get away with it. I’d rather not chance it though so 3 different names makes it safer. BAEC will auto-join duplicate accounts overnight without even checking up, so wouldn’t try even maintain it there with the same name. Avios I amunsure how strict, but since they created the separate accounts from different credit cards, I’ve just kept them all, and pretty handy. They’re unlinked now, though were in household previously, but also against combine avios rules to transfer from avios household to baec household which I keep, so better off anyway to manipulate and earn bonuses. All linked accounts def need to be in comparable names with matching details though for transfers. Also have 3 Diamond club accounts and 3 worldpoints accounts for what it’s worth. Pretty much only 2 of hotel and other accounts though.

• Paul J says:

  14 May14 May 11:02

  I’ve transferred my clubcard vouchers to Avios since 29 Apr 12 (the last bonus promotion was around July-Aug 12 for anyone wondering), but I’m wondering if I can transfer £5 worth of my vouchers to my gf’s BA account which is part of our household account and still get the bonus.
  Probably not I guess but it depends how they define ‘customer’? Is it defined by BA customer or Tesco’s customer.

  • Rob says:

    14 May14 May 11:24

    BA will reject the transfer without a matching name and/or address. Not sure if just a matching address is enough.

    • trickster says:

      14 May14 May 12:19

      I’m sure I’ve put my wife’s CC vouchers into my BAEC account before. I think Address and Surname only are the criteria. As Paul says ‘gf’ though he may not be in luck.

      • Paul J says:

        14 May14 May 18:36

        Yeah, not in luck – getting married in a few years though 🙂

• R0Ck5TaR says:

  14 May14 May 12:38

  Similar to above, have transferred CC points to AVIOS during the bonus last year Aug 12 . Considering it was AVIOS direct and not BA Avios. Will I qualify for 1000 bonus miles?

  Considering that never transferred to BA Avios, I would still be classed as first time convertor, even though done the avios conversion last year?

  Oh btw, the amount of CC vouchers I hold ( 1 x £6.00, 1 x £15.00, 1 x £37.50)

• Gabbai says:

  14 May14 May 12:58

  I have logged in to my BA Executive Club account but cannot see any reference to the AVIOS transfer bonus refereed to here. Is this perchance only for members with UK addresses?

  • R0Ck5TaR says:

    14 May14 May 13:03

    Had the same experience, not very obvious…..but open looking closely, Under BA Executive Club offers, it will bring about multiple destination offers, using filters, just selected UK and Ireland, and then scrolled down to see ‘Holiday sooner with 1000 bonus.

    Hope you find it….

• Chris says:

  14 May14 May 13:42

  I don’t qualify because I did auto-convert to BAEC last quarter, however that’s switched off now and I hold a few £5 vouchers since last week.
  A somewhat cheeky idea came into my mind: Wouldn’t it be possible to open a new BAEC account, transfer one £5 voucher to trigger the bonus, then use “Combine my Avios” to send to my Avios.com account, then send back to my old BAEC account?
  Does this make sense and would it work?

  • Rob says:

    14 May14 May 14:05

    Probably would work but, because you need your date of birth and email to match on both BA accounts (because you can’t transfer to/from avios.com if those don’t match) then there is a good chance that BA would spot the duplicate account. This is against the rules of the programme and may lead to bother. Not sure its worth it for 1,000 Avios.

    • Trevor says:

      14 May14 May 15:13

      I’ve had to create a 2nd BAEC account previously to get points transferred out from an old Diamond Club account (long story). Having created the new account, I immediately did the transfer of the Diamond Club miles, and by the next day BAEC and auto-combined my old and new BAEC accounts to one due to matching details. Based on this, while you may be able to get away with the account creation and transfer, chances are the transfer would go through when your BAEC accounts have already been combined due to duplicate detection, hence you’d not qualify for the bonus which wouldn’t post quick enough. I’d say not worth trying.

• creampuff says:

  14 May14 May 17:02

  Being so new to BAEC/Tesco that I don’t even own any Cliff Richard CDs, I’ve never converted Tesco vouchers before. Excellent: 1000 bonus points coming up 🙂

• Steve says:

  14 May14 May 18:04

  Only converted to VS before so thanks for the heads up 🙂

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