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2,000 Avios for £8.74 – another good deal

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2,000 Avios for £8.74 is not a bad deal.  And you don’t even need to leave the house for this one, should you be sick of visiting Tesco stores trying to find 3V cards ….

You can even get something potentially more valuable for your £8.74, like a £20 Waitrose voucher.

Let me explain the deal

Mighty Deals is a daily deals site run by www.moneyexpert.com.  Money Expert is a price comparison website which owns Simply Switch amongst other things.

Until Monday, they are promoting this offer:

Shell promotion

The headline is misleading.

It looks like you are paying £10 for a £20 Shell fuel voucher.  However, when you read the small print, you are not.  You are paying £10 for a Shell Drivers Club membership card which comes pre-loaded with 4,000 points.

Now, you can – if you want – redeem those 4,000 Shell Drivers Club points for a £20 fuel voucher.  However, you can also redeem them for:

2,000 Avios points

£20 Waitrose voucher (note: Waitrose only, not John Lewis)

£20 to exchange for gift cards at your local Shell garage

How do I order?

Mighty Deals is available on Quidco (10%) and TopCashback (15%).  I used TopCashBack and it tracked at £1.26 (15% of the ex-VAT price) so your net cost is (£10 – £1.26 =) £8.74. 

Remember that you can now transfer TopCashback money to Tesco Clubcard, so that £1.26 gets you 126 Clubcard points which gets you an extra 300 Avios.

(If you are not a TopCashback member, this link allows you to sign up under me for their ‘refer a friend’ promotion, for which I am grateful).

You will need to create an account at Mighty Deals before you can order.  They accept Visa or MasterCard but not Amex or PayPal.

Once you order, you receive an email saying that you will receive your Shell Drivers Club card in the next 10 days.

Once you have registered your Shell Drivers Club card and set your earnings preference to Avios, your 4,000 points should transfer across at the end of the next quarter, which is 30th June.

If you select the Waitrose vouchers instead, you will also have to wait until 30th June for those to be issued.

What if I already have a Shell Drivers Club card?

I don’t know, to be honest.  Frankly, the Shell Drivers Club website is antiquated and is unlikely to spot or block duplicate accounts.  I have gone ahead and ordered with no worries.

The deadline for ordering this deal is Bank Holiday Monday.

PS.  Mighty Deals has, looking online, had issues in the past because it sold deals offered by merchants who were ‘dubious’.  You should bear this in mind, but also remember that Money Expert (the parent) is a respectable business.  Shell is also clearly a respectable partner.   Bearing this in mind, I still feel happy to promote this deal.


How to earn Avios points from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (December 2021)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

British Airways BA Amex American Express card

British Airways American Express

5,000 Avios for signing up, no annual fee and an Economy 2-4-1 voucher for spending ….. Read our full review

British Airways BA Premium Plus American Express Amex credit card

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

25,000 Avios and the UK’s most valuable credit card perk – the 2-4-1 companion voucher Read our full review

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points, such as:

Nectar American Express

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & two airport lounge passes Read our full review

American Express Platinum card Amex

The Platinum Card from American Express

30,000 points and an unbeatable set of travel benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Run your own business?

We recommend Capital On Tap for limited companies. You earn 1 Avios per £1 which is impressive for a Visa card, along with a sign-up bonus worth 10,500 Avios:

Capital On Tap Business Rewards Visa

The most generous Avios Visa or Mastercard for a limited company Read our full review

You should also consider the British Airways Accelerating Business credit card. This is open to sole traders as well as limited companies and has a 30,000 Avios sign-up bonus:

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express card

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express

30,000 Avios sign-up bonus – plus annual bonuses of up to 30,000 Avios Read our full review

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.

(Want to earn more Avios?  Click here to visit our home page for our latest articles on earning and spending your Avios points and click here to see how to earn more Avios this month from offers and promotions.)

Comments (79)

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  • Rob says:

    But that is not the equation. Shell offers you the chance to swap 2,000 Avios for a £20 fuel voucher or a £20 Waitrose voucher. You then have to decide whether you value the Avios at 1p or not.

  • woggly says:

    Don’t try and do this transaction from outside of the UK, or from a none UK IP address (those at work may be affected)

    The transaction will fail after card verification.

    Called support and they confirmed this

    • Craig says:

      Even with my VPN set to a UK IP address it fails…

      Hopefully just a bug with this website, as it would be a major pain to have my 3 Visa cards blocked!!

    • Rob says:

      I in China, failed with BMI Visa on the Securecode page using direct connection and UK VPN, but worked with direct connection usiing Halifax Mastercard, so I guess its up to the bank on the 3D securecode thing.

  • Mike Jones says:

    10 x 3V cards in stock at Tesco Metro Ealing Broadway as of 1030 today. There was 20 when I arrived 🙂

  • Brendan says:

    No Shell garages or Waitrose stores in NI so think will give this one a miss

    • Neil Campbell says:

      Hi Brendan,

      I am from Newtownards myself and my family all live in Bangor NI. Unfortunately I have had to say the same thing to them. Sorry!

  • Neil Campbell says:

    Hi,

    I am a Director at MightyDeals. Current Shell Drivers Club members can purchase the deal, then transfer their points. Here is a link to show you how you do this.

    https://www.shelldriversclub.co.uk/smart/other/Other3.html?site=en-en

    Hope everyone likes the deal.

    Kind Regards,

    Neil Campbell
    MightyDeals

  • Vlad says:

    Hi, is there a limit to how many of these cards (deals) one can order? And each additional order qualifies for the reward too? So, for example, ordering 2 cards would result in an 4000 Avios reward, 3 cards 6000 Avios, etc?

    Also, for existing card holders, is it necessary to transfer the points to my existing card at all, or just let them be converted to Avios from the new card, and then forget about that card?

    Thanks!

    • Neil Campbell says:

      Hi Vlad,

      Only 1 purchase per customer. You can transfer points from 1 card to another.

      Click on the below link.

      https://www.shelldriversclub.co.uk/smart/other/Other3.html?site=en-en

      • Vlad says:

        Hi Neil, thanks very much for that. I know the points can be transferred to my existing card, but I was asking if it was actually necessary to do this at all? Or is that the ONLY way, if one already has a Shell card?

        • Neil Campbell says:

          Hi Vlad,

          Sorry, I understand. You do need to purchase the new deal to get the 4,000 points. You don’t need to then transfer the points, you can simply transfer to Money Off Fuel Voucher without having to transfer.

  • tangey says:

    “But that is not the equation. Shell offers you the chance to swap 2,000 Avios for a £20 fuel voucher or a £20 Waitrose voucher. You then have to decide whether you value the Avios at 1p or not.”

    No I don’t.

    I live in Northern Ireland, no waitrose, no shell, those are totally irrelevant to me. Its Avios@ 0.43p each, or 2000 for £8.74, which by the way is the title you picked the article !

  • flyforfun says:

    Sold out as per 6pm on the 22nd.

    When I got mine they had sold 5000 and when I last looked they had sold around 8800, so it’s all over now.

    • The_Pope says:

      I just bought one (18:19 on 22 MAY) and it had over 10,000 sold on the site. Mine looked like it went through just fine.

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