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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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  • Simon85 says:

    Still showing as available to me – 10434 sold

    • mrtibbs1999 says:

      I would love to know the % of these that actually get redeemed. I suspect it will be wuite low due to the complexity involved

      • Rob says:

        That may be the plan, but I doubt it. 2 minutes to register the card, select the reward you want then wait until June 30th for it to come.

  • Neil says:

    I’ve just put through a successful order so still seems to be working fine.

  • James HD says:

    I’ve just put through an order but no e-mail confirmation has come through?
    Order went through at 21.30

  • vindaloo says:

    Just put an order through as well. Works fine with the 3V card for what it’s worth. I got the e-mail confirmation within a few minutes. Maybe check your spam folder if it hasn’t arrived/

  • vindaloo says:

    Completely OT, but when I look at the top of this page (around 11pm BST on the day the article was posted) it shows, just under the title of the article: “51 COMMENTS”. I can count only 18, so where are the other 33? Are these the automatically filtered spam? Just interested to know why there’s such a big discrepancy.

    • Rob says:

      I truncated the Comments when I got 170 on the 3V visa post! I will un-truncate it as 50 is manageable on one page.

    • AndyGWP says:

      this threw me off yesterday too – what you possibly overlooked yesterday, is that there was a ‘previous’ comments link that took you to another ‘page-worth’ of comments… as Raffles says though, its all been put onto one page now 🙂

  • Neil says:

    There’s two pages of comments – look directly below the last comment for the link to previous ones.

  • Neil says:

    Ah, just noticed that points from Shell can go to both Avios.com and BAEC so I guess if you had two cards you could simply feed one to Avios and one to BA accounts? Assuming of course that Shell don’t spot the multiple accounts when you register them and shut one down…

  • trickster says:

    I’m sure in the past I’ve fed multiple Shell cards into my BAEC account. Between my wife and I we have 3 Shell cards.

    In my opinion Avios is not the best deal here, I’m going to use my card(s) for the fuel voucher. Mainly because I regularly use Shell on the way to work for convenience and it’s often the cheapest anyway.

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