Old Tesco Clubcard bonus points deals which are still running

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• Ray Hennessy says:

  15 Jun15 June 07:47

  I am a casual collector of points. I spend maybe £50 a week in Tescos and I use my BA Amex(the free one). I also use this for any online purchases.
  Would I be better off applying for the Tesco CC ?

  • Mr Bridge says:

    15 Jun15 June 08:10

    well £50 pw is £2600 per year.
    If you spend £50 pw on petrol thats another £2600
    then if you use tesco , and use shops like next, cineworld or b+q, you should buy the gift cards from tesco for bonus ccps.

    Then work out what you spend online.
    if your close to £10k, switch to the paid ba amex for your free companion vboucher, of course assuming that you collect enough avios for a long haul flight.

  • Polly says:

    15 Jun15 June 09:07

    You should def have the tesco credit card for non amex spend too, plus use it as your clubcard for petrol as it gives you more ccpts, plus pre pay all your utilities in advance at pay point using your amex you need to find out who takes your amex locally. But only bother if you are aiming for the 241 BA fee card voucher and a big avios total. It takes time and effort to plan towards that target as mr bridge says.

    • Rob says:

      15 Jun15 June 09:26

      There is a post about earning Avios with petrol tomorrow!

      • Derek says:

        15 Jun15 June 11:20

        Can you do a post on earning avios via (pre)payment household bills?

        Pay point and amex in the
        comment above sounds interesting

        • Rob says:

          15 Jun15 June 11:44

          The problem is that Paypoint tills are not meant to accept credit cards, and I imagine they will lose money on the transaction if they do so. You need to find a shop with a dim assistant, basically. Co-Op did seem to let you do it officially but they have recently stopped (not suprisingly).

        • Tom H says:

          15 Jun15 June 17:59

          They haven’t all stopped, I think it depends on the individual co-op, I used my AA Amex at one today to pay council tax and gas bill.

      • Polly says:

        16 Jun16 June 09:51

        Agree, def takes a phd to work it out! Well done, still laughing!

  • John says:

    15 Jun15 June 09:36

    As Mr Bridge says the free BA Amex is only worth it if you spend around £5k a year, otherwise the increased Avios rate and 2-4-1 on the paid BA Amex is more valuable.

    What do you use at places which don’t take Amex? Tesco is a good card to use there.

    If you buy petrol from Tesco you can pay with the BA Amex but swipe the Tesco CC and get 4 CC points per £5, plus 1 Avios per £

    • Ray Hennessy says:

      15 Jun15 June 11:43

      My spend is only approx £5-6k a year,so the paid Amex is out for me. I do not pay for fuel ( I have a company vehicle with a Shell card,so earn a few points there).
      Neither Mrs Razorbite or myself are big followers of fashion so no big spending at Next or anywhere like that.
      We rent, not own so no big spending at the likes of B&Q either :).
      If somewhere does not take Amex, I use an Amazon MC. , but since I started to use Amex, I find it hard to reach any target with the MC.
      Given that the earn on a Tesco CC is 5 point per £4 spend, then £7.99 spend on the Amex gives me 7 points but only 5 points on the Tesco CC, then maybe I should get the Tesco CC to replace the Amazon CC, but continue to use the Amex at Tescos.
      Also all my utilities/phone/Sky etc are on DD.
      Thanks for taking the time to reply:)

      • Lakin says:

        15 Jun15 June 14:23

        The 5 points per £4 includes the normal clubcard points. Excluding that, it is roughly 0.6 avios/£ on Tesco vs 1 avios/£ on BA.
        In your example: A £7.99 on Tesco Credit would earn 1 CC point (2.4 avios), and on the BA it would be 7 avios. To be fair, that is a worst case for Tesco.
        In both cases, if that transaction was at Tesco you would earn an additional 7 CC points (16.8 avios)
        Personally I would go with the Tesco over the Amazon, but in terms of value back they are similar (depending on how many pence you value an avios, of course). You should at least get it for a while for the bonus 🙂

        Also as already noted, I don’t think the BA Plus is worth it if you spend less than £10k. At that point you would be getting 5,000 extra avios which i don’t think is worth the £150 fee.

• Mr Bridge says:

  15 Jun15 June 08:10

  i joined shopper thoughts when raffles first posted,, but have never had a survey

  • Lady London says:

    15 Jun15 June 15:13

    same here. never heard anything from shopperthoughts after I signed up

• Squillion says:

  15 Jun15 June 09:21

  Some quite good points deals on tyres

• Squillion says:

  15 Jun15 June 12:34

  O/T but can’t think where else to put it 😉

  Looks like I have just upgraded my Virgin FC membership from red to silver for free
  http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/virgin-atlantic-flying-club-silver-membership-upgrade-1567507?page=5&jc=true#post18296717

  • Rob says:

    15 Jun15 June 13:11

    You’re about to have it downgraded as well, as per comments from a VS employee on V-Flyer.

• Squillion says:

  15 Jun15 June 13:17

  Maybe they’ll sweeten it?

  BTW Raffles – did you ever work out a cunning way to move Virgin Airmiles into Avios? Got nearly 100K sitting there waiting to be turned into European flights, Virgin routes which don’t exist at the moment, been waiting nearly 15 years so far and just hoping it won’t take another 15.

  • Rob says:

    15 Jun15 June 14:54

    Can’t be done, unless you do a trade with a BA flyer who wants 100k for a VS redemption and book you 100k of BA flights from his/her account over time, as you want them.

    You could turn them into 200,000 Hilton points. That is not a bad deal, despite the devaluation, especially if you use ‘cash and points’ (where it is available). Could get £1,000 of value via Hilton if used wisely. Conrad New York, for a weekend in late July, whilst not the best example is $314 per night inc tax or 28k Hilton + $140 (so $6.20 per 1k points) or 70k per night outright ($4.48 per 1k).

• Squillion says:

  15 Jun15 June 17:40

  Thanks. I think I’ll wait a few more years!

• Ray Hennessy says:

  16 Jun16 June 15:04

  One other question. You get the extra point (5 for £4) when using the Tesco CC at Tesco stores, does this include Tesco Direct ?

  • Lakin says:

    17 Jun17 June 11:59

    Yes, 5 for £4 at Tesco Direct.

• Rob says:

  16 Jun16 June 20:36

  Yes, this is correct. Only Hilton, they told me they want to potentially get Priority Club as well in future.

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