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Urgent: Tesco now giving 4,800 Avios / 5,000 Flying Club miles with Diablo III purchases

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Yesterday was one of those odd days.

On Friday night I wrote an article about pre-ordering video game Diablo III from Tesco Direct which was offering 1,000 bonus Clubcard points (2,400 Avios).

When I woke up on Saturday morning, with the post live, the bonus was down to 500 points and the deal didn’t make sense financially.  I was very grumpy (I can change the site but I can’t recall 1,200 emails).

Then, during the day, it went up again.  Not to 1,000, but to 1,500 Clubcard points.

And now, it is giving 2,000 bonus points per copy.

2,040 Clubcard points – over 5,000 Avios in total – is a great deal for a £40 video game which should resell for £30 on eBay with little trouble.

Do NOT order more than one per person as Tesco has, of late, been cancelling multiple orders.  Remember the Dan Brown book etc.

My original article is here.  The Tesco link is here


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

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British Airways BA Premium Plus American Express Amex credit card

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

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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

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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

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

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Comments (112)

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  • NohoMan says:

    I’ve ordered 2 pS and one XBox version today on same account. Will report back on what they cancel! eBay will be busy…..might try another XBox tomorrow!

  • danksy says:

    Mine was giving 2040 points per game, but if the orders were placed together the points didn’t stack…. i.e 1 version for xbox gave 2,040 but when the PS3 version was added it only totalled 3,000!

    Queue 5 individual orders for me and 2 for the missus 😀

    Thanks Raffles – You’re a legend sir!

  • Volker says:

    I don’t believe it… People are selling their Diablo games they have just pre-ordered themselves on eBay already! “Pre-ordered 2 by mistake, selling spare copy. Will dispatch 1st class as soon as delivered to me on release date.” and “Unwanted pre order bought for nectar points, will post immediately on release day when received.”, just to give you two examples.

    I wonder how soon we will see these generous pre-order deals disappear for good.

    • chris says:

      people always do, infact there where listing on ebay 2 days ago

      (tho since you can only list items witch you can post within 30 days of an order they shouldnt be but ebay dont much care about they own rules)

  • jb says:

    when a re the clubcard points credited to account?

    • chris says:

      some time between when you read back thu the posts and when tescos fell like it,

      this has been answered atless 20 times today

  • NohoMan says:

    I have ordered a Ps version and an X Box version. I have two tesco accounts which are identical except have different clubcard number, email address and credit card. Name and address are identical. I have done the same on both accounts so 4 Diablo’s ordered. I wonder what chance of getting cancelled are?

  • chris says:

    points are showing today, from an order on the 6th (so only 1540 not 2040, now its back to only 1040, tho not a like it matters as the return should be £35 so still 1540 points for £5), for those that are no stop asking when do i get my points,

    unless your’ve ordered more than x amount of copys and flagged your self your points should be showing too, unless your ordered on the 7th (sunday) than it might take another day

  • paul longstone says:

    This is showing only 1000 points now at 6am Monday

  • Future says:

    Gubbed. 1000 for both versions today. Damn.

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