2,400 Avios / 2,500 Flying Club miles for £5 at Tesco when you order ‘Call of Duty: Ghosts’ instore

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When will Tesco ever learn? Hopefully not for a while.

On Tesco Direct, there is an offer for 1,000 bonus Clubcard points when you pre-order the video game ‘Call of Duty : Ghosts’ for £40 on Xbox 360 or PS3. This is not a bad deal – especially as code TD-G9DW gets you a further £5 off, so you won’t lose much if you sell the game on eBay later.

However, in store, something even more interesting is back.

Tesco is offering 1,000 bonus Clubcard points when you pre-order ‘Call of Duty : Ghosts’ for £5. This is 2,400 Avios points or 2,500 Flying Club miles for just a fiver.

How it is meant to work is that you get a display box scanned at the check-out, pay £5, and receive a special receipt. Visit the store on the day the game is released (5th November) and you are guaranteed to get a copy and you will get your £5 back as a discount. The 1,000 bonus Clubcard points are credited with the pre-order payment.

There is no obligation to ever buy the game when it is eventually released. This means that you can treat this as a chance to buy some Avios airmiles for 0.2p each!

You need to be very careful not to overdo this promotion. Tesco has removed bonus points in the past. Buying one copy is obviously fine, two is probably OK, especially if you buy one of the Xbox versions and one of the PlayStation versions. I would get very nervous beyond two copies (one of each).

The boxes tend to be on a separate stand to the usual video games. You take an empty box to the checkout, it is scanned, but you do not keep the box – it goes back on the shelf. You will only tend to find these in larger Tesco stores. Note that the yellow label on the edge of the shelf will say 500 bonus points, although it goes through the till as 1,000 bonus points.

There is no stated closing date for this offer, although it is only likely to run for a few days …..

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pompeyyorkblues says:

13 Aug13 August 18:50

Thanks Raffles… Got 6 on 3 accounts today.. 30 Pounds for 6000 points worth 180 Pounds to me for what I am saving for in clubcard deals!! Brill!!
Alan says:

13 Aug13 August 19:48

LOL well my shop today was soooo HFP!! 😀

1x COD PS3 – 1000 pts
1x COD Xbox – 1000 pts
6x 3V £25 GC – 450 pts
Baguette discounted to 11p
Chicken discounted to 20p
5p petrol coupon generated from ‘spend’ (3V cards)
£10 discount on next £70 spend (which will also be 3V!)

Overall 2467 CC points on £13.30 spend, plus 326 MR points 🙂
Richard says:

13 Aug13 August 20:06

Yep, thanks for this. Got 4 on 2 accounts today, 4k points for £20 is pretty good going, bring on the Avios points!!!!
- Brendan says:
  
  14 Aug14 August 11:38
  
  If you have separate clubcard accounts is is possible to transfer the points to a single avios or BAEC account?
  - Rob says:
    
    14 Aug14 August 11:47
    
    Yes, as long as the surnames and address match at both ends.
    - John says:
      
      16 Aug16 August 11:52
      
      How is this possible? I have two Tesco CC accounts, a second one created accidentally by Tesco Bank when I misplaced a Clubcard Plus.
      
      They are both in the same name and I had an existing Avios account. However when I tried to transfer CC to Avios from the second CC account, Avios opened a second account for me.
      
      I’m just wondering what I should do – ask Avios to merge, link in a family account, or keep separate, hoping that new transfer bonuses will come along.
kipto1998 says:

13 Aug13 August 20:49

just bought four in Cardiff Tescos Western Ave.
Max says:

13 Aug13 August 22:40

I’m planning to get 2 per account too.
My OH doesn’t have a Tesco card. Can she pick one up at the store before pre-ordering these games?
- Rob says:
  
  14 Aug14 August 09:02
  
  ‘Temporary cards’ are harder to find these days, but Customer Services should have them even if they’re not on the racks
- Sinizter says:
  
  14 Aug14 August 13:15
  
  If you don’t want to risk Raffles suggestion, sign up online and print a temp card immediately.
  - Eric OMara says:
    
    16 Aug16 August 11:40
    
    You can also sign up instore if they have a club card terminal and it will print off a temp slip with barcode you can use until your club card arrives.
    I joined my son and daughter this morning. Took the slips to checkout, along with the ps3 and xbox barcodes and got another 4020 points to convert to our BA household account.
    
    My son and daughter are already members of my BA household acc btw so its all legit.
- xcalx says:
  
  14 Aug14 August 16:18
  
  You can sign up online and print a temp card to use until the new card arrives.
Andrew says:

13 Aug13 August 23:24

Typing the codes into the self-serve tills work but it doesn’t generate the £5 off slip but as I had no intention of buying the game down tend line, wasn’t bothered. Also it needs something to go into the bagging area – I just chucked my wallet in which worked. Oh and a supervisor will need to confirm your age as it’s an age-restricted product, so maybe buy a bottle of wine too so as to not alert them to query what is age restricted.
Chris says:

13 Aug13 August 23:49

Just a word of caution – not being near a Tesco Extra store, I went to a local Express store this evening and manually typed in the PS3 & XBox barcodes to the self checkout. After a few confused looks from one of the staff (age approving products that he didn’t think they sold) – paid £10 and upon leaving was disappointed found no bonus points applied. (just the regular 10)

Not sure what went wrong in this case, the items scanned in as “Call of Duty PS3” and “Call of Duty” – but nothing triggered the bonus. This might be an isolated fail, or it might signal that this promo could not have long left to run, but just flagging up that it’s not 100% dead cert to work and you could like me simply have paid £10 for absolutely nothing!
- Susie T says:
  
  14 Aug14 August 06:26
  
  This happened to me as we’ll, but I got a refund which he offered in cash! So not a total loss as I used my amex to pay!
- Matt says:
  
  14 Aug14 August 06:30
  
  I don’t think it works at Express stores as the promotion is not loaded into their price database, express has different pricing to larger stores (often more expensive) and hence a different database. Best to go to Tesco extra, home plus, metro or superstore
Marky Mark says:

14 Aug14 August 00:52

I know the readership here is low… But Christ make it harder to search via google
- Mrtibbs1999 says:
  
  14 Aug14 August 07:32
  
  To put the top 5k into perspective, HUKD is at 75 and has a million man newsletter. Raffles’ achievement here has been great, but there is only a ltd market for top end travel: in a recession.
  
  Weren’t you bemoaning of the post on here over at PTS? Not very sporting.
  - Mrtibbs1999 says:
    
    14 Aug14 August 13:40
    
    be·moan (b-mn)
    tr.v. be·moaned, be·moan·ing, be·moans
    1. To express grief over; lament.
    2. To express disapproval of or regret for; deplore: “Tom Brokaw of NBC News recently bemoaned ‘the cancer of the sound bite’ afflicting Presidential campaigning” (John Tierney).
    [Middle English bimonen, alteration (influenced by mone, moan) of bimenen, from Old English bemnan : be-, be- + mnan, to complain of; see mei-no- in Indo-European roots.]
- Rob says:
  
  14 Aug14 August 09:03
  
  Actually, I tested this last night and because Tesco wasn’t in the original headline it wasn’t coming up. I then changed the headline, though!
- Rob says:
  
  14 Aug14 August 09:06
  
  You forget the vast pile of data on the site now, though, which is well ranked by Google. In a typical day, the site gets 10,000 page views from 3,300 different people. However, no individual post receives more than 1,500 page views. There is a massive long tail on the site now.
  - Toby says:
    
    14 Aug14 August 10:10
    
    Why do people think Tesco are unhappy?
    
    Is the margin on the game more than £5?
    
    I’m guessing that the margin is less that £5 if they’re happy to give you 1000 points for less than £5 they’ll be happy to give you 1000 for £5 surely?
    - Simon85 says:
      
      14 Aug14 August 10:32
      
      True. I also seriously doubt that Tesco’s own valuation of 1000 clubcard points is anywhere near £10.