Craziest Tesco deal ever? 62 Avios for every 0.9p spent!

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This new Tesco grocery deal is, frankly, mad. I’m not even sure if Tesco will honour it or not. It is worth a go though.

Tesco is offering 25 bonus Clubcard points for every purchase of ‘world vegetables’ you make.

Before we go much further, you should check if the store which arranges your deliveries (and which could be real or ‘dark’) and which you cannot amend – is eligible for this offer.

Click on this page. If you are not logged in, no special offer will show. If you then log-in and the page is still blank, the store which delivers to your house does not sell these ‘exotic’ items. Sorry.

Let’s look at the offers available for delivery to my house. I actually laughed when I saw the price of the first few. You earn 25 Clubcard points for every item.

The ‘bonkers’ deals:

Tesco Rocket Chillies – 1p each (actually 0.9p)

Tesco Okra – 5p each (pictured above)

Tesco Eddoes – 19p each

Some stores, but not mine, appear to have baby aubergines at 13p

The ‘normal’ deals:

Tesco White Flesh Sweet Potatoes – 62p each

Tesco Plantain – 71p each

Tesco Mooli – 71p each

Tesco Cassava – £1.13 each

Tesco Dudhi – £1.31 each

Tesco Yams – £5.38 each

The screenshot below confirms that, for 50 x 1p chillies, I would receive 1,250 Clubcard points:

I know from the comments on the Tesco post yesterday that some people have already placed orders for 99 individual chillies which is the maximum allowed. The 25 points per item DO show at checkout, so I am guessing that the points will post as long as the items are delivered.

This offer is theoretically also available in store, assuming your local store sells these. Despite the posters being up, a couple of readers who tried yesterday did not get their points.It is not unusual for Tesco to have issues with new promotions – this one launched on Monday.

You can combine these items with the ‘1500 Clubcard points for a £60 grocery order’ that I reminded everyone about yesterday.

This offer runs until 22nd June – although it is hard to believe it will survive that long if they are effectively giving 62 Avios for every 1p you spend.

You could also convert your vouchers to another partner – theoretically you could spend £90 on chillies and Goldsmiths would give you a £7,500 Rolex ….. However, remember that Tesco is now capping Clubcard points at 30,000 per quarter. If you earn more than this, it is likely (not guaranteed, but it definitely happens) that you will lose all of the points above 30,000.

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Max says:

5 Jun5 June 11:11

I received my Tesco order yesterday and called Tesco Groceries customer helpline on 0800 3234040.
They confirmed that the promotional CC points (5151) will be added before the next statement is due (and this confirmation is all logged on their system) 🙂
- squills says:
  
  5 Jun5 June 16:50
  
  If you believe that, you’ll believe anything 😉
  
  CS always claim that promotional points will be added at the quarter end – but actually Grocery promotional points are ALWAYS added within 24 hrs and show on your receipt immediately.
  
  You could try & get it in writing which might improve your chances when they don’t appear at the quarter end (which they won’t.) At that point you could produce the email and take it further.
Graeme says:

5 Jun5 June 11:15

On our rubbish NHS computers, the ‘Older Comments’ link doesn’t work so I can’t scroll back through past comments – from what I can make out on this page, no-one is getting the points on deliveries – is that right? Would anyone be so kind as to give me brief overview?

My order acknowledgement showed the bonus points on my 99 okra last night.
- Sum0plus1 says:
  
  5 Jun5 June 11:48
  
  To all the people getting irate because they didn’t get 000s of points for spending a few pence lets put this in perspective. We knew it wasn’t guaranteed. It doesn’t state that the offer is 25 points per item anywhere in store. The only indication you might get 25 points per item is when you pick by quantity online (due to a glitch in the software) but specifying quantity is only an instruction for the pickers and the price per item is only a guide price – the legal price is the price per kg and you are charged by weight as one item.
  Tesco is not obliged to give you 25 points per item and those that have received this have benefited from an error in their favour or a goodwill gesture on the part of customer service. It is not an entitlement.
  So feel free to chance your luck, but please do so in good humour. We are abusing their offer by pushing it to the limit but if we can keep it good natured were more likely to succeed this time and on any future similar occasions.
  - Graeme says:
    
    5 Jun5 June 12:13
    
    Don’t get me wrong, I 100% see this as a bonus and not an entitlement – I’m just curious whether it’ll work. I’ve ended up buying some nice green tea drinks I can’t buy in-store, so it’s not the end of the world if I don’t get them. Certainly a worthwhile gamble.
Alexis says:

5 Jun5 June 11:25

I decided to lower my order from 99 chilies to just a handful. When the delivery showed up there were no bonus points at all, but I called customer service and asked about the 200 missing points and they credited me immediately, no questions, whole thing took about 30 seconds. I assume it would have been harder if I had been asking for thousands of points.
Max says:

5 Jun5 June 11:26

I was informed by Clubcard helpline that std. points and bonus points (from eCoupons) display on order receipt.
Promotional CC points get added in a batch before your next statement is due.
Costas says:

5 Jun5 June 11:28

I spoke to someone at the tesco call centre and they said they would look into this, then used the e-mail live chat system on the tesco website, and the guy said whatever points are in the confirmation e-mail, that is the points that will be received, so I am all good for 825 points from my grocery order.
- nick says:
  
  5 Jun5 June 12:47
  
  Did you receive any bonus points on delivery? For example did they just group the 99 chillies and give you 25 points for the lot? If so I imagine crediting more points would involve a manual override? I guess I don’t understand why they would credit some points immediately and the rest later.
  
  By the way, a penny for a chilli seems great value. They freeze easily and you can use them straight from the freezer, so no need to throw them away. Chilli oil, harissa… There are plenty of uses for them even if you don’t get the points
James says:

5 Jun5 June 11:42

Cancelled mine, there is ample evidence that they aren’t going to honour it. Made a new order for 1 x each of the 6 veggies and some bits I need. 150 points is not exactly 2500 but better than nothing!
AndrewM says:

5 Jun5 June 11:42

I got my delivery this morning and I got given substitutes for the 20 Okra and 40 chillies I’d ordered. I should have got 1,748 clubcard points, but got about 300. I’ll phone them on the basis that if I’d accepted their substitutes they would have been about £30 out of pocket.
Stu says:

5 Jun5 June 11:57

Just had a call from Tesco supermarket. I was asked if I had ordered 99 chillies in which I replied yes. They then said they were sorry but there had been a powercut issue at the store and they in fact don’t have any chillies in stock anymore despite the systems saying they did.

She also apologised for the fact that they have taken my money for the delivery charge already which will need to be refunded back to me!! WHAT!