Excellent Avios / Virgin and Tesco deal – act now for very cheap miles

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Tesco Direct has launched an exceptional new promotion on HP printer inks.

This is so generous that I cannot imagine it lasting long and may even be an error.

You receive 1,000 Tesco Clubcard points for every HP printer ink you buy. Those points convert into 2,400 Avios or 2,500 Virgin Atlantic miles.

The cheapest ink in stock is £12.

Even if you throw the inks in the bin, you are only paying 0.5p per Avios point and a little less for the Virgin miles. However, these inks sell perfectly well on eBay so you should be able to recoup much of your £12.

You can combine this offer with ‘money off’ discount codes, eg £10 off £75, which show on the individual ink pages online. Your miles will get even cheaper.

You even get FREE ‘click and collect’ delivery to your nearest Tesco store.

Remember that Tesco caps Clubcard accounts at 30,000 points per quarter. They have also been known to remove points for ‘excessive’ buying, although as these inks are consumables they would be on sticky ground here.

I recommend ordering sooner rather than later.

The list of inks available is here on the Tesco site.

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:

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

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

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.)

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Dave R says:

4 Jun4 June 23:41

If anyone is selling 302 cartridges cheap, I would be interested.
- josh says:
  
  5 Jun5 June 00:48
  
  How much? I’ll have 56!
  - Dave R says:
    
    5 Jun5 June 21:49
    
    Well as cheap as possible. Don’t need 56 though. Lol
James F says:

5 Jun5 June 11:58

Looks like the offer has been pulled. The link now shows zero products available in the offer
- Rob says:
  
  5 Jun5 June 12:08
  
  Thanks, updated the article
Tom says:

5 Jun5 June 12:13

The deal has been pulled by Tesco…
James says:

5 Jun5 June 12:20

Deal has ended I think
Andrew H says:

5 Jun5 June 12:22

Don’t worry everyone…. because another way of earning cheap Avios has just turned up. Who wants some? 🙂
- the real harry1 says:
  
  5 Jun5 June 12:25
  
  sure 🙂
- Andrew H says:
  
  5 Jun5 June 12:27
  
  here’s the deal..
  
  3…
  2…
  1…
  
  Groupon.es are selling Avios packs again!
  
  Don’t forget to go via Iberia Store who are offering 10 avios per euro spent.
  
  The 2000 avios packs are 19 euros as usual. They were initially available on Friday but someone in Groupon made a titanic error and allowed unlimited purchases on those packs (sound familiar?). By the time I found out, all the 2000 packs were gone. As of the last hour or so, they have been replenished – but I don’t know by how many…
  
  A great few days for cheap Avios…
  - James says:
    
    5 Jun5 June 12:29
    
    That almost 1p per avios… Not really a good deal.
    - the real harry1 says:
      
      5 Jun5 June 12:39
      
      =£16.56 / 2000 —> 8.3p plus 3%
      
      not too shabby
      
      funny thing is I just got about 14oK Avios @ 0.3p – so not sure I can be bothered! 🙂
    - the real harry1 says:
      
      5 Jun5 June 12:39
      
      0.83p
  - Andrew H says:
    
    5 Jun5 June 12:33
    
    Uh, they’ve vanished again! The 2000 packs weren’t available this morning. They popped up an hour ago, I went through the tortuous process to redeem the coupon, and I’ve just written out the instructions for the benefit of everyone here. Perhaps they’ll pop up again shortly. Fingers crossed.
    
    Instructions for anyone new to the Groupon game:
    
    Once you’ve made your purchase, it will show up in your Groupon purchase list after a few minutes (you should get an email to confirm that the Avios are ready).
    Click the green button and you will be taken to a new page to get the Avios.
    
    On the left side there should be a green button underneath a picture of an Iberia plane. Click the button and a pdf file will open in a new tab. At the top left there should be a security code and a coupon code. You will need these codes so make a note of them (ignore the ‘ref’ code).
    
    Towards the bottom of the previous page, there’s a set of instructions. In the first paragraph there should be a small link. Click it, and you’ll be taken to a new page with some fields to fill in.
    
    Add the security code, the coupon code, your email address, click the tick box, and hit the ‘validate coupon’ button. It may not work first time, and will just reload the page – this always happens for me. It will eventually work, just be patient. On the second attempt, it worked and took me to a new page asking for my Iberia Plus number. Enter it, hit the button, and you should get a confirmation message on the next page – your avios will be uploaded in 15 days.
    - Andrew H says:
      
      5 Jun5 June 12:51
      
      Recommend everyone keeps an eye on the above link. Hopefully will reappear. Consolation prize if Tesco starts to cancel all our orders.
    - Steve-B says:
      
      5 Jun5 June 13:00
      
      I tried to order a 2000 pack over the weekend when they were showing as ‘available’ but once I logged in to complete the order, I got a message saying quota for the 2000 pack had already been reached. So, (sadly) I wouldn’t get your hopes up… 🙁
      - Andrew H says:
        
        5 Jun5 June 13:05
        
        The 2000 packs were available at 11:40. I ordered one. By 12:15 I’d redeemed the coupon. Ten minutes later they showed as exhausted again!
Rob says:

5 Jun5 June 12:24

Yup, looks like offer pulled. 2 of my 3 orders from the weekend have posted already; around 13k clubcard points.

Will update if I get an email from Tesco mentioning full refund; I think I will to be honest.
Andrew H says:

5 Jun5 June 13:06

I ordered two cartridges separately. One dispatched, the other ready to dispatch.
HarryKUK says:

5 Jun5 June 14:43

20,000 points deposited, the cartridges themselves are due for collection tomorrow.
8,000 points still awaiting credit to clubcard account, although that was ordered about 12 hours later so maybe that’s the delay.
28,000 Clubcard points in total if this works out for me. Maybe they’ll realise before I collect the inks and cancel the whole lot!

Thank you so much for posting this article – this is exactly what I needed to boost my Avios balance! I’ll be getting my first AmEx 2-4-1 next month and hoping to have a 200,000 balance by then (I was only on 80,000 before this promo – so this has nearly doubled that).
- Mike says:
  
  5 Jun5 June 15:48
  
  28,000 ccp that’s impressive. Worth 89,600 avios to me. Wish I had ordered more lol
  - Tom says:
    
    5 Jun5 June 15:59
    
    If they get delivered can they still remove the clubcard points? Is there any precedent of them doing this in the past? I have a total of 80k clubcard points (spread across 3 accounts) if everything goes through. I did have one cancelled order on Sunday morning but that was on one of the inks that went out of stock so maybe was a genuine stock issue.
    - Genghis says:
      
      5 Jun5 June 16:14
      
      Naughty. Do you not worry about Tesco combining the accounts and you losing 50k cc points?
      - Tom says:
        
        5 Jun5 June 16:30
        
        Obviously there is a risk but the accounts are registered to different addresses and used different card to purchase so definitely risk worth taking. The opportunity to buy Avios at c.0.2p doesn’t come around often.
      - the real harry1 says:
        
        5 Jun5 June 17:16
        
        in answer: yes they can combine a/cs & remove points
        
        they can also remove points if they think you have bought in ‘unfair’ quantities (usually seen as 10 units)
        
        not likely but possible
- Rob says:
  
  5 Jun5 June 18:25
  
  You maybe new to this but to be honest Harry, you are taking the piss.
  
  We all could’ve maxed out with 30k ccp in multiple accounts; it’s not clever but just spoils it for those who were away from a computer over the weekend as they probably got nothing.
  - Rob says:
    
    5 Jun5 June 18:32
    
    *Meant Tom with the multiple accounts below your post.
    - Tom says:
      
      5 Jun5 June 18:55
      
      There was no shortage of stock. Right up until they pulled the deal there were £20 cartridges available. From your post above you seem like you made 3 large purchases too, at what point does it become taking the piss? I don’t feel at all guilty for collecting on different accounts to maximise the opportunity. How many on here have accounts set up for their other half? How many on the Marriot Reward deals will be setting up accounts for their children/other half?
      - the real harry1 says:
        
        5 Jun5 June 19:00
        
        guys: forget the old blame game or handbags
        
        it’s about 1000 (or 1 million) ideas/ tips is better than ploughing a furrow on your own
        
        somebody will always get more than you 🙂
        
        try & give as much as you take (or even more!)
      - Genghis says:
        
        5 Jun5 June 19:23
        
        Good on you Tom for going for it. I just don’t have your risk appetite.
      - will says:
        
        5 Jun5 June 23:21
        
        Yes, good on you Tom. Multi national company makes an offer, was limited to 10 of any one ink per order and limited to 30k points per quarter, you stuck to their rules. More fool them for not checking the offer before putting it live.
    - HarryKUK says:
      
      5 Jun5 June 22:14
      
      Ah, but the same response applies. It’s not Tom’s job to know any of the below either. Good on him.
  - HarryKUK says:
    
    5 Jun5 June 22:13
    
    Why is that taking the piss?! I paid for my cartridges fair and square. It’s not my job to know how many cartridges they have left or how many others want them. They’re a retailer and I’m a buyer, that’s how the world works.