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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Terry Thomas says:

3 Jun3 June 17:48

Do the more expensive cartridges sell well enough in people’s experience?
- Pangolin says:
  
  3 Jun3 June 17:55
  
  You won’t have any issues selling the 364XL if that’s the one you’re referring to.
scott says:

3 Jun3 June 18:03

Thanks Rob. Missed the cheap ones but got four of the £19 ones for £66 with discount code and free delivery using delivery saver trial. Around 9500 avios. Even if I just sell quickly for £7-8 should be around 0.04 per avios. Not bad.
vol says:

3 Jun3 June 18:31

Never really paid much attention to the order statuses, but I am watching this one very closely!

This one currently says “Created” so we’ll see….*fingers crossed*

Cheers Rob! 😀
- vol says:
  
  3 Jun3 June 18:42
  
  got a ‘confirmed’ status for each – so I assume all is okay with these!
Mark LLL says:

3 Jun3 June 18:56

Tesco direct webpages beginning to topple under the strain?
I can load to basket but I can’t complete checkout (I only want a modest three ink cartriges too)
Hsergio10 says:

3 Jun3 June 19:04

Change internet browser. I got the same issue and fixed it by changing from firefox to internet explorer
- Mark LLL says:
  
  3 Jun3 June 19:06
  
  Thanks Hsergio10
Andrew H says:

3 Jun3 June 20:41

I’m staggered there are still £19 cartridges available. They haven’t corrected the clubcard points either… It’s 12 hours later! Have Tesco gone mad?

Perhaps they know something we don’t… huge cc points devaluation on Monday morning or something? 🙂
- Steve says:
  
  3 Jun3 June 21:36
  
  They’ve clearered out all their nearly out of date inks…
Ronan McKenna says:

3 Jun3 June 20:46

Can anybody confirm if this offer is available on instore purchases? All the cartridges below £19 seem to be sold out online but there is stock of all them available in my local Tesco Extra.
- Andrew H says:
  
  3 Jun3 June 20:50
  
  Judging by previous comments it’s only 100 points for an instore purchase.
  - Ronan McKenna says:
    
    3 Jun3 June 20:56
    
    Just noticed them comments now. Might go ahead and grab a £19 one online whilst I still can then!
  - Darren says:
    
    3 Jun3 June 21:28
    
    Does that include click and collect?
    - Alan says:
      
      3 Jun3 June 21:29
      
      No if you’ve ordered and paid online it should be eligible for whatever rate Tesco Direct is offering.
      - Darren says:
        
        3 Jun3 June 21:53
        
        That’s good thanks
Tesco Direct says:

3 Jun3 June 21:47

Right. So, our little ploy has worked. For the past five or so years, ever since Rob started this blog, our profits have gone done considerably. We needed a red ink dye idea, and this was it. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!
- Heathrow Rewards says:
  
  3 Jun3 June 21:58
  
  We could probably do with one of these red ink dye ideas too.
- British Airways says:
  
  3 Jun3 June 22:03
  
  Surely it would be more cost effective to use a slightly pinker version of the red ink dye?
- Marks and Spencer says:
  
  3 Jun3 June 22:07
  
  We use such a dye in most of our sandwiches that contain tomatoes. I’m sure we can spare some. How does 1000 Avios per 20ml sound BA?
  - Tesco Direct says:
    
    3 Jun3 June 22:09
    
    BA: you’d be better off buying our HP inks and flogging them on eBay… you’d get more red ink dye for your cash that way… 🙂