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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Alex says:

4 Jun4 June 07:14

Do you get points if you buy in store
- Oli says:
  
  4 Jun4 June 07:15
  
  Only 100 points instore (see comments above)
- Andrew H says:
  
  4 Jun4 June 07:16
  
  100 only.
Philip H says:

4 Jun4 June 07:53

When I put the items in the basket it doesn’t show the extra 1000 points. Nor when I get to checkout. Any thoughts?
- Genghis says:
  
  4 Jun4 June 07:57
  
  Not sold by Tesco?
  - Philip H says:
    
    4 Jun4 June 07:57
    
    Thx. That could be it.
- Oli says:
  
  4 Jun4 June 07:57
  
  Seller has to be Tesco
  - Philip H says:
    
    4 Jun4 June 07:58
    
    Thx. That could be it.
- the real harry1 says:
  
  4 Jun4 June 07:58
  
  still working for me – so might be something to do with your address
  
  odd, since it’s a Direct deal
- Andrew H says:
  
  4 Jun4 June 08:00
  
  I just tested it and can see the points for the £19 cartridge.. Perhaps you added something that isn’t in the promo?
  - Philip H says:
    
    4 Jun4 June 08:14
    
    It’s Tesco being rather sneaky. The product image showed the 1000 Extra points, but when I added the product to the basket it said that it was fulfilled by Cleverboxes – hence no extra points. The secret – as flagged up by other kind H4P members, is to select Tesco as the supplier from the filters on the LHS.
Luke says:

4 Jun4 June 08:24

Excellent deal, thanks a lot…cheapest one is 19£, but you can use code 20£ off 150£+, so I am getting over 24000 avios for 170£…great
Rob says:

4 Jun4 June 08:27

Bought 13 of the 364XL black cartridges across 2 orders last night at around 7:15pm. Looks like gone through OK and ready to dispatch and collect from the shop on Tuesday. Per the statements looks like I should get 4066 and 9161 Clubcard points, hope they post but know the likelihood slim. eBay for the cartridges.

Didn’t want to go too overboard. Thanks Rob for the heads-up.
- Genghis says:
  
  4 Jun4 June 08:39
  
  Why is the likelihood slim? And why not go overboard at such a price point? If the points don’t post as planned you simply don’t collect and then get a full refund.
  - Alan says:
    
    4 Jun4 June 08:44
    
    Obviously no financial risk, but it seems some folk have reported cancelled large orders, so is there not a feeling that keeping orders to more reasonable levels will reduce risk of cancellation?
    - Genghis says:
      
      4 Jun4 June 08:47
      
      Yes. That’s why I ordered 5 x 5 but if ‘ready to dispatch’…
      - Andrew H says:
        
        4 Jun4 June 11:11
        
        People will feel more comfortable on Monday morning when their purchases are ‘dispatched’.
        
        This Tesco deal defies belief – it’s insane. By all rights Tesco should have fixed it. Surely doesn’t take long?
        
        That they haven’t done anything about it, suggests that they are leaving it till Monday when someone in charge will cancel the whole lot, or orders above a certain quantity… worst case scenario.
        
        I remember when BBC Shop issued a 20% off code one Friday, and they forgot to make it valid for one use only, so everyone kept adding the code to the same basket repeatedly and got about 80% off or something. Come Monday, every single order was cancelled.
      - Rob says:
        
        4 Jun4 June 12:39
        
        But …. the images have ‘1000 points’ superimposed so this is not a ‘fat finger’ error.
      - John E says:
        
        4 Jun4 June 13:15
        
        You’d expect the new images to be automatically created with the addition of a new deal (rather than edited and upload manually), so could just as easily be explained by a single user mistake. However, you’d have expected a correction by now if it was.
  - Joe says:
    
    4 Jun4 June 09:28
    
    Points only post once collected. Make sure they use the handheld device to mark as collected when signing and points will appear next day.
    - Yuff says:
      
      4 Jun4 June 09:48
      
      Points normally post 2 days after the order is placed, irrespective of whether the order has been collected.
      You normally have 2 weeks to collect the order.
      - Genghis says:
        
        4 Jun4 June 10:13
        
        Agreed. Points post often before I’ve even bothered to collect
James F says:

4 Jun4 June 10:05

Checked last night and everything less than £20 had gone. Checked again this morning and picked up some HP 364XL Black ones for £19, so stock looks like it could be fluid.

Fingers crossed for some opening up in the coming days to boost my balance and get me closer to my 241
mike says:

4 Jun4 June 10:36

In all my excitement I forgot to say thank you Rob, so “thank you”. This is the only website I am subscribed to, one I read every morning without fail with my breakfast and one that adds real value. I have previously sat in BA First Class raising a silent toast to Rob as a direct result of this website.
FreddieTheFrog says:

4 Jun4 June 12:20

Managed to order 8x HP364XL for £132 with promo code and confirmed Clubcard points of 8132.

So if I do nothing but convert 8000 points to Avios I will end up with (80.00/2.50 = 32) x 600 = 19,200 Avios so effectively 0.69p / Avios – the cheapest I ever bought them even if I throwmthe cartridges in the bin 🙂

Merci, Robert. Merci !!
Genghis says:

4 Jun4 June 13:22

Let’s see…
- richard says:
  
  5 Jun5 June 07:14
  
  Points posted this morning (two orders of 11)!