Why Tesco quietly dropped the Tesco World Mastercard

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• John says:

  8 Jun8 June 08:50

  I didn’t know that Mastercard could charge different fees to retailers based on the type of card…but they effectively have no choice? They can refuse Amex etc. but must accept all mastercards, right?

  Tesco has alwasy been a headless chicken. They can’t even use the same sign-in details for their savings account and credit card account, much less groceries, clubcard and bank! And isn’t it incredibly stupid to accumulate points over 3 months which can’t be used until they send you “vouchers” in multiples of 50 in the post?? (unless you want to print the associated coupons yourself) And if you happen to have a voucher for 1000 points but only want to get 625 avios for some reason, you have to use the entire voucher and wait another 3 months before you can use the remaining 750 points unless you decide what you want to do with those points right now?

• Roger says:

  8 Jun8 June 08:55

  😀

  I never saw any of the supposed World MasterCard benefits and am not surprised by this story. (The annual 650 points bribe is a Tesco promotion rather than MasterCard.)

  The story seems to be about a year old, judging by the Olympics* content and the date of a comment.

  * Getting OT, purchases of Olympics tickets in the UK could only be made using Visa cards as Visa were an Olympics sponsor. However, when the debacle anout Olympics rationing broke ut last yeart, I was able to price up tickets (including some finals) from a German agency at normal prices and could have paid by MC or AmEx as well as Visa.

• Alan says:

  8 Jun8 June 09:34

  Interesting – I hadn’t heard of this difference re World MasterCard before either. I had an egg card and when taken over by Barclaycard this was turned into a World MasterCard – can’t say I’ve noticed any particular benefits, but I guess there was previously things like purchase protection on the egg card that they matched with this.

• James67 says:

  8 Jun8 June 10:40

  Hi Raffles, were you able to get a new tesco refersl form date beyond June? If so, I will wait to end of month to apply but if not I will apply next week. Thx.

  • Rob says:

    8 Jun8 June 13:31

    Yes, there is a new form available. Email me when you need it.

    • James67 says:

      8 Jun8 June 14:12

      Great thx. I will now wait and apply on my return to UK on 28th. If points continue to post quickly then hopefully we will have our respective 1k in next statement. I didnt feel comfortable applying overseas in event use of a nonUK server might cause a red flag.

  • David says:

    8 Jun8 June 14:40

    I don’t know if Raffles has anything more recent, but the latest referral form I have is valid for “new accounts opened up 30th June 2013”, although you have until 30th September 2013 to submit the claim.

    So, you could probably apply in the last week of June and be fine. Don’t push it to the last day, in case they want to review it. (They could also potentially ask for submitted proof of address, etc).

    Personally I would expect a new form to come out shortly, with advanced dates, but nothing is guaranteed in this game…

    • David says:

      8 Jun8 June 14:42

      Sorry – none of the replies were showing when I loaded the page!

    • Rob says:

      8 Jun8 June 15:22

      This form has rolled over for a few years, so I doubt there will be any problems. Agreed, though, it is not certain.

• John says:

  8 Jun8 June 14:13

  Andrew, as you seem to be the driving force behind nearly half of Rob’s posts, maybe you should be added as a supplementary blogger?

  • Rob says:

    8 Jun8 June 14:24

    Actually, on the old blog (the software is slightly different since we moved to external hosting in February) I used to see a ‘top 10’ list of commentators! That isn’t in this version of WordPress, unfortunately.

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