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It’s back.  When will Tesco ever learn?  Hopefully not for a while.

On Tesco Direct, there is a very average offer for 500 bonus Clubcard points and £5 off when you pre-order a selection of new video games.  Fifa 15, Battlefield Hardline, Call of Duty – Advanced Warfare and Destiny are all included.  It’s an OK deal if you are buying it anyway, but nothing to get excited about.

However, in store, something MUCH more interesting is back.

Tesco is offering 500 bonus Clubcard points when you pre-order ‘Call of Duty : Advanced Warfare’, Destiny’ . ‘Disney Infinity 2.0’. ‘Fifa 15’ or ‘Battlefield Hardline’ for £5.  This is 1,200 Avios points or 1,250 Flying Club miles for just a fiver.

How it is meant to work is that you get a display box scanned at the check-out, pay £5, and receive a special receipt. (You don’t keep the box.)  Visit the store on the day the game is released and you are guaranteed to get a copy and you will get your £5 back as a discount.

The 500 bonus Clubcard points are credited with the pre-order payment.  You have NO obligation to actually go back to the store and buy the game on the day of release.

There is no obligation to ever buy the game when it is eventually released. This means that you can treat this as a chance to buy some Avios airmiles for 0.4p each.

You need to be very careful not to overdo this promotion. It is acceptable to buy ONE copy of each game ON EACH FORMAT per Clubcard.  For each of the five games that means you could do a pre-order for the Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox 1 versions, netting yourself 5,000 Avios points. 

There seem to be 20 different variants available – five games across four different games consoles.  This means you can earn 24,000 Avios or 25,000 Virgin Flying Club miles for £100 per Clubcard account.

The boxes tend to be on a separate stand to the usual video games. You take an empty box to the checkout, it is scanned, but you do not keep the box – it goes back on the shelf. You will only tend to find these in larger Tesco stores.

It is possible that your local store will not have the special sticker up promoting the 500 points.  However, the points WILL go on at check-out.  Note that whilst the label in the image above does not mention that ‘Fifa 15’ and ‘Battlefield Hardline’ give you a bonus, they will.

(There is also a game called ‘Alien’ which is available for pre-order.  This is not included in this promotion and does not give any bonus points.  Do not buy any of these.)

If someone can provide the barcode numbers, it will also be possible to pay for these games at a self-service check-out in ANY Tesco store (except Express, as they have a different IT system) by manually inputting the bar code.  The problem is that all of the games except for ‘Fifa 15’ are age-restricted and a check-out supervisor would be required to approve the purchase.

This will also combine with the ‘£5 cashback for spending £10 in Tesco’ American Express deal that I posted about on Tuesday.

To summarise the above, this is how it works:

Visit the video games corner in a large Tesco store

Pick out empty ‘pre-order’ cases for any of the five games listed above, across any of the four formats

Pay £5 at check-out for each empty case you hand over.  Do not take the case home!

Your till receipt should show the 500 bonus points

Do NOT buy exactly the same game twice on the same Clubcard, whether in the same transaction or in different transactions.  If you do that you have crossed the Tesco ‘bulk buying’ line.

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  • Scott says:
    12 Jun12 June 09:17

    Diablo went up to 2000 points for a £5 deposit last year. That’s what help me get CX F JFK-HKG for just over £192 (inc. £88 in taxes)

    • Rob says:
      12 Jun12 June 10:31

      Ah yes, I forgot that – there was an error and it was doing 4,800 Avios per copy.

    • N3jly says:
      12 Jun12 June 13:15

      It was Call of Duty that had a stint at 1000 points

      • chris says:
        12 Jun12 June 13:23

        maybe its was also diablo 3 (and diablo 3 was the way better glitched one)

        d3 started at 500 when to 1000 than glicthed with both to 1500, than they tryed to fix it and glitched it to 2000 than to 2500, or thats just how they want it to look to push sales of D3, maybe tesco hold stock in blizzard or something, who knows

  • Bella says:
    12 Jun12 June 09:24

    Can u return these games after buying it? Or do u lose the points?

    • PJK says:
      12 Jun12 June 09:29

      If you don’t want the game, like most people here, then don’t ACTUALLY buy it when it is released – just do this to pay a £5 “deposit” which gets you the 500 Clubcard points / 1200 Avios per title/format. You don’t get a game for £5 but you do get the CC / Avios / Virgin points.

  • Scott Nelson says:
    12 Jun12 June 09:25

    Is there any way to see which stores have these games in stock?

  • Andrew says:
    12 Jun12 June 09:29

    Come on guys, lets get these barcode numbers found and posted 🙂

    I presume the barcodes are specific pre-order barcodes?

  • Tom says:
    12 Jun12 June 09:32

    I can bet my 2 cents that this is going get shut down the same way the 99 chili rockets offer was closed.

    • Maximus says:
      12 Jun12 June 09:42

      I was thinking that myself Tom!

      As Raffles says “when will Tesco ever learn”?

      Rather quickly if the exotoc veg ramapge is anything to go by. Today will see run on these pre-orders and it may set alarm bells ringing.

      • Tom says:
        12 Jun12 June 09:53

        Yes thats correct.

        I will give it to the end of today before someone in the Tesco towers realises whats been going on.

        Again this falls under the abuse section in the Terms and Conditions. They can clearly see if your buying multiples.

    • nick says:
      12 Jun12 June 09:53

      I think this is different. Tesco gets a fiver for 500 clubcard points – they will profit on that. Getting 25 points for a penny is different. As long as people don’t take the piss, it should be fine I think. I guess if they really wanted to they could check for people who bought 2+ £5 pre orders and never redeemed them, but I think this offer is properly priced and abuse will be harder to identify

      • Tom says:
        12 Jun12 June 09:58

        That is true the spendage is different 1p v £5 but if people do start takig the piss and abusing it and doing some ridiculous stuff then i wont be suprised if they withdraw it.

        This doesnt seen to be something you can do online.

        • nick says:
          12 Jun12 June 11:15

          People taking the piss will always spoil it. I love this site but my heart does sink a bit when things I’ve spotted get mentioned on here. The exotic veg fiasco meant that I was not even allowed to buy some white flesh sweet potatoes that I actually wanted! Clubcard is the golden goose, please don’t kill it.

  • Maximus says:
    12 Jun12 June 09:34

    It is somewhat alarming to note that when I type in “Battlefield Hardline” into the Tesco direct search engine it tells me that purchasers of the game were also interested in….

    and then shows me a row of their range of different Santoku knives.

    Interesting connection!

  • Lyssie says:
    12 Jun12 June 09:48

    Just to check – if you bought one game per title per console format – would that not be 10,000 Avios, ie 20 x 500?

    • Brendan says:
      12 Jun12 June 10:19

      No, 10,000 clubcard points….which then transfers into 24,000 Avios

    • Rob says:
      12 Jun12 June 10:29

      It is 2.4 Avios per Clubcard point, so 20 games x (500 x 2.4)

  • Ian says:
    12 Jun12 June 09:49

    It’s just an idea, but for those who are thinking of buying tonnes of games, don’t do it. You will destroy this offer and jeopardise future offers. If people don’t overdo it they keep it running in the long term.

    • Billy says:
      12 Jun12 June 10:57

      The whole point of blogs like this is overdo offers and ruin it for everyone, really. Taking the spirit of an offer and screwing it is it’s raison d’être. Whether it’s an offer like this or sharing promotion codes designed for one company, say.

      • Rob says:
        12 Jun12 June 14:06

        It clearly isn’t ‘the point’ (!) – it is occasionally an unwelcome side effect, admittedly.

        Let’s repeat. Tesco has done this numerous times in the last year or so. I ran similar articles every time, as did paidtoshop etc. Someone is clearly happy with the volume of pre-orders being done or the deal would not keep getting funded!

        • Billy S says:
          15 Jun15 June 15:06

          Fair enough. I suppose Tesco are getting a fiver for for nothing, really.

    • chris says:
      12 Jun12 June 14:16

      i doubt tescos care about deals like this but used for the 20 format / games

      since its only 1 points / 1p, the partners ofc give them discounts and some of the cost is covered via those shopped that use they points at face value

      the ones they care about are 25 points / 1 pence, tho will get pulled,

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