No more easy Avios or Virgin Flying Club miles via Tesco Direct as its closure is announced

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• Jack says:

  22 May22 May 21:54

  I must have racked up over 250k clubcard points by unashamedly abusing their promos over the years. They’ll be sorely missed around here I imagine

• G-STRX to FNA in C says:

  22 May22 May 22:06

  c.2012 – a Batman film you could download, pay c. £4 but somehow get £5 back (poss via a till spit coupon?) thereby generating a small profit, plus whatever the promotional clubcard points were (250?) . Never even opened the email with the film download in it!

  Also during that era of course (although not part of Tesco Direct) – the infamous 3V gift cards!! happy days. Just about trained my six year old how to process them then they stopped the promo!

  • Kathryn Dowd says:

    23 May23 May 11:05

    Ah yes, 3v cards! Could never get my hands on enough of them.

    • David says:

      23 May23 May 12:22

      They were the best as once you found stock you’d empty the shop by buying them, then buying a Tesco gift card with the 3V and then buying 3V with the Tesco gift card and repeat until the shop is empty. Max out every quarter for no cost!

• Stu N says:

  22 May22 May 22:12

  I came to this a bit late but did pretty well out of HP ink cartridges. Not quite the cheapest ones but we picked up £30 bundles for the printer we actually own with 1000 points on each one, so basically free once you factor in the Avios earned.

  Main risk is that the printer dies before the stockpile is used up. If anyone wants a hard copy of Wikipedia run off, we could probably come to an arrangement. 🙂

  • terri says:

    22 May22 May 22:31

    My family got to eat a lot of frozen peas.

• Greenpen says:

  22 May22 May 22:29

  Oh dear, I remember all of these and not having Tesco points on tap will severely hit my travel. But what goes around comes around and there is currently a keen young marketing manager thinking up what they believe to be the best thing ever for their ……

  No one has mentioned the Unilever mobile telephone thing. A marketing person went home on Friday evening thinking they had made their career only to find that by Monday morning ClubCard points roughly equivalent to the gross domestic product of a medium sized economy have been given away!

• Scott says:

  23 May23 May 05:44

  With any luck, they’ll do a “1000 points on cheap ink” farewell bonus 😉

  My most lucrative ones were the
  £1 Forever Love? CDs that gave 500 bonus Andrex wipes that were on offer at £1.50 and gave you a £3 coupon that you used against more of the same / toilet rolls then gave £1.50 back to use on anything.

  Never did the veg thing.

• Yuff says:

  23 May23 May 05:55

  No one has mentioned the SIM card deal, £1.98 for 1000 pts last year, way better than the hassle of now tv boxes although I did make a profit on those for far too much effort.
  Still have way too many cc points

• will says:

  23 May23 May 08:27

  Not Tesco direct but my first ever experience with points and miles back in the winter of 2009/2010 in store was 1000 points for a £10 mobile phone which would ebay for something like £13.

  Local stores were on high alert when I started turning up daily 🙂 The avios sent me on my first club europe redemption.

  • Rob says:

    23 May23 May 08:34

    Ah yes, I remember buying and ebaying some of those!

• will says:

  23 May23 May 08:28

  Wonder if we’ll see a send off offer to clear the decks?

  • Andy says:

    23 May23 May 10:05

    If Maplin and Toys ‘R Us are anything to go by recently, there will be some deals but the majority of decent stuff which is easy to move will be bought up by larger companies.

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