is anyone else addicted to tesco clubcard points?

divadiow · 31 Aug 2007 at 20:59

I've become obsessed. I now hoover up any ink cartridges and mobile phones i can find anywhere to send off to get points. last quarter I got 7300 points, £73 worth. clubcard deals times that by 4!

this quarter I have £35 already.

I have become a total weirdo and now visit all my local tesco stores looking for receipts on the floor. I then take a wad with points on up to the customer service desk and get them put onto my card.

am I sad? weird? stupid?

Glaucus · 31 Aug 2007 at 21:01

Nope, But I'm thinking I should get one. Maybe a nectar card would be more usefully though.

does it really save you much money though?

JIM_BOB7813 · 31 Aug 2007 at 21:02

divadiow said:
I have become a total weirdo and now visit all my local tesco stores looking for receipts on the floor.

am I sad? weird? stupid?

Imagine the people analysing the statistics.. oh, look, this guy bought something at one branch, and simultaneously bought stuff at two tills at another branch.

Mat · 31 Aug 2007 at 21:03

I dont have a Tesco card but I do have over 15000 points on my Nectar card

Hen_Dawg · 31 Aug 2007 at 21:08

divadiow said:
am I sad? weird? stupid?

Maybe some of those things. I dread to think how many hundreds, thousands you're spending there.
If you save money then it's not stupid though

kibblerok · 31 Aug 2007 at 21:10

AcidHell2 said:
Nope, But I'm thinking I should get one. Maybe a nectar card would be more usefully though.

does it really save you much money though?

at standard rate clubcard/nectar equates to 1% if you spend the vouchers instore

combined with a points earning or cashback card it can be quite a saving over the year... especially if you fuel up at the point earning petrol stations

divadiow · 31 Aug 2007 at 21:11

I don't spend mcuh at tesco. I buy lunch and the odd food shop at no more than £10. petrol too. average amounts. it's all through ink cartridges, mobile phones and finding receipts. actually last quarter i got 500 points for getting a car insurance quote and 200 points for getting a health insurance quote with tesco.

you can do clubcard deals with loads of different things.

I have 6300 nectar points, but have accrued them very slowly over the last 4 years

divadiow · 31 Aug 2007 at 21:12

i sent off 40 ink cartridges last quarter

JodieO · 31 Aug 2007 at 21:36

If you you the clubcard points on deals they're worth 4 times as much so that's generally the better option. I shop online usually and there are some great codes you can put in to get either exta points (which is better as the points are worth more than money off) or money off the shop. The 1000 extra point ones are nice. I think I had about £40 last quarter which I want to use for deals so that will be worth about £160 iirc.

If anyone wants the name of the site I use to get the codes from then chuck me an email. It's not illegal but I'm not sure I can post it here as it has lots of forums.

JodieO · 31 Aug 2007 at 21:38

Oh and you can get extra points by using the tesco clubcard when you get petrol from Tesco, if you have a Tesco credit card (I don't) and also if you're with powergen (I am), I think there may be a few other places that do it as well.

Ripper · 31 Aug 2007 at 21:41

I think picking reciepts up off the floor is cool, +5 coolpoints :cool:

georges · 31 Aug 2007 at 21:47

Cunning plan.

With clubcard we got 20hrs of BSM driving lessons for free with all the packs etc (they've changed it so you can't keep re-applying for the packs now. Still, worked when we did it

) and the other day we had a £100 meal at Cafe Rouge for free.

Not bad tbh.

Especially when all 3 cars are filled at tesco since it's the nearest.

Duke · 31 Aug 2007 at 21:47

Wasn't in the news a couple of years ago, that someone kept scanning in their own receipts or something and had tens of thousands of points, until caught?

Hamster · 31 Aug 2007 at 22:08

Tesco give green points for not using new carrier bags. I just use old ones or sometimes not any. Admittedly they make good liners for small bins.

17 billion carrier bags end up in landfills every year in the UK.

Glaucus · 31 Aug 2007 at 22:13

Marmoset said:
Tesco give green points for not using new carrier bags. I just use old ones or sometimes not any. Admittedly they make good liners for small bins.

17 billion carrier bags end up in landfills every year in the UK.

easy solution to that, get councils to recycle plastic, especially carrier bags and bottles.

JodieO · 31 Aug 2007 at 22:17

AcidHell2 said:
easy solution to that, get councils to recycle plastic, especially carrier bags and bottles.

Agree. I keep my old carrier bags to reuse anyway, not in store but I always find a use for them. I have a drawer full.

Hamster · 31 Aug 2007 at 22:22

AcidHell2 said:
easy solution to that, get councils to recycle plastic, especially carrier bags and bottles.

Reuse and recycling is what is needed. I didn't think that it was energy efficient to recycle carrier bags but i may be wrong.

Glaucus · 31 Aug 2007 at 22:23

Marmoset said:
Reuse and recycling is what is needed. I didn't think that it was energy efficient to recycle carrier bags but i may be wrong.

I use mine for all the small bins, taking lunch to work etc.

Things should be slowly forced to use plastic that is easy to recycle. then councils should recycle it.

Vulcan · 31 Aug 2007 at 22:26

Mat said:
I dont have a Tesco card but I do have over 15000 points on my Nectar card

..... £7.50

You rock

NotAGolf · 31 Aug 2007 at 22:27

I know a few months back you could turn the points into money off Virgin holidays, i.e £25 worth of clubcard points = £100 off a holiday. Not to shabby. Think u could do it for air miles as well. It's a nice surprise when you forget how much you have.