Tesco and BA [2006 archive]
Jan 10, 2006, 5:00 am
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Tesco and BA [2006 archive]
Tesco is a major partner with BA, and offers one of the easiest non-flying ways for UK BAEC members to earn lots of miles. Details of how the Tesco scheme works can be found in “The Ultimate BA Guide” sticky. In summary, you can convert your Tesco Clubcard points to BA Miles in the ratio 1 Clubcard point = 2.4 BA Miles.
As with the BA Amex, you can only convert points to BAEC accounts that are UK domiciled. Bear this in mind if you are considering moving your account to Europe to benefit from the lower tier point thresholds. However, Clubcard vouchers are valid for 2 years so you can save them up until a suitable time for you to move your account back to the UK.
The paper form to mail in clubcard vouchers for conversion can be found here: https://www.britishairways.com/execclub/tesco/form.html or you can do it online at http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/deals/product.aspx?R=237 by inputting the code number on the voucher - points hit your BAEC account in 24 hours.
Special Promotions – January 2007
1. Tesco Grocery (expires as noted, some codes may be targetted)
XX-DE43 gives 500 points on a £50 spend, valid to 21 January.
2. Tesco Extra - wine
None at present
3. Tesco DVD rental
None at present
4. Tesco Internet Phone (expires 31 March 2007)
1,000 bonus points when you buy an internet phone instore (£15, sometimes less on promotion) or online at www.tescointernetphone.com and then top it up with £10 online. You need to enter the code BAB216 when topping up. Maximum one phone per CC account.
5. Tesco Direct
None at present
6. Tesco Extra - Books
None at present
7. Tesco Breakdown Cover (expires 17 January)
650 points for Total Care Cover (£79), 500 points for Extra Care (£59) and 250 points for Standard Cover (£33). Promo ends 17 January and is valid for online, instore or phone purchases.
You may also want to REDEEM your clubcard points for breakdown cover instead - see http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/deals/...ode%2Bmatchall
8. Recycling (offer on-going)
Tesco offer points for recycling old mobile phones (300 points if they turn on, 50 points otherwise) and inkjet cartridges (50 points). You need to pick up a green plastic postage-paid envelope from the leaflet rack in-store. You can send in a maximum of five phones per clubcard per year - although, if you find a bulk supply, there is nothing to stop you picking up extra clubcards in store and later merging them into your main account.
9. Gas / electricity promotions
None at present. Remember that BA has also started its own electricity promotion in conjunction with Southern Electric and Scottish Hydro. Visit www.energyplusbamiles.co.uk/ for details. You will get 2,000 BA Miles for signing up, plus 500 per quarter. Remember that you can switch power companies every six months ....
10. Tesco clubs
The best of receiving regular 'bonus points' coupons is to sign up for the various Tesco clubs. If you join the Tesco World of Wine, Food Club, Baby & Toddler Club or Healthy Living Club (see www.tesco.com/clubcard/clubcard/clubs/ to join), you will receive regular mailings with bonus points offers.
11. The Tesco Clubcard Credit Card
The Tesco Clubcard Credit Card earns 1 point for every £4 spent (rounded down on a per transaction, not per statement, basis - so a £7.99 purchase is treated as £4). Points post as soon as the charge hits your account, not at month end. It works out at 0.6 BA Miles per £1, which is far worse than the BA Premium Plus Amex rate of 1.5 BA Miles per £1, but there are two reasons for getting the card:
a) some places do not take Amex, especially independent retailers and John Lewis
b) if you about to trigger the '2 for 1' voucher on your Amex but would rather defer it for a few months, you can switch to your Tesco Mastercard
You should remember, though, that BMI issues a free Mastercard earning 1.5 miles per £1 with a 20,000 mile sign-up bonus, so you may consider this a better deal than the Tesco card (see flybmi.com). Note that your Tesco Mastercard also acts as a clubcard, so you don't need to carry your blue clubcard around anymore. In a Tesco store you can, if you want, have your credit card swiped for use as a clubcard and then pay using your BA Amex for maximum miles!
Those of us who applied for a card before April 2006 earn miles at twice the rate of the current card - 2 points for every £4 spent. You may therefore see discussions in this thread which relate to the old cards, as many of us still have that.
(Totally OT, as this has nothing to do with Tesco but I don't think this is in any other sticky: you can also get 2,000 BA Miles by applying for the free Priority Club visa card at http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/pc/...pe/ukvisa.html. You get 10,000 points for signing up, and these can be transferred into 2,000 BA Miles. You can also use them for one free night at most non-London Holiday Inn Express properties.)
Other offers worth knowing about:
3% cash-back on purchases from Tesco Wine / Books and most other parts of the Tesco website apart from Tesco Grocery can be earned by signing up for an account at quidco.com.
If you were planning to book flights or hotels through lastminute.com, it is better to book them through the tesco.com link, under the ‘Holidays & Flights’ tab, to lastminute. You earn 1 Clubcard point for every £1 you spend, on top of your usual credit card bonuses. Points do not post until after your travel dates have passed.
If you collect Marriott Rewards points, it is substantially better to convert these to Tesco and then to BA rather than convert them directly to BA! The transfer rates are 10kMR = 1,500CC, 20kMR = 3,500CC, 30kMR = 7,000CC, 70kMR = 17,500CC and 125kMR = 35,000CC. You can get 5,000 Marriott points and Marriott Silver status by getting the Marriott Rewards Visa card. For one-off Marriott stays, you are usually (depending on hotel brand) better off collecting BA Miles directly (3 per $1 spent) rather than taking Tesco points (2 per £1 spent).
Buying BA Miles cheaply through Marriott and Tesco:
Instead of buying BA Miles from BA, it is now possible to buy them more cheaply by purchasing Marriott Rewards points from Marriott and converting them into Clubcard points and then into BA Miles. The only downside is that you won't get the BA Miles into your account until the next Tesco conversion date.
Marriott Rewards points cost $10 per 1,000 and can be purchased from http://points.marriott.com. The maths works as follows, depending on whether you convert at the standard (2.4) or premium (3.2 miles per CC point, not available to new members) rate:
10,000 MR costs $100 (£52.50) = 1,500 Tesco = 3,600 / 4,800 BA = 1.46p / 1.09p per mile
20,000 MR costs $200 (£105) = 3,500 Tesco = 8,400 / 11,200 BA = 1.25p / 0.94p per mile
30,000 MR costs $300 (£157.50) = 7,000 Tesco = 16,800 / 22,400 BA = 0.94p / 0.70p per mile
70,000 MR costs $700 (£367.50) = 17,500 Tesco = 42,000 / 56,000 BA = 0.88p / 0.66p per mile
125,000 MR costs $1,250 (£655) = 35,000 Tesco = 84,000 / 111,000 BA = 0.78p / 0.58p per mile
If you discover any new offers, post them here and I will update this first post as we go along.
As with the BA Amex, you can only convert points to BAEC accounts that are UK domiciled. Bear this in mind if you are considering moving your account to Europe to benefit from the lower tier point thresholds. However, Clubcard vouchers are valid for 2 years so you can save them up until a suitable time for you to move your account back to the UK.
The paper form to mail in clubcard vouchers for conversion can be found here: https://www.britishairways.com/execclub/tesco/form.html or you can do it online at http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/deals/product.aspx?R=237 by inputting the code number on the voucher - points hit your BAEC account in 24 hours.
Special Promotions – January 2007
1. Tesco Grocery (expires as noted, some codes may be targetted)
XX-DE43 gives 500 points on a £50 spend, valid to 21 January.
2. Tesco Extra - wine
None at present
3. Tesco DVD rental
None at present
4. Tesco Internet Phone (expires 31 March 2007)
1,000 bonus points when you buy an internet phone instore (£15, sometimes less on promotion) or online at www.tescointernetphone.com and then top it up with £10 online. You need to enter the code BAB216 when topping up. Maximum one phone per CC account.
5. Tesco Direct
None at present
6. Tesco Extra - Books
None at present
7. Tesco Breakdown Cover (expires 17 January)
650 points for Total Care Cover (£79), 500 points for Extra Care (£59) and 250 points for Standard Cover (£33). Promo ends 17 January and is valid for online, instore or phone purchases.
You may also want to REDEEM your clubcard points for breakdown cover instead - see http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/deals/...ode%2Bmatchall
8. Recycling (offer on-going)
Tesco offer points for recycling old mobile phones (300 points if they turn on, 50 points otherwise) and inkjet cartridges (50 points). You need to pick up a green plastic postage-paid envelope from the leaflet rack in-store. You can send in a maximum of five phones per clubcard per year - although, if you find a bulk supply, there is nothing to stop you picking up extra clubcards in store and later merging them into your main account.
9. Gas / electricity promotions
None at present. Remember that BA has also started its own electricity promotion in conjunction with Southern Electric and Scottish Hydro. Visit www.energyplusbamiles.co.uk/ for details. You will get 2,000 BA Miles for signing up, plus 500 per quarter. Remember that you can switch power companies every six months ....
10. Tesco clubs
The best of receiving regular 'bonus points' coupons is to sign up for the various Tesco clubs. If you join the Tesco World of Wine, Food Club, Baby & Toddler Club or Healthy Living Club (see www.tesco.com/clubcard/clubcard/clubs/ to join), you will receive regular mailings with bonus points offers.
11. The Tesco Clubcard Credit Card
The Tesco Clubcard Credit Card earns 1 point for every £4 spent (rounded down on a per transaction, not per statement, basis - so a £7.99 purchase is treated as £4). Points post as soon as the charge hits your account, not at month end. It works out at 0.6 BA Miles per £1, which is far worse than the BA Premium Plus Amex rate of 1.5 BA Miles per £1, but there are two reasons for getting the card:
a) some places do not take Amex, especially independent retailers and John Lewis
b) if you about to trigger the '2 for 1' voucher on your Amex but would rather defer it for a few months, you can switch to your Tesco Mastercard
You should remember, though, that BMI issues a free Mastercard earning 1.5 miles per £1 with a 20,000 mile sign-up bonus, so you may consider this a better deal than the Tesco card (see flybmi.com). Note that your Tesco Mastercard also acts as a clubcard, so you don't need to carry your blue clubcard around anymore. In a Tesco store you can, if you want, have your credit card swiped for use as a clubcard and then pay using your BA Amex for maximum miles!
Those of us who applied for a card before April 2006 earn miles at twice the rate of the current card - 2 points for every £4 spent. You may therefore see discussions in this thread which relate to the old cards, as many of us still have that.
(Totally OT, as this has nothing to do with Tesco but I don't think this is in any other sticky: you can also get 2,000 BA Miles by applying for the free Priority Club visa card at http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/pc/...pe/ukvisa.html. You get 10,000 points for signing up, and these can be transferred into 2,000 BA Miles. You can also use them for one free night at most non-London Holiday Inn Express properties.)
Other offers worth knowing about:
3% cash-back on purchases from Tesco Wine / Books and most other parts of the Tesco website apart from Tesco Grocery can be earned by signing up for an account at quidco.com.
If you were planning to book flights or hotels through lastminute.com, it is better to book them through the tesco.com link, under the ‘Holidays & Flights’ tab, to lastminute. You earn 1 Clubcard point for every £1 you spend, on top of your usual credit card bonuses. Points do not post until after your travel dates have passed.
If you collect Marriott Rewards points, it is substantially better to convert these to Tesco and then to BA rather than convert them directly to BA! The transfer rates are 10kMR = 1,500CC, 20kMR = 3,500CC, 30kMR = 7,000CC, 70kMR = 17,500CC and 125kMR = 35,000CC. You can get 5,000 Marriott points and Marriott Silver status by getting the Marriott Rewards Visa card. For one-off Marriott stays, you are usually (depending on hotel brand) better off collecting BA Miles directly (3 per $1 spent) rather than taking Tesco points (2 per £1 spent).
Buying BA Miles cheaply through Marriott and Tesco:
Instead of buying BA Miles from BA, it is now possible to buy them more cheaply by purchasing Marriott Rewards points from Marriott and converting them into Clubcard points and then into BA Miles. The only downside is that you won't get the BA Miles into your account until the next Tesco conversion date.
Marriott Rewards points cost $10 per 1,000 and can be purchased from http://points.marriott.com. The maths works as follows, depending on whether you convert at the standard (2.4) or premium (3.2 miles per CC point, not available to new members) rate:
10,000 MR costs $100 (£52.50) = 1,500 Tesco = 3,600 / 4,800 BA = 1.46p / 1.09p per mile
20,000 MR costs $200 (£105) = 3,500 Tesco = 8,400 / 11,200 BA = 1.25p / 0.94p per mile
30,000 MR costs $300 (£157.50) = 7,000 Tesco = 16,800 / 22,400 BA = 0.94p / 0.70p per mile
70,000 MR costs $700 (£367.50) = 17,500 Tesco = 42,000 / 56,000 BA = 0.88p / 0.66p per mile
125,000 MR costs $1,250 (£655) = 35,000 Tesco = 84,000 / 111,000 BA = 0.78p / 0.58p per mile
If you discover any new offers, post them here and I will update this first post as we go along.
Last edited by Raffles; Jan 1, 2007 at 9:09 am Reason: New breakdown promo
Jan 10, 2006, 5:01 am
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This is the NEW 2006 Tesco thread. Please post further posts here and not in the old thread. Thanks.
Jan 10, 2006, 5:14 am
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Well done Raffles for the good work on this thread (version 3 I believe) ^
Jan 10, 2006, 5:48 am
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Originally Posted by swissytrader
Well done Raffles for the good work on this thread (version 3 I believe) ^
Jan 10, 2006, 5:53 am
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The very first link doesn't work (https://www.britishairways.com/trav...cclub/_gf/en_gb): leads to a page not found error.
Jan 10, 2006, 5:53 am
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As usual Tesco are getting very generous in the run up to Q1 CC cutoff date. I got 300 bonus points in the Healty living (twice) and 200 bonus points on the post shopping till coupons last week.
Anyone know what the offical cutoff this month is; 22nd Jan maybe?
Anyone know what the offical cutoff this month is; 22nd Jan maybe?
Jan 10, 2006, 6:09 am
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Originally Posted by csdf
The very first link doesn't work (https://www.britishairways.com/trav...cclub/_gf/en_gb): leads to a page not found error.
Now, when is Dave_C going to give us the updated "Ultimate BA Guide"?!
Last edited by Raffles; Jan 10, 2006 at 6:15 am
Jan 10, 2006, 8:50 am
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2000 point Powergen offer
I took out the offer in October/November last year. I received my first bill today which shows the Tesco points for the payments made but no bonus points.
Does anyone have any idea as to when these might post?
Thanks As Always
Does anyone have any idea as to when these might post?
Thanks As Always
Jan 10, 2006, 10:24 am
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Originally Posted by Rickshaw
I took out the offer in October/November last year. I received my first bill today which shows the Tesco points for the payments made but no bonus points.
Does anyone have any idea as to when these might post?
Thanks As Always
Does anyone have any idea as to when these might post?
Thanks As Always
Phone up flirt and points are added within three days
Ok it worked for me
Jan 10, 2006, 12:53 pm
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just to note on the ediets - as mentioned on loyalty points you can get £12 cashback on it by using Quidco, therefore reducing the cost per mile. Also use Quidco for getting cash back on a lot of other big retailers. Always worth signing up for these things.
Also I signed up for it and had trouble - it doesnt like it if your BMI is under that of what you are supposed to be - grrr had to say I didnt want to lose weight just "get healthy", played with the check boxes etc. Blooming hell the thing that we do for miles.
Also I signed up for it and had trouble - it doesnt like it if your BMI is under that of what you are supposed to be - grrr had to say I didnt want to lose weight just "get healthy", played with the check boxes etc. Blooming hell the thing that we do for miles.
Jan 10, 2006, 5:52 pm
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I noticed that I hadn't received my November mailing 
on the Friday before last (yes I know I should be paying more attention (Someone point me in the direction of a book on bears toiletry habits) but I had a very busy last two months of 05). So I call the CC number and ask nicely what I can do about this, as I would quite like the points, and then I realise the guy isn't in this country 
.
He said, I think, that the points will be added to my current balance, but they haven't yet. Should I call again, and risk speaking to someone in a faraway place or does anyone have a number that rings in the UK that I can use?
on the Friday before last (yes I know I should be paying more attention (Someone point me in the direction of a book on bears toiletry habits) but I had a very busy last two months of 05). So I call the CC number and ask nicely what I can do about this, as I would quite like the points, and then I realise the guy isn't in this country . He said, I think, that the points will be added to my current balance, but they haven't yet. Should I call again, and risk speaking to someone in a faraway place or does anyone have a number that rings in the UK that I can use?
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Jan 10, 2006, 5:52 pm
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" 15. Tesco Visa Card
......Note that your Tesco Visa also acts as a clubcard, so you don't need to carry your blue clubcard around anymore. You may want to merge the two accounts so you only get one statement, although this also means you will only get one set of bonus point statement vouchers. In a Tesco store you can, if you want, have your credit card swiped for use as a clubcard and then pay using your BA Amex for maximum miles!"
Raffles, please could you clarify how you can "maximise" your mileage earning by swiping your Tesco Credit card and then using your BA Amex. Does this generate more Clubcard points (or miles) than using a regular blue clubcard and then paying with your BA Amex? Sorry if I'm missing the glaringly obvious!
......Note that your Tesco Visa also acts as a clubcard, so you don't need to carry your blue clubcard around anymore. You may want to merge the two accounts so you only get one statement, although this also means you will only get one set of bonus point statement vouchers. In a Tesco store you can, if you want, have your credit card swiped for use as a clubcard and then pay using your BA Amex for maximum miles!"
Raffles, please could you clarify how you can "maximise" your mileage earning by swiping your Tesco Credit card and then using your BA Amex. Does this generate more Clubcard points (or miles) than using a regular blue clubcard and then paying with your BA Amex? Sorry if I'm missing the glaringly obvious!
Jan 11, 2006, 1:10 am
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GottaFly,
no, in this case you just get the standard 1pt per £. There was a recent thread discussing when best to use the Tesco Visa vs the AMEX - I think the AMEX (PremPlus) won in all cases except using the Tesco Finest Visa on Tesco.com - and even then you need to watch for rounding down for small transactions (ie £1.99 earning no extra points).
HTH...
no, in this case you just get the standard 1pt per £. There was a recent thread discussing when best to use the Tesco Visa vs the AMEX - I think the AMEX (PremPlus) won in all cases except using the Tesco Finest Visa on Tesco.com - and even then you need to watch for rounding down for small transactions (ie £1.99 earning no extra points).
HTH...
Jan 11, 2006, 1:25 am
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Originally Posted by GottaFly
Raffles, please could you clarify how you can "maximise" your mileage earning by swiping your Tesco Credit card and then using your BA Amex. Does this generate more Clubcard points (or miles) than using a regular blue clubcard and then paying with your BA Amex? Sorry if I'm missing the glaringly obvious!
Jan 11, 2006, 1:31 am
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Originally Posted by GottaFly
" 15. Tesco Visa Card
......Note that your Tesco Visa also acts as a clubcard, so you don't need to carry your blue clubcard around anymore. You may want to merge the two accounts so you only get one statement, although this also means you will only get one set of bonus point statement vouchers. In a Tesco store you can, if you want, have your credit card swiped for use as a clubcard and then pay using your BA Amex for maximum miles!"
Raffles, please could you clarify how you can "maximise" your mileage earning by swiping your Tesco Credit card and then using your BA Amex. Does this generate more Clubcard points (or miles) than using a regular blue clubcard and then paying with your BA Amex? Sorry if I'm missing the glaringly obvious!
......Note that your Tesco Visa also acts as a clubcard, so you don't need to carry your blue clubcard around anymore. You may want to merge the two accounts so you only get one statement, although this also means you will only get one set of bonus point statement vouchers. In a Tesco store you can, if you want, have your credit card swiped for use as a clubcard and then pay using your BA Amex for maximum miles!"
Raffles, please could you clarify how you can "maximise" your mileage earning by swiping your Tesco Credit card and then using your BA Amex. Does this generate more Clubcard points (or miles) than using a regular blue clubcard and then paying with your BA Amex? Sorry if I'm missing the glaringly obvious!
Use your Tesco credit card as a clubcard = 1 cc point or 2.4 BA miles (thats assuming that you dont have the old protected premium status)
If you use your Tesco credit card to pay, you get 1 cc point for every £2 spent (rounded down as Teece correctly pointed out) This equates to 1.2 BA mile per £1 spent. This is doubled for a Finest credit card spend on dot com.
If you use your BA amex to pay, receive 1.5 BA miles per £1.
The reason why the Tesco credit card points are rounded down is because Tesco personal finance add the points PER TRANSACTION a couple of days after purchase and not on the total value of your account on statement date, which most crdit card operators do where they have a point/cash back scheme.