I had a run in with Tesco this morning, it was not pleasent and i have since been questioning if it was perhaps a blessing in disguise!!

For the past couple of years i have been an avid Clubcard points collector, it was all within reason and i never spent too much time or money into my efforts.

However in recent months i have caught on to a bit of lucrative glitch 'i shall not discuss this as it is very risky', and when the double airmiles promo's were announced it felt wrong not to throw is as much time as i had into Clubcard Point collecting.

I am currently also looking for a career change/upgrade. This should have been my priority, however i have completely put this to the back of my mind in the pursuit of points, with this also having an effect on my current work(constantly on here, Tesco.com & various other similar sites).

Anyway, to sum up; it has taken over my life as of late. I have spent almost £1000 to earn c£1000 of Vouchers, and that is just recently since the Double mile promo's were announced.

So back to this morning.... I do not live near a Tesco store, it is about 20miles away and i rarely visit it. The last time i did was in early December to collect 8 Internet Dongles ordered online, of course each coming with 2K of Clubcard Points.

I have currently ordered a couple of phones online that come with the 1000points. So anyway this morning i had to drive by said Tesco store as i was in the area. I thought i would jump in & buy some phones as i knew it was an instore promo also, and as expected there was plenty of the cheap Nokia 1208's left(Scots dont take advantage of Promo's such as this i find, i bet many of the English stores are cleared out of this model though??). Having read how strict they are, i decided to go for just the one. I reckoned if ever a store you could get more, it would be this one, however against my character, i opted for one.

So i am in the line for checkout, with my one phone & suddenly a Tesco Manageress(& a right Ayrshire Dragon...) appears in front of me and quickly says very loudly for all to hear that i "will not be buying that phone as i have already been in and bought others, which exceeds their bulk buying policy". I said "excuse me, i have not -i live in a town 20miles away". She said "no, we saw you picking up the phone & we know you have bought before so you shall not be sold this" -she had a rude tone to which i again replied "no, i have not been in buying phones", as i said this i realised that she had brought over a Security Gurad with her -how dare she, and to make matters worst he was probably the only person that works there(in the large Tesco Extra) who's face i vaguely recognised, i think his Mother used to work with me. So then the manger asked me my name, to which i gave her; and she replied "no you have been in here a few times buying these phones, your not getting it, im going to have to ask you to leave the store".

Now I hate confrontation, i am submissive and can never show confidence in a situation like that. I was calm and polite in my words to her, and as soon as she said that she was going to have to ask me to leave -i immediately did, shaking almost. Everybody was watching due to her un-necessary loud tone(it was very unjust).

I can not think about what her reasoning is for accusing me of this. Do the phones i order online for home delivery come from the local store? -i did not think so! Even if it was i had yet to order my 5quota from the month. What i perhaps think it may be was that a person at the direct desk saw me take the phone, recognised me from early Dec picking up 8Dongles, and that was frowned upon and discussed later, so when i was recognised, she called her manager. If it was not any of those 2 reasons, then she simply has me mistaken with someone else.

I am now very scared for my many high Tesco balances across several accounts, i hope there is no investigation taking place, i would think no, however i do not know what to think now. I am very embarassed and i feel it is time to bow out of points collecting in this manner now, there were many reasons for: i have taken advantage of the double miles promo and i now have a suffice balance to fly cheap and in comfort for many years. However there are many reasons against, and todays incident has made me realise that. It has also made me take a good look at myself, and what i have become.

Just felt i needed to get this off my chest.

On a side note, my missing Entertainment points have not posted to my Acc yet -worried about calling though now after this morning episode!! Had not even engaged in the purchase process, it was mid Q that i was stoped in my tracks so they did not get my Clubcard details, however it really has knocked my confidence and changed my attitude towards all of this.