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Old Nov 8, 2015 | 6:48 am
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Tesco CC question - should I contact them pre-emptively?

Had a slightly disastrous purchase of vouchers from Tesco yesterday... essentially I was buying a sofa from Next for £510 and I went to the local Tesco to purchase £500 in Next vouchers so I could get the clubcard bonus points. The largest denomination they had was £20 so I ended up getting 25 x £20 vouchers. The checkout person put them through in three batches (and not in multiples of £100 despite my request...) Inevitably four of the cards didn't activate so there was a bit of too'ing and fro'ing with supervisors and so on to figure out how to deal with this. (Their chip/pin machine then refused to take my BMI Amex so lost out on lots of Avios by paying with BMI Mastercard )

My question is: are the 150 bonus points x 10 (ie £50 x 10) likely to post automatically, or should I contact Clubcard proactively? The total amount I purchased was £500, all from the same till at roughly the same time (total time was about 10 minutes at the till) but at their request, and then because of the cards not all activating, it ended up being 3 separate transactions.

I'm aware it usually takes about 4 weeks for bonus points to post but don't want to miss out on the bonus if it goes wrong - especially after the hassle!!

Thanks for any suggestions. (Edit: It occurred to me as I was walking out the Tesco that I could have just bought a voucher from them online, in one go, for no hassle... if only I'd thought of that 20 minutes earlier...)

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