Originally Posted by
wheremattgoes
I suspect that the wording about Shell Drivers Club is due to a copy and paste error, followed by a proof-reading failure. That is a very specific condition to not be explicitly mentioned in the text of the email about the promotion.
I have no idea if I've collected Avios with Shell Drivers Club in the past 36 months. I haven't bought fuel at Shell for ages - I don't know if the last time was less than 3 years ago. My Shell card account was set to auto-convert into my Avios account, but it's no longer available to check as Shell Drivers Club has now closed down. My Avios account is also no more, so I can't check there.
I think it's more likely that the wording of the condition should have said "collected Avios with Tesco Clubcard in the last thirty-six months". I'm waiting to see if they send out a correction.
The email promoted the continuing availability of Avios on petrol via Tesco petrol stations. What didn't come out in
vanilla8's post was the title of the email: "Get Avios when you refuel at Tesco petrol stations".
In that context, it would make perfect sense for this bonus to be available only to those who used to collect Avios on petrol via Shell petrol stations. It is to try to get them to switch to buying petrol at Tesco instead. The 40% bonus is a carrot for making the switch. The length of time for which the promotion runs reflects how much time it takes to change established patterns of behaviour for something like buying petrol. (I would have to go a long way out of my way to get to a Tesco petrol station, so there is a great deal of inertia involved. Which I shall probably not bother to try to overcome.)
So I think it's more likely to be purely wishful thinking that this 40% bonus applies to everyone for half of 2019.