where2travel

I wholeheartedly agree that unless there is a stash of bonus points on offer, then Tesco delivery can be a hassle (orders often arriving incomplete, often arriving outside the 2 hour slot and, I know it's free, but they give you a Daily Mail to toss straight in the recyle bin).

If you can be bothered and care enough, I'd call Customer Services and you should get a refund of the delivery charge or something if your order was so incomplete.

smerch1468

I managed to sell my phones for £24 each on ebay, my total outlay including puchase/unlocking 3 phones, ebay/paypal fees was just under £80. So with the 750 pointer I got 2250 cc points or 7200 BA miles for under a tenner !

uk1

I have mixed feelings about your order. I owe a lot to you. The BMI cash-balance-transfer heist. The Marriott point debark. So when you call for sympathy it comes in oodles. It is my sworn duty.

But a few days ago, you received the most unbelievable number of Tesco points under the current regime. My take was that the new regime calls for personal attendance at the store rather than blokes dropping off stuff at your home you don't need for truck-loads of points. Store attendances seem to sometimes involve the Police and buying stuff you don't need to load into the back of your car to subsequently discover you get no points for. I can't do that. In fact the number I need if BA annouce the 50% reduction I'm hoping for on redemptions ....... is exactly what you banked last quarter. So many "ifs"!

mrs uk1 started to question my commitment to her 2011 trip to Oz in F. I was perplexed about your success and my failure. But I cannot do personal appearances at Tesco. It's better for them and me. I am a grumpy g*t.

I've only been shopping with Ocado, I pay them £9 a month and they deliver every day if I want them to for free. Everything is as I order. Everything is fresh. Everything I order is delivered. If the strawberries are mushy - I don't pay. It is old fashioned service.

Now you say you haven't got the Pampers or the Points. I know I should sympathise, but I have to own up. I'm happy with Ocado and I may now have to resort to buying flights.

Raffles

Ah, you didn't read that post properly!

The huge mass of points I got last week was the RECREDIT of the Marriott points I got in August 2007. I never converted them (why bother until you need the miles?) and they were about to expire so I redeemed each £50 voucher for £2.50 of miles and got the other £47.50 recredited and the reissued, so I now have until August 2011 to use them.

I only got about 5,000 'proper' points last quarter and they were all from home deliveries apart from 1 wine gathering spree in the Metro near the office. Haven't been in a 'real' Tesco supermarket for well over a year!

pazza2000

Tesco is really the only place i earn proper miles. I have two of these phones from an order earlier this week and would be interested in getting more if i can work out how to unlock them, as otherwise you dont get quite so good a return and when you factor in your time selling them on ebay then it isnt really worth it. I have had a look online and i can find the odd sites that advise ways of unlocking a 1208 but nothing clear with positive feedback. Unfourtunately i do not have any nearby local shops that i know who could do this for mr. Any ideas?? Perhaps someone here has unlocked it manually at home?

smerch1468

Have you tried yell.com, youd be surprised what is just round the corner. I drove past this mobile shop every day and didnt realise it existed !

They knew that they'd get repeat business from me so they reduced their price from £10 to £6 per phone, it will probably come down lower if I give them more phones to unlock. Very happy with the result on this only problem is tecos points seem very slow to go on at the mo!

uk1

Thanks ... I feel a bit better now.

pazza2000

There is really nowhere around me, im out in the sticks but thanks for the remcommendation. Dont care if the points go on slow, as long as they eventually go on!! I dont keep track of them so cant really chase up un-posted miles.

dewsburyborn

Sorry ? what's this about ? I seem to recall they had one last year - is the expectancy of similar in then forseeable future ?

uk1

It's an optimistic state of mind that stems from a sense of severe desperation.

Rickers

Hey there dewsburyborn, last Oct/Nov BA had a sale wherein they reduced the miles required for all redemption flights by 50%.

It was a cracking deal, on all routes and in all cabin classes, if there were seats available then they were half the normal number of miles !

I don't know if it will happen again anytime soon (or ever) -- it was a good way of BA generating some revenue by collecting in all of the money for taxes and charges, while at the same time filling seats that would otherwise have flown unsold.

tristan727

If Ba's reading this....please, please don't do it again until your systems can cope with the demand! Not that I'm complaining....two F seats, from the sale, to SIN & SYD have my name on it next week. I don't see any mention here of the kid's dvd's in groceries...200 points for bout £8 each? Adding in the 3rd part of a multi-shop extra point deal coupon thingie....got about 1900 points for £50's worth y'day.

I can't even peruse the dvd's in the entertainment section - it says it's changed all our login details there - does anyone know ... it's all about?

Raffles

Tesco used a division of Woolworths to do all their entertainment orders. When Woolies went bust, they signed up a new distributor. You therefore need to sign up again for the entertainment bit of the site.

philco

One reason to convert tesco CC vouchers now rather than when you need the miles is to help BA. The sooner you convert, the sooner Tesco pay BA for the miles, helping our struggling airline's bottom line (albeit by a drop in the ocean!). My less altruistic reason is to be able to gloat over a bigger balance, even if it is a dodgy banana currency!

where2travel

I suspect there will be a chunk of people with hundreds of pounds worth of Tesco CC vouchers that they plan to convert to BA Miles.

Personally, I'd rather wait until I know I am almost ready to use the miles before converting some of the Clubcard vouchers. Whilst I sincerely hope that BA continues as a business in the long-term, there is no guarantee of that and if something did happen to the Company, any miles would be worthless.

I see no gain to me in converting to BA Miles too early but there is a significant potential downside to me doing that should the worst happen.