Mel B Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 How to boost your Tesco Clubcard Deals to offset your motorhome Channel Tunnel crossing cost (or whatever you choose to spend them on). Tesco have a deal on at the moment - if you buy any mobile phone on the Tesco Network then you get 1,000 Clubcard Points, woth £10 face value or £40 in deals. As you can get a cheap mobile PAYG phone on their network from just under £15, that's a profit of over £25! We've just bought some phones for £19.97 each, so after deducting the cost for each one, we're still £20.03 in profit in 'deals'. We'll then sell the phones, obviously with a reduction in the cost, but it will still make us a nice little profit. Anyone interested - here's a link about it - but you'll have to be quick as they're running out of phones and the deal ends on 24 Jan (this Sunday). http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/deals/tesco-clubcard-points-deals Del Boy and Rodney ain't got nowt on us! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pagey Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 thanks mel got a lg170 (19.97) after reading your post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennyhb Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Another way of getting extra points is if you have a Tesco credit card is to pay for your shopping with it, you get 1 point for each pound on your club card, 1 point for each pound spent on your credit card & a bonus point if you pay for your shopping with the credit card. I have mine converted to Airmiles I'm on the old bonus rate of 80 miles for 50 points got 30,000 Airmiles in the bank, nice to fly BA for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob b Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 I discovered whilst browsing the airmiles web site, that I can use my airmiles for ferry bookings. I was quoted £465.00 to cross from Portsmouth to Cherburg by Brittany Ferries, so I'll phone the airmiles number on Monday and see if I have enough airmiles to cover the trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennyhb Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 I noticed that sometime ago & because you have to phone I always manage to remember after I've booked my ferry, be interested to see what the conversion rate is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel B Posted January 23, 2010 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 Airmiles for ferry vouchers? Interesting ... please do let us know the outcome Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel B Posted January 23, 2010 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 lennyhb - 2010-01-22 9:31 PM Another way of getting extra points is if you have a Tesco credit card is to pay for your shopping with it, you get 1 point for each pound on your club card, 1 point for each pound spent on your credit card & a bonus point if you pay for your shopping with the credit card. I have mine converted to Airmiles I'm on the old bonus rate of 80 miles for 50 points got 30,000 Airmiles in the bank, nice to fly BA for free. Lenny, how do you know what rate you're on for airmiles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel B Posted January 23, 2010 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 Just checked my clubcard account and we've got the mobile phone clubcard points already ... that'll do nicely! :-D Anyone want to buy some nice cheap LG KP170 PAYG mobile phones on the Tesco Mobile network?????? :D ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennyhb Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Mel B - 2010-01-23 4:49 PM lennyhb - 2010-01-22 9:31 PM Another way of getting extra points is if you have a Tesco credit card is to pay for your shopping with it, you get 1 point for each pound on your club card, 1 point for each pound spent on your credit card & a bonus point if you pay for your shopping with the credit card. I have mine converted to Airmiles I'm on the old bonus rate of 80 miles for 50 points got 30,000 Airmiles in the bank, nice to fly BA for free. Lenny, how do you know what rate you're on for airmiles? It tells you on your quarterly statement, the original rate was 40 for every 250 points then about 3 years ago maybe longer they changed it to 60 but if you were on the bonus rate of 80 you kept that rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertandjean Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Thanks for the tip Mel. We have just bought a Nokia 1208 from Tesco for £14.97 (last one in store) which will give us £41.12 towards our next tunnel crossing!! So does not matter if we throw phone away still over £26 in profit. What infact will do is unlock it (Nokia can often be unlocked easily from codes available from web) and use as a reserve phone. Another way to get double Tesco points, by the way, is to apply for a Tesco Clubcard Plus account. This is not a credit card but more like a debit card which you load up with a set amount, say £100, each month then get double points on every purchase, including fuel. At moment only useful for fuel as Tesco are giving double points but this is only for al imited time I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob b Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 After a phone conversation of 30 mins on an 0844 number, I booked through Airmiles on the Portsmouth to Bilbao ferry (change of plan).With a motorhome of under 6 metres and towing a 3 metre motorbike trailer, the fare came to £691.00, as opposed to the full fare of £1,026.00. I used 3500 airmiles in the transaction.I'm leaving on the 3rd June and returning on the 2nd July (God willing).Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennyhb Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 Hi Bob, Do you mean £691 + 3500 miles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob b Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 lennyhb - 2010-01-25 8:43 PM Hi Bob, Do you mean £691 + 3500 miles? Thats right Lenny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennyhb Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Just got an Airmiles quote for Pembroke to Rosslare. 4500 miles plus £14 or £284, CC & C&CC were both around £225. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patricia Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 bob b - 2010-01-25 1:37 PM After a phone conversation of 30 mins on an 0844 number, Hi Bob Did you think of looking up the 0844 number on saynoto0870.com? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patricia Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 bob b - 2010-01-25 1:37 PM After a phone conversation of 30 mins on an 0844 number, Hi Bob Did you think of looking up the 0844 number on saynoto0870.com to find a geographical number? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patricia Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 bob b - 2010-01-25 1:37 PM After a phone conversation of 30 mins on an 0844 number, Hi Bob Did you think of looking up the 0844 number on saynoto0870.com to find a geographical number? Sorry - I don't know why it was sent 3 times - never happened before! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennyhb Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I used 01925 848 693 it's on their contact us page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philjp Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Check http://www.fastnetline.com/ Ferry restarting from Swansea to Cork March 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennyhb Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Airmiles only offer Irish ferries Looked at fastnetline, they only do overnight sailings when we want to go came out at 476€ approx £417 ouch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickt Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 You can use Airmiles for Dover/ Calais, about 1000 miles.Convert your Tesco vouchers into Airmiles , register with them and book with them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel B Posted February 5, 2010 Author Share Posted February 5, 2010 lennyhb - 2010-02-05 1:30 PM Just got an Airmiles quote for Pembroke to Rosslare. 4500 miles plus £14 or £284, CC & C&CC were both around £225. So, if my maths is right .... The current exchange rate of Tesco points for airmiles is £2.50 in vouchers for each lot of 60 airmiles. The cost of the above ferry (not counting the £14 'cash' payment) is 4500 airmiles which equates to a value of £270.00. 4500 airmiles divided by 60 = 75 lots of £2.50 Tesco voucher exchanges (the value of the points required for each airmiles voucher) So, multiplying 75 by £2.50 =£187.50 in Tesco vouchers. So, 1 airmile is worth £0.06, or £3.60 for 60 airmiles (per £2.50 of vouchers exchanged) ... that's not even twice the value! There might be an easier way to do this but my brains numb!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel B Posted February 5, 2010 Author Share Posted February 5, 2010 Mickt - 2010-02-05 4:54 PM You can use Airmiles for Dover/ Calais, about 1000 miles.Convert your Tesco vouchers into Airmiles , register with them and book with them 1000 airmiles divided by 60 = approx 17 lots of £2.50 Tesco voucher exchanges (the value of the points required for each airmiles voucher) So, multiplying 17 by £2.50 =£42.50 in Tesco vouchers. I can get a return trip on Eurotunnel for less than that, the one I've just booked for sensible times in/out came in at £130.00 (plus £2.00 cash), which equates to only £32.50 in vouchers - £10 in vouchers cheaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob b Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Patricia - 2010-02-05 2:50 PM bob b - 2010-01-25 1:37 PM After a phone conversation of 30 mins on an 0844 number, Hi Bob Did you think of looking up the 0844 number on saynoto0870.com to find a geographical number? Sorry - I don't know why it was sent 3 times - never happened before! Hi Patricia, I tried the number given by 'Sayno'. It has been discontinued.....wonder why! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennyhb Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Mel B - 2010-02-05 5:34 PM lennyhb - 2010-02-05 1:30 PM Just got an Airmiles quote for Pembroke to Rosslare. 4500 miles plus £14 or £284, CC & C&CC were both around £225. So, if my maths is right .... The current exchange rate of Tesco points for airmiles is £2.50 in vouchers for each lot of 60 airmiles. The cost of the above ferry (not counting the £14 'cash' payment) is 4500 airmiles which equates to a value of £270.00. 4500 airmiles divided by 60 = 75 lots of £2.50 Tesco voucher exchanges (the value of the points required for each airmiles voucher) So, multiplying 75 by £2.50 =£187.50 in Tesco vouchers. So, 1 airmile is worth £0.06, or £3.60 for 60 airmiles (per £2.50 of vouchers exchanged) ... that's not even twice the value! There might be an easier way to do this but my brains numb!!! Are but I get 80 airmiles per £2.50 Tesco voucher so that by your reconing makes it £140. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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