Devaluation of Tesco Points

[mole]

I am a mad collector of points schemes. Whether it be Marriott, Holiday Inn, Airlines and Tesco.

I was saving my Tesco points for a Virgin holiday. I worked out that spending all shopping and petrol over 3 years would have got my wife and I a nice little holiday. Result!!

However, they have now reduced the x4 bonus to x3. Also maximum spend on virgin holiday is £525 via points. The rest has to be added in cash. Given you need to pay the brochure price this is not a good use of points.

Anyone have any ideas on best value redemptions.

[kallis3]

I use mine for shopping and nothing else.

[mole]

Congratulation Jan on making halfway, it sounds like you are coping well and as they say its all downhill from here.

[kallis3]

Hopefully is halfway - will probably have to do the extra twelve months though.

[leaKybrain]

I collect points for boots, tesco, nectar and morrisons fuel. Most of them just add up and up and I never really know what I've got. i think most points collecting is a bit of a waste cos you need to spend loads to get anywhere.

Though I did actually get a £5 voucher for morrisons the other day.

[kallis3]

I get quite a few points for Tesco, even though it's not my main shop. I save them all up until Christmas. I also have the ones earned from surveys.

[carole2662]

I use my Tesco vouchers to buy magazine subscriptions for christmas pressies. Hubby has Gardeners World and son has X Box 360. My daughter uses the vouchers for nights out and she has taken inlaws to Smith and Western for a feed tonight.

[kallis3]

Never heard of them. No good us going for a meal as I can only manage a starter.

[Andy1964]

she has taken inlaws to Smith and Western for a feed tonight.

Famous gunxmiths I believe.....is it one of those 'shoot all you can eat' places??

[Skippy]

I only use my Clubcard and Nectar points on shopping. We're getting quite a lot of Nectar points now that Homebase do them as Dave gets a lot of his stuff for work there, and the petrol station next door to work is now a BP. Dearer petrol but more convenient than a special trip to Tesco!

[kallis3]

We're getting our petrol at Sainsburys at the moment. Mum and Dad do their shopping there and give us the 5p off a litre of fuel at the moment. Otherwise I do shop round for the cheapest. I have a couple of emails a week from the petrol prices website.

[leaKybrain]

I must admit I usually go between asda or morrisons as they seem to try and keep it low, plus morrisons do the points.

jan what websites do you use?

[kallis3]

I use this one:

http://www.petrolprices.com/

[Skippy]

If I'm not going to Tesco for shopping I have to go out of my way to go to another petrol station so I figure I'll probably use more than I save getting there! The petrol light is usually on as well, so it's needs must! I also find I'm getting more miles out of a tank of BP petrol.

[leaKybrain]

thanks jan, will take a look at it.