Mighty Deals is a daily deals website run by MoneyExpert (not Money Saving Expert). It is offering a Shell loyalty card preloaded with £20 credit for the price of £10. You can instantly see the value of this deal, half price petrol. However, I am sure you are asking yourself, what has this to do with Avios and travel?
Well, the Shell loyalty programme is called Shell Drivers’ Club and redeeming points for petrol is not the only use available. You can exchange Shell points for Avios with every 20 points worth 10 Avios. This can be done through Avios.com or British Airways Executive Club, whichever is more convenient.
So, a £20 credit means a card loaded with 4,000 Shell points and 4,000 Shell points can be exchanged for 2,000 Avios. Therefore with this deal you are effectively purchasing 2,000 Avios for £10 (1 Avios = 0.5 pence). An exceptional deal.
However, we can do even better. For you see Mighty Deals is available through TopCashBack and the cashback 15.15% and as I outlined in this post cashback through TopCashBack can be exchanged for Tesco Clubcard points, which can in turn be exchanged for Avios.
If you go through TopCashBack you will earn £1.26 (15.15% of £10 – VAT), which can be exchanged for 317 Avios.
Therefore the deal becomes 2317 Avios for £10 (1 Avios = 0.43 pence).
This is how the deal will work. You will be sent a Shell loyalty card by 11 June 2013. You then register your card online by 30 June 2013. You then select Avios as your redemption option and exchange the Shell points for Avios through either your Avios.com account or British Airways Executive Club account.
If you already have a Shell Drivers’ Club account then you can merge this new card with your existing account.
This deal is limited to one per transaction. However, this appears to be monitored through the email address. So, if you were so inclined you could purchase multiple cards using different email addresses but you would have to complete them as different transactions.
This deal has been promoted in the MoneySavingExpert weekly email and has a limited stock so I do not expect it even to last until the advertised end date 28 May 2013. So, act quickly if you are interested!
If you have not yet joined TopCashBack then you can click through the link on your right hand side and this blog will earn a small referral credit.
Mighty Deals Offers 2,000 Avios for £10
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