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Possible 18,750 Avios for £53 via the Daily Mail

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The Daily Mail has been emailing selected members of its MyMail website with a generous subscription offer.

You will receive 30,000 Nectar points (worth 18,750 Avios) when you subscribe to ‘The Ultimate Pack’ of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday for just two months.

If you are not a fan of the Mail, don’t worry. You do not receive physical newspapers. You receive a book of vouchers in the post which can be redeemed daily at your local newsagent – or binned if you prefer.

The price is £26.80 per month, so £53.60 in total. The Nectar points will arrive within “25 days of renewing the second month subscription“.

This is, clearly, a very good deal at £53.60 for 18,750 Avios. The only reason I am not pushing it harder is that the offer is not openly showing on the MyMail website. You need this link from the email.

On the other hand, the T&Cs in the email do not say that it is only open to the recipient:

“Offer available to new subscribers taking out a subscription between 12.02.21 and 28.02.21. UK residents aged 18+. To collect £150 worth of Nectar points, buy a subscription to The Ultimate Pack, paying for a minimum of two consecutive months, price £26.80 pcm. £150 worth of Nectar points will be credited per person, per one subscription only, within 25 days of renewing the second month subscription. Subscription will auto renew after the expiry of the first calendar month at a cost of £26.80.”

(EDIT: To add to the confusion, it seems that the confirmation page you see is an old one and shows a different set of terms which mention a three month minimum. Caveat emptor.)

You should create a MyMail account and link it to your Nectar account before signing up.

For absolutely clarity, do not sign-up for this unless you are prepared to accept some risk that you will not receive the points because you did not receive the original email.

As a no-risk alternative, you may want to register with MyMail, link your account to your Nectar account, and wait to see if you are targetted for a similar offer in the future.

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Comments (307)

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  • Red Flyer says:
    13 Feb13 February 10:28

    T&C for me said Nectar paid 25 days after 2nd renewal so took screenshot in case have to fight my corner and they don’t arrive as stated. Father-in-law gets it and I’m paying for him as shielding so hopefully helps towards my RJ Amman biz booking I need to make in May anyway.

  • Peter Taysum says:
    13 Feb13 February 10:30

    In February 2017, the Daily Mail became the first source to be deprecated as an “unreliable source” for use as a reference on English Wikipedia.

    It is the United Kingdom’s highest-circulated daily newspaper.

    I prefer reading HfP to any newspaper!

    Managed to get the Avios bonus through Sainsbury’s Nectar (had old points I’d forgotten about!) Thanks! ❤️

  • Aston100 says:
    13 Feb13 February 10:52

    It’s the comments section that is the worst element of that paper/site.
    Seems to have become a hangout for anyone with something to moan about, but with xenophobia seemingly an entry requirement.

    • Michael C says:
      13 Feb13 February 10:57

      My awful, awful lockdown habit has been reading through the comments. The vast majority look like they’ve been written by Viz. So disturbing to think they weren’t. Even Trump had massive support there.

      Having said that, I’m also in a massive strop with The Guardian ever since they DIDN’T include Giri/Hagi in the top 50 series of the year…

    • Michael Jennings says:
      13 Feb13 February 10:57

      True of so many sites. But not HfP, which has one of the nicest comments sections anywhere.

    • Yorkieflyer says:
      13 Feb13 February 11:01

      Yes it really is truly scary to us metropolitan types. Middle England = Middle America

      • The Savage Squirrel says:
        13 Feb13 February 13:23

        I sometimes read the DM comments section for a mixture of entertainment and horror. The anger, bitterness and intolerance there is a wonder to behold. In one breath NHS workers are heroes, ambulance-chasing compo’ culture is a disgrace, yet next page run a story about a clinician committing even the most minor or understandable medical error and that person should never work again and be in prison. x10 if they’re “foreign” (a descriptor of ethnicity to DM commenters).

  • Yorkieflyer says:
    13 Feb13 February 10:55

    Can’t pay with Amex 😬

  • Yorkieflyer says:
    13 Feb13 February 10:58

    You get 13 weeks of vouchers for the and although you get the nectar points after 2 months quite reasonable to believe you have to pay for 3 months of cat litter tray liners

    • kitten says:
      13 Feb13 February 14:58

      My cat refuses to use her litter tray if I’ve put shredded Daily Mail in there.

  • TimM says:
    13 Feb13 February 11:08

    What does “within 25 days of renewing the second month subscription” actually mean? It would not pass the Plain English test.

    • Fraser says:
      13 Feb13 February 12:32

      Before even looking at the comments, I interpreted that to mean you must subscribe for month 2 (renewing the first month subscription) and then for month 3 (renewing the second month subscription). So £80.40 total cost but still a bargain for 18,750 Avios.

      • Dance-Ace-Base says:
        13 Feb13 February 13:57

        That is a possible interpretation. It would be clear if it said “after renewing the subscription for a second month”.

        However, the email terms said “paying for a minimum of two consecutive months”, so I think “renewing the second month subscription” was just written by someone who doesn’t understand the importance of precise language.

        It’s remarkable how common such lack of precision is with terms for hotel bonus points offers and so on. If it’s in the terms and conditions there should be no ambiguity but there so often is.

  • Anthony Dunn says:
    13 Feb13 February 11:38

    The DailyGetsMuchWorse could offer all the Avios ever issued and I’d still not wish to soil myself by taking up this offer.

    There is something much more important to me: ethics, self-respect and personal standards. I’d sooner disembowel myself than have anything to do with a publication which championed Herr Hitler in the 1930s and dog-whistle racism, xenophobia and bigotry throughout the last twenty to thirty years.

  • BJ says:
    13 Feb13 February 12:07

    Are we sure this isn’t just a cunning and elaborate hoax inspired by Rhys to catalogue the political leanings of the HfP readership in an effort to better attract and target blog advertising? Why else would it be relegated to a Saturday?

    • Mike says:
      13 Feb13 February 12:28

      BJ – good point. I have certainly noticed there do appear to be some “lefties” and “human rights types” on here in the margins that I wasn’t expecting to see – but nothing to cause me to rustle my Saturday Telegraph fortunately.

      • BJ says:
        13 Feb13 February 12:33

        No comment 🙂

      • ChrisC says:
        13 Feb13 February 13:37

        Hello lefty human rights type here

        *waves*

        Winston Churchill (deffo not a lefty) was a huge advocate for the European Convention on Human Rights. Never understood why the moderate right wing appear to hate it so much as it’s a defence for the individual against the government being too heavy handed against its citizens.

        • RussellH says:
          13 Feb13 February 16:02

          It is because it is not “OUR” Convention on Human Rights, even though we had a huge amount of input into the convention.
          Anyone else remember Michael Flanders’ very tongue-in-cheek song with its refrain
          “The English, the English, the English are best,
          I wouldn’t give tuppence for all of the rest.”

          I suspect that most readers are much more familiar with his daughter, Stephanie.

    • Aston100 says:
      13 Feb13 February 12:58

      I think it has been implied that the vast majority of the readership are silent & don’t comment on here; live in London or the SE; earn millions per year and somehow managed to provide proof of all this info to Rob.

      • Rob says:
        13 Feb13 February 13:39

        You really need to read some of those articles about how much data you leave behind on the internet. I can tell you which brand of car is most popular with HfP readers – it is that detailed.

        • TGLoyalty says:
          13 Feb13 February 13:49

          Tease. What brand is it?

          • Rob says:
            13 Feb13 February 15:12

            1. Audi
            2. BMW
            3. Citroen (must be skewed by French readers!)
            4. Fiat
            5. Ford

            Split by car type it goes:
            1. Large Family Cars
            2. Luxury Cars
            3. SUVs & 4x4s
            4. Small Family Cars

          • RussellH says:
            13 Feb13 February 15:57

            Delighted to see that my make of car is NOT on the list.
            Sad to see all those “SUV”s though.

          • xcalx says:
            14 Feb14 February 08:24

            What No vans?

          • Super Secret Stuff says:
            14 Feb14 February 13:09

            Jokes on you Rob, I dont drive! 🤣

        • Dance-Ace-Base says:
          13 Feb13 February 14:02

          HfP is the only site I read where I see adverts for Mclarens and Rolls Royces, so I know I am definitely not the type of reader HfP usually gets.

          (I’m the type of reader who was disappointed that the new Avios partner was Sainsburys and not Jack Fulton or Home Bargains)

          • Rob says:
            13 Feb13 February 15:09

            You’d only see that if you’d be trawling the Rolls-Royce and McLaren websites though!

        • xcalx says:
          13 Feb13 February 14:18

          ” I can tell you which brand of car is most popular with HfP readers – it is that detailed.”

          Readers or the 1% that comment

        • Alan says:
          13 Feb13 February 18:50

          No Teslas?

          • Lady London says:
            13 Feb13 February 21:00

            done by IP address linking to geographical data and socio-economic stats

            for aspirational, unless it’s somewhere like Bishop’s Avenue Hampstead, Cobham, Kingston Nob Hill etc., would need more sophisticated data capture

    • kitten says:
      13 Feb13 February 15:00

      Because Saturday is the Daily Mail’s best day. You get the best TV magazine supplement in the business on a Saturday too 🙂

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