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Earlier this week we told you that the Daily Mail is ending its relationship with Nectar.

You will no longer be able to collect points by submitting codes from printed copies of the newspaper as of 14th September. Anyone with a digital or printed subscription can continue to collect until the end of November.

It seems that the Mail has a few Nectar points to use up, because it has launched a decent subscription offer.

Daily Mail subscription offer

For £20, you will receive a one year digital subscription to the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, plus 4,000 Nectar points.

4,000 Nectar points converts into 2,500 Avios, so you are getting 2,500 Avios for £20.

(If you drink Caffe Nero coffee, you’re getting 11 drinks @ 350 points each for £20!)

The only snag is that your subscription will auto-renew after one year at the full price of £120. You will need to cancel it before that point, and looking at the T&C this is only possible by telephone. It could be a little expensive if you forget.

Daily Mail Nectar offer

This offer is definitely not targeted. If you go to themailsubscriptions.co.uk you will see it come up.

Anyone who remembers the Mail subscription deal of a couple of years ago which was targeted – and led to everyone who wasn’t targeted getting their subscription cancelled – can rest easy.

In a bad piece of UX, you need to input your credit card details before you see the screenshot above which confirms the offer. You can still back out at this point though.

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Comments (143)

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  • Gordon says:
    8 Sep8 September 07:00

    Cutting your nose off to spite your face, springs to mind! You don’t have to read it!

    • Damian says:
      8 Sep8 September 07:18

      Nah, just support their advertising power by adding to their subscriber numbers.

      • Jay says:
        8 Sep8 September 08:21

        Completely agree. Some people will justify anything. To be paid £20 to support xenophobia. Morals are so cheap these days.

  • Save East Coast Rewards says:
    8 Sep8 September 07:06

    I think it’s a loss leader for them (or at best break even) and they’re relying on some people to forget to cancel or make some money via interacting with their advertisers. So as long as you take precautions to ensure you don’t pay the next years subscription then you can do this without worry that you’re contributing to the profits of the Daily Mail (assuming they make profits)

  • mkcol says:
    8 Sep8 September 07:11

    Concur Dan.

    I’d rather crap in my hands & clap.

  • Chris Palmer says:
    8 Sep8 September 07:32

    Andrew, do you mean the “always wrong” Peter Hitchens who, for example, didn’t believe in WMDs and opposed the Iraq war from the beginning (before it was fashionable to be against it), or, more recently in April 2020, who predicted the resulting high inflation, economic and social problems from shutting down the economy over COVID when just about everyone else in the media was cheering on the Government? I know you felt it necessary to signal your virtue about the Mail Group, but, please, at least try to engage your brain before putting finger tips to keyboard.

  • Phantomchickenz says:
    8 Sep8 September 07:35

    Absolutely. The Daily Heil relies on emotional selling to the lowest rungs of society unable to think critically for themselves. Get them outraged, feed that outrage.

    Certainly an offer that I will let pass by.

  • Chris H says:
    8 Sep8 September 07:39

    Top tip if you’re subscribing to anything like this which needs telephone calls to cancel. If you subscribe using PayPal you can go onto your PayPal account once they have taken the money and cancel the authority for them to take more money.

    • Martin M says:
      8 Sep8 September 14:00

      Thanks for the advice ref PayPal. I’ve just signed up via PayPal then will cancel the auto renewal. I don’t have an issue phoning them as well anyway. Also, it may not be for everyone as the comments show, but I for 1 am grateful for the easy cheap Avios thank you.

  • G bit says:
    8 Sep8 September 07:40

    Completely agree. No incentive could persuade me to support their divisive nonsense.

    • Mike Hunt says:
      8 Sep8 September 08:10

      The find the Daily Mail is very much the voice of reason

    • Rob says:
      8 Sep8 September 08:38

      As I wrote about Riyadh Air when it was announced, I look forward to seeing how many people stick to their alleged principles if it follows the Qatar route and offers a world beating business class to Asia for under £1000 in a sale ….

      Most people who claim to have principles don’t, not really. If you really hated the Mail you’d have a list of all the companies it owns and avoid them all. In reality I bet most people in this thread posted a virtuous rant and then set off to work, picking up a copy of Mail-owned Metro on the way, possibly on the way to a Mail-owned trade event in the car they bought from Mail-part owned Cazoo.

      • Gordon says:
        8 Sep8 September 08:53

        Well said Rob, I think you have summed up the majority of ranters today!

      • yorkieflyer says:
        8 Sep8 September 09:06

        Yes, most of us may have a price for selling out our principles but I can’t be bought for 20 pieces of silver worth of avios.
        The Daily Mail’s xenophobic views sadly presumably reflect those of large parts of their fan club

      • G bit says:
        8 Sep8 September 09:11

        Sorry to disagree Rob. The Mail, or any newspaper, is different to other businesses. As an entity is has a particular editorial agenda. That agenda is to encourage division within our society, setting people and groups against each other and discouraging tolerance and understanding. I would be equally appalled by a publication doing the same on the opposite side of the political debate. Your assumption that these principles would fall away if they incurred a cost is not correct.

  • Imran says:
    8 Sep8 September 07:46

    Can I buy 10 subscriptions? Surely not as the system needs more than one unique email address?

    • Save East Coast Rewards says:
      8 Sep8 September 07:57

      Maybe mailinator.com would work. You don’t need accounts for it just anyrandomtextandnumbers1234@mailinator.com works and then anyone can access the mailbox at that address by going to the mailinator site.

      This is great if you want lots of throwaway email addresses but remember if anyone can guess the mailbox name they can also access this so only do it if you’re not putting your real personal details into the application.

      One issue I can see though would the 10 subscriptions allow you to send them all to the same Nectar account?

    • BJ says:
      8 Sep8 September 15:11

      10 subscriptions would give you 25k avios for £200. You could get them for £60 via 2x Sainsbury’s life insurance policies.

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