Earn 20,000 Avios with a subscription to The Telegraph

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• Lee says:

  11 May11 May 06:09

  Think I will pass. Really don’t want to read about the Tory plans for this country such as bringing back fox hunting.

  • William Avery says:

    11 May11 May 07:59

    Hear, hear!

  • mark2 says:

    11 May11 May 08:39

    -1

  • hunt the tories, not foxes. says:

    11 May11 May 11:37

    + infinity +1

  • Divas says:

    11 May11 May 15:18

    +1

    Telegraph is now barely a fractionally less trashy version of the Daily Mail. And their strategy appears to be to head in exactly the same direction.

    Quite apart from the economics of the offer, I’ll skip on principle. I’ve skipped plenty of other deals (notably fare deals) on principle (of the countries involved).

    • Dennis says:

      11 May11 May 16:59

      -1!

      • William Avery says:

        14 May14 May 10:13

        +1

        • William Avery says:

          14 May14 May 10:13

          Universally derided for its appalling treatment and turnover of employees.

• Daniel says:

  11 May11 May 06:31

  Am I wrong in interpreting that a length of subscription is not stipulated in the t&cs when paying monthly for the print edition?

  • Daniel says:

    11 May11 May 06:32

    For 10000 avios

    • Daniel says:

      11 May11 May 06:39

      The new subscriber has the subscription options below that will qualify for Avios points; – 20,000 Avios points are available for a prepaid Print Editions, Print Complete or annual recurring Digital Editions subscription taken out for 12 months – 10,000 Avios points are available for a prepaid 26 week Print Editions or Print Complete subscription – or a Print Editions or Print Complete subscription taken out on a monthly/quarterly recurring payment schedule – 5,000 Avios points are available for an annually recurring Premium subscription 3. The Telegraph will send the new subscriber a voucher code 21 days after the subscription starts, or for those on a recurring payment schedule, when the first payment has cleared.

• Lou says:

  11 May11 May 07:17

  OT: I’m thinking about ‘earning’ some Avios through Iberia Plus so that I can transfer points across. Can I still access the lounge via my BAEC Silver on this flight, or not? Thanks!

  • Rob says:

    11 May11 May 08:37

    You should be OK. If you get a very stroppy lounge person they will change the FF number in the system, in which case you go to the BA desk in the lounge (if London) and ask them to change it back.

    • Lou says:

      11 May11 May 11:42

      Thanks!

• Roger I says:

  11 May11 May 07:42

  I have the digital Mailograph from a ‘special offer’ from Tesco Clubcard, no longer available. I think it cost £20-worth of points for a year.

  Even at that price it’s poor value. They seem obsessed with hard Brexit and Corbyn and the shadow cabinet (hardly favourable). I can read about those elsewhere with less spin.

  There are some advantages which I imagine will also apply to new subscriptions:
  – 15% off Robert Dyas on Thursdays;
  – free coffee at Debenhams inhouse restaurants on Monday-Friday afternoons;
  – digital Gourmet Society membership;
  – occasional film previews;
  – some others.

  • flyforfun says:

    11 May11 May 11:42

    Robert Dyas gives up so many discounts all the time. Bank holiday weekend frequently have 25% vouchers. Alternatively create an email account and get a 20% “introductory” offer. Then after they see no activity on that account for a while, they will send you more discount offers. Or just google Robert Dyas discount and see what it brings up.

    I’m not a fan of those restaurant cards as I found there were too many restrictions on times, days and menus.

  • the_real_a says:

    11 May11 May 13:17

    Thanks Roger. had no idea of the rewards. If you have a digital subscription you dont get the card sent out without requesting it. Free coffee sounds good.

• William Avery says:

  11 May11 May 07:58

  Some of you may consider it good value to pay £500 for that trash rag but I’ll pass on subsidising the Tory foghorn and the Barclay brothers tax avoidance scheme.

  Call me a libtard.

  • AndyL says:

    11 May11 May 08:11

    Sounds reasonable to me !

  • AndyL says:

    11 May11 May 08:13

    But I always appreciate details of any deal via HfP – thank you Rob for all your hard work

    • William Avery says:

      14 May14 May 10:15

      Agreed

  • Genghis says:

    11 May11 May 08:19

    If it was 20k avios for £160 would you still not buy that “trash rag”?

    • Rob says:

      11 May11 May 08:39

      Oddly enough, if it meant they had to be delivered to my house – creating huge recycling (unbagging all the magazines) and waste (another sack per week) issues – I’d say no. I’d have done a digital sub at that price of course.

      • Frenske says:

        11 May11 May 09:41

        If owners is losing money on it, may make it worthwhile.

        You can always make paper hats/boats for the kids. The Saturday edition is probably 100 hats or boats.

        • Rob says:

          11 May11 May 14:36

          That is a very Telegraph thing …. “how to entertain your grandkids by making them a paper hat” …..!

          My 6-year old would screw up the hat, take your iphone, connect it to our house wi-fi network (knowing where to find the router password) and then download Minecraft onto it before you even noticed what he’d done 🙂

        • Divas says:

          11 May11 May 15:22

          Frenske – that is false economics. If the owner is loosing money, giving them ‘paying subscriber’ numbers is only helping them.

          They know full well they are bribing people to buy subscriber numbers – because that is what they (they owners) want – as it is good for the economics of the paper.

          Even if the upfront action is a cost to them, it is still helping them.

          I will stay clear.

  • Rationalist says:

    11 May11 May 12:08

    Calling you a libtard would sink to the petty name calling depths those on the left inhabit, so I will pass on that. I’m sure you will be far happier supporting the tax avoiding grauniad or the pension thieving daily mirror for your daily dose of confirmation bias

    • Divas says:

      11 May11 May 15:23

      “the petty name calling depths those on the left inhabit” – you are clueless.

      • Dennis says:

        11 May11 May 17:01

        Sounds pretty accurate to me!

        • Anna says:

          11 May11 May 17:48

          Now, now, first world problems only on this site please! The worst I want to hear is that someone didn’t get their first choice of meal in Club World.

      • Rationalist says:

        11 May11 May 17:50

        Was that meant to be an argument, or just some petty name calling?

  • Andy says:

    12 May12 May 23:14

    Libtard!, well someone had to do it. I am just a “manual worker” (mind i’m only a stonemason with 45 years of renovating cathedrals) So i might get looked down on by the sudo elite on here.

    • Snowfake says:

      17 May17 May 08:21

      Ha ha. You know what libtard actually is unlike the previous poster. You used sudo. Well played Linux user!

      Unless of course there is a heavy spelling issue with the words ‘libetard’ and ‘pseudo’?!

• Jonathan Pang says:

  11 May11 May 08:48

  Is it possible to cancel after redeeming the avios for a prorated remainer of the subscription fee?

  • Rob says:

    11 May11 May 08:58

    Not after the 14-day cooling off period, and the voucher comes after 21 days.

  • the real harry1 says:

    11 May11 May 09:01

    Isn’t that Genghis’ point (above)

    looks like you got the math wrong though, Genghis – since it’s ‘Free 30-day trial
    then £6 per week billed as £26 per month’, you’d probably end up paying 5x £26 = £130 🙂

    £130/ 20000 = 0.65p

    • Genghis says:

      11 May11 May 09:10

      I was speaking hypothetically. Is that a reality given opportunity to cancel on a monthly payment (Daniel’s idea above)?

      • the real harry1 says:

        11 May11 May 09:24

        9. Once the 14-day money back period has passed, the minimum subscription term is 6 months.

        • Rob says:

          11 May11 May 14:37

          …. for people who buy the 6-month subscription which only gets you 10,000 Avios.

    • callum says:

      11 May11 May 10:27

      So you’re calculating that as taking out a year subscription then cancelling half way through? Would they allow that given the Avios are only given for 12 month subscriptions?

      Granted I don’t know how they’d enforce it (a skim of their T&Cs don’t have anything like “we’ll claim back the Avios/cash equivalent if you cancel early) given direct debits are ridiculously easy to cancel, but then I don’t know how they’d enforce the 6 month minimum either! The term you quote applies to normal subscriptions, under special offers it says “Some promotional offers have a 12-month minimum term”.

• the real harry1 says:

  11 May11 May 08:56

  O/T just bought my late-to-the-party wife a CE redemption as she finally got her act together & decided to join us out in the sun for a long weekend – no cattle redemptions left, this was the very last Avios seat on that route for several days around the upcoming bank holiday, she’ll have to Wizz it on the way out 🙂

  anyway, CE seats are selling @ £500, I paid £85 + 8000 Avios = nearly 5.2p/ point (pats back etc lol)

  • Roger I says:

    11 May11 May 09:15

    Hi, Harry. O/T response to an O/T post – and my first O/T. eek!

    You mentioned a Radio Times offer in another post – £49.99 RT subscription + £50 John Lewis GC for £49.99. 🙂

    The website was suspiciously clear of exclusions or T+Cs. At face value, it’s a continuing offer when paid by direct debit: RT sub + JL GC every six months. I’d be surprised and delighted if this were to be the case.

    I signed up but over a week later, I have no snailmail confirmation. I’m debating with myself whether to calendarise a d/d cancellation or just plough on expecting the best. What do you think? Thanks.

    • the real harry1 says:

      11 May11 May 09:33

      oh sorry – no, you only get 1 JLP giftcard

      • Sussex Bantam says:

        11 May11 May 09:49

        I don’t think the credit card option comes with the gift voucher so be careful. It is only the DD version which is marked “Added Extra”

      • the real harry1 says:

        11 May11 May 09:53

        in that case – I stand corrected!

    • Roger I says:

      11 May11 May 10:24

      thanks, Harry! 😀

  • Anna says:

    11 May11 May 18:01

    I wish my OH was as avios-savvy as you. He gets really annoyed when I change our credit cards yet loves business class travel and has even arranged to get our hire car a day late so he can fully enjoy our CW flight to the Caribbean this summer! Can’t seem to link the two events though…

    • Genghis says:

      11 May11 May 18:05

      Threaten him with being seated down the back! He’ll soon understand

      • Anna says:

        11 May11 May 18:27

        I make him take a LCC once a year!

• Mark says:

  11 May11 May 09:11

  Shame the Clubcard offer is no more. £20 in vouchers for a year of iPad edition.

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