Back when the TWA and AA programs merged, I signed up all family members for programs that we never fly, such as US Air, Continental and Alaska. Through surveys and such, we have a few miles in each. Yesterday we got nearly identical offers from two of them; The balance of 1500 miles in each account for five one-year magazine subscriptions. Each had 32 choices. One offer was for 1500 Contintental Onepass miles, the other for 1500 US Air Dividend miles.
1.) This seems like a much better deal than previous offers of miles for magazines. Particularly since they're probably just orphan miles anyway. But I haven't kept any of the old offers, so I'm not sure.
2.) The lists of magazines were slightly different. Does anyone think there would be a problem choosing entries from both lists? Each magazine has a 3 digit code.
3.) Anyone see a downside? No credit card is required.

If anyone requests on this thread, I'll type in the magazine codes.