Originally Posted by
guoguo914
Where does it say "take the Sunday Times at $3.90/week and cancel after 90 days"? A guy named JeffB on another post (
http://www.frugaltravelguy.com/2012/...l-hackers.html) "NYT charges 4 weeks at a time, so you can pay less than $16 for the first four weeks, collect your miles, then cancel! "
I like the NY Times. I'm willing to hold onto the subscription at the reduced rate (in fact, I still have it at the increased rate; as I say, I like the NY Times).
Everybody has different ways of accumulating miles. I like to get miles for things that I'd actually want to buy. The Times is one of those things. Purchases I made last summer during the Verizon promotion and earlier this year during the Nordstrom/BA promotion fit within those parameters. I don't need to spend any more money on useless junk to fill up my house. The AA miles are a nice bonus so I make sure before I make any purchase that I check the shopping malls, and I generally don't buy a thing that I don't need or want for the sole purpose of getting miles.
All that said, I see nothing that would prohibit the OP from doing just as JeffB suggests.
Note, however, the 90 days does apply to how long you must wait after canceling your initial subscription before attempting to get the miles again.