Originally Posted by
mellowg
eBay has always had the best value for magazine/newspaper subscriptions, but if you're talking about orphaned miles, then it's an entirely different story - magazine subscriptions are the best way to use them.
One can get a cheaper rate on the WSJ by going through eBay than by going to WSJ's own website? If so, how?
I want to start an WSJ subscription and had thought that this would be a reasonably good use of miles. But with the WSJ offering 52+ weeks for $79, I don't know which, if any, use of miles or points is a better deal than going directly to WSJ. If I were to use UA miles, it would cost me 7600 for a year, and since I value my UA miles at > 1.0 cpm, that doesn't appeal. I could convert AmEx MR into airline miles, but even with DL only requiring 3300 miles for 38 weeks of WSJ, which comes out to 4500+ miles for one year, that isn't an exceptionally cheap opportunity.
Are miles/points deals for The Economist attractive? I haven't looked for them yet, because I am not as interest in that publication as in the WSJ. I do receive Forbes, which I paid for with US miles a good while ago, and don't remember with how many, or when the subscription started.