One Pass "Miles for Magazines"
 

CO Pne pass account info website now has a "Miles for magazines" banner, that lets you subscribe to any number of magazines for miles. But they warn it's a one time offer, after you pick and submit, the banner will go away.

No thanks, I'll save my miles for upgrades...

David:

Interesting.

This might be very useful for people with very few miles. Of course, with the free magazine racks at EWR I have more then enough magazines http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Ditto and ditto again from me!

There is an advantage if you a LOT of miles and need to get that person you forgot a birthday gift of their favorite magazine.




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Ditto and ditto again from me!

There is an advantage if you have a LOT of miles and need to get that person you forgot a birthday gift of their favorite magazine.




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:) CATMAN :)

Continental has done this before as a mailing http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

This program is now available on a permanent basis on the OnePass web site. I decided to take advantage of this service to get some magazines that I otherwise wouldn't have paid to have a subscription.

The program is obviously run by an outside company - probably the same one that runs similar programs for other FF programs.

Based on my experience, I think that these people are a total bunch of losers. For one, although you don't provide a name or address when ordering on the OnePass web site (it uses the name/address for your OnePass account), they managed to get my address wrong on all 4 subscriptions I ordered. I have had to submit "change of address" requests to each publication to get this corrected.

Although I subscribed over the summer, just now I got a postcard in the mail from the "Magazine Service Center," telling me that there was a delay with my order, that no OnePass miles would be deducted because of this delay, and that my order will soon be processed. The thing is, the order had in fact been processed in a timely manner last summer, and I've already received several issues. Furthermore, now they have my name wrong in addition to the address. I can only imagine that they have multiple layers of someone manually re-keying data. Also, they've dropped one of my subscription requests as listed on the postcard.

So, although I had to do a change-of-address request, I got 4 free subscriptions due to their problems. Even so, I'd certainly not recommend this service to anyone.

I've done this a time or two and it has been OK, but I think the "Miles for magazines" on www.milepoint.com looks far better. With that site you can use miles from a number of programs (including OnePass), and the selection of magazines is much bigger. So, with that, I'm using old TWA and USAir miles to get mags rather than using OnePass miles that I would want for awards. The Milepoint order screens also make it easy to have the subscriptions sent to a different address (e.g. as a gift)