Wall Street Journal Subscriptions
Aug 20, 2009 | 5:34 pm
#151
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@craig6z, thanks for the update. Maybe I'll sweat it out a few weeks and see what happens, make sure my number is up to date. I'm on the road at the moment, so the iphone and free google wsj.com access is enough for me at the moment. I'll take the 99$ if they call and offer it up.
and ask for the offer.P.S. Just ran across this posting. It seem to validate this is an outside call center firm that WSJ uses. The call back strategy might just work. http://whocalled.us/lookup/3197304172
Last edited by Craig6z; Aug 20, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Aug 20, 2009 | 5:47 pm
#152
Join Date: Feb 2000
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I would do the miles thing, I can get it with aging contin and nwa miles, for 3K, but I also want the web access, which doesn't usually come with those promos for 52 weeks of the journal does it?
Dec 14, 2009 | 12:23 pm
#153
Join Date: Feb 2000
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just got the call today. 90$ for 39 weeks, PLUS 13 bonus weeks. Why can't they just call it 1 YEAR! I mean, come on. Anyway, online, paper, iphone, I bit.
Dec 21, 2009 | 8:57 pm
#154
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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My WSJ subscription is expiring. It seems like it's been about 2 years -- I guess because I get the papers held when I'm not home. I always hate to play the "I'd like a reasonable subscription rate" game. I think last time I used miles from one of my kids ff accounts to get a free subscription until they offer me the under $100 all in deal. But I'm barely reading the print edition these days. Is the "google trick" just copying the headline of the WSJ story you want to read and pasting it into google news?
Dec 26, 2009 | 2:02 pm
#157
Join Date: Nov 1999
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Jan 28, 2010 | 7:55 am
#158
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Largo, FL
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Anyone gotten 6 months WSJ via e-rewards who had a WSJ sub before or currently? The terms say new subscribers only and wondering if this is really true as other terms say only one redemption for WSJ per 12 months.
Feb 1, 2010 | 2:53 pm
#159
Join Date: Sep 2006
Programs: AA PLAT SPG GOLD
Posts: 103
You are required to not be a current subscriber. I've called and been told that means "not within the last 60 days." It's also been my experience that the calculation is from the date your subscription was originally scheduled to expire, not from the date of any extension(s). So if (1) you cancel delivery when you are traveling for more than a couple of days, (2) you tell them to extend your subscription by that number of days and (3) you travel a lot, you may be able to renew while you are actually still receiving the paper.
Apr 12, 2010 | 4:02 pm
#160
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Location: Westminster, CO
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No more Saturdays with free WSJ subs for miles
I probably would not have soent the miles on this now that I know, but ALL new WSJ subscriptions paid for with airline miles NO LONGER GET the Saturday edition. It's the best day of the week to read the WSJ and now it's not part of the deal.
Sucks.
Sucks.
Apr 12, 2010 | 4:15 pm
#161
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: NYC
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Posts: 1,668
Since you are able to find more time to read on Saturday, and since you're unlikely to have finished reading all of the other days' WSJ editions earlier in the week, you might just want to save them for that purpose.
Mar 31, 2011 | 6:00 pm
#162
Join Date: Sep 2008
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AA/DL/UA/CO all have offers for 39 weeks Mon-Sat
US/CO have an offer for 254 issues.
254 is an unusual number of issues (holidays?) and hard to figure out if they're counting Saturday as an issue or not:
254/5 = 50.8 weeks
254/6 = 42.3 weeks
Anyone know if 254 translates into 42.3 or 50.8 weeks?
[US also has an offer for 190 issues (190/5 = 38 weeks, 190/6=31.67 weeks)]
US/CO have an offer for 254 issues.
254 is an unusual number of issues (holidays?) and hard to figure out if they're counting Saturday as an issue or not:
254/5 = 50.8 weeks
254/6 = 42.3 weeks
Anyone know if 254 translates into 42.3 or 50.8 weeks?
[US also has an offer for 190 issues (190/5 = 38 weeks, 190/6=31.67 weeks)]
Mar 31, 2011 | 8:27 pm
#163
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 704
I found some old links that say 254 is 52 weeks M-F, not sure if Sat just doesn't "count" as an issue (which was the case when WSJ initially launched Sat edition) or if it's really excluded.
Apr 3, 2011 | 10:07 am
#164
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Apr 3, 2011 | 10:15 am
#165
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