The Wall Street Journal and WSJ.com - 230

https://delta.mpmvp.com/magazine/choose.asp

Which offer is best?
 

I might be off on my facts, but from what I am seeing here, these three options are accurate:


1) The best "magazines for miles" offer out there for a year print subscription is 3800 miles. If so, valuing miles at 2 cents each, it would cost $76/year... very good deal indeed. (If you value your miles less than that, you could reason that it is costing less, but most of us are able to milk 2 cents or more in value out of our miles by various means.)

2) You can buy a year print subscription AND online subscription PLUS 4 extra weeks for $99 directly from their site. If you use a credit card to buy this, you can get an effective price of $97 or so, accounting for the value of the miles you earn from your card company. (See https://services.wsj.com/Gryphon/jsp...jsp?page=11222 )

3) You may also buy a year print subscription PLUS 2 extra weeks for $79, or about $77 after valuing miles you could earn by using your credit card.


Comparing these three options, I see $77 for 54 print weeks (option 3) and $97 for 56 print weeks and one year online (option 2) as better deals than $76 for 52 weeks (option 1). Am I nuts, or am I missing something here?

Edited...I found my answer!

Option #3 and #2 are both available directly from WSJ.com - just click Subscribe and see what they offer.

My point is that unless you value miles for less than 2 cents per mile, using miles gives you an inferior deal to buying directly from them.

I just ordered 13 weeks of WSJ (Mon-Sat) from United.com for 1,200 miles. United.com had these issues valued at $84.50

Best credit card rewards/points/miles for canada
 

I will be moving to Vancouver, Canada soon and would like to know what the best credit card deal there is out there right now.
I am Flying blue gold and have an AMEX Air France gold as I am living in Paris.
I basically think the best would be to register for a CC allowing me to accrue points which I can then transfer into free flights/free nights.

I had also heard that the best CC is the Starwood Preferred AMEX for the US. Does this card also exist for Canada?

I would appreciate any help.

How could they be valued at $84.50 when you can buy 54 weeks for several dollars less (directly from WSJ.com)?

If you value your miles at 2 cents each, you paid $24 for 13 weeks.

thru USAir DM?...or AmEx MR?
 

Can WSJ subscriptions be had for US Dividend Miles? If so, how does one go about it, since I can't find anything on the US website?

How about with AmEx MR?

BTW, I agree with mooper that UA's offer of 13 weeks WSJ for 1200 MP isn't all that great, since $79 buys 54 weeks directly from WSJ. So just a little over 1.5 cpm return. But if the miles will otherwise be "orphaned," then it is a great use of them.

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.

It appears that neither US Airways (which used to allow purchases through Points.com) and Amex MR still off the WSJ.

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.

Murdoch making the case for free WSJ online...
 

News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch said on Tuesday that he was leaning toward making online Wall Street Journal free, but had made no decision yet.
Murdoch, whose company has sealed a deal to buy Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co for $5.6 billion, rejected criticism that a free WSJ.com would hurt the newspaper.

http://www.news.com/Murdoch+making+t...tag=ne.fd.mnbc

Yes, I read something about this yesterday. (On a similar note, NYT may be dropping TimeSelect, so could be no charge to read that paper online.) I still like to pick up a "real" newspaper at my front door and hold it in front of me while I read it.

The NY Times has announced that full access on the 'Net will be free as of midnight, Sept. 18, 2007.

By the way, several bloggers have suggested that this freeing of net access is bad news for the future of newspapers. @:-)

I like getting the paper in real form every morning. Just hope I can continue to do it.

Yahoo news just doesn't cut it! :td: