Wall Street Journal Subscriptions
 

I believe there was a long running FT thread with this title which appears to have become unavailable, so I'm starting a new one. The WSJ is again available at www.milepoint.com/mall/magazine.asp using 1200 miles/points from any of 12 different airline/hotel programs to get 64 issues (3 months). With WSJ subscriptions approaching $200/yr., I feel this is an excellent value. Many other magazine titles available as well.

I got a WSJ offer in the mail for a 1yr sub..52.00 dollars . Targeted for upper management. Must have gotten it off a mailing list of business mag subs.

I have a number of WSJ offers, for either receiving for buying or
using miles to buy a subscription on my web site below. Shopping > Newspapers. The lastes added is one from United Airlines that can get or use miles.

Thanks!

It looks as though MilePoint has procured several more airlines. I used some of my useless US Airways miles to grab a WSJ, Esquire, and Cigar Aficionado. Not bad for 2900 miles if you ask me.

WSJ for Miles
 

Thanks to all!! :) :)

Just ordered WSJ on Delta site, with a 100 mile bonus (?) using
https://delta.mpmvp.com/magazine/

Thanks to tenacious and pgary.

Journal to Start Weekend Edition Next September
 

Edited from THE WALL STREET JOURNAL...
September 16, 2004

Journal to Start Weekend Edition Next September


Dow Jones & Co. said it would launch a weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal starting Saturday, Sept. 10, 2005, adding a sixth day of the week to its Journal franchise.

The Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition will include business and financial news and information through the close of Friday's global markets, and will also feature an entirely new section called Pursuits.

Focusing on what the company calls "the business of life," Pursuits will extend the coverage areas addressed by Friday's Weekend Journal, introduced in 1998, and Personal Journal, which appears Tuesday through Thursday and was launched in 2002. These topics include personal finance, health, travel, cars, entertainment, sports, home decor and leisure activities.

Mis-read previous post.

Any way to use AA miles?
 

I have a little over 4K orphan AA miles and since I am now crediting everything to AS, would love to use them for WSJ subscription.
Any ideas?

How long for subscription to start?
 

Does anyone know how long it takes for the paper to be delivered? I bought one of these subscriptions with miles recently for a friend. The website says 10-12 weeks, but I believe that is the standard magazine line... The WSJ should be much more efficient and can usually turn on subscriptions in a day or two. The miles were taken out of my account the next day, fyi.

I'm a little skeptical, as I once used this service and the magazine never came... :td: but it's only 1,200 miles so I decided to give them another try.

Call 888-321-6247 and use code ESS for AA miles. You can order in 3 month increments for 1200 miles (up to 9 months at one time). Hope this helps.

Perfect
 

Many thanks Tenacious - this is exactly what I was looking for. :)

Glad it worked; please post how long it takes for your subscription to start.

That's the best offer I have ever seen. Def can't pass that up.

Better than 1/yr for 4K to 4.8K miles???

No that is definitely a great deal using miles. But I use miles to upgrade and fly premium constantly so I view miles really only in that way. I turnover my miles alot.

However, I'd personally rather use my UA miles card and pay for things such as newspapers and earn miles again for that purchase on the UA partner link.

If you have any orphan miles, this is a great use. BTW, I've been able to extend my WSJ subscription until mid '08 by using the mileage promotion.

Mine took about 10 or 11 weeks to get started.

Uh, Oh, that is after the election :(

I used some orphaned USAirways miles for it a few months ago and I got the first issue in about 5-7 business days.

The AA code worked like a charm. Thanks again! :)
Only took about 3 weeks to get started. ^

Bumping because at least the Delta link still works. If anyone knows of a better deal for the WSJ with points, appreciate knowing. THANKS!

Thanks a lot.

Had 10k miles on Delta because of the Dash to the Gate promotion. Was feeling pretty stupid after finding out that Delta has a terrible redemption program.

Glad to find out that I could save some $$$ using those miles :)

Now I only hope the newspapers start arriving before I change address in 2 months :rolleyes:

I signed up for 12 weeks last August using UA miles. My subscription was due to expire in November, but they keep sending it! It's now been well over 12 additional weeks. My expiration date online still says November but the paper comes like clockwork every morning. I guess they need the subscribers to pump up their circulation... :)

It'll end shortly. They keep sending it hoping you'll sign up for the subscription through all the letters advising you that your subscription is ending soon.

I've had subscriptions on other magazines extended by a few issues after they ran out, but I've never had a subscription extended by almost triple the original term like this one has. And I haven't received a renewal notice in months. I'm not complaining though! ^

Amex MR also offers 3 months of the WSJ for 1200 points.

My subscription was supposed to have ended in January but I'm still receiving it.

Asian Wall Street Journal
 

These sound like great deals. I have a sub. to the WSJ in the states on hold while I am in Korea for 2 months. anyone know any deals for the AWSJ? I don't want to wait a long time for it to start though.

Rather than letting your expiration date pass and continue to receive the paper for several months, you have another interesting option: put delivery on hold until the end of next year. Why do this? It keeps your account active, so that you have access to the 7-day search function at services.wsj.com, which allows you to retrieve all articles (typically up to 6 weeks old) by key word.

I save a LOT of time by doing a few keyword searches and picking up articles of interest rather than wading through the entire paper. Naturally, you miss fun items that you didn't search for. For that, you can use the default search, which pulls up the most recent articles, a list which changes several times per day. If you manually change the URL for the default search (the one that ends with &maxitems=30&bool_query=*) to end with &maxitems=999&bool_query=* , you will get several days' worth of article headlines to browse.

How did you sign up with UA miles? I don't see UA on milepoint.com :(

I have had the opposite problem. I have renewed my subsription in a timely fashion but continue to receive renewal reminders and offers. I feel bad for all the trees...

You can now get AA miles for a subscription to USA Today.

Thanks, but I prefer to use toilet paper.

I would like to know how tenacious extended his subscription to 08. i thought you could only get three x 2 months subs at a time. mine will be expiring soon and i do know if i start a new one or if there is something i do to renew- i guess the end result would be the same unless i started getting 2 issues a day. I sent my son a subs and now i dont know when that will expire and would like to use orphan miles to extend his too. Any help will be appreciated

It's directly on the UA website. Go to Non-Travel Awards. I'm also getting my LA Times subscription for free now with my UA orphan miles! :)

I did this at some point, and recently rediscovered this gem. When I called up and tried to sign up, they told me I was no longer eligible since I had already done it once.

the trick i discovered is to sign up for a 3 month sub, let it "expire" (usually it will continue for 3 months more)... as soon as the paper stops delivery (6 months total), sign up again. works like a charm...

i would rather pay for the "free" 3 months, but there is no easy way to do it using miles. once i renewed after the 3 months, but kept getting the renewal notices anyway (and the miles got deducted too!!!).

When I posted last April I'd expected mine to end shortly thereafter, but I'm still getting it as well. I'm guessing they're so busy getting ready for the Sat. edition of the paper that they're not keeping up with everything else, or they're trying to use the first few Saturday editions as a hook for renewals and letting people slide until then. I'd expect the database to be cleaned up at the end of September.

Or maybe all of our accounts were flagged incorrectly when we signed up with miles and we have an expiration date of 2014.

That's exactly what I do. The 3-month WSJ subscriptions actually last for 6 months. I'm on my first LA Times mileage subscription, but I don't think they'll let it slide the same way. My LAT account shows a specific dollar amount credit for the free period and they've already sent me a bill for the period afterward. I'll just cancel at the end of the free period, then sign up again using miles.

United website:
www.newspaper-miles.com/readermiles.asp