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Several airline shopping portals are offering higher mileage payouts by taking out subscriptions for the Wall Street Journal and Barron’s. You can earn higher payouts through some cashback portals too.
The Deals
- Subscribe to Barron’s for 8 weeks for $1 via one of the below shopping portals and earn:
- American AAdvantage – 2,200 miles
- United MileagePlus – 1,700 miles (with credit card)
- Alaska Mileage Plan – 1,600 miles
- Southwest Rapid Rewards – 1,600 miles
- United MileagePlus – 1,200 miles (without credit card)
- Citi Bonus Cash Center – $25
- Barclaycard RewardsBoost – 2,300 points
- Subscribe to Wall Street Journal for 12 weeks for $12 via one of the below shopping portals and earn:
- American AAdvantage – 2,200 miles
- United MileagePlus – 1,800 miles (both with and without credit card)
- Alaska Mileage Plan – 1,600 miles
- Southwest Rapid Rewards – 1,600 miles
- Delta SkyMiles – 1,400 miles
- Citi Bonus Cash Center – $25
- Glamour Rewards – $25
- Barclaycard RewardsBoost – 2,300 points
Key Terms
Barron’s
- Only eligible on paid subscriptions.
- Only eligible on first month for pay by month subscriptions.
- Subscription must be active for at least 45 days.
- Eligible on one (1) subscription per loyalty account number.
- Get 8 weeks for $1: Rewards will be issued based on an eligible Member’s purchase of a subscription to Barron’s, starting with one (1) 8 week trial subscription for $1.00. The trial subscription purchase must remain active (i.e., may not be cancelled) for at least 45 days. There are no refunds of the $1.00 trial subscription fee. If the Member does not cancel the trial subscription by the end of the trial subscription period, Member’s subscription will automatically convert to a monthly subscription, and Member’s credit card will be charged based on the terms found on the Barron’s offer page.
- Offer is limited to one (1) trial subscription per loyalty account.
Wall Street Journal
- Extra miles will be issued based on an eligible Member’s purchase of a subscription to The Wall Street Journal, starting with one (1) twelve week trial subscription for $12.00.
- The trial subscription purchase must be made between September 26, 2018 at 12:01am Eastern Time through 11:59 pm Eastern Time on September 30, 2018 and must remain active (i.e., may not be cancelled) for at least 45 days.
- There are no refunds of the $12.00 trial subscription fee.
- If the Member does not cancel the trial subscription by the end of the twelve week trial subscription period, Member’s subscription will automatically convert to a monthly subscription, and Member’s credit card will be charged based on the terms found on the WSJ offer page.
- Offer is limited to one (1) trial subscription per United MileagePlus account number.
Quick Thoughts
These increased mileage payouts for magazine / newspaper subscriptions seem to come around periodically and can be a great way of boosting your mileage accounts at low cost.
The biggest downside with these deals is that you have to call to cancel the subscriptions as they can’t be cancelled online (unless you live in California). It’s also important to set up a reminder to cancel your subscription(s) at the correct time.
With the Barron’s deal, you have to keep the subscription for at least 45 days. That means you have between days 46-56 to cancel before your credit card will be charged again.
For the WSJ deal, you also have to keep the subscription for at least 45 days. With this deal though, you have between days 46-84 to cancel before they charge your card again.
For the Barron’s subscription (and possibly the WSJ subscription too) the terms suggest you should be able to take out multiple subscriptions – one via each portal – in order to earn multiple bonuses. Having said that, it might be worth holding out for higher bonuses through some of the portals.
h/t Doctor of Credit Barron’s & WSJ
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These SW points should count toward CP?
For the Barron’s deal for each airline, the link from cashbackmonitor says: “Merchant Does Not Currently Participate In The Program.” Temporarily dead?
It looks like it for now. I’ll hold off on marking the deal as expired for now though in case it returns later on.
I receive the same message about Barron’s not participating.
Nice find. I can simultaneously earn miles and get bad financial advice from Barron’s. Then when they ask why I’m cancelling I can tell them how terrible their advice was.
Eligible on one subscription per loyalty account number – does that mean we have to pick between WSJ or Barron’s, or does it mean one subscription of that specific publication?
One subscription of that specific publication.
Can I have multiple subscriptions to each? (for example, can I have 3 subscriptions to Barrons for AA, AS, and UA? and 3 subscriptions to WSJ )?
I’m happy to pay a few dollars to get a few thousand miles in each program.
The terms suggest that’s possible, although I’ve not actually tried doing that myself before. If you do try doing that, it’d be worth doing it in incognito mode to give everything a better chance of tracking correctly. Make sure all incognito tabs are closed after completing one subscription before doing another one.
See my comment in doc’s post you CAN cancel online when using PayPal