Sunday, November 27

Dirt Cheap Wall Street Journal?

I need another piece of reading material about as much as I need a hole in my head, but this seems almost too good to be true...

I should probably preface all this by mentioning that I received a free 1 year subscription to the Wall Street Journal when I took a GMAT prep course with the Princeton Review back in 2003. I only read 10% of the paper 50% of the time, but I loved it - and actually missed it when the freebie ran out. I looked into paying for a subscription, but $215 for a year is a bit above my threshold. So, I stuck it on my wishlist.

Earlier this week, I was scanning the Frequent Flier Crier newsletter and noticed a blurb on points.com (a site where you can track balances of miles/points in your various rewards programs and "swap" between them). I signed up for a free account and linked it to my America West and Midwest Airlines accounts, each of which have painfully few miles in them (2320 and 4480, respectively).

As it turns out, I can "swap" 1900 miles for a 6 month subscription to the WSJ - a retail value of $107.50. At that rate, a plane ticket would have to cost over $1400 to justify using 25,000 miles to get it for free. Am I missing something? I've been guilty of miscalculations in the past, so feel free to correct me here. Assuming nobody shoots a big hole in my plan, I'm about 24 hours away from making the swap and crossing another item off my wishlist.

Now Playing: Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea

posted by Brad at 11/27/2005 10:42:00 PM | permalink | 0 comments

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