The Offer
- Get 1,000 United miles by going through the Mileage Plus shopping portal to buy a two month Wall Street Journal digital subscription for $1
The Fine Print
- The trial subscription purchase must be made between September 15, 2016 at 12:01am Eastern Time through 11:59 pm Eastern Time on September 19, 2016 and must remain active (i.e., may not be cancelled) for at least 45 days.
- If the Member does not cancel the trial subscription by the end of the two month 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.
- Introductory pricing is only available to households or customers at a business address who have not been subscribers to The Wall Street Journal within the last 180 days. If you respond to this offer but do not qualify for introductory pricing, we reserve the right to reject your order or prorate your subscription term to reflect current subscriber pricing. This offer is only available in the contiguous U.S. and may be withdrawn at any time. Sales tax may apply.
Our Verdict
When these offers come out, they usually come in bunches with other portals, but I don’t see the $1 offer on any other portal at the moment (just the $12 offer). If you see other portal offers, please let us know.
To do this offer right, you’ll have to cancel the subscription between 45 days and two months so that there’s no fee. Set yourself a reminder to cancel. Note: You need to call in to cancel.
It’s interesting that the terms seemed to have switched: in previous offers there was a limit of one per person and now the limit is per United account.
Hat tip to hoxuantu on r/churning
Subscribed late last night for WSJ and 1200 miles posted in pending this morning. Also subscribed for the Barron’s offer 12 hours ago but nothing yet. I like all things $$ so I probably will get some reading out of the subscriptions but not at the regular price. Especially need those miles for my next AA travel.
Hey, I didn’t cancel on time but I didn’t even receive the UA miles? The membership is non-refundable. Who should I contact to reverse the charge?
I don’t see how you can reverse the charge since you didn’t cancel on time (maybe they prorate? not sure), but you can contact the portal for the missing points.
Forgot to cancel on time… but cancellation call was a breeze, suggestion if you have trouble cancelling. 1-(800)-Journal (568-7625) for the lazy.
LPT from Scott Adams – just tell them you’re “Not interested” – there’s no response that can be given in response to that, it always works. If you say “I don’t read it enough” you open up dialog for the retention person to ask follow up questions.
For me they asked “Why?” and I said “I’m not interested” and they replied something like “Was the content not good” and I just replied “I’m just not interested.” Cancellation complete, no further discussion.
Points posted here too. Cancelling now. Will report back if they are pulled.
They do try hard but if you just answer their questions with long-winded gibberish like, “yeah information so much reading sometimes but usually i don’t read very much”, they give up pretty quickly. 🙂
Sooo. It looks like the points have already posted for me. Am I in the clear to cancel?
I think so
Spouse did the WSJ/Murdoch thing last year…. for the paper copy delivered. Gave us a good steady supply of starter paper for my woodstove…. 😉 which about matches my impressions of anything Rupert Murdoch touches/ruins….
Thankfully, cancellation was ez…. one phone call and no fuss thereafter.
To save yourself a little time: i tried to sign up using my mobile phone and the above direct link and first got stuck in a loop of signing in and getting sent immediately to flight reservation page, with no mention of wsj promo. Finally got a popup message saying the retailer (wsj) would not be able to reward/track back points unless i used a desktop or laptop.
When I click through the MIleagePlus portal to the WSJ site, I don’t see a place to select the $1 subscription … what am I missing? I see the $12 for 12 weeks and other more expensive subscriptions.
I see both options. Are you on mobile? Try desktop.
I signed up through an emailed link. There was nowhere to enter my Mileage Plus #. Hoping it links up. Anyone know if it automatically connects?
Hmm, it might since the email knows who you are. Hope it works out!
Introductory pricing is only available to households or customers at a business address who have not been subscribers to The Wall Street Journal within the last 180 days. If you respond to this offer but do not qualify for introductory pricing, we reserve the right to reject your order or prorate your subscription term to reflect current subscriber pricing. This offer is only available in the contiguous U.S. and may be withdrawn at any time. Sales tax may apply.
Let me add that, thanks