Update: Barron’s has been removed from the portal’s.
The Offer
Lots of newspaper subscriptions will give you bonus miles for signing up. The key is to find when they offer near $0 introductory rates, then you can signup via the portal, cancel before the introductory rate is over, and net the free miles.
Both Barron’s and Wall Street Journal are currently offering a $1 option for a 3-month subscription. You can choose the digital-only option or the paper + digital option – both have the $1 rate.
Check out the best portal deals on Cashbackmonitor for Barron’s:
And for WSJ:
There are lots of choices to go about this, as shown above.
- Buy 2,600 AAdvantage miles for $2
- Buy 1200 United miles and 1100 Southwest miles for $2
- Buy $15 from Barclay and $12 from Shopathome for $2, and net $25
- Any combination of the portal options of your choice
Past Subscriber’s
We’ve mentioned the WSJ idea a couple of times in the past. Those who have done these introductory deals within the past 180-days are not eligible for the $1 offer. This shouldn’t affect the portal – just the $1 offer.
As far as I understand, you can get the introductory offer on each of the two – WSJ and Barron’s – though the both are published by Dow Jones and Company (and they may even share login details?).
Our Verdict
I did the WSJ deal in the past, but I never did the Barron’s so I jumped on this opportunity now.
Be sure to notate your calendar to cancel the subscriptions if you aren’t interested in keeping them.
HT: Reddit and Milesperday on Twitter – follow him if you don’t already
Has anyone received miles/pts yet from Barron’s? I received my WSJ ones, but not Barron’s
How fast did your WSJ points take to post? What airline? I subscribed to WSJ 2/10, but no points yet on SW account.
I got SW pts for WSJ, and they posted within a week I believe. It was quick
Barron’s points have not posted to SWA yet.
Oops, I mean AAdvantage miles from Barron’s haven’t posted yet.
Anyone have the WSJ miles for SW post?
Yes, Southwest points posted to both mine and my daughter’s accounts. My husband’s account did not receive the miles.
Thanks! How fast did your Southwest miles credit?
For the accounts that actually posted, it was within a few days.
for those still waiting on WSJ points to post on Southwest, I contacted Southwest Rapid Rewards 3 weeks ago ( signed up on Feb 10 and nothing had posted then and as of today). Today, they informed me the following:
“Thank you for expressing your concern. Please note that we are still working on the issue with The Wall Street Journal. When we have further information will respond as soon as possible.”
It looks like the delay in posting points is with WSJ and thus affecting all other partners (AA, etc.). Hopefully WSJ comes through.
Thanks for this update. It doesn’t even show on my “recent shopping” tab, only on my “recent site visits” tab. And over there, when you click, it says “sorry; WSJ doesn’t participate in SW RR” or something to that effect. Your update is encouraging.
Same on my account. Since they aren’t offering this anymore it explains why it doesn’t show up in recent shopping tab.
However, the RR rep had confirmed me back on Feb 19 that WSJ was offering 1100 on the date of purchase (Feb 10) and then followed up on March 11 that they are still working with them.
signed up on Feb 10. Nothing posted.
Did 1 Barron’s and 1 WSJ on Feb 10th through AA portal. So far, none have been tracked. Charges are on CC, though.
I don’t know how to dispute since both stores visits were not tracked, either.
Well, at least I have Barron & WSJ to read for 3 months.
I signed up for Barron’s almost 3 weeks ago through this offer. I haven’t received any issues by email (I signed up for Digital only) yet and my transaction never tracked with SAH. However, my credit card WAS charged the $1. Has anyone had a better experience?
Wow…the MS community really killed this deal. Miles are no longer available on any of the airline sites for WSJ. Neither at Plenti. Ebates now only pays out $2. I guess if I snooze, I lose. Well done guys!
If you knew about this deal before it was posted, why didn’t you sign up? If you didn’t know about it, then there is no loss surely?
Did 3 Barron’s and 1 WSJ on Feb 10th through AA portal. So far, none have tracked. Charges are on CC, though.
did 5 orders total: 1 WSJ Ebates – $10 cashback a couple hours later.
2 WSJ AA – 1x 1300 on Feb 15
2 Barrons AA – None back
Paid Five bucks and got $10 and 1300 miles. Not really expecting the rest to track but since my costs are covered and I made a little profit for 30 mins work, don’t mind. Probably more hassle than its worth to deal with Carretera and wont bother.