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7 of 13 customers found the following review helpful:
 SLOW NEWS IN A FAST PACED WORLD, 2006-05-20
The Wall Street Journel invented and is still the best at fair and balenced reporting , inspite of what fox news may think. They have great writers who care and if they edit your comments it is only to allow space for it to fit. In short this is the only American news company that can be trusted on a day to day basis. So this begs the question , why do I only give them 2 stars. Thier front page news stories are brought out to slow to be of value if the story has time value. It is still a great paper (web site) if in todays fast paced world you can find time for it. Dow Jones Market Watch ( same company ) is a better site for up to the minuite finacial information and it is free.
4 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
 Incredible value for general news as well, 2006-05-12
I've been a subscriber for two years. They pack a lot of quality into this very professional site and regularly introduce useful new features. (Example: select & right-click on any word, and it displays a pop-up with all recent articles containing that word!) You can get news alerts by phone or e-mail for specifically what interests you: technology, air travel, Asian Markets, a couple dozen categories in all. "The Numbers Guy" examines and debunks statistics that no one had thought to question.
The service is excellent: whenever I've had a question or suggestion they responded within 24 hours and with satisfactory answers. The Markets Data Center complements my broker's tools, allowing me to "drill down" for more details about a stock: key facts, who the officers are, how many shares they own and transactions they've made, etc.
Last week they e-mailed a story and TWO DAYS later I walked by a newspaper rack and saw it on the front page of the LA Times! Ha! (That happens a lot.) Any article about the economy will contain a concise, instructive "Economics 101" sentence (or two) to spell out the main point for the rest of us who did not major in Econ. I can e-mail full articles to my non-subscribing friends, and none of them have gotten spam. You can also download the the front page of any section of the paper journal in *.pdf format, and that goes for the European and Asian editions, too. I'd give it six stars if I could. :-)
12 of 12 customers found the following review helpful:
 Product has gotten better, 2006-04-05
For those of you who read the newspaper, the WSJ online is a good value. My local newspaper is $120/yr online and USA Today is about the same.
The only things I don't like is I wish they would PDF the entire paper so you can view/find/read it as it looks in print (my local newspaper does that through Olive Software). They only have the first pages of each section pdf'd.
Also, they wanted to charge me $99 for my renewal, with the only way to cancel is via the phone. I called to cancel, and they offered me 15 months for $79, so I got three more months for $10 cheaper than Amazon. Why don't they just offer a discount for renewals rather than auto-renewing at a higher price. SO KEEP TRACK OF YOUR RENEWAL DATE AND CALL IN ADVANCE (ABOUT A MONTH BEFOREHAND)!!!
13 of 16 customers found the following review helpful:
Auto-renewal can be more through WSJ than here at Amazon, 2006-01-25
Called WSJ and they refuse to renew at Amazon's price at first, got transferred to "cancel" my renewal, the next guy said "That's not right, I'll transfer you to someone who can help." This third guy listened - and renewed me for 15 months, at a lower price than here at Amazon, so I really got an even a bigger discount. So... squeak and you might get oiled in the renewal process! WSJ did send me an email letting me know with about a week's notice that I would be "autorenewed" and to check my credit card on file with them.
13 of 15 customers found the following review helpful:
 Beware of auto renewal scheme, lousy customer service, 2006-01-07
I was a happy camper until I received a surprise $99 WSJ charge on my credit card with no prior notice. Customer service said it was "in my contract", that I get auto renewals at whatever the going rate is. They refused to cancel/refund the overpriced additional year under any circumstances.
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