Why I buy this one ?
- Scoops and updated news all day, every day.
- In depth research on nearly 30,000 companies.
- News alerts via email, cell phone, instant message or straight to desktop.
- Markets Data Center, with cutting-edge tools and extensive stock listings.
- Journal archives available only to subscribers.

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What our customer's say!

"Horrible Customer Service", I have been a subscriber of WSJ online since the beginning (over 10 years), and recently got an unexpected 20% increase in the annual renewal rate ($120) put on my AE card. I love the Journal, and read it every day, but 20% was enough to make me rethink my subscription. I called to cancel, and couldn't get through after 3 tries and long waits. After reading here I find I am stuck with the renewal. I then went to cancel my CC which was not possible. This reminds me of the old AOL which made it impossible to cancel their service. I never received notice of the price increase, and now know they are deceiving their customers. WSJ is a great online newspaper, but it appears they are now being run by dishonest folks. Contractors, I suspect. You have been warned so be careful giving them your CC #. I will have my CC number changed, and will keep trying to cancel my renewal which is in May of 2009. I will not subscribe again unless I can do it without a CC#.

"Great value", I have now bought this service to the Wall Street Journal on-line for a second year. The WSJ on line provides great value since one can read articles from the paper journal every day anywhere where there is web access. It also provides email alerts on all sorts of topics and news cataglories.
My only problems were 1- it is hard to locate the on-line item on the Amazon network; 2- Amazon does not clearly explain that they will first send a letter (which takes one week) to the subscriber and then one calls the WSJ to start the subscription; and 3- since I was renewing an existing subscription, I thought it would just continue- but first it was cancelled and then I had to verbally get it started anew.

"Worth its price; and yes - auto renewal can be canceled",
The Wall Street Journal on-line (or paper edition) is definitely worth its subscription price and is definitely a 5 Star - no question about it.

In response to reviewers that complained about automatic renewal on their credit card, and an the inability to obtain a refund, the WSJ specifically spells out its policy in its Subscriber Agreement and Terms of Use, which you need to accept (and therefore you need to read first) before you subscribe.

I repeat the important excerpts from the WSJ agreement below, but in essence ... you will be notified 30 days before auto-renewal which you can then cancel by phone, mail or e-mail BEFORE the renewal. But once it's renewed, no refunds are available. This may seem harsh, but they state these terms up front - and again, the benefits of subscribing to the WSJ On-Line greatly outweigh this additional "hassle" is worth it.

Excerpts from WSJ Subscriber Agreement ...

3. Fees and Payments ... Subscription fees will be billed at the beginning of your subscription or any renewal. Unless we state in writing otherwise, all fees and charges are nonrefundable.

4. Renewal. Your subscription will renew automatically, unless we terminate it or you notify us by telephone, mail, or e-mail (receipt of which must be confirmed by email reply from us) of your decision to terminate your subscription. For annual subscriptions, we will notify you of the pending renewal of your subscription at least 30 days prior to the date your subscription renews, except as otherwise required by law. You must cancel your subscription before it renews in order to avoid billing of subscription fees for the renewal term to your credit card.


"SLOW NEWS IN A FAST PACED WORLD", 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.

"Incredible value for general news as well", 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. :-)

Read this reviews before You buy...

"The WSJ has the best information", I enjoy reading the Wall Street Journal Online. You don't have the clutter of newspapers, and you can save the articles you like on your computer.

I have a broadband connection so it's not a problem for me to read the newspaper online, but I will still tell you that their site loads up slowly compared to other sites. I think if I had dialup service I might be frustrated. I would definitely suggest a having a pop up blocker when reading this newspaper. If you have dialup service I would definitely suggest trying it out for a trial to see if it's okay, before buying a subscription.

I prefer buying it through Amazon as you have greater control. If you buy it from Amazon, you will have to wait to receive the box in the mail with your user name and password before you can set up your account. When your subscription ends the WSJ tries to sign you up again through them at the full price.

The WSJ will just renew your subscription on your credit card if you do it through them, and they charge the full retail price.

You can also use Google Desktop to index your computer so that if you want to search for a Wall Street Journal article that you saved on your computer you can put in a keyword and find it fairly quickly.

The online subscription is also much cheaper in cost than the print version and to me far more convenient. The cost was much cheaper before. After the WSJ added the weekend edition, the price was raised, and it seems there is very little discounting as I have searched for a greater discount. They apparently just raise their price without warning.

You just have to learn how to navigate around the newspaper. My favorite thing to do is to click on Today's Print Edition on the left side. You can then see most of the important articles. I also like the feature where you click on most popular articles for the day, week and month. When you open an article, you will see that feature on the upper right hand side. Click on most popular.

You can customize your page, and select an industry that you want to read about, and everyday you will see articles pertaining specifically to that industry.

You can also see the European or Asian Wall Street Journal and get a perspective from other countries of what is important to them. You can also read Barron's Online which is also a bonus.

You can read the Wall Street Journal Online anywhere that you want as long as you have internet access and remember your sign in and password.

You can usually see the next day's front page column's by 11:30PM or 12:00am which means you can read those articles that night or early in the morning, typically before a newspaper would be delivered. The newspaper's first stories are usually constantly updated and if there is a big breaking news story you will see that displayed right at the top of the newspaper. It will also show you the time of the story.

People think of the Wall Street Journal as only a business newspaper, but that is not true. It contains articles on many different aspects of life, from new technologies, medical breakthroughs, trends, to interesting articles about other countries and customs. Most newspapers that write articles about events happening in the world skim the surface in terms of real details, whereas the Wall Street Journal will go into great depth. Of course the Wall Street Journal is the best business newspaper around.

Quite a few people have asked me how do you think of new ideas for a business. Simple. Read the Wall Street Journal. It not only keeps you up to date of what is happening in the world, but it tells you about new ideas and trends that are emerging. They tell you about other countries and ideas. For instance, China and India have been extensively written about for years.

The Wall Street Journal is very educational, and gives you the ability to talk to people about a variety of subjects. It lets you know what is going on in the world, not just from our perspective, but from the viewpoints of other people and countries.

If you read an interesting article, you can easily click on email on the upper right hand side and e-mail it to a friend.

If you want to print the article it is best to click on print on the top right hand side to put the article into a printer friendly format.

You can also look at prior editions in the archive section, but it is only up to 90 days prior. It used to be one year.


"Process for Obtaining WSJ Online", The Wall Street Journel is an excellent resource/web site.

To obtain your temporary password and access to the web site is totally ridiculous. The password is shipped to you in a box with excess junk. In addition there is a shipping charge for all of that junk. If you decline shipping charges your password is delayed a few extra days.

Most other sites either send you a letter within a few days or have some type of authentication that allows you to come online immediately. If Amazon can take your credit card information immediately in a secure mode why not give me my password immediately and send me the junk mail later????



"this is supposed to be a review of wsj online not amazon!", this is the only subscription I would pay for. Easiest to activate, just use the supplied password and then you can change it later.

"Can't "ship" it overseas", I tried to buy this package but in the ordering process was told that since I'm in New Zealand, the item cannot be "shipped" to my destination. Any system that maladroit deserves to choke on its own emissions -- and while it's probably more a reflection on Amazon than the Journal, someone at the paper should be more awake to these sorts of issues.

"Minus 1 star for customer service", Customer service sucks, but i put up with it because you just can't beat the content.