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When the walls come tumbling down

by DougJ|  March 23, 201111:27 am| 20 Comments

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Like many of you, I got an email from Lincoln a few days ago, giving me a free web subscription to NYT for the rest of the year.

So imagine my surprise when this morning, as I was reading the Times website, I got another offer for a free web subscription. I decided to click on it to see what would happen. I was prompted for my password and when I entered it I was brought to the page below.

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  1. 1.

    Redshirt

    March 23, 2011 at 11:30 am

    The Right hand hates the Left hand and doesn’t really care what it’s doing. And sometimes vice versa.

  2. 2.

    cmorenc

    March 23, 2011 at 11:34 am

    DougJ:

    Well, this proves that you are a complimentary man worth being given many complements. Which would you rather get from the NYT, two complementary subscriptions, or their warmest regards?

  3. 3.

    cleek

    March 23, 2011 at 11:36 am

    turns out, the new business model is : keep the customer guessing !

  4. 4.

    Valdivia

    March 23, 2011 at 11:36 am

    So I have access still. What part is supposed to be behind a paywall? I have my edu/email related account and have unlimited access still without doing anything. hmmm.

  5. 5.

    Comrade DougJ

    March 23, 2011 at 11:39 am

    @Valdivia:

    The paywall goes into effect on March 28, I think.

  6. 6.

    arguingwithsignposts

    March 23, 2011 at 11:40 am

    @Comrade DougJ: unless you’re in Canada.

  7. 7.

    MikeTheZ

    March 23, 2011 at 11:42 am

    @Valdivia: March 28 is when it goes into effect.

  8. 8.

    Valdivia

    March 23, 2011 at 11:43 am

    @Comrade DougJ:

    thanks. shows how clueless I am. Last time they had some sort of paywall for Opeds the edu domain was not affected. Let’s see if I get an email about skipping this.

  9. 9.

    JGabriel

    March 23, 2011 at 11:43 am

    If you want to confirm that your complimentary NYT account has been activated, log in to your account, then click on your userid in the upper right corner of the NY Times home page (or any Times page, really).

    In the middle of the profile, there should be a section called “My Subscriptions”. If your complimentary account is properly activiated, it should read “NY Times: Web + Smartphone App”.

    .

  10. 10.

    New Yorker

    March 23, 2011 at 11:48 am

    OK, so this isn’t some sort of scam? I got the same thing in my inbox and was apprehensive about clicking it, especially since I’m a 31-year-old liberal urbanite, i.e. not exactly Lincoln’s target demographic.

  11. 11.

    Violet

    March 23, 2011 at 11:49 am

    @New Yorker:
    Was wondering the same thing. Is it real? Or a scam?

  12. 12.

    The Moar You Know

    March 23, 2011 at 11:50 am

    Given the record of the New York Times and its decidedly pro-corporatist/pro-conservative stance, I think I’ll give even the freebie a pass. Save for Krugman, there’s really nothing there worth reading.

  13. 13.

    JGabriel

    March 23, 2011 at 11:54 am

    @New Yorker: Nope, not a scam. The sign-up process can be buggy though, and you have to sign up by the 27th. Here are some instructions I wrote up to walk people through the sign-up if you run into the bugs.

    .

  14. 14.

    JGabriel

    March 23, 2011 at 11:57 am

    @Violet:

    Was wondering the same thing. Is it real? Or a scam?

    Again, not a scam. Here’s an article about it from Crain’s.

    .

  15. 15.

    Violet

    March 23, 2011 at 12:11 pm

    @JGabriel:
    Thanks! Should I feel left out that I didn’t get an invitation for a free subscription? Not that they seem to work all that well…

  16. 16.

    dr. bloor

    March 23, 2011 at 12:16 pm

    Something similar happened to me when I tried to get past the pay wall during their last revenue-generation-turned-goatfuck experiment. I subscribe to the dead-tree, and the bumblefucks in support there never could get me to the online stuff.

    I can’t wait for Krugman to leave so mrs. dr. bloor can get her news from BBC and Al Jazeera like the rest of the civilized world.

  17. 17.

    PurpleGirl

    March 23, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    I registered for NY Times daily headlines many years ago — with my Juno email account. I haven’t used Juno for current mail in ages. So I checked Juno this morning and there was the email for the free access from Lincoln. Of course, I’m going to registered for it.

  18. 18.

    HyperIon

    March 23, 2011 at 1:25 pm

    @Valdivia wrote:

    regarding the NYT subscription “free” until the end of 2011…

    I read the instructions JGabriel posted yesterday and tried logging in/out but nothing happened, that is, no offer appeared. But this morning i got an email and clicked on the button and everything worked as advertised. Thank you, NYT.

    Maybe by the end of the year I’ll be able to convince myself to fork over money. Or maybe I’ll just control my clicking and stay under the 20 or so “free” clicks per month. Which I haven’t seen anybody mention.

  19. 19.

    JGabriel

    March 23, 2011 at 1:34 pm

    @Violet: Make sure your current e-mail is listed in your Times account profile. Then log out and back in, like it says in this Crain’s article. You should get an invite the next morning.

    .

  20. 20.

    evap

    March 23, 2011 at 2:06 pm

    While reading online this morning, I got a pop-up telling me I had free access for the rest of the year. I just had to click on a link and then enter my nytimes.com password. Funny thing is, I was planning to start paying, for all of the reasons John mentions above. Now I won’t have to!

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