Archive for August, 2006

Trouble With Greenfield Online

Posted by Sun on August 13, 2006 (0) Comment

Greenfield online is a company that provides paid online survey and I joined the panel last month. Since then I have been receiving nearly five survey invitations every day and almost all of them only rewarded me with an entry to their sweepstake, which I don’t have much interest. Once in a while, they did [...]

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Oh No ……

Posted by Sun on August 12, 2006 (0) Comment

Got lots of rebates to track?
I have been using a software called Rebate! Rebate! to track my rebate submissions for a while. It records the item, price paid, rebate amount, submission date, contact information, received amount and date, even the postage paid for rebate submissions. At the end, it shows a summary with my net [...]

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HSBC To Improve Their Login Process, Again

Posted by Sun on August 12, 2006 (0) Comment

I got a notice today from HSBC though bankmail, saying that soon they will improve the login process at HSBCdirect, again. Somehow, the message disappeared after I clicked it once. When I tried to go back to my bankmail folder to get some details, the message was there any more and that’s why I don’t [...]

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More T-Bill Purchases

Posted by Sun on August 11, 2006 (0) Comment

Now I buy $3000 of 4-week Treasury bills every week.
I have been purchasing $2000 of 4-week T-bills weekly since since April after reading a discussion on Morningstar.com about the rate of 4-week T-bill and the rate of online savings account. At that time the two were every close, but since T-bill is exempted from state [...]

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End Of 0% Balance Transfer?

Posted by Sun on August 10, 2006 (0) Comment

I have three Chase credit cards, and since some time last year, I got 0% balance transfer offers from all three cards almost at the same time every month. The terms however are little different from those that came with new cards. Those offers were usually valid only for no longer than half a [...]

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