The Sun's Financial Diary

More bonus for using my referral links!
I have accounts with many banks, brokers, and online shopping rewards sites, etc., and some of them offer benefits for referring a new customer. If you need a referral for the following programs, please use the contact form to send me an email with a valid email address and [...]

Spotted this deal on FatWallet.com and it seems to be an easy money just for the holiday

If you open an OptionsXpress account and fund it with at least $500 before December 31st, they will give you a $100 bonus. From the offer page
In order to qualify for the $100 offer, account application must [...]

Update: Here’s the latest PineCone Research Sign Up link.
Spotted this deal on My Money Blog.
If you are interested in making a few extra bucks every month, here’s your chance. PineCone Research, a provider of paid surveys with guaranteed payout, is now accepting new applications to join their research team. Unlike other survey providers with which [...]

from November 1 to December 31, 2007 at participating locations.
Discover Card is now having a Holiday Mall promotion at 160 participating shopping centers across the country. The promotion will offer a $20 gift card for every $200 spent on Discover cards till the end of the year. The maximum number of gift cards one can [...]

Found this deal on FatWallet today and thought it’s worth mentioning.
If you still want an ING Direct account, despite their mediocre interest rate (currently at 4.30% APY), you can net $50 bonus if you open an account and fund it with $250 initial deposit before September 30, 2007.
Interested?
Use this link and promotion code NY3 to [...]

Just found this deal on dealsea.com.
CVS and American Express are offering a printable $5 off $10 coupon for shopping at CVS. However, on the coupon it says “Save Time and $5 When You Use ExpressPay at CVS.” It’s not clear whether the coupon is applicable to purchase paid by all AMEX cards. I have an [...]

Spotted this deal on FatWallet.com.
From now till January 15, 2008, American Express Costco cardholders can earn $10 when paying their wireless phone plan with AMEX Costco TrueEarning Card. From AMEX website, the Terms and Conditions of the deal are as follows:
Only The TrueEarnings Card from Costco and American Express, The TrueEarnings Business Card from Costco [...]

Are you using MyPoints?
Basically, it’s an online shopping portal that rewards its members with points for shopping with them, just like other sites such as Ebates and UPromise. In addition to earning points from shopping, they also offer the so-called BonusMail to help members accumulate points if they don’t feel like shopping with them. In [...]

Early last month, I took an online survey about financial planning, which promised to pay $25 Amazon.com gift certificate if I qualify and complete the survey. The survey was delivered via Financial Planning magazine (the free magazine I subscribe to, which is also a very good magazine BTW) and I indeed qualified and finished the [...]

I am not sure how trustworthy this is, but decided to share it with everybody who wants to give it a try.
I got this email last night from a survey website that sends me surveys everyday (I think I registered with them before) but I never took any, but this one certainly looked interesting:
A client [...]