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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 [...]

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. [...]

Update: Check out the Firstrade promotion post to see how you can get 5 commission free trades plus $20 bonus when opening a Firstrade account. Firstrade is having a triple sign-up bonus promotion. Open an account with Firstrade between now and April 16, 2007 and fund the new account within 30 days after the account [...]

Paypal has a promotion of $20 off with a purchase of $50 or more between November 23rd and December 31st. Some purchases may be also good for free shipping. To qualify for the cash rebate, registration must be made before November 22nd. Here’s the fine print from Paypal website Receive a $20 USD Cash Rebate [...]

It seems  that ShareBuilder.com is pushing for some holiday sales. Today, I got another email from ShareBuilder with a $50 bonus offer to open a new account with them. Since the offer is delivered via the email address I registered with them, I assume that they still allow me to have mutiple accounts, though some [...]

This probably won’t be the biggest bonus you can get from ShareBuilder.com, but yesterday I received an email with a $25 promo code mypoints25 from MyPoints.com. To make the deal a little sweeter, you can open a ShareBuilder account through Ebates.com as they have another $20 bonus for shopping through Ebates. Or, if you are [...]

Got an Amazon Platinum Visa card? Now you can earn double points on your daily purchases at restaurants, gas stations, grocery stores, and department stores. According to the notice I received in the mail tonight, Amazon.com will reward you double points for every dollar you spend above $100 from November 1st to December 31st. Eligible [...]

Early this month (actually should be last month), I posted an entry on how to get $60 bonus for opening INGDirect accounts and provided a reference code CK921/gheaeriz (valid till the end of this year) which I received in the mail. In that post, I said that any one who uses the code can get [...]