The Sun's Financial Diary

Ebates (if you are not familiar with Ebates, check out my previous discussions here and here) is currently having a promotion for the coming holiday shopping season. From now till December 31, 2008, you can get a $10 bonus when making a purchase of $10 or more at its network of stores. In addition, Ebates [...]

Ebates is an online shopping portal that offers its members discounts and rebates when they shop through their websites. Early this year, they had a promotion which gave $10 signup bonus for each new member being referred by an existing member. I passed along that offer here at this blog and a few people took [...]

WTDirect, an online bank that I covered a couple of times in the past, is offering up to $250 sign-on bonus for new accounts. If you open a WTDirect Savings Account from now till September 5th, and keep your balance for at least 60 days, you will get a bonus from $100 to $250, depending [...]

From what I can see, they best way to promote a product is to offer potential customers some incentive and people become enthusiastic especially when cash is offered. One company doing very well in this regard is ING Direct, which has been offering $25 bonus for a new account with $250 minimum deposit for years. [...]

Are you using UPromise to save for college? As I have talked many times here on this blog that I am an active user of the UPromise program for several years, making nearly $500 rebates (though most were from Citi UPromise card) that were all invested in my daughter’s 529 plan. Actually, I think investing [...]

There are quite a few programs out there that actually pay you for referring new customers to them. And if you can manage to exhaust all your referrals, you can make hundreds, even thousands, or dollars without much of work to you, though demands for each product are different and not all of them are [...]

Are you a Costco member? If you are, you can get up to $90 bonus from ING ShareBuilder if you open an account with the discount broker through Costco using this link. In addition to the bonus, Executive Members can also receive 25% quarterly commission rebates, while Good Star and Business Members get 10%. The [...]

Are you am AMEX Costco TrueEarnings card member? If you are, then you can get a $10 Costco cash card by using your card to pay your mobile phone bill automatically. When the same deal was offer last August, I enrolled and got the cash card a few months later. So the deal is real [...]