The Sun's Financial Diary

Got this offer from MyPoints. If you want to open a ShareBuilder account, then use promo code SBMP25 to receive a $25 bonus plus 550 points from MyPoints. To get the bonus, a new account must be opened and at least one security must be purchased. Once these conditions are met, the bonus will be [...]

Update: Now it’s DEAD! RevolutionMoneyExchange‘s $25 sign up bonus promotion was supposed to end on May 15, 2008, but it looks like the offer is still alive. Yesterday, a reader emailed asking for a referral link so he can get an additional $5 bonus. I emailed back with the link and later asked the reader [...]

I can host them for you here on this blog! When I published my ING Direct Orange Savings Account $25 signup bonus post on April 27, I thought it could be a while before all the 25 referral links are taken because, ING Direct, as well as this referral problem, has been around for a [...]

All good things must come to an end, including the promotion from RevolutionMoneyExchange. It has been two months since I reviewed RME, the Paypal competitor, and offered an additional $5 bonus on top of the $25 signup bonus from RME. The promotion, which has been run much longer, will officially end tomorrow, May 15th, so [...]

I have been running my RevolutionMoneyExchange referral bonus sharing program, since I wrote a review in early March and a few people used my referral to signup with RME (thanks). While they received the $25 bonus from RME, I also got $10 for each new account I referred. When I first started the bonus sharing [...]

Got this promotion in the email from Citibank, which offers $50 bonus for opening a Citibank Ultimate Money Account before the end of this month. According to the terms and conditions, the bonus is available only for first-time Citibank deposit account customers. If you are already using a Citibank deposit account or had one before, [...]

Citibank is currently having a promotion for their Ultimate Savings Account and the reward is 40,000 ThankYou points which can be redeemed for 2 round-trip tickets, with each valued up to $400. To get the bonus points: Open a Citibank regular checking account, link it to a new or existing Citibank Ultimate Savings Account and [...]

I sent out several $20 Amazon.com gift cards tonight to those who used my bonus sharing program in February. Last month, a few readers used my referral links to open and fund their brokerage account at Zecco.com, which rewarded me a $50 bonus for each new account I referred to them. I in turn offer [...]