The Sun's Financial Diary

The last big fat check (that’s what they call it) I received from Ebates was August 2006 in an amount of $44.98 after I used their ShareBuilder incentives ($20 for each account opened) to open two ShareBuilder accounts and got $40 cashbacks (now you can only use the cashback once). Another check of $8.68 was [...]

Two Symantec Visa debit cards, one $40 and one $20, arrived last night. They are the rebates from my purchase of Norton Ghost last December. Together with another $40 debit card received three weeks ago for the purchase of Norton AntiVirus 2007, the total rebates are $100 while the actual cost of the two software [...]

I joined many paid survey panels back in June and July before I started this Diary, trying to collect some extra money in my pocket once in a while. At the beginning I really had fun doing some of the surveys and was happy to get paid for a few bucks for 10 to 20 [...]

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 [...]