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TradeKing Promotion: Get $50+$20 Bonus When Opening a New Account

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TradeKing, a online discount broker, is running a Refer a Friend on National Friendship Day promotion which will give you $50 for a new account. I will make the promotion even sweeter.

Are you using TradeKing? If not, are you considering getting an account?

if so, then here’s your chance to profit from it, getting up to $70. From now till August 23rd, TradeKing will give anyone who opens a new account through their Refer a Friend program:

Simply refer a friend to TradeKing using our Refer a Friend Dashboard between now and August 28th. As soon as your friend deposits $1,000 and executes a trade, we’ll deposit $50 into both of your accounts.

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Deal: Free ACP-EP 2GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive at Buy.com

Posted by Sun on December 10, 2006 (0) Comment

Another good deal on large capacity flash drive at Buy.com today only.

ACP-EP 2GB USB 2.0 Forum Recon Style SnowDrive Flash Drive [Buy.com affiliate link] has a listed price of $52 (the price shown on the website is $50, but actual price is $52). Use Google Checkout to get a $20 discount plus two ACP-EP mail-in-rebates ($20 with original UPC code and $12 with photocopy). The final cost to you for a 2GB flash drive is $0 with free shipping. I bought ACP-EP product only once, so don't know how reliable their rebates are.

Be careful at the checkout as the default shipping method is NOT free with Google Checkout. You have to use the pull down menu to select the free shipping. 

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Deal: Make $13 When Buy Adaptec 3-Port FireWire Notebook Adapter at Buy.com

Posted by Sun on December 10, 2006 (0) Comment

I am not sure how useful this device is, but since you can actually make money out of it, I decide to post the link in case you need it.

Buy.com currently has Adaptec 3-Port FireWire Notebook Adapter [Buy.com affiliate link] on sale. Listed price $54.99 minus $48 mail-in-rebate minus $20 Google Checkout discount, the final cost is -$13.01 with free shipping. That's right, you can make $13. My past experience with Adaptec is quite positive as all my rebate requests were honored. 

 

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Posts I Enjoyed This Week

Posted by Sun on December 10, 2006 (0) Comment

TJP at InvestorTrip tells you why you should reinvest your dividend instead of taking the cash distribution.

The good old days of 5% credit card cashbacks may be forever gone as banks became more like us, frugal with their rewards, but you can still get back a couple of cents for every dollar you spend with these cards, summarized by Flexo.   

If you receive an offer to run an ad on your site, but the content of the ad doesn't agree with the messages you try to convey on your site, will you accept the offer? Penny Nickel revealed why a LinkWorth offer to Money and Values was declined and raised the question of ethics. What would you do if you face such a conflict?

There are many advices out there on the importance of an emergency fund, however little have been talked on when you should use the fund. Blunt Money has a piece on that very topic.

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Fool Me Once ……

Posted by Sun on December 8, 2006 (4) Comment

A couple of days ago, I forwarded a story from MSN Money about how Capital One is trying to collect more fees by giving people low-limit credit cards so that they can easily overspent with cards. While Capital One's practice of helping people accumulating more debts should be condemned, the center figures in the story, the Kehns, actually bear the same share of responsibility of getting themselves into that situation. As Golbguru commented

I am not surprised Cap One tried to push more cards to the guys. What is dissappointing is to see these people take the bait.

Not just that they took the bait, but repeatedly. Come on, nobody forced you to take their card, Kehn. You volunteered yourself. Yet at the end, things went so bad for you and you had to get help from credit counseling agency (and you believe that?), but you did forget to complain

I owe these people that much damn money and they are willing to give me another credit card? This is nuts.

Yeah, they are nuts, so are you Kehn, if not even worse. This reminds me what people are saying: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”

Wait, there is a better person to tell you that.

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Money: Women vs. Men

Posted by Sun on December 8, 2006 (1) Comment

This is yet another interesting story I found on Kiplinger. The author, Janet Bodnar (author of the book Money Smart Women) highlights some key differences between men and women when it comes to investing, managing their money, and being financial independent:

  • Women often have doubts about their ability to invest. Thus, many either don't invest at all or invest too conservatively.
  • Studies found that women don't enjoy investing as much as men and women were more likely to keep their money in banks than men do.
  • Married women are more or less financially dependent on their husbands, yet about 40% of first marriages end up in divorce.
  • More women feel financially insecure, therefore, are unwilling to take a risk with their resources.
  • Women usually feel they have less control over their financial lives than men do.
  • Women want to preserve their assets so they don't lose them. Men, on the other hand, believe that if they lose money they can always make it back.
  • However, when they do invest, women are more likely to do research before making a decision and are less likely to be a gambler. As a result, a woman's portfolio may perform better than a men's portfolio.

Considering all these difference between men and women, the author suggests at the end that

working together, men and women make a socko investment team. They complement each other, enhancing strengths and compensating for weaknesses. In other words, you can keep him from taking a flier on silver futures, and he can drag you out of bank CDs. And the two of you will stand a much better chance of amassing the assets you need to enjoy a secure retirement - together.

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