A Costco Reward Gift That’s Nice to Have

Posted by Sun on May 18, 2009 (6) Comment

Last Friday we received a membership renewal letter from Costco. Together with the notice is a $64.86 reward gift check from Costco. As a Costco Executive Member, we are able to enjoy the 2% cashback for shopping at Costco and the reward check is what we have accumulated last year, which also means that in [...]

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ING Electric Orange $50 Bonus Promotion

Posted by Sun on May 14, 2009 (0) Comment

Just got this offer from ING Direct.
The online bank is running a $50 promotion for its Electric Orange Checking Account. If you open a new checking account before May 31 and use its debit card to make three purchases within the first 45 days, the bank will you deposit $50 in your account. Sounds pretty [...]

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Credit Cards with Sign up Bonus

Posted by Sun on May 9, 2009 (1) Comment

A quick summary of credit cards that currently offer incentives:

Starwood Preferred Guest Card from American Express 25,000 Starpoints: Open a Starwood Preferred Guest Card and get up to 25,000 bonus Starpoints that can be redeemed for airline tickets, hotel stays, or room upgrade. $45 annual fee is waived for the first year. Find out more [...]

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Starwood Preferred Guest Card up to 25,000 Starpoints

Posted by Sun on May 3, 2009 (1) Comment

Starwood Preferred Guest Card from American Express is having a promotion that will give new cardholder up to 25,000 Starpoints in bonus. Of those bonus points, 10,000 points (enough for up to 3 free nights at a Category 1 or 2 hotel) will be credited after the first purchase within the first year. The additional [...]

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Discover More Card $50 Bonus

Posted by Sun on March 30, 2009 (2) Comment

Discover is offering a $50 bonus for every new, approved application for its More Card after spending $500 in the first 3 months.
The More Card lets cardholder earn unlimited cash rewards on all purchases. Benefits of the More Card include:

5% cashback on purchases on travel, home improvement stores, department stores, gas stations, groceries, and restaurants, [...]

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Bank Bonuses: $50 for Bank of America Checking and $50 for Capital One Savings

Posted by Sun on March 24, 2009 (4) Comment

A quick post on a couple of new bank account bonuses.
Bank of America is offering a $50 bonus when opening a new MyAccess Checking Account with promotion code GROUP50 and a minimum initial deposit of $25. According to the offer page, there’s no monthly fee for MyAccess Checking Account opened with the above promo code. [...]

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Bank Bonus Deals

Posted by Sun on March 13, 2009 (2) Comment

Looking for incentives to open a bank account? Following are some bonus offers valid for this month (March 2009) only. All of them are for checking accounts though.

M&T Bank is offering $100 bonus when opening a M&T Direct Checking, Classic Checking (with interest), Select Checking or Power Checking or $25 bonus for M&T Totally Free [...]

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Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus

Posted by Sun on February 27, 2009 (15) Comment

Only one week into the peer-to-peer lending business, I already received my first payment of $0.80 ($0.60 principle plus $0.20 interest, that’s equivalent to 10.2% yield). It’s from a $25 loan I purchased last week using Lending Club Note Trading Platform (check out my Lending Club Note Trading Platform review for details). The loan isn’t [...]

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ShareBuilder Promotion: $25 Bonus to Open a New Account

Posted by Sun on February 25, 2009 (3) Comment

Are you still interested in ShareBuilder?
If you are, then you can get $25 bonus when opening a new account. This offer is only good for joint, individual and custodial accounts, not for IRA or ESA accounts. The bonus will be credited to your new account within four to six weeks after the first transaction is [...]

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Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Referral Bonus

Posted by Sun on February 19, 2009 (12) Comment

It’s alive again!
Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Savings Plan, the plan that was rated as one of the best college savings plans by Morningstar in 2007 which is also the one we’re using to save for our daughter’s future education, has reinstated the $25 referral program. The program was first launched last December and from what I [...]

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