New ING $25 Bonus Referral Links Posted

I posted a new batch of referral links for ING today. By following these links, a new customer can earn a $25 bonus for opening either an Orange Savings or Electic Orange Checking account with an opening deposit of $250 or more. That’s an instant 10% return!

This month’s referral links are brought to you [...]

$400 in bonuses for opening Chase checking accounts until 3/15/2008! (YMMV)

I posted several months ago about a $200 bonus offer for opening a Chase business checking account. Well, the offer is back again, with the only change being a minimum deposit of $500 instead of $100. The offer is valid until March 15, 2008, and you can download your coupon at:

http://www.chase.com/ccp/index.jsp?pg_name=ccpmapp/smallbusiness/shared/page/business_checking_offer3

To make the [...]

Posted new ING $25 bonus referral links

I posted a new batch of referral links for ING. By following these links, a new customer can earn a $25 bonus for opening either an Orange Savings or Electic Orange Checking account with an opening deposit of $250 or more. That’s an instant 10% return! By opening an account through these links, you also [...]

Simplifying Finances: Step 1 – Identify Needs

A few months ago I wrote about my need to simplify my finances by closing old bank accounts. I got off to a decent start, closing four obviously unnecessary accounts, but never went past that. Why? My theory is that those were the only ones that were obviously unnecessary, while the others I could make some case [...]

So does this mean the dog won’t get pre-approved credit card offers anymore?

Well, I guess the credit insanity had to end sometime. One of the areas where logic seemed to go out the window long ago was with respect to credit cards. For a long time it seemed like there were at least five pre-approved offers in the mail every day. But perhaps the fun is now [...]

What type of cardholder does Chase consider you to be?

All are not equal, at least as far as Chase and its customer service representatives are concerned. In an interesting article on the Consumerist billed as “10 Confessions of a Chase Customer Service Rep”, a former Chase CSR gives what he considers to be “secrets” of how their customer service works. Most of the article [...]

Inquiring minds want to know: “What’s in my wallet?”

It looks like another blogger has called me out (among others) to disclose the contents of my wallet. PT over at Prime Time Money has issued this challenge in a post where he discloses the contents of his wallet, and I’m never one to back down from a challenge.

My wallet is not your traditional [...]

Online savings accounts: Who is king of the hill now?

It used to be that every other email in my inbox was spam for a product to enhance a certain manly part, but over the last couple of weeks those have been outnumbered by messages from online savings accounts notifying me of reduced interest rates. I guess that will happen when the Fed reduces rates [...]

The Interest Rate Cut and the Death of the App-O-Rama

As most everyone is aware now, the Federal Reserve this week dropped the Federal Funds rate by 75 basis points (0.75%). This is great for borrowers, but not so great for savers. Several online banks have already dropped their high yield online savings accounts drastically in response to the cut. This is on top of [...]

ING Direct Electric Orange Checking Account Referral Links ($25 Bonus)

Last night I posted referral links for the ING Direct Orange Savings Account, and tonight I am posting referral links for the ING Direct Electric Orange Checking Account. Electric Orange is ING’s paperless checking product which pays a very competitive interest rate of 3.15% APY for balances up to $50,000, 4.65% APY for balances between [...]