Walgreens Coupon – $10 Credit When Spending $25 Online

There is a new Walgreens promotion where you can get a $10 credit after spending $25 at Walgreens.com. There is no expiration on this promotion, but it can be withdrawn at any time.

You must place your $25 order from the Walgreens Promo page. Once your purchase is completed the $10 credit will appear in your account.

Some of the small print of this offer is as follows:

• You can only use the credit online at Walgreens.com
• The credit expires in 90 days after it is issues
• You must use the credit on one purchase, meaning you can’t split it over multiple purchases
• You can’t apply the credit toward pharmacy or photo orders, gift card purchases, taxes or shipping charges

Overall, this is still a pretty good deal since you are essentially getting 40% of your $25 purchase to use toward another purchase.

$75 PNC Checking Account Bonus

PNC Bank is offering a new account promotion where you can get a $75 bonus when opening a new account. To qualify you need to open a new checking account by May 22, 2010, setup direct deposit and make 10 purchases with your PNC debit card. Note that those 10 purchases need to be signature based transactions and not pin based. The small print also mentions that the direct deposit needs to be greater than $400 and must be “made by an employer or an outside agency”

The $75 bonus will be credited to your account within 60 days after the above requirements are met.

If you want to open a free account to get this bonus, you may consider the PNC Free Checking account. With direct deposit set up, there are no minimum balance requirements or monthly service charges on the account.

For more details see the PNC Bonus Page

25000 Skymiles from Platinum Delta Skymiles Card

Get 20,000 free Delta Skymiles when apply for the Platinum Delta Skymiles Card from American Express and make your first purchase. 5000 of those miles are counted as Medallion Qualification Miles which help you get closer to elite status on Delta Airlines.

This card also comes with a feature called “Mileage Boosts”. When you make $25,000 in purchases during a calendar year, you will get an additional miles boost of 10,000 Medallion Qualification Miles. You can get another 10,000 Medallion Qualification Miles when you spend reach the $50,000 in purchases mark during that same year. If you spend a lot, this card will get you into elite status on Delta fast!

If you add 2 additional cardmembers to your account you will then receive another 5000 Skymiles bonus to your account. Note that this card has an annual fee of $150. There is no additional card fee.

For more details on this card and how to apply, see the Platinum Delta Skymiles Card Detail Page

2010 Brokerage Promotions

Now that the new year has begun a lot of new brokerage promotions have popped up to get people to open a new account. The Dow Jones is hovering around 10,000 so we are still a little off of the high from 2 years ago. If you have some extra cash to invest, now is the time to get it working for you.

Here are some of the current brokerage promotions that offer some kind of cash bonus or free trades:

• OptionsXpress Promo- OptionsXpress is offering a $100 bonus when you open a new account with them. (See post for more details)
• Tradeking Promo – Get $50 when opening a new Tradeking account (see post for more details)
• Optionshouse Promo- Get 100 free trades when you open a new account, with $2.95 flat rate stock trade commisions. They have one of the lowest stock trading commissions out there. (see post for more details)
• ETrade IRA Promo- Open an ETrade IRA and get 100 free trades. (See post for more details). Open that 2009 IRA by April 15th, 2010.
• Zecco Promo- Zeccobrokerage gives you Get 10 free stock trades every monthif you $25,000 balance or make 25 paid trades each month. Otherwise the commission is only $4.50 / trade which is one of the lowest out there. (See more details here)
• Firstrade Promo- Firstrade is giving away 5 free trade when you open a new account. (See post for more details). Firstrade offers a low $6.95 commission per trade.

If you know of any others, please add them in the comments and I will add to this post.

$50 Tradeking Promo – May 2010

There is a new Tradeking Promotion this month where you can get a $50 bonus when opening a new account. This bonus is referral based so you need to receive a referral email from me to qualify for it.:

• Open a Tradeking brokerage account by completing the form on the Tradeking Promotions Page  or complete the form below with your email address.
• Open a new Tradeking account using the link in the email
• Deposit at least $1000 into the account and execute 1 trade
• Leave the referral money in the account for at least 6 months

Thats it, once the 6 months period is up you can do what you want with the 50 bonus. Not a bad 5% return if you deposit only the requred $1000. Also keep in mind that you can refer others as well once your account is opened. You will receive a $50 referral bonus when you friend opens an account. That friend will receive the $50 as well. There is no limit to how much you can make here.

If I already didn’t have a tradeking account, you bet I would be in on this one!

This offer expires June 3, 2010.

1. Send a $50 TradeKing Referral To:
2. Your Email Address:(valid email required)

 

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(note: your email is not used for anything other than sending you the referral email)

Go to the Tradeking Promotions page for more details.

I also have a Tradeking Review out there if you are interested in reading about my experiences with them.

Ally Bank – Raise Your Rate CD

Here is an interesting new product being offered from Ally Bank. It is called the Raise Your Rate CD. Basically it works the same as a CD, but the twist is that it allows you to raise the rate once during the term of the CD rather then being locked into the interest rate as with a regular CD.

This is very nice since if rates start going up, which most likely they will be in the next few months, you have the opportunity to increase your CD to that rate. Currently the Raise Your Rate CD is being offered at 1.99% for a 2 year term. If rates start increase, just give them a call and have your CD set to that new rate.

The Raise Your Rate CD also comes with Ally’s 10 day best rate guarantee which means when you open the CD and the rate increases in the first 10 days of the CD period, you will receive that increased rate. This does not count toward your one time CD rate increase.

Another nice feature of Ally Bank CD’s is that they will automatically renew when the term is up if you don’t call them ahead of time to cancel the renewal. When the CD does automatically renew it will do so at the current rate for that CD, so if you plan on just letting your money roll then there is nothing you need to do to receive the most recent rate.

This is a great deal considering that the 2 year rate is pretty competitive and with the option to increase that rate of the 2 year term it is hard to find a better place to hold your money. Ally Bank, formerly known as GMAC Bank, is FDIC Insured and has been around for many years. It also has a history of having very competitive rates along with no hidden fees in their products.

More details on the Raise Your Rate CD.