SIGN UP TO RECEIVE THE LATEST POSTS VIA EMAIL!Free $75 From Bank of America Checking
July 11, 2008
Bank of America has a promo going on their MyAccess Checking Account where you can get $75 when signing up. The MyAccess Checking account is BofA’s free checking account. The nice thing about this account is that there are no direct deposit or minimum balance requirements.
To get the bonus do the following:
- complete the Application Page and open an MyAccess Checking Account
- enter the bonus code CH75TAD
- deposit at least $25 into the account within 30 days of account opening
The $75 bonus will be paid out within 90 days of openening the checking account. This offer expires on 11/30/2008.
$100 From PNC Bank Checking
July 9, 2008
PNC Bank is having a promotion where you can receive $100 when signing up for one of their Personal Checking Accounts. To get the $100 you must open one of their Personal Checking Accounts and establish direct deposit.
The $100 bonus will be paid within 7 days of your first direct deposit that totals $500 or more. There is no expiration date on this offer, but the small print does read that it can be withdrawn at any time.
PNC’s Free Checking account actually pays ATM owner fees if you keep an average monthly balance of $2000, this is a great deal if you tend to use non bank owned ATM’s and rack up those crazy ATM fees. Personally I don’t not have an account with them, but my parents do and they have had no complaints with PNC as a bank.
Link to Offer Page and Details.
ETrade Complete Savings Up To 3.30%
July 3, 2008
ETrader raised their interest rates on their complete savings account from 3.15% to 3.30% yesterday. This isn’t a huge increase, but it is good to see an upward trend in interest rates on high yield savings and checking accounts
I currently use this account for my emergency fund. I recommend it to those of you that need a place to store some cash at a good interest rate. The account links to your checking accounts via ACH and it is very easy to move money back and forth.
You can still get a $25 bonus for openening the account with one dollar. See my bonus post for details.
Xbox 360 Price Cut
June 27, 2008
If you are like me and are waiting for the Xbox 360 to approach a more reasonable price before you buy, July 6th might be a good day for you.
According to this photo that was released, K-Mart already is starting to advertise the price drop. The photo, of a K-Mart newspaper circular, shows the Xbox 360 20GB console with a $299.99 price. That is a $50 drop of the current price of $349.99 for that console.
The thought is that they will be dropping the price of the Arcade and Elite consoles, but nothing has been seen in the wild yet.
Is $50 enought to get me to buy? Not sure yet, but after hearing about the new Deadliest Catch Xbox 360 Game
IRS Mileage Rates Going Up
June 26, 2008
With the freakish increase in gas prices, it only makes sense that the IRS gets moving and ups irs mileage allowance
They are increasing the irs mileage rate from 50.5 cents per mile to 58.5 cents per mile. The increased irs mileage rates covers miles driven from July 1, 2008, through Dec. 31, 2008. That looks to be a 16% increase. And gas prices have increased over 50%, what a great deal! Yes that is sarcasm you are reading. This just looks to be one more way that we have to carry cost increases on our shoulder while the government provides little help.
Obviously the Mileage Reimbursement is only for people that drive for work or use their vehicle for things other than personal driving, but please make a note of it since you can be losing out on a couple of bucks if you are still expenseing at the 50.5 cents rate.
And due to the great idea to have a .005 on milage, make sure you always drive an even number of miles to get that extra .005 back! These days, you should take everything you can get!
Get Paid By Yahoo User Research
June 24, 2008
Yahoo User Research is calling for people to sign up and help them out with some research projects.
It looks as if Yahoo is working to make its sites and search engine more user friendly and as a result will attract more users. To do this they are looking for feedback from people like you.
According to the Sign Up Page they will be paying out $75 or more depending on the project that you participate in.
Yahoo will choose you for a project based on the criteria for the research project, so it is possible that you can apply but not be selected.
Here are a list of rates based on the project:
Not a bad way to make some extra cash for a few hours. Plus you get to help shape the new future of Yahoo! if you like that sort of thing.
