Archive for March, 2007

$100 Trade King Bonus

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

TradeKing has a $100 bonus where you fund the account with $1000 and make 1 trade within 30 days they will credit you a $100 bonus. Trades are $4.95 each. Go to www.tradeking.com/Vertster/ and you should see on the page "Get $100..." and "Code: ACCESS 100". Some people have reported seeing ...

Money Lessons: Credit Cards

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

I feel credit cards are a great financial tool when used right. If you're disciplined with your finances, credit cards should enable you, not hold you back. I prefer to use my credit card for almost everything and try to stay away from using cash. If you pay in full, you're ...

Addicted to eBay selling.

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

I'm starting to get addicted to eBay selling, yesterday I listed five items for sale. I plan to list 2 or 3 more later in the week. I also got the 2 free after rebate items from amazon.com which I'll eventually fleabay also. Amazon.com rebates are starting to move in ...

Money Lessons Index

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

"Money Lessons" is a series of posts about financial topics, they'll be posted once a week, generally on Wednesdays. Money Lessons: Credit Cards High Yielding Bank Accounts Frugal vs Cheap

More free cash from Chase trials.

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

I got 3 checks in the mail from chase. They were checks with bonuses to try out their various services. $20 if I try out their credit protector program. Not a free trial, but I get a full refund if I cancel within 30 days. Two $15 checks for if I try ...

Recent changes to blog…

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

Besides the permalink changes which I mentioned in an earlier post I've added some things to the blog. First is the popularity statistic at the bottom of every post which is suppose to rank each post's popularity. Since it's extremely fresh, the results may be skewed for a week or so. ...

Credit cards that cancel your bill if it’s too small.

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

I ran across an interesting discussion on FW about credit card issuers that cancel your bill if the amount is small because the cost to them to process the bill would be greater than collecting it so they "forgive" the amount. Here's a list of issuers that canceled and what amounts ...

Get Blockbuster Online for free AGAIN!

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

Note: This is for people who have in the past have taken advantage of Blockbuster's free trial and then have deactivated or canceled their plan. I have just tried this morning and it worked perfectly fine for me. Step 1 Sign into your Blockbuster.com account. Step 2 Go to http://www.blockbuster.com/signup/s/reg and you should see ...

Review of JohnChow.com

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

I'm reviewing JohnChow.com because I find the blog great and he has an interesting offer up. If you review his blog, you'll get a link back to your blog and the post reviewing his blog. It's more than just a linkback promotion. John lets you choose your anchor text (He explains ...

EG Permalink Changes

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

I know I'm shooting myself in the foot by changing the way permalinks are structured yet again. In addition to the first permalink changes resulting from my move from blogger this has created a slew of visitors who hit 404 pages. Although I try to list the popular posts on ...