Archive for June, 2007

June 29th Friday Unwind

Friday, June 29th, 2007

The Friday Unwind is back after being gone for almost a month. Thanks for the e-mails requesting them back, at least I know somebody out there was enjoying them. Starshine "The puzzle game that will blow your mind"... I'm up to level 14 before I got a headache. The best thing to ...

Finally got around to signing up for Zecco

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

I woke up early this morning and filled out an application for Zecco. As stated in my previous posts, they offer free stock trades and now have no minimum to open an account. When I fund my account and execute my first trade I'll write a follow-up post. I suggest you ...

250 Free American Airlines Miles for short survey

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

Fill out an extremely short survey that took me about 5 minutes to receive 250 AA miles. Miles take 8-10 weeks to be credited to your account. 250 miles for filling out this survey

$100 bonus for Chase Free Checking account

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

There's a lot of $75 bonus floating around for the same offer which I'm glad I didn't take advantage of yet. Go to this page and it'll generate a unique bonus code which you can print out and bring to your local Chase branch. From the page: "Banker Instructions: 1. Customers opening ...

UPS Shipping Discounts for eBay sellers

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

I just realized that UPS gives discounts for eBay sellers. I don't sell a lot of items but saving on shipping is always great. You can print out the labels from PayPal just like with USPS labels also. UPS claims that their discounted shipping prices are cheaper than USPS Priority and ...

Businessweek Video: FNBO Direct

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Someone named Sara from FNBO Direct sent me a Businessweek video featuring an interview with Rajive Johri, President of FNBO. View it here.

Refreshing Pepsi Ice Cucumber

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

According to MSNBC, Pepsi rolled out a cucumber flavor this week in Japan only. Although I find this extremely strange. My curiosity with how this would taste wants me to try it. Apparently I'm not the only curious one as the cucumber flavored goodness is hot right now on ebay. ...

Goodbye Sogoinvest, Hello Zecco!

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Zecco getting rid of their $2,500 minimum balance is finally convincing me to switch over from Sogoinvest. Free trades vs $3 trades is a plus, but what really irked me about Sogoinvest is that they still haven't implemented GTC (”good till canceled”) orders yet. So I'm tired of logging in everyday ...

I was about to smack a McDonald’s cashier today…

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Note: This post has been sitting in my drafts for about a week so I'm not sure exactly which day it was that I felt like smacking the cashier at McDonalds... backhanded too mind you. I enjoy McDonalds every now and then, particularly their coke floats when it's brutally hot out. I ...

Inexpensive Summer Fun

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

So summer is here and tons of college kids out of school... what to do to kill time? Having fun and spending money aren't always necessarily related. One of the key parts to having fun without spending a lot of money is having friends that you enjoy just hanging out ...