Some financial service companies are really generous to give out some money to you for trying their financial services. If you decide to keep with their services, you can have the money. If you decide not to be a customer of them, you can still have the money. yes, those companies are willing to pay you to try their services. So we get the chances to make some free money by trying out some financial services.

Revolution Money Exchange-–$25 bonus: This promotion runs until May 15 ,2008. This is why I put this bonus at the first spot. If you haven’t signed up yet, you’d better hurry up. Revolution Money Exchange is a new money transfer tool which is similar to PayPal for online shoppers. This is by far the easiest money to get for me. All you have to do is to sign up and link your account at revolution money exchange to your bank account. You are not required to make a small deposit or use it to buy some merchandises. This promotion was covered by this post.

ING Direct—$25 bonus: This sign-up bonus has a small requirement which I think most of us can easily get qualified—make an initial deposit of $250. Your friend who referred you to open an account at ING Direct can get $10 bonus. I like this account very much. The current APY is around 3%. I have a briefly review about the orange savings account at ING.

HSBC Direct—$25 or $50 bonus: This sign-up bonus requires you to open a savings account and make an initial deposit with a certain amount. HSBC Direct was rated as the “Best Online Savings Account” in 2006 by Kiplinger. Actually, instead of using PayPal or ING Direct to do direct deposit, you can also use HSBC Direct to make direct deposit to qualify for certain sign-up bonuses which require you to make direct deposits to your account there. HSBC sign-up bonus expires on May 31, 2008.

ShareBuilder—$50 bonus: If you open an account with this brokerage through their partner websites and make one qualified trade, you can get $50 bonus. The link to get the sign-up bonus can be found here. Costco members can use this link to get $55 bonus.

Prosper—$25 bonus: This is a famous as well as popular person-to-person lending club. You can get much higher interest rate than putting money in your savings accounts or money market accounts. Plus you can get $25 bonus once you make a loan with $50. You can visit www.prosper.com for more details.

eBates—$10 gift card bonus: eBates is a popular cash back website, you can earn extra cash rewards using the links provided by eBates. At the same time, you can still earn cash back from your credit cards. In order to get the $10 bonus, you have to make a qualified purchase through eBates within a certain time period. To minimize you spending, you can purchase a song from iTunes or Amazon.Com which will only cost you $1.0.

The above mentioned sign-up bonuses are quite easy to get. However, you can get much more money by applying for credit cards which offer huge sign-up bonuses. The comprehensive list of sign-up bonus in this May is here.