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Priority Club and EverBank is running a promotion from which you can get up to 10,000 bonus points for opening bank account at EverBank. The reason for mention this promotion here is I have other recommendations on how to quickly accumulate Priority Club points.

The promotion for earning bonus priority points is listed on EverBank’s website. EverBank has 4 stars on BankRate’s Safe & Sound ratings system. It is also FDIC insured. Following is how to get the bonus points:

Yield Pledge Money Market Account
Get 5,000 points, a 3-month Bonus Rate, and a high yield all year long.
Plus:
● Free Online Banking
● No maintenance fee on balances above $1,500

FreeNet Checking Account
Get 2,500 points, a 3-month Bonus Rate, and a high yield all year long.
Plus:
● Free Online Banking
● Free check writing
● ATM reimbursement up to $6 per month

Yield Pledge Certificate of Deposit
Get 2,500 points, a choice of terms, and a high yield at opening and rollover.
Plus:
● Convenient maturity reminders
● Automated rollovers

There is no limit on how many accounts you can have at EverBank. You can open all 3 accounts together and get the full 10,000 points!

Priority Club also works with Chase to issue Priority Club Rewards Visa Signature Card. This credit card both have personal and business version. Each credit card is offering 30,000 bonus points! If you spend more than 15,000 annually, you can get 10,000 more bonus points! The card design looks really cool to me.

Priority points can be used to redeem free hotel stays, car rentals, airline tickets etc. If you are interested in priority Club, you can apply for a membership for free.

I first reported the huge 35% cash back from eBay via Microsoft live search in June 2008. I personally saved a lot of money through this trick for purchasing at eBay. There are even many other more crazy deals from Microsoft live search, for example, 40% cash back from HP on Black Friday, 25% cash back from AT&T and T-mobile or other places. If you are looking for something on eBay, it is wise to use Live Search to save additional money for you.

The microsoft cash back for purchasing at eBay has been stopped for a while. Now it comes back!

Following is a brief guide on how to get the eligible links through live.com.

Open your IE and go to live.com. Search “Xbox”, if you can not see any links, just refresh the page several times. It will come out finally. If you are using firefox, I’m sorry it does not work. It is also reported that Sarafi can also provide the 25% link.

If you are using firefox, you can search “Xbox”, “t43″, “onkyo”, “PS3″ or “wii cheap”. It will give you 8% cash back links.

Under current economic situation, Citi and American Airlines AAdvantage program is still offering 25,000 bonus miles for signing up their Citi Platinum Select/AAdvantage® World MasterCard, or Citi Select/AAdvantage® American Express Card or CitiBusiness/AAdvantage MasterCard. If you want to get a Citi credit card, you still have the chance to get 25,000 AAdvantage miles.

The features of the credit cards are:

As a cardmember, you’ll benefit from:

• 25,000 AAdvantage^® bonus miles after $750 in purchases within the first 4 months of cardmembership – enough for a travel award
• No annual fee for the first 12 months
• One AAdvantage^® mile for every dollar spent on purchases
• No blackout dates on AAdvantage^® award travel

Special benefits for Citi Select^® / AAdvantage^® American Express^® cardmembers available through the entré^® program:

• Access to the Premium Hotel Program, which includes special offers such as room upgrades, early check-in, late check-out and more
• Car rental, cruise, spa offers and more

CitiBusiness^® / AAdvantage^® cardmembers can also enjoy:

• Savings on an Admirals Club^® membership or renewal
• Additional employee cards at no extra cost

I was shocked when I received this message! American Express would like to pay its customers (targeted) for closing their accounts and pay off the balances before April 30, 2009. If you receive a mail from American Express with RSVP code, you can go to americanexpress.com/prepaidcardoffer to register your account and get the $300 prepaid gift card!

It is understandable that customers are not willing to spend money under current economic situation. More customers are not able to pay off balances. It is reported that only a small number of American Express solicited customers can receive the invitation and close their accounts.

The program is called “Simplify Your Finances” which can be reached at here.

From the website:

Pay off your entire balance between March 1, 2009 and April 30, 2009, and we will send you a $300 value prepaid card¹ to thank you. Enrolling in this promotion will automatically cancel your account.

You have to enroll in this program by Feb. 28, 2008.

If you are an active member of the American Express membership rewards program, please make sure that you have redeemed all the points.

For people who are still looking for discount from T-Mobile and AT&T, this is a great news! Live Cash Back actually is still offering 25% cash back for T-Mobile and AT&T. If you want to buy a new phone, you should try to use the 25% cash back.

It is pretty easy to get the link work. Go to Live.com and type in “T-Mobile” or “ATT, ATT phone, ATT plan” and the link for the 25% will appear on the screen.

I know some may do not know how to do it. Here is the link for T-mobile, and this is the link for AT&T.

Combined with my previous posts on how to save money on monthly bills from mobile carriers. I believe you can save a lot of money on your cell phone bill.

This definitely is a great message for most Citi credit card holders. Citi just launched a gift card design contest for its members with thankyou network. This event is sponsored by Citi ThankYou Network which is the headquarter for redeeming Citi gifts. The winner of this contest will also have the chance to spread their own design to the people all over the world. Since citi thankyou network members will take the gift card in their wallet.

The most exciting part of this contest is as follows (According to the report by PRNewswire):

The winning design will become the face of a ThankYou Gift Card redeemable by millions of ThankYou Members nationwide. The winner will join the company of internationally renowned artist and designer Karim Rashid, who designs the current ThankYou Network gift cards which will continue to be available in the rewards collection. In addition to having his or her design on a gift card, the top winner of the contest also will receive 100,000 ThankYou Points.

The contest submission period runs from February 12, 2009 through 11:00 p.m. EST on April 11, 2009, during which time you can submit their designs through a special email address provided on ThankYou.com.

Three finalists will be selected by judges who are Citi employees, and designs will be posted on ThankYou.com. Between May 1, 2009 and May 30, 2009, all Citi thankyou network members will be invited to vote for their favorite design.

The prizes are really good, at least seems to me:

If you have any idea on how to design gift card, you should give yourself a chance to win 100,000 thankyou points (equal to $1,000).

I wrote two posts about how to get discount from T-Mobile. 1. How to Get A Discount from T-Mobile. 2. New T-mobile Discount for University Employees, Students and Alumni. These two posts attract a lot of T-Mobile users to MyCardBlog.com. I believe I have provided great information on how to save money at T-Mobile. There are actually many readers are not using T-Mobile services. It’s important to write up something on how to save money with other mobile carriers.

It is not a secret that all mobile carriers have discount for some corporations or groups. But some are still not aware of the fact that he/she is eligible to get discount from specific mobile carrier. For students or university employees, you can always go to your local stores to check whether you are eligible to receive a discount for your cell phone plan.

AT&T: Premier Corporate Discount Program

AT&T is the larget mobile carrier in US and has business agreements with thousands of corporations, government agencies and educational institutions to offer wireless products to their employees and families at a significant discount.

Simply use your work email to see whether your are qualified for a discount. This can be done in seconds.

Verizon: Employee Discount Program

Verizon wireless also has agreement with many big corporates, governments, schools and even social groups. Enter your work email address to see if you qualify for discounts from Verizon.

T-Mobile: Corporate Discount Program

I have introduced on how to save money with T-Mobile. But the above link will take you to the corporate discount page where you can check whether you are eligible for a discount which ranges from 0% to 15% off your monthly bill.

Sprint: Employee Value Program

Sprint offers huge discount for employees of corporations, governments, schools or other groups that have business agreement with Sprint. You need to enter your work email to see whether you are qualified.

CircuitCity is going to be out of business soon. Best Buy is the only national consumer electronic merchant now. However, I received an email from a MyCardBlog.com reader who indicated that Best Buy employees might steal your credit card information. He wanted me to let all credit card users be aware of Best Buy or other stores when you use your credit card at the checkout.

The news about Best Buy employee stolen consumers’credit card information was report at PalmBeachPost.com. The full story link can be found here. According to the report, a Best Buy employee at 1880 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., FL, was caught stealing credit card information. The company warned that anyone who bought something using a credit card at that Best Buy store in recent months might want to check their credit card statements closely. This guy was using special device to steal more than 4,000 customers’ credit card information. It was thought the guy used the device to reach customer’s credit card information in November and December 2008. Until now, whether those credit card information had been used for was not clear yet.

Via simple search on the internet with Google, I found out that that report was not the only one talking about the Best Buy employees stealing customer’s credit card in 2008. The Kfoxtv.com also reported that in August 2008, a Best Buy employee at Las Cruces Best Buy store was indicted by the grand jury on charges of felony credit card fraud. In this case, six Best Buy customers’ credit accounts were involved.

Amanda Hopkins worked as a customer representative at the Las Cruces store. Her duties were opening new accounts for customers. She obtained customer credit information and used the information make numerous purchases on their accounts, according to the indictment.

Actually, not only at Best Buy your credit card information may leak. Essentially anywhere at anytime your credit card information might be stolen. You can not be too careful on your credit card security.

Tips:

Watch out for your mails and take GOOD care of credit card statement.

Secure your personal information at home.

Do not give your important information over the phone.

Check your credit card account frequently.