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Compass Bank is offering $150 bonus for opening a new checking account and savings account together. The $150 bonus seems not difficult to get. The first $75 bonus is from checking account with required online bill pay activities. Or you can sign up direct deposit with your new checking account. The second $75 bonus is from savings account with automatic transfer from your checking account with minimum $50 per month.

The promotion page can be found here. Following are some important points to get the $150 bonus.

• Open a new Compass checking account （Build-to-Order Free Checking account）and sign up for Online Bill Pay by 2/28/09
• Pay at least 5 bills online every 30 days for the first three months your account is open
• For each month that you do, you’ll get $25 — up to $75 total

Open a new Compass checking account from January 5, 2009 to 02/28/09 and pay at least 5 bills via CompassPC Online Bill Pay every 30 days for the first 90 days your account is open, and receive $25 for each qualifying period up to $75.　Online bill payments must be made to a third party and be at least $25.00 in order to be eligible.

The other way to make $75 bonus from Compass Bank is sign up for direct deposit with your employer’s payroll and you can get $75 bonus! It’s very easy! Minimum $100 opening deposit required. Account opened between 01/05/2009 and 02/28/2009 that establish a recurring payroll direct deposit within the month following the account open date will receive $75.

The second savings account seems also sweet!

• Open a new Compass checking account by February 28, 2009
• Set up automatic transfers of at least $50 a month from your new checking to a savings or money market account
• After the third transfer, we’ll credit your account an extra $75

To take advantage of the sign up bonus opportunity, you can visit Compass Bank local branches, call 1-800-COMPASS (1-800-266-7277) or you can apply online here.

Compass Bank just released another promotion offer from which you can get up to $150 bonus for opening a Compass Build-to-Order Checking account online and then use their Visa Check Card in 45 days. My previous post “Free Apple iPod Shuffle from Compass Bank” introduced the latest banking promotion from Compass Bank. But it was ended on June 30, 2008.

This time the $150 bonus is much better than the previous iPod Shuffle bonus which only costs about $50 now. How to get the $150 bonus?

1. Register at https://www.compassbank.com/special/200808/150offer. This is the first and a must step before you apply for the Build-to-Order account at compass bank and get the promotion bonus. A claim code will delivered to you email address with which you can get promotion bonus when you apply for the Build-to-Order checking account in the near future.

2. Go to the application page at compassbank.com and apply for a new Build-to-Order checking account with the claim code previously mentioned. Minimum opening deposit of $25 is required at the time of account opening.

3. After you receive the Compass visa check card, make at least 10 qualifying check card purchases within 45 days of registering for this offer.

4. Return to this site www.compassbank.com/go/150offer and claim your cash gift within 45 days of registering for this offer.

Note: You will earn a $3 bonus for each qualifying Check Card transaction (up to 50) made during the first 45 days your account is open. Minimum of 10 qualifying transactions to receive bonus. Minimum transaction amount of $10 for purchase to qualify.

A “qualifying purchase” is any signature-based purchase, Internet purchase, phone or mail-order purchase, bill payment, contactless purchase (purchases made by holding your Visa card or other device up to a secure reader instead of swiping your card), or small dollar purchase for which you are not required to sign, which is processed or submitted through the Visa U.S.A. Inc. payment system. A “PIN” based purchase is not eligible to receive  the promotion offer.

The Build-to-Order checking account features:

• Free online banking and bill pay
• Free E-mail alerts
• Free personalized Visa® Check Card
• Free Visa® Extras Rewards
• No minimum balance requirements or direct deposit requirement
• $25 cash on your account anniversary
• No fee to use another bank’s ATM

You gotta take the chance to earn $150!

Compass Bank is running a promotion recently. If you open a Compass Build-to-Order Free Checking Account by 06/30/2008, you can receive a free Apple iPod 2 GB Shuffle! The latest banking promotion I mentioned at MyCardBlog was dated back to last December when Compass Bank was offering $50 gift card for opening a new Build-to-Order checking account at Compass Bank (here). Compass Bank also provided a free Apple iPod 1 GB shuffle during last summer as I covered at “Get an iPod for Banking“.

How to get an iPod Shuffle?

1. Register at https://www.compassbank.com/special/200804/ipod/index.jsp. This is a must step before you apply for the Build-to-Order account at compass bank. A claim code will delivered to you email address with which you can claim an Apple iPod 2 GB Shuffle when you apply for the Build-to-Order checking account in the near future.

2. Then go to the application page at compassbank.com and apply for a new Build-to-Order checking account with the claim code previously mentioned. You have to deposit at least $25 within 30 days of account opening.
3. After you finish the first 2 steps, you can go to www.compassbank.com/go/shuffle and finish the claim process as indicated.

Please note that you have to finish all the processes with 30 days.

The Build-to-Order checking account features:

• Free online banking and bill pay
• Free E-mail alerts
• Free personalized Visa® Check Card
• Free Visa® Extras Rewards
• No minimum balance requirements or direct deposit requirement

Compass Bank also offers following features:

• No fee to use another bank’s ATM
• Rebates of other banks’ ATM fees
• Interest on your checking account balance
• Double Visa Extras Rewards Points
• Cash back rewards on check card purchases
• $25 cash on your account anniversary
• One overdraft fee forgiveness refund per year

If you choose any two of them, you are free! The $25 cash bonus every year sounds pretty good. However, this offer is limited to residents at AL, AZ, CO, FL, NM, and TX. And you must be a new costumer to Compass Bank.

Compass bank is offering $50 iTunes gift card for opening a new Build-to-Order Free Checking Account. Open the checking account with a minimum $25 deposit within 30 days of registering for the offer, and you will receive a $50 iTunes gift card.

However, the offer is limited to the residents of Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico or Texas. The offer is available only to new Compass new customers and will expire on December 31, 2007.

The feature of this account is absolutely no fees. No direct deposit and no minimum balance required. You can also use the free bill pays online. Another feature is you can get $25 bonus each year for keep account open.

You must make one withdrawal or deposit each statement cycle in order to receive the bonus cash for that particular statement cycle. This approximate amount earned each statement cycle is $2.08. This amount is added every statement cycle (every month) totaling $25.00 at the end of the twelfth statement cycle.

A hard pull is implied to open this account. You can see the promotion page here.