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Consumerism Commentary: THIRD ShareBuilder Bonus Received, the Free Money Rolls In

  • Dus10 · 3 years ago
    Cool, flexo. Do you know if there is any way to combine the accounts?
  • Flexo · 3 years ago
    There is. Fill out this form (PDF) and fax it to the number listed.
  • Dus10 · 3 years ago
    Thanks Flexo! My second ShareBuilder account promo was deposited today. I still haven't received the $5 or $20 from eBates.com yet. Hopefully there is no problem since I used a different email address with eBates than I did with ShareBuilder. Anyhow, I purchased the same stock that I did with my first promo, and I will be faxing in the form to merge the accounts after I get a confirmation that my money is on its way to my savings account. I was reading on FatWallet where Sharebuilder went to the trouble selling the stock and closing the account, and then keeping whatever they could up to the $50 promo for people that opened too many accounts. On of these people had opened 22 accounts, apparently, before they were "caught". So, I definitely want to merge them, as it will probably lessen the suspicion, and truth be told, I doubt I am going to open 22 accounts, unless the Sharebuilder money keeps going on for years. I may try to open one account per quarter, as long as it keeps up.
  • Dus10 · 3 years ago
    I emailed eBates after my last comment, and they took care of it by this morning. $75 worth of stock, and the only thing it cost me was the interest I would have gained if I let the $75 sit in my account for a month... and I will more than make up for that with the stock I purchased.
  • Dus10 · 3 years ago
    Well, I faxed off the form to merge my accounts last Friday, and I got a message indicating that the two accounts have been consolidated, this afternoon. It worked like a charm. I would move on to promo number three, but there is a holiday time "Gift of Stock" promo that is available where you can setup a custodial or Coverdell ESA for one child, and you get a $50 promo for it. However, I found four different promo codes, so I guess you could do a seperate one for each child, for up to four children (I have three). I will run my third one after these clear, as I wouldn't want to mess them up, along with mine.

    Promo codes for Gift of Stock:
    NCGIFT06EMA (Expires 1/15/07)
    ENTHOLIDAY (Expires 1/15/07)
    BBTGIFT06 (Expires 1/15/07)
    GIFTSTOCK06 (Expires 1/31/07)
  • PT · 2 years ago
    Flexo,
    Just got this in the mail: http://ptmoney.blogspot.com/2007/11/sharebuilde...
    Think we will be able to move from investment account to savings account?