Jan 20
Join ING Direct and Get $25
Right now, ING Direct is have a “rate sale.” That’s the first time I’ve ever heard of the term, but in essence, what they are doing is offering a higher interest rate from now until April 15th on any money you deposit until that time. They normal rate is currently 3.8% which is well above my credit union’s savings account rate (which stands at about 1.2%).
I’ve been a member of ING Direct for over a year. I initially set it up to automatically withdraw $10 each month. The next thing I know I have over $170 and the rates keep going up. They are FDIC insured so you can feel safe putting your money there. It is simply a savings account (although they have ARM mortgages and a CD account which can earn higher rates).
You link your ING Direct account to your current bank account. It takes about 2-3 business days to send and receive money between accounts. I like it because it is just far enough away to to avoid the temptation of spending savings on something trivial, yeat liquid enough to have when I need for real emergencies.
The Winter Save Up Sale! Earn 4.75% APY on new deposits through April 15th. Apply online.
You can join through the link above. Or, if you have $250 to initially deposit, send me an email (or comment on this blog), and I’ll email you a referral link that will allow you to have $25 deposited in your account when you join (and I’ll get a $10 referal commission;)).
January 20th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
Hey Dustin,
Thanks for the coupon Code. They’ll be pulling my ‘emergency’ fund in a day or so, but I’ve already got $25 in there from your coupon!
I’m sure having this money in ING will not only help me to keep my paws off of it for pizza & donuts, but it’ll also be nice to actually see some decent interest payments!
Tyler
January 23rd, 2006 at 1:30 pm
Hi There.
please send me a code for $25.00.
i know you get 10 bucks too. thats awesome.
hopefully i have the opportunity to do that too..once my account is opened.
February 6th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Hi there,
Thanks for posting this email. $25 for me and $10 for you sounds great. Thanks for sending the code.
March 9th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
Would love the $25 coupon. I originally opened because of a $25 coupon i received in the mail but ING never posted the coupon! In following up with them about it, they apologized but said I need to give them the coupon code again in order to get the $25. Unfortunately - since threw away the coupon!
March 18th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
Please send me a code for $25.