ING Direct is pushing their Electric Orange Checking Accounts this month and you could be the recipient of a nice $20 bonus. And it’s pretty simple to do too!
If you have an Electric Orange checking account, you’re already enrolled. You then only need to use your EO debit card to make at least 5 purchases of more than $10. When they all show up on your November statement, you’ll get a bonus of $20 sometime before December 15th. (Details at the ING page)
I just heard about this today and normally I don’t use the debit card for my EO account all that much. It’s set up to automatically pay a few subscriptions, but nothing that would meet the qualifications for this bonus. However, my family and I just returned from a vacation where we had saved for the expenses of the vacation in an ING Direct savings account that is tied to the EO account. When we went on vacation, we transferred the money to the EO account so that we could easily access it with the debit card.
Unknown to me, we met all the qualifications for the bonus and are looking forward to the bonus! Yippee! There’s still a few days left to qualify for the bonus if you haven’t already. If you don’t have a EO account, you might be pushing it to get one and get the card in time to qualify, but even if you don’t get the bonus, the 1% interest rate is still better than what most banks pay.
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