Get a Free $25 - But Only Before April 15th!
Okay so I have been reading about this on a few sites, and honestly, I have to jump on the bandwagon and alert my readers too. For I *love* free money!
There is a new “person to person” money transferring service (think paypal) called Revolution Money Exchange. It has been around for a little while but honestly, I love paypal so I kind of ignored it. But this is the great thing - RME is like paypal but with no fees! Have you ever gotten a paypal transfer for an ebay sale and muttered about the fees paypal took? I know I have…
So I really think this RME has a chance of being mainstream. And because they are offering a $25 bonus *just* for signing up with a referral - I signed up. And already got my $25 bonus. It took me about 5 minutes to sign up, so I got paid $25 for about 5 minutes work. And, if it does catch on, I will have a no fee alternative to paypal to accept online payments in the future.
Yay!
Why did I jump in right now? Because the $25 bonus offer ends April 15th! But never fear, I have a referral link for anyone else who wants $25 as well:
Just click on the graphic above, sign up, and you will be rewarded with $25. There is also a pretty badge in my sidebar with the same referral bonus of $25. For every referral, I receive $10 so I am not completely altruistic. 
But that makes for great snowflakes and then you can pass on the referral love as well and make your own bonuses! I will be snowflaking all of the money earned to debt reduction. In fact, on April 16th I’ll post the total amount of money I earned, and then put up a one week poll for my readers to decide which debt I should apply it to. If you’ve thought I should be concentrating on a different debt than my current target, this is your chance to make your opinion known.
But the $25 referral offer ends April 15th! So if you want to make yourself $25 for a tiny bit of effort… act today. And someday when RME rivals paypal as the most awesome payment system ever, you can say “I was there when it was just starting and I am so smart I even got a bonus for signing up!”
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April 9th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Wow that really worked. I added a refer link on my blog too. $10 is great!
April 9th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
How do you feel about giving out your Social Security number? You don’t have to do that on PayPal.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
@ Brenda - honestly, it has been *so* long since I created my paypal account that I couldn’t remember if I had to fill in my social security number or not. I guess I assumed I did.
And as for how I feel about it - I hate to give out my soc sec number which is another reason I hadn’t created an account until now. But, the program is funded through a bank which I investigated as a real, actual bank that is truly associated with the program, so i decided that for me I was willing to do so. If anyone decides not to sign up when the get to the soc sec # part I totally understand that. There is a good review on the safety of RME on Cash Money Life:
http://cashmoneylife.com/2008/04/07/revolution-money-exchange-25-referral-bonus/
Which talked about it being backed by some big companies and for me gave assurance that this isn’t a phishing scam.
I encourage everyone to use their own judgement.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
I believe that all banks etc. require a SSN now, for “anti-terrorism” and fraud protection. Dunno for sure on that.
But anyway, I jumped on the bandwagon yesterday and I’ve earned a sweet $160 in bonuses so far! Woo hoo!
April 9th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Congrats Kacie!
I had to wait another day to think about it lol. Oh, and I didn’t read my reader yesterday….
hee hee. Better late than never I figure. We’ll see how well the bonuses go.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Somehow, this seems to good to be true…are you sure there are no strings attached?
April 9th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
@ jinger - I am sure there are no strings attached in that you get your bonus, and you can withdraw your bonus (I haven’t withdrawn mine yet but a trusted friend of mine has). It is a promotional thing to try and get people to use them. Kind of like ING does their $25 bonuses.
As for if the company will last past the promotional period - no clue. I’ll be withdrawing my funds April 16th.
April 10th, 2008 at 11:11 am
I stopped at the social security number entry step. I get the impression that the company is reputable, but that was just the last straw where I realized getting this money was going to be more trouble than it was worth for me. This is especially considering I had a lot of trouble signing up with my real address and had to that point created the profile with a former address.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
When I got to the soc. security # part I stopped to really look at the privacy policy. It says they can give out pretty much any info they want to third parties and whatnot. I don’t like the sound of that. Plus, they make it difficult to opt out of that, because you have to print out the thing at the bottom of the page. Well, what about people that don’t have printers??
April 10th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
My impression was the only thing you can’t opt out of is their sharing information with their own marketers for their bank. However, I’m not a lawyer and I could be wrong about that. I feel like a legitimate bank sharing soc sec #s with marketers is not going to get very far as a bank and instead will find themselves broke. I may have too much faith in the human race.
I think every bank / financial institution / whatever makes it as hard as possible to opt out of anything, because they don’t want opt-out-ers.
As I said, to each their own and no pressure from me to sign up!