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Introduction
One of the reasons that this site is so useful is because the readers of the site contribute a lot of the content and help each other. I love the fact that this community helps each other out and shares deals. I thought it would be nice to show case some of the most useful comments each month and also reward people who had left these useful comments.
Remember to thank other readers if they provide a comment you found useful, everybody appreciates a compliment. In addition if you’re going to use a referral link from another reader then consider using a link of somebody who has provided you with useful information in the past.
As always, if you see a deal/something that we should post about and we haven’t, then please let us know! Either by leaving a comment or by sending us an e-mail ([email protected] or [email protected]).
Thank You
Every reader that has one of their comments chosen below will receive a $10 Amazon eGiftcard. I’ll be in touch with the winners in the coming days (don’t panic if you left a comment and haven’t received an e-mail yet).
Bank Account Bonuses
- Curmudgeon sharing a lot of different state specific bank account bonuses. Without reader submissions of these types of bonuses, we just wouldn’t be able to have such a vast array of bank account offers.
- Ferris sharing datapoints about a checking account. Similar to the above, once we’ve found a bonus we need to find out a lot of information about the bonus to make sure we know if it’s a good or bad deal. Most readers just wait on the sidelines, but a few be the datapoint they want to see in the world.
- EO & Josh letting us know that M&T accounts can be opened online for states other than the ones we had listed.
- Sam letting us know what the actual requirements are for this bonus. It’s one of my personal pet peeves when banks don’t actually let you know the requirements for a bonus without going into a branch, so it’s very much appreciated when readers do the literal leg work.
Credit Card Bonuses
- jackgopack4 experimenting with the SunTrust Platinum Elite Card. Turns out the sign up bonus wasn’t targeted at all (shame it isn’t still available), they also tested some of the benefits out as well. Readers that test things for themselves (be the datapoint you want to see) really help everybody!
Misc
- Shawn K showing the value of trying. They were able to book a five night Marriott flights & stay package without being a time share owner.
Final Thoughts & Comment Of The Month(s)
In future months I’ll let you the reader decide what comment was the best for the month and they’ll receive a $50 Amazon gift card. This month I’m deciding for you and the award goes to Curmudgeon! The reason I chose Curmudgeon is because it’s rare that more than one or two days go past that they aren’t letting me know about a new bank account bonus. In addition when others (or myself) find these bonuses Curm writes detailed useful comments sharing their experiences and tips.
I hope everybody will join me in saying thank you to everybody that provides useful content and comments on the blog. I’m hoping to make this an ongoing thing at Doctor of Credit as well, let me know if you like it or not.
P.S. Let’s keep this post positive, if it’s just filled with people complaining that their comment didn’t get chosen then I’ll simply stop giving out Amazon giftcards as I want this to be something fun and not something I dread.
P.P.S This will be done monthly, I just forgot to do it for January (and lost/missed a lot of comments from that month) so that’s why you’re seeing a combination.
$50 GIFT CARD ELIGIBLE IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A GIFT CARD IN THE PAST 24 MONTHS.
Wow – it’s like winning the lottery! 🙂
I would like to point out that Will, Chuck and Sirtheta do all the actual heavy lifting around here and your efforts are certainly appreciated.
Since you don’t have affiliate links I’ve been trying to use your Amazon link consistently but I know what you really want is more and better deals, to get more and better readers to the site.
I’ve already made several thousand $$ due to bank bonuses, plus four credit cards that were only possible due to the “no 24 month” language you guys have posted.
Thanks DoC!
Thanks, Curm. You’ve been amazing in sending us deals and you’re exactly right more deals is the best thing you can contribute. Sending over the gift cards now!
Great work ladies and gents. Thanks for the unified efforts that make this site awesome!
Challenge Accepted!!! 🙂
Thanks as always fellas.
Goodluck!
Thanks for the shoutout!
Keep up the good work, everybody.
:’) I love this site
Thanks for this great idea and this is a very nice way of thanking the readers. But i would like to take this moment and thank William and Chuck for the amazing posts and all the hard the work they put in on a daily basis. I dont know if we readers can even imagine what they have to deal with daily from non stop emails to constantly replying to our comments and sorting out all the threads and posts and then always be on the lookout not to miss anything and so much more. I think we readers should give them $50 amazon gift cards daily 😉
The $50 amazon gift card is a nice icing on the cake but at the same time we are getting so much more then a monthly $50 gift card.
For example two non 24 month Citi Cards for me and gf (4 cards total) enabled us to book two nonstop round trips from NY to Tokyo (70K points each) This is a cash price of around $2,500.
So in theory i didnt get a $50 amazon card, i got $2,500! And lets not even start will all the checking account bonuses…
So ye thank you again William and Chuck you are giving us daily gifts, I wish we can give you some ☺
Haha, stop trying to give us gift cards! We still have full time jobs and do quite well from the site, thanks for the kind comment 🙂
I don’t know if it’s possible to get a comments RSS feed going, or have recent comments on the right side of the blog, but that would be helpful to see what articles have new comments on them.
I can definitely do the sidebar thing, and there is an RSS feed for comments as well (just keep in mind we get like 200-300+ per day). I’ll make both features happen!
Congrats to everyone mentioned above and thanks to all commenters for contributing!
Will, kudos to you as well for recognizing the contributions and what you have created and the way you keep operating it (yet another example with this post, unlike other sites), deserves the greatest success!
Love this idea. The comments on this site have helped me immensely (off the top of my head especially with HSBC, My Banking Direct and Bank of the West bank bonuses!). I’m taking a trip to Disney World this year that wouldn’t have happened without this website AND its commenters! Kudos to this month’s winners!