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woz101
02-07-08, 07:29 PM
I don't like to post much, but since I got a good deal, I thought I should share it with others, hope that it would help some.

Well, anyways, yesterday I went to my local Walmart(Porter Ranch, CA) for some shopping, and they have a bank called Banco Popular located inside. And they are having some insanely good promotions going on right now.

To sign up for a free checking account with them with $25 deposit, you get the following:

1. $25 to you for bringing the checks from your existing bank to them. They will shred the checks for you and give you some of their checks for free. Don't know if this will happen to you, but they gave me the $25, without me having brought the checks with me and them shredding them!:)

2. $50 to you, if you sign up online banking with them and use the online payment feature--once would suffice--within a 60-day period. Note: per the reps of the bank, the online payment must be initiated from WITHIN your online account with bancopopular in order to claim the $50 gift. If you do the online payment outside your bancopopular account by simply providing the routing # of bancopopular and your checking account #, you will NOT be able to claim the $50 gift.

3. a slow cooker, a lunch warmer, or a Swiss Army bag to choose as a free gift. I chose the Swiss Army bag.

4. some other money that I don't remember now. The reps of the bank told me that you could get up to $125 of free money from them, if you do ALL the things required by them. For me, I got the $75 plus the free Swiss Army bag! Absolutely happy camper here!:)

Bancopopular's American website is here:

http://www.bancopopular.com/us/personal/us-per-home-en.jsp

Per the reps, it has locations in Florida, New York, California, and possibly other states within the US.

If you want to have a backup or secondary checking account, which is my case, you might give this a try!

And if I am mistaken in any of the above-mentioned details, others are welcome to correct me!

Happy shopping and saving money!:):beer:

EDIT: Mods, if this is not the right thing to post here, please feel free to delete it. Absolutely no hard feelings!:)

Further EDIT: The bank is FDIC insured.

doublejack
02-08-08, 10:56 AM
LOL, from the thread title I thought this was spam.

Warren G
02-08-08, 11:10 AM
LOL, theres one across the street from my house.

woz101
02-08-08, 01:15 PM
LOL, from the thread title I thought this was spam.

Spam it is not, mon ami. I have been here for a while, I know better.:)

However, after I posted it, I did have second thoughts. OC Forum is for comps and electronics, but my post is about free checking accounts. That's why I edited my message, asking the mods to delete it, if they deem it inappropriate for this section of OC Forums.

woz101
02-08-08, 01:20 PM
LOL, theres one across the street from my house.

That's even better!:beer:

Getting some FREE money is not a bad thing!:)

The reps of the bank told me that you could get up to $125, if you do ALL the things required by them. Don't remember all those requirements offhand, but I got $75 plus a Swiss Army bag.

To find if there is a branch close to where you are, go to the web page linked in my first post, click on the American map(branch locator), which will bring up a new window, then type in your zip or address. That will show you if you have a branch close to where you live.

Hope this post helps some!:beer:

jason4207
02-08-08, 10:22 PM
Well, (free $) = (free computer stuff), so it is pretty relevant if you ask me.

rainless
02-08-08, 11:27 PM
I know BancoPopular. They're French I believe. They had a bunch of them in Paris. Bunch of crooks if you ask me...

But I got $75 just for opening an account at Chase bank. (Some kind of coupon or something.)

I made like a $5 deposit and took it out immediately and the next day my balance was $75.

funzie
02-09-08, 11:54 AM
I know BancoPopular. They're French I believe. They had a bunch of them in Paris. Bunch of crooks if you ask me...

But I got $75 just for opening an account at Chase bank. (Some kind of coupon or something.)

I made like a $5 deposit and took it out immediately and the next day my balance was $75.

No they are not French, they are from Puerto Rico. I used to play raquetball with the president of the bank. Sorry, but that statement made me feel insulted.