AutoSlash is Still Slashin’ Rentals
Why walk from the airport, over the river and through the woods for MeeMaw’s roast beast? If you need some wheels, check out the free AutoSlash rental car search engine. What makes them different from Expedia or Orbitz, is that AutoSlash tracks your rental rate and rebooks you if the price drops - then sends you an email with the details.
AutoSlash could not find a car for me this upcoming Christmas week, so I booked one via Expedia. Then I went back to AutoSlash and plugged in my new reservation under “Track a rental you’ve booked elsewhere”. A few days later, I got an email from AutoSlash that my four day Christmas week rental was slashed $42.21 – from $138.61 to $96.40. Here’s my 2010 AutoSlash video:
$50 Bonus from TradeKing
Now through Halloween (all of October), open a new TradeKing account and get a $50 bonus when you fund it with $3,000 in cash or stocks, and make three trades. Use your bonus as a downpayment on that 1,000 count bag of Fun-Sized Snickers you have been eyeballing. No promotion code is needed, but you must click here to receive this exclusive $50 bonus offer.
At only $4.95 per trade it’s a money making venture. If you don’t have an extra three large sitting around, you can also get the $50 bonus if you open an account by transferring over $3,000 in stock from another brokerage house. TradeKing will refund up to $150 in transfer fees from your old brokerage house to TradeKing. FYI: The most I have ever been charged to transfer stocks from one place to another is $100. The receiving house has always refunded the transfer fee.
The $3,000 must remain in the account (minus any losses) for 90 days or you may lose your $50 bonus. Not valid for IRAs or other retirement accounts. New accounts only. One offer per household. SIPC insured.
Here’s a video post I did last year with more reasons to put your stocks in a brokerage house like TradeKing:
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I want my MTV, or… 80 Bucks!!
I just got $80 off DirecTV because of the Viacom kerfuffle. As you may know, Viacom pulled its channels off DirecTV, while they try to hash out a deal. That ain’t my problem! A quick call to DirecTV’s Customer Retention department to complain yielded an $80 credit. That is on top of the $43/month in savings I already get. Call DirecTV now, before they make nicey-nice with Viacom.
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2011 Review: My Pappy, PODs and TODs
I wanna recap some 2011 Highlights: My father passed away. Wait, what? Allow me to rephrase. My pappy passed away in 2011, but we had his financial world in order. It was free to do his “Estate Planning”. That is something most every adult should do. It’s a New Year. Whaddyasay you bang it out? Don’t cost nuthin’. When all was said and done, we saved my dad’s estate, and thereby me and my siblings, $14,000.
My videos “Mother May I… Avoid Probate – Part One”, “Part Two” and “Part Three” will tell you what you need to know to save your heirs thousands. You also might wanna check out the video of my pappy in healthier days karaoke-ing “Chantilly Lace”.
Your heirs will thank you for it. And you’ll look pretty smart from the grave!
SAG and The City
SAG tip: Hey “Show-Folk”. You can thank Reader Rona for this. Flash your Screen Actors Guild card for discounts at a slew of places. Some eye-catchers: 20% off Burke Williams Spas, 15% off AT&T and 20% off Restaurants – including the top-heavy, orange-shorted fine dining establishment Hooters!! Sign in to SAG.org then click here to see the offers.
The City tip: This is a reminder that if you received money via 1099 (not W2 income), The City of Los Angeles wants a taste. You can have up to $300K in 1099 earnings and have all of that money avoid the tax via the Creative Artists Exemption. Here’s the catch: You have to sign up for it every year to get it every year. Otherwise, you owe this tax!! Being Leap Year, you have through February 29th to register. Watch my video about it from last year:
Click here to read more about the $300K Creative Artists Exemption or talk to your accountant.
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Karen & Kevin Testify!
> Apply for Continental’s card or apply for United’s card & get 30,000 free miles (enough for a free round trip ticket) with just one purchase (any amount). With either of these cards:
1. sign up for their card (25K miles)
2. add an authorized user’s name only (5K miles)
3. make one purchase (no minimum – well, at least a penny)
4. no annual fee the first year
> Read my “12 Reasons To Conti While You Can” or watch “My 1st Call To Action” and “Vice Versa”
> Transfer miles between United & Continental
> Read how your Continental miles will become United miles
> See Kevin Kataoka at The San Francisco Punchline on New Year’s Eve
> Check out Karen Anderson’s funny blog
AutoSlash: Rental Car Search Engine
Why walk from the airport, over the river and through the woods for Grammy’s Christmas roast beast? If you need an inexpensive rental car, check out AutoSlash.
Plug in the When and the Where and they’ll hold a car for you. Don’t cost nuthin’. Best of all, they automatically keep checking for lower prices and rebook you at that lower price – then send you an email with the details. They do not have every rental car company, but no search engine does. I suggest you set this reservation in motion, then hunt for a better deal if you think you can find one. AutoSlash is my go-to. So far, for this Christmas, my four day rental has dropped three times, from an already low $115 to $79. Nothing else has beaten it.
Here is the video I did last year about AutoSlash:
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