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Amazon 30-day Post-Order Price Guarantee 2013

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2013.07.04 UPDATE: July 4th.Ā Amazon has reduced the Post Order Price Matching timeframe to just seven days after delivery of the item. You can find the official policy here. 2013.04.16 OLDER INFO: Commenter aruba19 has notified me that as of 4/16/2013 Amazon honored the 30 day price guaranteeĀ again! This is great news and as such the rating has been raised from 1 star to 5 stars šŸ™‚ The rest of the article is merely for historical purposes as Amazon seems to

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Target’s No-Receipt Return Policy Limit

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Question from Kasey: Hiya. Recently tried to return some items to Target without a receipt and they said I exceeded my return limit? What does that mean? Answer from JD: I asked the return desk at our local Target and they said thatĀ without a receiptĀ  Target has a 12 month $70 return policy limit. So, without receipts you can only return $70 worth of stuff Ā during a 12 month time period šŸ™ They enforce this limit by checking your drivers

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Chase 5% Credit Card Cash Back Calendar 2012

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Here’ s hoping your 2012 is off to a great start šŸ™‚ and to help you save some money this year, make sure to signup for your cashback via this link:Ā https://creditcards.chase.com/freedom/Activate.aspx To help you remember where and when to save, here are ALL the Chase Freedom credit cardĀ 5% cashback reward categories for 2012: January – February – March Gas stations Amazon.com Activation starting:Ā December 15, 2011 April – May – June Grocery stores Movie theaters Activation starting:Ā March 15, 2012 July –

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How to cancel Verizon cell phone service

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Surprisingly, as of 2011.12.27, Verizon does not allow you to cancel your wireless cell phone service via their website. If you try to contact them about canceling your account, you will receive the following message: If you wish to cancel your service, you will need to speak to someone at Customer Service. Please call us at 1-800-922-0204 and press prompt 4. So, to cancel service your best bet will probably be to call that number!

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Lump sum payout versus annuity payments

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While visiting John in STL recently, his girlfriend regaled with me a tale of a man (we’ll call Fred) who received a large settlement from his wife when they divorced. Fred then proceeded to move to Thailand (a lifelong dream of his) where he started a resort and began construction on a mini-mansion. Unfortunately he ran out of money shortly afterwards and is apparently now destitute šŸ™ These types of stories, with variations, are surprisingly common: someone wins the lottery

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Chase QuickDeposit Review and Updates

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If you routinely use the Chase QuickDeposit program, for example via the Chase mobile banking Android app, then these update notifications may be useful to you. The big change is that as of October 2nd the daily deposit limit has been increased to $2K and the monthly limit isĀ increasedĀ to $5K. This makes the service much more useful IMHO as the previous $1K/$3K max was a bit limiting… [full review to be posted later] Here are the update messages from Chase:

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