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This is a random post, and the first in quite some time, but today I stumbled on something very interesting while browsing Neatorama today. Take Me Back is a web series that’s actually good. I’ve seen them before, but in every other case they’ve seemed cheesy and low-budget, certainly not something I’d consistently follow. This show, however, actually got added to my home page script that directs me to certain sites on different days. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday used to take me first to Ctrl+Alt+Del, my favorite webcomic, but now Monday has been usurped by TMB. So far they’ve released two episodes, with a new one coming out every monday. Seriously, check it out.

So I know there have already been three posts on this but….err….on a side note, I thought Revolution Money Exchange’s special offer ended 3/31, but it turns out it is (or has been extended to) 5/18. Therefore, if you want to sign up AND support me by giving me the $10 referral, you can either leave your email in a comment or click on the button below.

So just a little update on the Revolution Money Exchange website: I have the  funds transferred safely into my bank account. I must admit, until I actually got the money I was a little skeptical, but everything is complete and I’m $35 better for it.

Once again, if you’d like to sign up, help a guy out and let me refer you! Post your email in the comments and I’ll send you a referral!

I’m pretty much a sucker for free money any day of the week, but when a site asks me for things like my SSN it usually sends me packing. I’ve tried a few sites for the free money thing, namely sendearnings.com, which turned out to be a sham. Not a sham because they don’t pay, but really because you have to make $30 before they’ll send you a check, which one learns quickly, would take forever regardless of the $5 sign-up bonus. Every “paid email” shells out about a penny, and many of the paid surveys allow you to spend 15 minutes taking the whole thing and then tell you you’re the wrong demographic at the very end. Infuriating.

So with this in mind, I hear about Revolution Money Exchange, a service targeting facebook users, etc that want to send money to each other. This service is shelling out $25 to everyone that signs up, with an additional $10 going to every referral. This certainly seemed too good to be true, so I did a little research. I find out there are supposedly some big hitters on the board and that this is really a front to try to garner potential users for the Revolution Card. With this in mind I begin the sign-up process, but stop dead in my tracks when I see a “Social Security Number” box. Time for more research before I put that kind of information anywhere. The San Francisco Business Times put my mind to ease the most with this article, but articles like this certainly helped.

I would suggest reading those links for your own edification, but long story short, the site is actually legit and its credit card seems really interesting and innovative. I’m not going to lie, I wanted this to be real and useful so bad because I seriously hate PayPal after they jacked $430 from me without warning. Regardless, I have an account, so if you’d be so kind as to post your email in the comments I’ll send you a referral email so we both win! I’m waiting for my bank account to clear, but I’ll post as soon as that happens.