I’ve opened up an account with ING Direct, so now I have a referral links to give away! If you don’t already know about ING, they offer both a checking and savings account with excellent rates. You can learn a bit more about high yield online accounts in Back to Basics: Savings Accounts.
With one of these referral links, something very awesome happens: If your opening deposit on the account is $250 or more, you get a $25 bonus, and I get a $10 bonus!
Please, when you click on a referral link, check to make sure that you don’t get the following message at the top:
We’re sorry, but the referral link within the email you received has expired and is no longer valid. We recommend that you contact the sender and ask them to re-send the referral email. Or click ‘Continue’ to proceed with the application process without the account opening bonus.
As you might expect, this means that the referral link you’ve clicked has been used by someone else. If all of the referral links show this message, first try clearing the ING Direct cookies from your browser. If after clearing your cookies, they all still come up “used,” just contact me and I will put up fresh links. Thanks!
Orange Savings Account – 1.15% APY
Don’t have $250 for the opening deposit? You can still open an account, here: Orange Savings Account.
Electric Orange Checking Account – 0.25% APY (more for higher balances)
Don’t have $250 for the opening deposit? You can still open an account, here: Electric Orange Checking.
The $10 bonus I get from referring you will go into my emergency fund – just to let you know.
12 responses to “Get $25 from ING Direct” 
Thanks for the orange savings referral, only one left now.
I once met the owner of ING Arkadi Kuhlman. He was a very cool guy. This was before he even was involved with ING. I had a feeling he would do great things.
I just opened my electric orange account with your referral link.
Thanks!
I just opened an Electric Orange account with your referral link. Thanks! Feel free to cross it off, I used the second link.
Hi..referral links showed the message you listed above in red? thx
Thanks for letting me know, Jo Ann – new links are up now!
Hey, I just found your blog from the Laptop giveaway thing, but it’s fantastic, I’ve been reading tons from your archive and definitely plan to keep reading!
Anyway, just opened an account with a referral link – my high interest WaMu account just got bought by Chase, so I figured it was time to switch
But ING Direct seems quite cool, even if they aren’t giving QUITE as much interest, it’s close! And I like the idea of the sub-accounts
Anyway, thanks for the referral link – and for having such an awesome blog!
Your ING Checking links seem to be all used up..
I have been checking this blog and its archives for the last two days, it is quite unique and helpful blog. My bad luck that ING Direct is not available in my country
Its great that ING is giving the $25 bonus. And thanks to you for sharing the information. I think most people should have accounts with these virtual banks… since they don’t charge transaction fees!!
ING rocks, people save heaps with them.
This is a great idea! I have an ING account but haven’t even utilized the referral system yet. Thanks for coming up with this!