Wal-Mart, Amex take on banks with Bluebird debit card
Oct 31, 2012, 10:28 am
#1141
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MMS disgusts me!
What a greedy copycater and thief!
Oct 31, 2012, 10:32 am
#1142
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FYI, I received my first direct deposit via company payroll today. Did only $25. It hit this morning just like the rest of my direct deposits. Going to do an ATM withdrawal in the next few days and will also do one next week after free ATM's end on 11/4 to be sure that my $25 DD worked.
Oct 31, 2012, 10:39 am
#1143
Join Date: Nov 2011
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Just checked my BB account, my $10 payroll split deposit is also marked as DD.
FYI, I received my first direct deposit via company payroll today. Did only $25. It hit this morning just like the rest of my direct deposits. Going to do an ATM withdrawal in the next few days and will also do one next week after free ATM's end on 11/4 to be sure that my $25 DD worked.
Oct 31, 2012, 10:42 am
#1144
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. I'll be checking as well.
Oct 31, 2012, 11:25 am
#1145
Join Date: Oct 2011
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As far as I've been able to find, there's no way to track transactions other than on the Bluebird site. Mint doesn't track it, there's no Quicken download, no CSV, nada. I've been manually entering my transactions just so I have my own record.
For those curious about Mint support for BB, here's the community post about it: http://satisfaction.mint.com/mint/to...pport_bluebird
For those curious about Mint support for BB, here's the community post about it: http://satisfaction.mint.com/mint/to...pport_bluebird
Oct 31, 2012, 11:29 am
#1146
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Oct 31, 2012, 11:33 am
#1147
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Oct 31, 2012, 11:52 am
#1149
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Yodlee >> Mint.
@8fingeredflyer: when you say manually add it, do you mean doing some sort of .csv import? Or just manually adding and account and manually entering individual transactions? If you're doing it all manually, how is Yodlee able to track that?
Oct 31, 2012, 11:57 am
#1150
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I just wanted something that would avoid the Amex cardinals, though I doubt they view Bluebird as a really high margin product anyway. Even if used in the most profitable manner for Amex, they can't really make much.
Oct 31, 2012, 11:57 am
#1151
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Oct 31, 2012, 12:20 pm
#1153
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But this isn't aimed at big spenders. The median Walmart customer makes 10% or so less than the median US average (which is around US$45k). Even if the consumer spends $20k annually on things to be put on Bluebird, Amex would make 3% of that at most (likely less at Walmart, I'm assuming Walmart negotiated a new sweetheart deal with Amex on this). $600 annually isn't a lot in truth ($50 a month), and I would argue that this is aimed at people on the lower end of the above spending scale, so it would be even less.
Oct 31, 2012, 12:21 pm
#1154
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My go-to OD is now out of the beans but has been stocked this entire year.
Who should I thank first?
Who should I thank first?
Oct 31, 2012, 12:49 pm
#1155
Join Date: Mar 2011
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you can thank me. feel free to slip a dollar or two into the thank you note.