Comments on: using online bill pay

By: Preventing Identity Theft at Urban Monarch

Preventing Identity Theft at Urban Monarch — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:04:26 +0000

[...] Does anyone have tips on how to handle identity theft prefevention and reducing the annoyance factor? Cash has a post about online bill payment and the increased security it provides — I’ll definitely look into that. Filed under: Lifestyle | Author: Glenn | [...]

By: Brian Reischl

Brian Reischl — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:54:22 +0000

I can’t believe you pay seven bucks a month for bill pay. If you really want to do paperless banking, check out the First Internet Bank of Indiana http://FirstIB.com. It sounds like a scam, but I’ve been banking with them for about 3 years now and I love it. Good website, free billpay, they refund your ATM usage fees (up to some limit… $10/mo? I’ve never hit it). They also have better interest rates than most places.

The only thing that bugs me is that if you end up with paper checks you have to mail them in, which is a pain. But they give you prepaid envelopes to do it, so you still don’t need stamps.

Oh, and if you’ve got a change dish you want to cash in for folding money, you’re SOL.

By: cash

cash — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:28:35 +0000

Agreed. When I have one off payments like this I just go to my bank and get a money order.

By: greg cerveny

greg cerveny — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:04:49 +0000

Hell yeah.

I write one check a month, to my piano teacher, and only because the amount varies.