Update2: Looks like they will be honoring this promotion again.
Update: Looks like H&R block will not be honoring this promotion.
The Offer
- Sign up for Money Stream account and link an eligible bank account and you’ll receive a $25 Tango gift card.
The Fine Print
- Once your bank account is successfully linked you’ll receive an e-mail with your Tango gift card within two weeks
- Valid until January 15th, 2014
- Eligible bank accounts are in the below image:
What Is Money Stream?
Money Stream is owned by H&R block, it looks at your bills & income and will send you reminders when bills are due. There is no cost to use this service.
What Is Tango?
Tango is a website that lets you exchange your Tango gift card for a variety of other gift cards without loosing any value. You can’t sell Tango gift cards for cash directly, but you can easily exchange your Tango gift card for something else and sell that for cash instead. You should be able to get 90% of face value doing this or $22.5, redeeming for a Target gift card will be your best bet if you want to take this course of action.
If you’re not familiar with reselling gift cards, I can strongly recommend you read this post first.
Our Verdict
Given the industry H&R Block typically operates in, I feel comfortable giving them access to my account (especially a checking account that I don’t really use). I’ll probably just exchange my Tango gift card for something I’d actually use, but reselling for $22.5 wouldn’t be such a bad option either.
Direct link to offer | Screenshot of offer
Hat tip to keideals from Flyertalk
Well turned out it was basically a bait and switch. Unfortunately I just received the following:
“Unfortunately, the Tango gift card promotion was intended as an exclusive promotion for people on the invitation list. It was never our intention to have this promotion posted publicly, and the Tango gift cards are only available to eligible, invited users.
However, MoneyStream and H&R Block want to reward all the enthusiastic people who have joined MoneyStream and done their best to help us test tax document import tools. So we’re giving you the next best thing: a free H&R Block tax return. The code below is good for $25 towards H&R Block’s online tax prep service: that’s a free Basic return ($19.99 value) or $25 off one of H&R Block’s Deluxe or Premium packages.”
Yup, just wrote a post on this. https://www.doctorofcredit.com/hr-block-goes-back-on-their-word-wont-be-honoring-25-promotion/
Very disappointing and not a company I’d trust anymore.
Sorry, this offer has been suspended. Please check back later
When clicking through, the page says it is a targeted promo and they will verify email addresses against a list of targeted emails before awarding the gift card.
Any thoughts? I’m considering this probably not worth my time unless someone knows differently.
Anyone know if multiple emails can be used to sign up for multiple bank accounts?