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Alan Cheslow reported a problem in SmartyPig on April 03, 2009 19:47:

I have to say goodbye, here's why.

I really liked your approach but unfortunately I've decided to close my account and move my money elsewhere because there are just too many restrictions on what I can do with my money and when.

Case in point - I can't even get to my money now; according to the website I have to wait a week to close my goal because I have a deposit that should have posted yesterday and "Goals cannot be closed until all funds have cleared and are verified by our partnering financial institution". And who knows how much longer it will take to have access to my money after I close the goal?

I really need to be able to move my money wherever I want whenever I want to, and there are reward checking accounts that let me do this while offering even a higher interest rate. Hopefully you guys can work some of this out and maybe I'll be back later. I hope the feedback is helpful for you.

Alan Cheslow started following the question "Smarty Pig and Mint.com" in SmartyPig.

Alan Cheslow asked a question in SmartyPig on February 19, 2009 17:48:

More flexible contribution scheduling options

This suggestion combines a few existing requests with some new ones of my own...

Essentially I'd like to see many more options to schedule contributions than just once per month. There should be two selections as follows:

* First, select a frequency:
-- Once per week
-- Once every two weeks
-- Twice a month
-- Once a month
-- Once every two months
-- Once every three months
-- Once every six months
-- Once a year
-- Manually

* Second, select a starting date

Then, schedule the first contribution on the starting date and the remaining contributions following the selected frequency. Manual contributions would allow for ad-hoc savings without forcing transactions at any particular time.

Thanks!
Alan

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Alan Cheslow replied on May 23, 2008 04:44 to the question "GPS location check ins" in Brightkite:

Argh, I'd much rather see you guys get location info from Fire Eagle, so that support is not limited to just Nokia.

http://getsatisfaction.com/brightkite...

Alan Cheslow started following the idea "Can we twitter placemark names instead of addresses?" in Brightkite.

Alan Cheslow replied on May 10, 2008 01:08 to the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

reporting for beta-testing duty

Alan Cheslow started following the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite.

Alan Cheslow replied on May 06, 2008 19:32 to the discussion "Get my exact location from FireEagle" in Brightkite:

+1, was looking to mashup FindMe and BrightKite... both can *write* to FireEagle, but not *read*

Alan Cheslow asked a question in Loki on March 11, 2008 21:55:

missingmanifestresourceexception error on WM6

When trying to run Loki Mobile on a Samsung SGH-i617 Blackjack II with Windows Mobile 6 Standard (non touch screen) I get the following error:

missingmanifestresourceexception