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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: bacon ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Savings accounts
Date: 10/09/23 9:27 AM
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...experience with raisin.com?

No experience, but a question.

Raisin claims no fees, so how do they make their money? The banks pay the fees instead of the saver, but does that mean Raisin isn't taking a taste of the interest on the way by, also? Probably not, but it wouldn't take a big taste for them to make more money.

Seems to me that the best use of the site is to scan the deals on offer and then go deal directly with the bank(s) with the best offers. My experience with opening bank checking or savings accounts is that the process isn't much more inconvenient than dealing through Raisin and (often?) updating selections through them. The initial setup through Raisin might be more convenient than some (small) number of individual setups, but after that, it seems unlikely that all of the savings accounts would need...adjustment...simultaneously.

Eric Hines
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