Prepaid deposit card USA

[Ragnor]

Here in England we have a Ukash card. You go to the shop, say you want £200, you pay £200 with no charge, get a piece of paper with a number on that and can deposit it in game and only pay the MA charge. I'm surprised the USA does not have a similar system?

[Enum]

Originally Posted by madseend

Alcohol and Hooters

[C0C0]

Originally Posted by Insomniac

It's a prepaid Visa. What name do you put in the "Cardholders Name" area? And If I need to wait 48 hours, I still got like 46 left then

Cardholder name is ur name... it's going to be like Credit card (what they didn't tell u is... u just sign a 18mth commitment of paying $5 monthly fee and i'm sure u didn't read those super fineprints like me.) But still i think 5dollars a month is better than telling ur creditcard company u have "gaming issues" and ruin ur credit scores.lol

[Gazza]

Originally Posted by C0C0

Cardholder name is ur name... it's going to be like Credit card (what they didn't tell u is... u just sign a 18mth commitment of paying $5 monthly fee and i'm sure u didn't read those super fineprints like me.) But still i think 5dollars a month is better than telling ur creditcard company u have "gaming issues" and ruin ur credit scores.lol

Due to some issues with my company's id10t HR department I have full credit monitoring at the moment - nothing that goes to Mindark shows up on this

Oh and not just US citizens can get Credit Cards, Bank accounts or even a TIN - these can all be gotten fairly straightforwardly with just an address. Only a SSN goes through any from of INS validation. At least this is how I remember it from a few years ago - I opened my bank account with $50 and once I was paid into it I got a debit card which got me a credit card in no time. Of course, I had a valid work visa, but that was only checked by my Employer.

[C0C0]

visa is ok... if u have american express credit card.. it shows depositing with entropia is the same as depositing to online casino. but that was years ago.. since now i use this prepaid visa.

[Insomniac]

Well, sent in a support case about it and this is what I got back. Not good news though. I didn't see anything about oversees purchases in the terms for the card. This is the site www.walmartgift.com.

Originally Posted by 09 May 2008 You wrote

I bought a Visa Gift Card to deposit but I keep getting an error when I try to. I activated the card online through walmartgift.com like I was supposed to. This is the only way i will be able to deposit for a while and I was hoping this would work. I have read that several people on the forums were able to use the same card. Any help would be appreciated!

And this is what I got back...

Originally Posted by 09 May 2008 Entropia Support

Hi,

Thank you for your message. Have you checked if there is a policy regarding the use of your prepaid card? Certain cards are not enabled for online purchases from abroad or they might be used only at retail stores within US. Unfortunately, this means that we have to ask your credit card provider about this, they should be able to explain their polices.

Regards,
Entropia Support

Any other suggestions?

Side Note:
Very quick response! WTG Support!

[Pip]

All I can tell you is that I successfully used prepaid cards (gift, not reloadable), packaged as 'Visa' or 'Mastercard' gift cards, no other brand name (i.e. not store branded), that I bought from Walgreens and Fred Meyer. I did have to register online in order to use the card over the internet to purchase (deposit in this case), but no id was required and I am not a US citizen. I used my own name in the Cardholders' name line and that worked fine, since I used that when I registered the card online anyway. I have been doing this on and off since last July. I did not have to wait for any length of time for the card to activate, which is just as well, because when I want to deposit, I want to do it now now now now and buy stuff

I hope your situation gets sorted out really soon

[The Gold Bomb]

Wait, dont you have to acctivate a new card in EU? How does that work with a gift card?

[TommygunxX]

thats bullcrap, the last visa gift card i got from walmart wouldt work -.- $50 bucks i wanted to use on EU and i didnt even get to use it.

[Pip]

Originally Posted by TommygunxX

thats bullcrap, the last visa gift card i got from walmart wouldt work -.- $50 bucks i wanted to use on EU and i didnt even get to use it.

When I did my research, I found out that Walmart cards were not likely to work, but I was not sure as I never wanted to take that risk. That is why I specified earlier in this thread the stores where I bought the cards that worked successfully.....