Download Vanilla Gift Card
Sasha Stolt
This is kind of confusing, so I feel like I need to explain a little.
Every month, I use a different vanilla gift card to pay for Spotify. I don't have a credit card since I'm still a student. I always have problems with getting Spotify to accept my gift card. I always buy a visa card so I can pay for everything else I need, and I can never find Spotify gift cards where I live.
I tried hooking it up with PayPal and I tried the trick where you open it in incognito and reenter everything. I tried waiting a few hours to try again and then I tried waiting multiple days. I tried getting a different gift card, but it still doesn't work. I don't know what to do.
Sorry if this wastes anyone's time, or if someone has already asked. I'm going to continue looking for a solution.
The workaround to use such a card is to find a retailer that is selling Spotify gift cards and buy a Spotify gift card with the Visa gift card. You can then activate the Spotify gift card to get Premium.
I have tried several times to make payments with my Vanilla Visa gift card, but it doesn't work. I know for certain that the card is activated, not expired and it has a balance of $190 dollars. eBay just keeps reporting that the payment couldn't be processed.
I suggest Ebay get rid of the "name on card" mandatory process because many gift cards won't have a name on them. I think this must be the problem, because Amazon didn't ask for a name on the card, and the payment went through just fine.
I try to enter my Vanilla Gift Visa Card info to my IPAD, but it is not accepted my apple profile. When I enter my bank issued visa it accept. Vanilla Gift Visa Card is valid when I try to buy from google play for my Android pad it accepted and I can buy any thing from google play store. Buy why same card not accepted by at my apple profile. Please assist me.
Apple store is different. You need a card that requires that you register it on the cards website so it has your name, address and phone number on record. They do this so that prepaid cards appear valid and will work on such sites as Apple.
I'm having problems paying my FiOS bill with Visa gift cards (both on the website and in the app). I initially tried with a small TD Bank Visa that I was given as a gift. I had the zip code set properly on the TD website yet Verizon got an error when I tried to submit the payment. No indication of any error on the TD Bank website. Now I just tried to use it with a Vanilla Visa card I bought at Shoprite (got money back on my credit card for buying it, before someone asks why I'm doing this). Once again, Verizon gave me an error, nothing but shows on the issuer's site. I eventually used the TD card at Verizon Wireless, where it worked fine, but I get 5% back on my cellular charges with my US Bank Cash+ Visa, so I really don't want to use this card there (the TD card was only $25 so not a big deal). is there some trick to using Visa gift cards for payments on the normal Verizon site? It used to work fine when I was getting rebate gift cards and emptied them out paying my bill.
And before someone asks, I am not trying to pay more than I have on the card.
Sorry, that's not it. That post talks about using a Verizon gift card (i.e., one only valid at Verizon). I'm talking about a card that is a Visa, usable at any store that accepts normal Visa credit cards.
after this you are directed to a payment page of which you can use a saved account like MasterCard and visa, checking account and there is an other option. It is then you can use a gift card be it visa, MasterCard or Verizon branded.
I thought I would come here and hopefully get an answer quicker than being on the phone. I was trying to make a reservation for 3 of us with a rate of $112 each. So that totalled up to be about $335. I was HOPING to be able to use my $200 VISA gift card for some of this total.. Is that possible?
There is a complicated way to handle this where you could book the 3 people on a flight where the visa gift card would cover the whole cost of the flight so you would book what I call a dummy flight (one you have no intention of taking) so say find a flight for $66 a person you would then be able to use $198 of the gift card to pay in full. After ticketed you can then click the change flight option where you select the actual flight you want. You can then pay the fare difference with a different card. If you can't find a flight for exactly $66 get one for as close to it as you can that way the amount left on the gift card will be minimal. I know they have flights for $45 right now so it may take a little bit of work but it can be done.
Another suggestion would be to purchase a Southwest gift card with the Visa gift card, then you will be able to split the payment online. The Southwest gift card would be applied and you can use a credit card for the remaining balance.
The title of this thread has been edited from the original: visa gift cards
I have had several customers with prepaid gift cards that I am unable to process. Is there a work around for this?
It sounds like these cards are being declined? There isn't a workaround for declined card payments -- Square isn't informed the reason why a card is declined, no matter what type of card it is! If a customer's is declined please ask your to contact the card-issuer for more information.
I have a customer that travels for work but contacts us to send him merchandise. He calls in with a Visa gift card but they have been 'declined' the last couple of times. When we first got Square, we didn't have a problem. Any thoughts?
There are several reasons a card could be declined. While we can't look into specific transactions here, take a look at this article for common reasons cards get declined, and it's also worth your customer checking their gift card balance.
I bought 4 $500 Vanilla Visa Gift Cards from CVS Store #2149 in Alexandria, VA right before Christmas. I used my Citibank MasterCard to pay for the gift cards. They were for my employees as a holiday gift. The cards were located near the rear of the store in a remote and unsupervised location. By the time my employees tried to use the card, all of the funds had been drained of a total of $2,000. The funds were used at Apple Stores, Best Buy, etc. I contacted Vanilla..... it was a very frustrating process. I was on the phone to a call center in India for over an hour and a half. At the end of the call, they said I should hear back "WITHIN THREE MONTHS"!!!! They were very non-committal and just described it as a potential "unauthorized use" of the card.
I contacted CVS and they had absolutely no interest in addressing the issue.... just referred me to Vanilla. I feel that CVS has primary responsibility because they sold me a product that had obviously been compromised. With all of the lawsuits and complaints over this issue, they certainly knew that placing the cards in an unsupervised location at the back of the store was inviting criminal activity.
The OP used a credit card to buy a bunch of gift cards which they now claim were drained. The OP is asking whether they can dispute the purchase of the gift cards, they already disputed the transactions that drained them.
Everything else is futile arguments. Yes, the OP has been scammed. No, noone will return the money to the OP unless they absolutely have to. Yes, the gift card company can probably identify this pattern of fraud. No, it doesn't mean that the OP should immediately be reimbursed, they still need to show that they are not in fact the scammer themselves.
It is unlikely that you can successfully dispute the purchase of the debit cards, since that purchase was authorized and not fraudulent. Unless you can prove CVS to be negligent, it is unlikely that you can prevail on any claims against CVS either.
What you're describing is a pretty common theft scheme called "gift card drain": the scammers take unsold gift cards, scan them and then reseal them again in their original packaging and put them back on the store shelves. Once the cards are sold and activated the scammers have all the information they need to clear them out. There have been numerous news reports on this.
In order to prove otherwise, the right avenue is an unauthorized charge claim against the gift card issuer, which then will be investigated by the issuer and determined to be true or false. Everyone else will deny any claim because the OP cannot prove they did anything wrong.
For people keep claiming it's trivial to determine the OP is not lying - how exactly is that trivial? The scammers are not doing anything different from legitimate users, and there's no way to distinguish a legitimate transaction from an illegitimate one without knowing anything about the user (which in case of gift cards - the issuers know nothing of). So unless a claim is made and investigated - the issuers have no way of distinguishing those.
For people claiming the OP didn't get the goods - the OP themselves admits that they did. The card was in fact activated with $500 value, the draining occurred after activation (which is the delivery event). Any claim that the card was activated with $0 value is easily refutable, and a chargeback on that claim will not succeed.
They may be willing to trade the tampered-with cards for new ones and make a claim against their insurance. You may need to make a police report before their insurance will cover that, and you should do so anyway.
If you and the recipients are lucky, have a clean record otherwise, and can show that the cards were used far from anyplace you were, you may get one of these layers to take pity on you, once. If it happens again, they're going to see a pattern and suspect deliberate fraud.
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