Comments on: Help Us Out Topic: Pre-Paid Credit Cards

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:12:59 +0000

I’ve been using the Mastercard prepaid card offered by Money Mart here in Canada, and they work perfectly for MFI, so I imagine that anything like that would work. I know some people have said the check cashing places offer them already, but I figured I would throw my 2 cents in anyway.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:08:25 +0000

i use the following prepaid card bouht in the UK. It works very well and can be topped up at the Post Office (takes 2 to 3 days to top up) or Cheque Cashing Centre (tops up in 30 minutes) plus you can do it via your bank too. The web link is http://www.mycashplus.co.uk/ and i use it all the time when buying messages and/or donations. There is no charge to top up and u can top up as many times as you wish,minimum amount Â£10. It does charge a 3% Auithoristation fee for Foreign currency transactions.

Hope this helps Mark

By: CyberDrive

CyberDrive — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:59:22 +0000

some people cant get a credit card due to bad credit, so a debit card with credit card features is an option

By: Zombie

Zombie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:25:55 +0000

I’ve actually been using the vanilla mastercards for the last 6-7 months and have had no problems using them on MFI. The only thing I don’t like is you can’t reload them. Wish I could find a reloadable card in Canada. Other than that I’ve had good luck with them.

By: Veteran

Veteran — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:38:48 +0000

Whatever.

Debit cards never made any sense to me. Where’s the benefit to let any entity have instant access to your bank account?

Use a credit card and pay it off every month. You get to use the banks money for a month.

Using a credit card, your money makes interest in the bank for a month. A debit card doesn’t give you that benefit.

Isn’t it the smart thing to do to use other peoples money? When you use a credit card, you’re using the banks money for 30 days or more. With a debit card, banks have instant access to your money.

I just don’t get debit cards. WTF. Somebody school me. What’s the benefit of a debit card when using a credit card gives you access to using the banks money for thirty days?

By: joe

joe — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:31:44 +0000

But what ever card you use they all work great for MFI(Iwas going to put that in my last comment but mental brain freeze set in..LOL)

By: joe

joe — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:22:21 +0000

Not true Andy after I found out that I could not use the vanilla gift card for mfi I went to a site called 3wishes.com and used it to by the wife 100 bucks worth of sexy lingerie, girls check out that site they have some really nice stuff at really good prices. so they do work on line and with the all-access gift cards a 100 dollar gift card cost you 105.95 and the 50 dollar card cost you 53.95 and the 25 dollar card only cost you 28.95.and thats it no other fees

By: Jessie

Jessie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:48:44 +0000

I second what LatinVixen said…I’ve used several types of prepaid credit cards and Greendot was the simplest.

I was going to say that the one I really had problems with was American Express, but if it won’t work here anyway, then I probably don’t need to mention that.

By: andy

andy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:16:18 +0000

@joe
Vannilla gift cards u can’t us anywhere online. i always read the package of the cards before getting them. if it doesn’t say can be used online. i don’t buy it.
but now i have a walmartmoneycard i use all the time. it only cost 3bucks to load anywhere from 3bucks to up to 1500max on the card. if u put your check on the card it is free. only down side has a 3buck month fee to use it. but to me i feel money saved there when u pay more for the other card like allaccessgift.com and the gifcard hall cards in the long run is worth it.

By: joe

joe — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:36:07 +0000

vanilla gift cards was the name of the company that i could not use on MFI