Nov 15, 2013, 2:29 pm
Last edit by: ChrisFlyer66
As of 6/19/2014, Walmart does not accept debit transactions above $49.99 from cards issued by Bancorp, namely Vanilla Visas (OV, VGC, etc.). Attempts result in "Alternate Tender Required," "Debit Not Available," and/or some other error message, at both registers and the Money Center Express (MCE, kiosk, Kate, ATM).
There is no workaround.
There is no workaround.
Problem loading Bluebird with Vanilla Visa GC
Jun 19, 2014, 8:42 am
#617
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I tried to load blue bird at kate, money center and in the checkout line. Each one failed and I have a "debit not available" receipt from each one. I get home and see that I have a email from bluebird saying "your bluebird POS reload was successful" I check my bluebird account and there is $500 in there. How in the hell did that happen??
Jun 19, 2014, 9:22 am
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Jun 19, 2014, 10:41 am
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it appears it has more to do with the issuing bank than anything else (ie vanilla variety).... Only time will tell, but I loaded some MCs (not vanilla) late last night without issue. Not really a visa vs mastercard debate, but a bank issuing debate. Not sure anyone has some vanilla MC (never looked into it to see if those even exist lol) to try.... Most people avoid MC altogether as it is.
Last edited by hamokmonky; Jun 19, 2014 at 12:46 pm
Jun 19, 2014, 11:55 am
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Another datapoint: In RTP, NC. Attempted to load different OVs (4941 series) via Kate at $500, $99.99, and $90, all while waiting between transactions. All failed. I unbeknowingly threw away the error codes, but the last one I got, for a $90, was Error 96.
Jun 19, 2014, 12:11 pm
#627
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Same here in Upstate SC. I actually got 4 $99 loads to go through off of one of my cards and around 11:00 am, it started declining all the transactions with error code 96. I then tried another Wal-mart about 5 miles away and couldn't get it work with $500, $99, $90 or $50. Also didn't work with MC or cashier.
Jun 19, 2014, 12:12 pm
#628
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assuming a few things here but here goes:
let's say all vanilla incomm cards are no longer set to work at wmt for debit. Is this cuz of wmt or cuz of incomm? If cuz of wmt, well, that's their software and so be it. It works with other gcs and prepaids and that is that. I recall, as I said before in here, that at rite aid, there was a time when vanilla based gcs would run as credit for MOs there. Clerks eventually got spoken to by their bosses and the entire chain stopped doing MOs to debit.
So there could be something within the type of gc vanilla is made up of that makes it just NOT work with the type of software that wmt and the rite aid systems use.
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if it is a feature of incomm and they made it so their cards cannot work at wmt for debit, well that's a bigger issue. One COULD contact some faction of the govt and say hey these are supposed to have pins on them but it dont work no more. Then again, some faction of something would probably come back and say: Well yes there had been a lot of fraud at wmt or something so we stopped it there. Go elsewhere.
Either way, if the card dont work there no more, you have to move on and stop yapping about it.
let's say all vanilla incomm cards are no longer set to work at wmt for debit. Is this cuz of wmt or cuz of incomm? If cuz of wmt, well, that's their software and so be it. It works with other gcs and prepaids and that is that. I recall, as I said before in here, that at rite aid, there was a time when vanilla based gcs would run as credit for MOs there. Clerks eventually got spoken to by their bosses and the entire chain stopped doing MOs to debit.
So there could be something within the type of gc vanilla is made up of that makes it just NOT work with the type of software that wmt and the rite aid systems use.
***
if it is a feature of incomm and they made it so their cards cannot work at wmt for debit, well that's a bigger issue. One COULD contact some faction of the govt and say hey these are supposed to have pins on them but it dont work no more. Then again, some faction of something would probably come back and say: Well yes there had been a lot of fraud at wmt or something so we stopped it there. Go elsewhere.
Either way, if the card dont work there no more, you have to move on and stop yapping about it.
Jun 19, 2014, 12:28 pm
#630
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assuming a few things here but here goes:
let's say all vanilla incomm cards are no longer set to work at wmt for debit. Is this cuz of wmt or cuz of incomm? If cuz of wmt, well, that's their software and so be it. It works with other gcs and prepaids and that is that. I recall, as I said before in here, that at rite aid, there was a time when vanilla based gcs would run as credit for MOs there. Clerks eventually got spoken to by their bosses and the entire chain stopped doing MOs to debit.
So there could be something within the type of gc vanilla is made up of that makes it just NOT work with the type of software that wmt and the rite aid systems use.
***
if it is a feature of incomm and they made it so their cards cannot work at wmt for debit, well that's a bigger issue. One COULD contact some faction of the govt and say hey these are supposed to have pins on them but it dont work no more. Then again, some faction of something would probably come back and say: Well yes there had been a lot of fraud at wmt or something so we stopped it there. Go elsewhere.
Either way, if the card dont work there no more, you have to move on and stop yapping about it.
let's say all vanilla incomm cards are no longer set to work at wmt for debit. Is this cuz of wmt or cuz of incomm? If cuz of wmt, well, that's their software and so be it. It works with other gcs and prepaids and that is that. I recall, as I said before in here, that at rite aid, there was a time when vanilla based gcs would run as credit for MOs there. Clerks eventually got spoken to by their bosses and the entire chain stopped doing MOs to debit.
So there could be something within the type of gc vanilla is made up of that makes it just NOT work with the type of software that wmt and the rite aid systems use.
***
if it is a feature of incomm and they made it so their cards cannot work at wmt for debit, well that's a bigger issue. One COULD contact some faction of the govt and say hey these are supposed to have pins on them but it dont work no more. Then again, some faction of something would probably come back and say: Well yes there had been a lot of fraud at wmt or something so we stopped it there. Go elsewhere.
Either way, if the card dont work there no more, you have to move on and stop yapping about it.