jeanie

I don't know a ton about this, but I'll give it a shot. Walmart introduced a new prepaid Bluebird debit card that had functions somewhat like a checking account. The important part is that people could pay their mortgages, rent, taxes, or other big bills that traditionally do not take credit cards with this Bluebird card.

One way to add money to this prepaid card was to buy a vanilla card. Vanilla is the brand name of the card. There was a transaction fee to buy the vanilla card. But some people found out that they could buy the vanilla card with a regular credit card at Office Depot.

Now Office Depot is no longer selling the vanilla card, and is switching to a prepaid Amex.

So this was a way to be able to charge more to a credit card in order to get more points!

Is this somewhat correct? Haven't done this personally. It is just what I have picked up on this board.