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Old Feb 19, 2016, 4:10 am
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gw14
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally Posted by cherrythepom
After all the BB shutdowns in Jan, I decided to get a t-mobile card yesterday to reduce my use of the BB.

1. Couldn't find a t-mobile card in any grocery stores (Philly area),
2. T-mobile couldn't process my card application online, and
3. I tried about 15 Acme and Giant grocery stores looking for reloadits and couldn't find any that didn't have "cash only" printed on them. At one store, there was a huge stack of them (without "cash only") but when I went to the register, they wouldn't scan. Manager tried 4 different cards and said they weren't "in the system." No idea what that means but I was turned away. That's before I even specified whether I'd be paying with cash or credit. I didn't bother trying to buy any that said "cash only" because I couldn't get the T-mobile card anyway.

Good news is that Kate works at one of my local WMs and the cashiers are all great about loading gift cards as debit.
Did you try going to a tmobile store to purchase the debit card?

Some stores are YMMV for using credit cards for a "cash only" reloadit card.
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