Originally Posted by
gnomey
start small and slow. some may laugh, but back then, i started with $100 after an hr of reading abt what this whole process is about. and did a little dance in my head when i discovered the magic.
i echo other posters saying one must be confident while doing it. otherwise you will invite unwarranted suspicion with your apparent nervousness.
while reading / researching is a must prior to starting (which i think you already did, and sadly many do not), in your case, i think you are overthinking it a little.... for me, besides reading, i should mention that i actually 'honed' a lot of MS skills by actual practice and various experiments. having a thick skin helps too
I've been trying to read off and on over the last year and keep giving up. I have to be honest, coming from outside this "system", the data here, while HUGE, isn't the easiest to get into, the learning curve seems steep, partly because of how much archived info is here. I kept burning out because I would spend hours trying to track back to a "step by step" process to start and would run across hundreds of posts that didn't apply any more because of how old they were and the system had evolved. I think I just need to jump in and test the waters with $100 and then scale up to a size I feel isn't extreme and I'm ok with. Once I buy my One Vanilla Visa card, I reload that at Walgreens right? Or is everyone buying NEW One Vanilla cards each time they need to make a "run" ?
Also, anyone able to confirm, as of today, these steps SHOULD work for me?
Go to local Walgreens, buy a One Vanilla Visa card for up to $500 (whatever I feel safe testing the first time) and pay using my new credit card.
Log on to check the balance after 24 hours and set a pin
Go to local post office and walk up to window and ask for a money order for whatever amount I loaded my One Vanilla Visa card for MINUS the post office fee, or less if I don't want a weird looking exact number. Example. Loaded for $100, ask for a $90 money order. Loaded for $500, ask for a $475 money order.
Swipe the card and enter my pin. They hand me a money order for the amount I asked for that is blank. I can then take this home or anywhere else to fill out. I can then fill out the money order to make a payment on my balance and mail it in.
I think I've got that down... right?