Originally Posted by mm93991

Happy to report that on Oct 26 I was able to buy MO's at Publix in S FL with a 2 Variable Vanilla Visa Gift Card I picked up at Sam's Club the day before. First things first on these Vanillas (at least for the ones I bought at Sam's) as many have reported on various FT threads you must wait 24 hours from purchase to be able to do anything with these things (purchases, check balance etc). These particular cards said "Happy Birthday" on the exterior packaging. They're issued by MetaBank and serviced by InComm. Many have reported here that virtually no cards serviced by BH will work at Publix at this point and this has been my experience as well since spring '22. If you try to check the balance on these Vanillas via website or phone in the first 24 hrs it will not even recognize that the card is live. In searching the website and packaging there was no way to set a PIN before heading to Publix...I simply used a PIN of my choosing when buying the MOs at the store. Also the first 6 digits of these cards were 4097 58 Exp 11/30. Appreciate those who pointed me in the direction of Vanillas...while I'm doing much less MS these days, it was nice to meet a min spend threshold by grabbing some Vanillas as I only had about 7 days left to do so.