Has anyone ever experienced disappearance of fund from AP? I had opened an account in July and took a long time verifying the bank. In the meantime, I loaded a couple of $100 visa gift cards onto it without any problem, or so I thought. A month later, I went in to check and my balance is $0! I looked in my email to see if there was any confirmation after gift card was loaded, sort of like BB and there were none. ...?

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Has anyone been able to get Discover Secure Online Account numbers to work?

I am trying to meet $3K month spend using 3 different AP accounts and thought I could do this with different Secure #'s from Discover. I tried it twice and it doesn't work.

I called Discover. They say these are unique for each merchant. Issue is Amazon put through a $1 charge to verify the #, this came from "Amazon" merchant #. Then they attempted the true charge and that came from a different Merchant ID for "Amazon Payments". Since it is a different MerchantID, Discover rejects the charge.

I do see on Discover's faq that they say with Amazon you need to use a different secure DiscID each time. This is due to Amazon having several merch ID's. LOL, so you can't even do it once per Secure# on AmazonPay, because they verify with one #, then pay send the charge with another!

Shoot, looks like I will only be able to do $1K/month using AP. I guess another option is to buy GC and then onload those through the AP accounts. I could do the GC through BlueBird as well, but I already plan to be maxed out on that.

Need to meet $3K spend for 6 months to get extra $500.

Are you registering the account with the correct expiration dates, or changing them?

I just add the card to my SO's account and send it. I've never had a problem with this, nor have a couple of coworkers. People who believe this is not a good thing to do, I believe, have no substantiating evidence that this shuts AP accounts down.

Never mind. I saw at mygiftcardmall.com that the value of gift cards still there. I reported them lost and they will be re-delivered. I could have sworn that I loaded them up...

this might be a silly question but i'm gonna ask anyway.

for those of you with more than 1 AP account, have you ever associated and used the same CC in more than 1 of those accounts to send $1k in the same month?

I have done it once. I recommend doing it occasionally only though.

Have done it a couple times without any problem, but the last time it was done the payment remained pending for several hours before it went through.

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Hello,

This coming month (in a 9 days or so) Amazon will be a 5x category on some cards. Will AP work or does it need to be a Amazon.com purchase?

Thanks

Nope, different merchant codes, won't work.

that is usually due to the amount sent and is a security check based on the card and amount sent. I do not think it has anything to do with the same card on two accounts. I have never used the same card on 2 accounts and will get that delay from time to time. Ways to avoid that delay is to send multiple smaller payments.

Of note, AP is a great tool to send $1k of free MS per month. With most sign up requirements needing an average of $1k per month or under, I think there is little reason to need to use the same credit card on 2 accounts. That being said, do what you wish. I just feel there is little to gain but possibly a lot to risk.

There are reports of success last year with Dividend. I will give it a shot.

Don't panic. It sounds to me like you added the VGCs as a payment method, and, as such, they should show up like any other credit card. The card balance should still be on the cards themselves. Adding them as a funding source wouldn't transfer the card balance to Amazon. Have you checked the balance on the cards themselves?

Andyandy

Only with Citi cards using virtual account numbers.:cool: