Wal-Mart, Amex take on banks with Bluebird debit card
#3541
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Michigan
Programs: Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 503
Are you using bill pay to pay off the same cards you used to purchase the VRs?
#3543
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Location: Austin, Texas
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#3545
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Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 2,998
I doubt Chase has the time nor desire to figure out what I'm doing with any VR's I buy. With the variety of prepaid products out there what can be fed off a VR, it would be difficult, if not entirely impossible, for them to deterine where that particular VR was fed into, esp without access to the individual card data that's held by Incomm.
#3546
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Austin, Texas
Programs: Airline nobody. Sad!
Posts: 26,062
I doubt Chase has the time nor desire to figure out what I'm doing with any VR's I buy. With the variety of prepaid products out there what can be fed off a VR, it would be difficult, if not entirely impossible, for them to deterine where that particular VR was fed into, esp without access to the individual card data that's held by Incomm.
#3547
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 114
No reload cards available in Brookline MA at various CVS stops.
#3548
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Florida
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i am taking a few steps to limit my potentially being flagged, 1 i only complete 9 reloads per moonth, not 10. second i pay my regular "keeper" credit cards via bill pay not the churn ones, and third i occasionaly make a $2 or #3 purchase using bluebird. i am hopeing this makes me appear as a typical customer. as long i i can fly low i can continue to fly
Enough cards to go round using the billpay without having to complete the circle.
I also believe not to use round number to make bill pay.
#3549
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Location: Finally back in Boston after escaping from New York
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#3550
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: SFO
Posts: 76
Does anyone know a location where I can buy VR's in the San Francisco area with a credit card? I've been all over and can't find anything. PM would be appreciated!
#3552
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: HNL
Programs: UA 1K; Marriott Plat; Hyatt Diamond; CCarlson Elite
Posts: 641
Why isn't that the preferred method anyway? Ink at OD gets you better than 3% back, and that's with points that are directly convertible to cash. I guess it's easier to use a 2% card (Cap1Venture) and get the VR straight from CVS ... do you prefer that for convenience?
#3553
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: LAX/TPE
Programs: United 1K, JAL Sapphire, SPG Lifetime Platinum, National Executive Elite, Hertz PC, Avis PC
Posts: 42,208
Why isn't that the preferred method anyway? Ink at OD gets you better than 3% back, and that's with points that are directly convertible to cash. I guess it's easier to use a 2% card (Cap1Venture) and get the VR straight from CVS ... do you prefer that for convenience?
#3554
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: 787
Programs: Too many to list
Posts: 1,306
Someone liberated my local WG from all Vanilla Relod cards. Still had a bunch about 10 days ago.
#3555
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: SAN
Programs: DL SM, Marriot PLT, Tall guy in need of legroom
Posts: 1,478
still hoping to clarify if people are seeing the myvanilla ones by Via or something else? Or if getting the Visa my vanilla ones are worth the hassle?