Wal-Mart, Amex take on banks with Bluebird debit card
Oct 24, 2012, 10:45 am
#466
Join Date: Oct 2012
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I was able to buy ice cream @ 2 Walgreens in the area with CC. (2 for 2). One enforced $500 max. The other I just did $500. Might be worthwhile mixing up the total a bit so the amounts don't match, Barclays had a fit yesterday, requiring no less than 4 calls to unblock my card because of fraud alerts.
Oct 24, 2012, 10:50 am
#467
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Just saw that some genius on twitter wrote about how excited she was to earn crazy miles w/ BB, CC'ing a blogger and CC'ing Amex as well 
Oct 24, 2012, 11:14 am
#468
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Oct 24, 2012, 11:19 am
#470
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The trick is not all Walgreens have the same register software to forbid using CC, some individual store registers allow it. I suspect this won't last long though.
Oct 24, 2012, 11:24 am
#471
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Oct 24, 2012, 11:24 am
#472
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Oct 24, 2012, 11:33 am
#473
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As others of mentioned, AmEx has clearly put a lot of time and effort into this program, apparently believing that it will be a new market niche. So it's doubtful that the entire BB program will disappear, but the reload abilities may potentially be axed if too much abuse occurs. Time will tell.....
Oct 24, 2012, 11:36 am
#474
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Has anyone been successful getting cash at an ATM? I tried today and was told, @ 2 different ATM, that my PIN was incorrect.
Oct 24, 2012, 12:03 pm
#478
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I'm not sure if someone has already asked this... (I didn't see it when I searched the thread) but has anyone had any success yet adding BofA home loans to pay their mortgage? I was first getting an error saying the zip code was wrong, which it is not. Now I am getting an error saying the account number is incorrect (which I know it's right).
Oct 24, 2012, 12:03 pm
#479
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I'm not sure if someone has already asked this... (I didn't see it when I searched the thread) but has anyone had any success yet adding BofA home loans to pay their mortgage? I was first getting an error saying the zip code was wrong, which it is not. Now I am getting an error saying the account number is incorrect (which I know it's right).
Oct 24, 2012, 12:07 pm
#480
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