DCBob

This thread is about Bluebird, not using GCs or prepaid debit cards to make a travel agency purchase. You will have to ask the travel agency what cards they will accept.

CVS will NOT accept GCs, prepaid cards, or debit cards to buy VRs. It's cash or CC only. At least those are the rules in the DC area.

Dad to GO

You can always purchase gift cards at OD for 5x... just use caution because I'm pretty sure you would be attracting a little attention to yourself if your first purchases on the new card are for 7K at OD... You would also want to double check with the Travel Agency first unless you are able to liquify all of the gift cards you purchase easily. Good luck though... I hope you can truly maximize the 5X bonus! I did it with my parents solar for 10K and was awesome!

TheBOSman

That address is not the same as the one on my personal Chase card account statement (at least not the one I had recently). Strangely, it also isn't what shows on my Ink account statement either.

That said, I'm pretty sure Bluebird is all electronic for the payments. My Toyota Financial vehicle lease payment works fine, and I know Toyota has a different PO Box (in different states) for retail loan payments and for lease payments, and it didn't ask me for a Toyota Financial address. All of my payments (to Toyota and CC companies) have all posted far too fast to have been mailed as well.

MDWCommuter

Convince your landlord to open a BB account as well, and then you can just do a money transfer. I did, and he couldn't be happier.

Steve in Olympia

You don't need to supply a mailing address for Chase Credit Cards.... that will only slow down your payment. Since Chase Credit Cards is already in the BB system, they will do an electronic payment. All you need to add is your account number. I did my first Chase payment last week, and it was credited to my account within 2 or 3 days. Mailing a check obviously takes longer, and is more likely to go astray.....

gardengirl

I haven't been keeping up with this thread for a couple weeks.

Did I miss anything?

ddallas

Nah. Same questions, same answers.

eltex

Nope.

Happy

You dont need an address if it is electronic check which is what BB sends when your payee is in the data base.

The Chase CC option is perfectly fine for both personal and biz cards. Paid thru that fine.

You can always do a $2-3 test payment first to see if the payment arrives as expected before you make a big payment. That is how I do for each new payee account.

Payments to Citi Bank Credit Card, Chase Credit Card, American Express, local utility FPL, all work as BB promised. If you set up payment alert with CC companies, you would generally receive the Payment Received Alert in the morning of the date of Arrival BB promised. Although posting would not show until after the overnight processing. FPL is the only payee on my list that shows the payment real time - the morning of date of arrival, FPL shows account balance 0, payment received.

It is much better to use the existent payees from BB's data base instead of re-inventing the wheel. Only when your payee is not on the list then you resort to manual check which as others have mentioned, often delayed the arrival / posting and risk of getting ashtray...

Happy

I believe you should ask your Travel Agency first to make sure they take prepaid cards for payments.

I can tell you that AMEX GCs cannot be use to pay for a cruise. It is even spelled out in the fine print that comes with the GCs.

sam_goh

This is going to be ymmv, I just did 14 VRs tonight using pp cards from OD in OH. Was the 2nd CVS I tried, first was wiped out. I'm assuming that they allowed it too since I doubt cash buyers got them all.

member7777

the horror of Nocal where there aren't 14 vr in a 100 mile radius
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and if you bought 14 at once you would be arrested lol

84fiero

Well, except for the misunderstanding that snowballed into a whole sordid affair of ranting and raving over racial stereotypes and such...but those posts are pretty much deleted now....so back on topic to the same old, same old Probably if you come back in 6 months it will still be the same

ddallas

Both of those feats are impressive, 14 in one store, and buying with gc.

member7777

and also claims to have pounded them with numerous different Freedom accounts.