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Old Mar 3, 2014, 9:28 am
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“My Vanilla Personal Reloadable Prepaid Debit Visa card”
https://www.myvanilladebitcard.com

FAQs: https://www.myvanilladebitcard.com/myvanilla/faq.html
T&C: https://www.myvanilladebitcard.com/m...Policy_ENG.pdf
Fees: https://www.myvanilladebitcard.com/m...RhFOmbp3hiKogJ

There isn't a bill pay function with MVD.

How do I load funds onto MVD? There are two primary ways to load funds onto your MyVanilla Card: 1) Direct Deposit (direct deposit all or part of your paycheck, social security, even your tax return refund right onto your MyVanilla Card); 2) At any Vanilla Reload Network retailer; just bring your Card and the amount you want to load onto your Card - Note: This can be either purchasing a Vanilla Reload card or possibly using a retailer with loading function on the cash register such as CVS. $3.95 fee applies to both methods.

CVS Credit Card Load Data Points:
Credit Cards used treated as a purchase:
FIA Fidelity Amex

Credit Cards used treated as a cash advance:
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What is the load limit? You can load a maximum of $500.00 per day onto your Card, and there is a $2,500.00 total maximum deposit limit per day from all deposit sources (loads and ACH direct deposits). The daily ATM withdrawal limit is $400.00. The daily Cash Advance or "Over the Counter" limit at a bank is reported as $2,500.00/day. Some reports that this is actually / month. Maximum loaded amount on MVD card is $9,999.

If you can find Vanilla Reload cards that you can purchase with a credit card, max out by getting up to 3 registered MyVanilla Debit cards and you can load up to $2500 x 3 per day. And if you have a bank near you that will give you cash advances, you can take the full balance off each card for a $1.95 cent fee.
If you do not have Vanilla Reloads available near you, you want to find a bank that will allow you to cash out temporary cards. These are the ones you buy at CVS for $500 plus $3.95 fee and then cash them out en masse for a 50 cash advance fee apiece.
In Essence
Get new cards, spend some random amount and then get put in shutdown mode to spend off what is left, unless you utilize one old weird trick that prevents shutdown mode.

Liquidating a shut down account as of 3.31.2014
Various reports, and I can also confirm- If you receive the "invalid username or password" message when trying to access your account online, that's the indicator that you have been shut down. Check again for a day or so (just to make sure it wasn't an issue with their website). If still unable to access- you've been shut down.

If you don't want to call and talk to them, you can confirm yourself whether your account is still alive to liquidate by calling 855.686.9513. If you are able to hear your balance, you can liquidate- and you can liquidate quickly without any problem. I liquidated $8,200 over the weekend: 5k Saturday, the remainder Sunday (Walmart BillPay and MO).
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Old Jan 10, 2014, 8:08 am
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Old Jan 10, 2014, 9:31 am
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Originally Posted by brettskyg
Which is why I started loading them in the branch of the bank to get the money of in 911 fashion!
I'll still have no trouble getting the $2,000 I just loaded out, since I'm in "spend down." But reloading was shut down real fast!

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Old Jan 10, 2014, 11:25 am
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Ditto. Strange algorithm though.

Yesterday I loaded $2.5k no problem (I knew it was likely to close). Today loaded 2 VR and got closed before I could load the 3rd. Total on card is $8k so apparently you can (could?) load larger amounst over time (loaded over a week). Still have phone access. Will CA it all out later today.

Originally Posted by js80
Just used my 2nd MVD card yesterday for the first time, to make an estimated tax payment. I logged in to my MVD account this morning and all was fine -- it showed as "active." Then I went to the VR site to reload the card. I loaded the first 4 VRs just fine. But when I tried to load the 5th, I got an error message. Logged back in to my MVD account, and was already in "spend down" mode.

So it took less than the amount of time it takes to load 5 VRs for their computers to nab me! And I had never even used the card in an "inappropriate" way.
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Old Jan 10, 2014, 11:25 am
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So lets say you purchase and load $500 on a new MVD card but do not register online/activate it. Can you automatically still use it as a gift card in spenddown mode and just CA the money off?
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Old Jan 10, 2014, 12:48 pm
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Banks that will CA from a temp card are harder to find.
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Old Jan 10, 2014, 12:55 pm
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I lost online access today. It was OK yesterday and status was Active. I have not used MVD card for 4 weeks and have about $10 on the card. No load/unload in the past 4 weeks either but before that lots of load/unload. Just another data point.
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Old Jan 10, 2014, 1:33 pm
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Originally Posted by WhateverDude
Banks that will CA from a temp card are harder to find.

Citibank does with no problem
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Old Jan 10, 2014, 1:33 pm
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Anyone know if you can CA the ONEVANILLA card?
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Old Jan 10, 2014, 1:56 pm
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good to know. I will try that.

Originally Posted by brettskyg
Citibank does with no problem
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Old Jan 10, 2014, 1:57 pm
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It you could CA any gift card FT would have 1000's of pages on it.

Originally Posted by brettskyg
Anyone know if you can CA the ONEVANILLA card?
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Old Jan 10, 2014, 2:26 pm
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Originally Posted by WhateverDude
Banks that will CA from a temp card are harder to find.
Onevanilla visa prepaid is a temp card?
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Old Jan 10, 2014, 3:25 pm
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My suspended MVD card suddenly became active today with balance of $2k.
Should I try to load it with VR slowly or load as many VRs as possible and unload immediately?
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Old Jan 10, 2014, 4:44 pm
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No. Its a Visa GC

Originally Posted by prasha11
Onevanilla visa prepaid is a temp card?
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Old Jan 10, 2014, 4:45 pm
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Nothing seems safe so churn and burn!

Originally Posted by groundhog
My suspended MVD card suddenly became active today with balance of $2k.
Should I try to load it with VR slowly or load as many VRs as possible and unload immediately?
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Old Jan 10, 2014, 4:49 pm
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The last time I tried to activate a temp card after activating maybe ~5 previous ones during a 5 month period or so they wouldn't let me and I had to use it for online purchases only, so I drained it w/ AP... so they did wise up from when it first started and you could CA many cards without activating the permanent ones. I stopped dealing with them when that happened to not give myself any future headaches...
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