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payeco Jul 23, 2014 10:59 pm


Originally Posted by yugi (Post 23247424)
BTW, Green Dot MPs are being phased out

Source?

ericdabbs Jul 23, 2014 11:27 pm


Originally Posted by payeco (Post 23247449)
Source?

You want 1 or 2? Its going to be cashier swipe only in order to load your GD based cards by sometime in early 2015. For the time being you can still pick up GD MPs and load them to the cards but I presume that GD will not be shipping out new GD MP inventory to stores.

http://www.cleveland.com/consumeraff...oneypak_a.html

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/cons...-fraud-n159536

yugi Jul 23, 2014 11:36 pm


Originally Posted by payeco (Post 23247449)
Source?

Rite Aid store. There are no Green Dots anymore, instead there is a poster, which says do swipe reload instead.

payeco Jul 23, 2014 11:45 pm


Originally Posted by ericdabbs (Post 23247533)
You want 1 or 2? Its going to be cashier swipe only in order to load your GD based cards by sometime in early 2015. For the time being you can still pick up GD MPs and load them to the cards but I presume that GD will not be shipping out new GD MP inventory to stores.

http://www.cleveland.com/consumeraff...oneypak_a.html

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/cons...-fraud-n159536

Damn, I better hit it hard while I can. I guess this news may be why my RA's were giving me a hard time this week about buying with a CC after no problems for months. After a little back and forth I told them I would pay with debit instead and swiped a CC anyway and the cashiers didn't seem to notice the difference.

payeco Jul 23, 2014 11:45 pm


Originally Posted by yugi (Post 23247560)
Rite Aid store. There are no Green Dots anymore, instead there is a poster, which says do swipe reload instead.

My local RAs still have them. Bought one today and another yesterday at a second location. Has CC for the swipe reload been tested? My RAs have been telling me cash or debit only this week but I've swiped a CC anyway and it goes through fine.

yugi Jul 23, 2014 11:52 pm


Originally Posted by payeco (Post 23247589)
My local RAs still have them. Bought one today and another yesterday at a second location. Has CC for the swipe reload been tested? My RAs have been telling me cash or debit only this week but I've swiped a CC anyway and it goes through fine.

I'll tell you soon. I'm waiting for my replacement Serves to arrive, as two were banned by GD recently. RA don't care about paying with credit cards. If you pay with ISIS, even no ID is needed, as there is no name or CC number there. They were asking for ID, but there was nothing to compare with. Funny!
One of my RA stores had MPs in stock, but another one, had a poster to use swipe reload instead. I swipe reloaded Serve in the past, with CC, no problem. But I don't know how to swipe reload paypal, though.

air360 Jul 24, 2014 10:22 am


Originally Posted by yugi (Post 23247607)
...I swipe reloaded Serve in the past, with CC, no problem. But I don't know how to swipe reload paypal, though.

Hold up...you walked into a a supported serve store (FD, CVS, 7-11)...and said I need to load my Serve card...and you proceeded to swipe a credit card to load up to 5k (the Serve cash/card limit) onto the card????

OR are you simply saying you got a MP card and loaded it to serve lol

EDIT: I see that you used to could do this a few months back but that it is not hard-coded to only accept cash. drats...that would have made life easy

ericdabbs Jul 24, 2014 11:14 am


Originally Posted by air360 (Post 23249755)
Hold up...you walked into a a supported serve store (FD, CVS, 7-11)...and said I need to load my Serve card...and you proceeded to swipe a credit card to load up to 5k (the Serve cash/card limit) onto the card????

OR are you simply saying you got a MP card and loaded it to serve lol

EDIT: I see that you used to could do this a few months back but that it is not hard-coded to only accept cash. drats...that would have made life easy

Uhhhh....old news man. You can't swipe at CVS with CC or DC anymore. 7-11 has always been cash only.

yugi Jul 24, 2014 12:22 pm


Originally Posted by air360 (Post 23249755)
Hold up...you walked into a a supported serve store (FD, CVS, 7-11)...and said I need to load my Serve card...and you proceeded to swipe a credit card to load up to 5k (the Serve cash/card limit) onto the card????

OR are you simply saying you got a MP card and loaded it to serve lol

EDIT: I see that you used to could do this a few months back but that it is not hard-coded to only accept cash. drats...that would have made life easy

I swipe reloaded at RA with GD. $4.95 fee applies. You can also do the same at Walmart, but Walmart will not accept CC for that. RA was fine with CC.

ericdabbs Jul 24, 2014 1:04 pm


Originally Posted by yugi (Post 23250568)
I swipe reloaded at RA with GD. $4.95 fee applies. You can also do the same at Walmart, but Walmart will not accept CC for that. RA was fine with CC.

Interesting. I'll keep this in mind. At RA, do they check the name of the Serve card or just your ID for your CC?

yugi Jul 24, 2014 1:43 pm


Originally Posted by ericdabbs (Post 23250800)
Interesting. I'll keep this in mind. At RA, do they check the name of the Serve card or just your ID for your CC?

They don't care. I now pay with Isis, and there nothing to compare with. One of my RA don't even ask for ID. They already know me.

Cbass98 Jul 24, 2014 2:29 pm

Wait. You went to a RA and had the cashier swipe your SERVE card and you loaded it with a cc? Or did you hand them a GD card and you loaded cc?

cancerisking Jul 24, 2014 2:33 pm

Anybody get an error message when transferring money?

Unable to complete this transaction at this time.

yugi Jul 24, 2014 2:35 pm


Originally Posted by Cbass98 (Post 23251250)
Wait. You went to a RA and had the cashier swipe your SERVE card and you loaded it with a cc? Or did you hand them a GD card and you loaded cc?

Swipe serve, pay with CC or ISIS. It's still GD, but no physical reload needed.

lad2 Jul 24, 2014 3:01 pm


Originally Posted by cancerisking (Post 23251273)
Anybody get an error message when transferring money?

Unable to complete this transaction at this time.

Did you just load and try to transfer in a short time frame? Their algorithm is onto you. It's much more sensitive than other companies. Take a break and try again with a (much) smaller amount 24 hours later.


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