If this is an Early Aprils Fool Joke..... Not Funny Man !!!

but, I'm heading to the CVS , just in case.

Ben,
Yes there is a workaround for bluebird for most. But are there work arounds for JHP, momentum, MVD, amex prepaid for most, hr block, paypal, etc? I'm sure I'm not the only one that has trouble doing money orders w/4 cards per transaction... it's more than the $1 loss. For me this represents about a 40% cut in MS, and makes another 15% harder. You can get a prepaid card in somebody elses name to buy extra beans, but I can't drastically increase the amount of my weekly MOs without substantial effort.

I'd like to believe it's not true, but I doubt this is some joke. If there is a savior, it's probably in that not all stores are affected, but hard to be optimistic about that.

Hmmm

CVS now $5k/day
 

We will all find out tomorrow. Speaking to an employee today means nothing.

Just called my local CVS here in DFW. as far as the guy that I spoke with knew nothing will be changing/and or they have not received any type of MEMO (Yet??)

NorCal today, same story. Not able to buy with CC. Seems like a trend.

Cashier put them all in and something popped up and she called the manager. Manager phoned in somewhere and came back and gave me the bad news, no CC for purchase.

I hope you are right. Just hit up two stores today and asked at both if they knew anything about switching to cash only, both said no and the manager at one was standing right behind the cashier when I asked.

I was originally going to buy some VRs today, because they ran out early in the month here in both February and March and I had to wait until later in the month to finish, but this massive panic attack caused me to buy them yesterday, on the premise that the panicked people would wipe them out. I'm pretty safe, though -- they keep them at the counter here in Madison and the clerk opened a fresh pack to give me my four.

Besides not making any logical sense, you don't have the power. I suppose you could ignore the poster if you wished.

+1. We all know that the rules are a combination of what the register will allow and what the cashier will allow.

Honestly the memo makes no sense as it refers to reloadable products in the letter and then lists several non-reloadable products.

My 2 cents: Go all out today, experiment tomorrow and find out what works for you with your cashier at your store in your town. Knowing the official policy may be helpful but it may just get in the way of cashiers who don't.

To me, these 3 posts symbolize what's often wrong with Flyertalk these days, and especially this thread.

Instead of blathering on about silly conspiracy theories or wallowing in our misfortune, we should focus this thread on something useful and obvious: how can you load a Bluebird if you can't buy Vanilla Reloads with a credit card at CVS. I tried to bring the focus to this last night, but almost nobody cared. I'm suspecting nobody will post useful information today, either, but I figure I'll give it one last try.

Of course the reason folks won't help is because, as Beckles noted, a lot of the "experts" are seriously abusing/milking this promo and are afraid that if they give away their secrets to newbies, their techniques will be shut down. There is, of course, some truth to this. But I guarantee you that, by tomorrow, the bloggers will be all over this, searching for page views AND providing useful information. Say what you want about the bloggers, but they're generally more helpful than Flyertalk for things like this. They try to help, instead of trying to hide. It would be nice if Flyertalks were willing to share, too. I mean, that's what this website is supposed to be about. Right?

I'll start by posting what I know. I've never needed to do this, so my knowledge is limited.

The obvious replacement is to buy gift cards instead of Vanilla Reload cards and load them to your Bluebird at Walmart. It is apparently important to buy the "right" gift cards: ones that have a pin. If somebody could post a guide to these "right" cards, that would be extremely helpful.

Once you get to Walmart, it's then very helpful if they have a MoneyCenter machine, so you can do the reload without cashier assistance. Not all Walmarts have these machines. If you plug your zip code into this "finder" and tyoe "Walmart" into the "retail location" search function, you can find which stores near you have machines:

http://www.moneypass.com/atm-locator.aspx

Grant posted a nice thread awhile ago about how to use the MoneyCenter machines to load BB:

http://travelwithgrant.com/bluebird/...s-walmart-atm/

If you don't have a machine at your Walmart, you can also load with a cashier. But it seems like this is YMMV, as some cashiers/stores object to folks doing this with gift cards. According to reports, you're limited to $1000 day per BB card using either Walmart loading method.

It would be nice if others would also share useful "replacement" information. It's better to be kind than selfish, and as far as I'm concerned, if you're willing to read through this insanely long thread, you've exerted enough effort to be "worthy" of assistance.

Of course. I was merely reacting to his/her suggestion that others should be blacklisted. Personally, I don't think that saying "I will apologize" negates the accusations in the post, but others may differ.

CC -> GC -> MO -> Bank -> CC -> GC -> MO -> Bank ....

At least you can still buy those $500 prepaid gift card right?

Also, if it is a prank, they are relishing every bit of panic it's causing. Who wants to feed into that?

There is so much conflicting info on what's happening. No way to know until Tuesday.

If this thread just went dark for the next 36 hours, it would probably be for the best.