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Old Jan 22, 2014, 3:27 pm
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Warning: The T-M website contains an apparent Bill Pay function. Attempting to use it to pay credit card bills, or probably any significant $ amount bills of any sort, will get your account frozen. Ditto large scale ATM or MO withdrawals. The one method of unloading likely to keep you under the radar is small scale WM BP. Also likely to get you shut down, according to consensus reports, is running much more than $5K a month thru your account. You ignore this advice at your own risk.

SUMMARY

1. FAQ's
2. Free to use for TMo customers.
3. Issued by Bancorp
4. Load at T-mobile store (Registers are HARD CODED not to accept anything other than cash.)
5. or Reloadit, (find a grocery store that sold reloadit cards with a cc)

List Stores hard coded for cash or Credit Card accepted
T-Mobile (cash only)
Home Depot (cash only, hard coded)
Harris Teeter - Bought with CC on 2/16/14, hard coded denied CC on 5 APR 2014
Winn-Dixie - Hard coded for cash (debit may work, untested) as of Oct-2015
Meijer (Cash/Debit including VGC)
Giant Eagle/GetGo (Cash, Debit including VGC )
Safeways/Vons/Pavilions in California - most only Cash
Food Lion - Manager override now required. Many stores cash or bank debit only, but registers are not hard coded.
Save-A-Lot: Hard coded cash only
BigY: At least some stores have gone cash only as of 1/8
Acme in PA: Hard-coded cash only (Source)

Note on ReloadIt Cards
These come in two main flavors, up to $500, and up to $950 (there are ones that go up to $50, too). Both are $3.95 load fee. The older grey cards, have CASH ONLY on them. Even if the cash register is coded to accept it, many cashiers will be hesitant to even try, or get shut down by manager.
The maximum value reload will be $2,500.00. There is no maximum number of times you may value reload your Card Account per day; however, the maximum dollar amount of value reloads you may make to your Card Account in one day is $2,500.00. We will accept direct deposits larger than $2,500.00, but any direct deposit value reloaded to your Card Account will count against the $2,500.00 daily limit.
Value Reload Fee: Each time you value reload $300.00 or more to your Card Account in a single transaction, you will receive a credit for any fee you paid. If you are a T-Mobile Wireless Customer and value reload your Card Account at a participating T-Mobile Wireless location, you will receive a refund at the register (and will pay no fee for your value reload). If you value reload your Card Account for $300.00 or more via another method, we will issue a credit to your Card Account in the amount of the fee you paid.

In practice, a ReloadIt >= $300 loaded via the safe will receive credit for the fee. However, the terms formally state "Please note: Value reloads made from Reloadit Packs that have been placed in the Program Manager’s Reloadit `Safe' are not eligible for any fee credit." so this is not guaranteed.

The Limits:
Daily limit: $2500 during a rolling 24 hour period
Monthly limit: ?
Annual Limit: ?
Max Bill Pay (per transaction): = $5000 (tested March 6th, can do 'at least' a second for the same amount to the same payee momment later).
Daily ATM limit: $500 (rolling 24 hr rather than calendar day)

Total monthly bill pay limit: ?
The maximum value of your Card Account is restricted to $10,000.00

T-Mobile Prepaid Customer Service Email: [email protected]

If you need to escalate to the FDIC, Bancorp's registered FDIC# is 35444.
If you want to try to open an FDIC complaint or investigation you can send one in electronically at
http://www2.fdic.gov/IDASP/DIRSInfoRequest.asp

Alternative FDIC link to file complaint
https://www2.fdic.gov/starsmail/index.asp

FAQ
  • My fee did not get refunded. Has there been a policy change? ReloadIt Fees are processed overnight and could take 24 hours after you reload the card. As of 9/2015, ReloadIt cards added to the safe prior to loading on T-Mobile will still get the $3.95 refunded.
  • What is a safe transaction amount? There is no definite safe or unsafe amount. However, starting the last week of Jul 2015, people have been reporting the account frozen after transactions larger than $1K.
  • Can I use the BP Feature? It works well for some people. Many have reported getting shutdown after using it. A few have reported having the payments lost. Like all MS activity, use at your own risk.
  • Should I mix in some regular spending to make it look like this is my primary card? If it makes you feel better, go for it. However people who do this still get shutdown.
  • I can't log in. Did I get shutdown? Possibly. But more likely the website is having technical issues. Call in, o try to make a swipe purchase and test it out.
  • If I pay my taxes with this card, will I get shutdown? Large purchase raise red flags. Taxes are no different and there are reports of people being shut down for doing this.
  • What is a T-Mobile wireless customer? A qualifying T-Mobile wireless customer can be either a postpaid or prepaid customer. Source: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/24790705-post3703.html
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Old Aug 4, 2014, 10:45 am
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It looks like they closed the survey. You guys gave too many negative remarks!
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Old Aug 4, 2014, 11:22 am
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Originally Posted by fr33b13
It looks like they closed the survey. You guys gave too many negative remarks!
I know...just when I was about to fill it out. Oh well.
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Old Aug 4, 2014, 11:59 am
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Originally Posted by fr33b13
It looks like they closed the survey. You guys gave too many negative remarks!
Too many text boxes in the survey = have to keep the number of respondents small or they would get overwhelmed. And they probably had a set pool of $ for incentives (500 respondents x $10 = $5,000 would be my wild guess).
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Old Aug 4, 2014, 12:38 pm
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Originally Posted by EkekoBWI
Too many text boxes in the survey = have to keep the number of respondents small or they would get overwhelmed. And they probably had a set pool of $ for incentives (500 respondents x $10 = $5,000 would be my wild guess).
The problem is that they should have put a number limit in the email as to how many people can do the survey like "*The $10 promotion is limited to the first 5000 cardholders who complete the survey"."

The email just said we had until 8/15 to complete the survey that gave everyone the impression that it has factored in enough funds to for each cardholder. It hasn't even been 2 days and the survey is closed. Its pretty ridiculous if you ask me. I can promise you that we are not special and we were not randomly selected. Every cardholder member should have received this email.

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Old Aug 4, 2014, 12:49 pm
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I got a welcome email from them in Feb, and that's it LOL. I have however used other metrics to ascertain that they really like me.
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Old Aug 4, 2014, 1:55 pm
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Originally Posted by Pecan Pie
I just checked my july Tmobile load/unload. I ran 14k through 4 cards (only 2 SSNs). did a few bill pays from Tmobile. Most are 7-11 billpays and MOs. Seems to be staying under the radar.
-4 BP still working? What are code are you in? I thought they shut that down?
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Old Aug 4, 2014, 2:23 pm
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Originally Posted by sangkancilguru
How are you MS'ing 30K per month on the T-cards without getting shut down? And do you have a source for reloadits where you can buy with a CC up to 30K?
Line:00 If lazy , goto Line: 05:
Line 01: Use TMobile Store & ATM Locator
Line 02: Drive and park and buy
Line 03: If , mark , otherwise mark ^
Line 04: goto Line: 01
Line 05: Exit

Since MS is getting tougher and tougher, spoon fed vanilla is hard to find.
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Old Aug 4, 2014, 4:01 pm
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Originally Posted by fangtl
-4 BP still working? What are code are you in? I thought they shut that down?
Tmobile never shut down BP. The reason why its best not to use BP is because if you use the Tmobile card in high numbers (> $5K) per card you risk having them blocking you since they know the pattern which is Reloadit -> Tmobile BP. They look for those patterns and if they don't like the volume that you are doing they will shut you down.

However this does not mean you can't do like $1K-2K in BP/month. Its not illegal but if you don't mix in other transactions of everyday spending they will not like that.
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Old Aug 4, 2014, 7:52 pm
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Originally Posted by ibleed0range
Lol nevermind. I was doing $30K+ a month on a 5% card and some CITI exec not 30K points.
I was trying to keep on topic with T-mobile, to stay relevant... I think the most on reloadit's maybe $25K spend/mo when I had CITI Exec #4 & #5. Only $5K/mo for t-mobile, then spread to the other reloadit sources. I typically tend to avg $50-$60K/mo, mostly BB. I can;t drive a mile without running into some form of walmart...
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Old Aug 4, 2014, 10:09 pm
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Originally Posted by fr33b13
It looks like they closed the survey. You guys gave too many negative remarks!
They just can't handle the truth ?
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Old Aug 4, 2014, 10:40 pm
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Originally Posted by fr33b13
It looks like they closed the survey. You guys gave too many negative remarks!
One of my T-Mo accounts got the survey email at 12 noon eastern. It seems like they killed the survey within minutes of my receiving the email.
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Old Aug 5, 2014, 9:26 am
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I have a very simple question:
How to add a payee?

I want to add my Amex card as a payee, how to fill out the payee address information?
I have gone through 50+ pages of the thread, but it seems this question is too simple that no one had ever bothered to bring it up. Anyone can help? Thanks...
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Old Aug 5, 2014, 9:27 am
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Originally Posted by payeco
One of my T-Mo accounts got the survey email at 12 noon eastern. It seems like they killed the survey within minutes of my receiving the email.
same here... $10 just vanished...
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Old Aug 5, 2014, 9:28 am
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Originally Posted by payeco
One of my T-Mo accounts got the survey email at 12 noon eastern. It seems like they killed the survey within minutes of my receiving the email.
I manage 3 accounts. 2 of them got it two days ago, one yesterday. So the accounts that got it a day late didn't have a chance.
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Old Aug 5, 2014, 10:17 am
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Originally Posted by msnewbie
I have a very simple question:
How to add a payee?

I want to add my Amex card as a payee, how to fill out the payee address information?
I have gone through 50+ pages of the thread, but it seems this question is too simple that no one had ever bothered to bring it up. Anyone can help? Thanks...
Look at your statement. It is never asked because it is common sense.
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