mbaker4096

Seriously?

sechs

Already tired of the "I'm stuck with these Vanillas" bellyaching.

bigmouth2008

I still don't understand why WM would try to eliminate these transactions? I mean, if it's a debit transaction, it will be a cost of $0.05 or less per transaction (due to Dot Frank Act, all debit transactions fees are capped at low rate, unlike credit cards that varies between 1% to 3%). WM is so large, it probably has its own clearing house and payment system, so the cost will be even lower. So it really is not a economic loss for them.

The only logical answer would be that they are worried about certain risks such as fraud. I mean, even if they are not losing money by allowing this, they certainly aren't making money either. So why take on the unnecessary risks?

BADELAYS

I have moved on to Harris Teeter and I don't even mind filling out an occasional store log for them to do a 2k volume on every visit once a week.

I absolutely don't want to make it any tough for my WMT cashier who smiles when he sees me and asks me 1998.12 or 2498.12 and what is the split on the cards. 500 or 495 and doesn't care about 2-3 bill pays or money orders. I use other Metas and Sunrise cards along with TD (Soon to go), Tmobile and other Buxx cards.

Will eat the extra about 99 cents per money order and have worry free VGC flushes. lol

tech2011

I am stuck with 6 vanilla cards. Need to find other source to liquidate them.
does mall allows multiple swipe for gc purchase? or 500 ov and 4$ cash?

deant

You didn't need to read the wiki. Just seeing that the beans required multiple swipes should have given the hint that the acceptance was probably going to be short lived.

ZzzzX

This. 2MO and done. Pay a bill with them.

ZzzzX

Hellloooooo. This. I bought 1 and only one to test it. I still have it so it goes to school tuition via MO. No big deal.

1) There is no fight club.
2) NEVER float more than you can daily spend or liquidate very comfortably.

theacolyte

Right? It's funny to see how so many lack basic problem solving skills.

Stoughton

+1

hamhead

First, for fees your estimate is far too low even after Dodd Frank

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Wal-Mart is paying $0.45 or so per $500 in interchange fees. Plus MoneyGram is going to be getting a cut of the money order fee for actually processing the MO. Nevermind fraud loss / employee wages.

Definitely a net loss.

This was always the case even before we started doing this, but it was used as a way to get people in the store. If they are going to the Money Center, chances are they are going to do other shopping as well.

MSers have a tendency to go in the store, to the money center, and back out from what I've seen. We are by and large a parasite to merchants. But we are a parasite that is hard to eliminate without affecting actual profitable customers.

ninim2200

can you use evolve to pay any bills?

Alcibiades

Not much of a loss since WM collects 70 cents

Adirondacker

I think the amount varies regionally, I pay 70 cents but I've seen reports of a lower amount

kitkatft

Field report on my WM (I know this is a thread about buying MO's at WM, not loading BB at WM, but posting here since this thread's Wiki most directly addresses the OV at WM issue):

• Bought 2 OV's at CVS on a CC
• Took them to WM. Neither loaded on Kate. (By the way, this might be something I missed, but Kate is charging $5 for $500 loads. Not for lesser loads, though - I stuck under $494.99 for simplicity.)
• Took them both to a register.
• OV#1 went through despite "tender not accepted" after the clerk swiped from his side. Interestingly, I don't think it ever asked me for a PIN.
• OV#2 was firmly "tender not accepted."
• Decided to let things cool off, as perhaps BB had been fooled into thinking I'd met $1K load/day even though less than $500 had actually cleared.

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• Spent down the 1st OV at the cafeteria at work. (Interestingly, their register had no idea that my OV balance was $0.81 short of my bill and counted the whole sandwich as paid for.)

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• Two days later, went to a grocery store.
• At grocery store, bought a snack using OV#2 as debit at self-checkout to explicitly set a PIN.
• At grocery store, bought a US Bank MC gift card on a CC. Called in & set PIN.
• Back to WM with OV#2 & USBGC. Bought a Clif bar apiece on each at self-service checkout using a PIN (though it might have automaticlaly rolled to credit, because on both cards it was doing weird "denied" stuff & then printing a receipt that said "Purchase approved").
• Went to Kate & tried loading BB with OV#2 & its PIN. Denied - Kate was convinced it was a credit card. Swiped USBGC instead & got that to load just fine.
• Went to register & tried loading BB with OV#2. Using "cancel" button as soon as I swiped card & then hitting "Change Payment," I got a chance to enter a PIN. However, that still ended up with "Tender Not Accepted" because the register is absolutely convinced that OV#2 is a credit card.

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• Happy ending: I finally got someone else in my life set up on AP, so I'll be able to empty out OV#2 in a few months when my minimum-spending activity there cools down (to me, preferable to using OV#2 for day-to-day spending because I like using my normal bank statements like a checkbook register on "real-world" spending). And I'll be able to spend a lot less time worrying about finicky cards & running to WM in general.