A shutdown would be the biggest risk of any legal action. Are there any examples of Walmart blacking people from using Vanilla Visas other than for bill pay, money orders or loading prepaids? If not, all I see a lawsuit doing is shining a big light on MS. Just like the Mint, once enough attention is put on the activity it will be shutdown. Do not forget that technically many cardholder agreements state that rewards are not earned on purchases of cash equivalents(i.e. gift cards).

Lobachevsky does bring up a good point though about these cards being advertised to be accepted anywhere visa is accepted and stores put those Visa, etc accepted here stickers in their stores so that would seem to indicate a representation not only by bank but the merchant to the customer. It is one thing to block all credit card payments for a product but blocking payment by a particular issuer seems questionable. I have no idea. I am not a lawyer but I just do not think going to court to test this out is a good idea. Not unless it can be done without using MS activities as the basis of the lawsuit(and assuming there is any legal basis to any of this to begin with).

Right, the laws make sense to the extent they are enforced! The current justices do not have the 'u know what' to rule against corporations particularly against the banks. They would pay off the justice dept billions in fines without admitting any wrong doing so turn around and do over again.

I guess the OP insulting all the working poor that use Walmart with the term "welfare mart" is not sneering and shows his humility.

So, what good is it 'not shut down' if MSer cannot do MSing? :confused:

You brilliant legal experts overlook one little detail.

No business is required to sell you something that you demand on the terms that you demand. This is really basic and shows how utterly ignorant and delusional you are.

Unless you can argue successfully that you are a member of a specific, legally-defined protected class (eg, a disabled person) and you are being denied something that another customer who is not a member of that protected class can get, then you have absolutely no basis to take legal action if a store decides they don't want to see you something on the terms you dictate. It doesn't matter what any package says, it doesn't matter that the signs in the store says, it doesn't matter what old credit card merchant agreement you can find online say, none of that means squat. They have every right to tell you to go pound sand. Of course they do - anyone with a lick of common sense knows that.

"No shirt, no shoes, no service". You gonna sue over that one, too?

Good luck with your lawsuits.

I doubt with this attitude anyone can run any legitimate business.;)

That!

Apparently this thread has caught the eyes of someone else. I just saw this in the New To Manufactured Spend thread:

Some of these people would do well to watch the Sopranos.

Last time I checked it is only the Vanilla Visas that are a problem so yes there is still something left to lose.

I don't think anyone who has responded to this thread has claimed to be a legal expert and such comments really add nothing to the discussion.

An increasing number of MS avenues have been shut down recently and some people are angry about that. They lash out at whomever they perceive to be the reason for the shutdowns whether it be bloggers or noobs or whatever.

Edit: This link may be of interest

http://www.treasury.gov/resource-cen...al-tender.aspx

I think the implication is clear - businesses can choose to accept payment in whatever form they choose. If a business can choose to refuse to let you use a credit card for whatever random reason then they can decide to block a whole class of cards(i.e. Bancorp). I am sure WM would just say they are suspecting a lot of fraud with such cards and that will probably be that. Again I am not a lawyer but IMHO a. I don't see this going anywhere and b. I don't think any good will come of even attempting such a lawsuit.

WM does accept these cards in their store, but they should deny you from purchasing cash equivalents if they cannot verify that you own the card.

That any VGC is load able or accepted for BP or MO is really just exploiting a loophole that WM is too lazy to fix or cashiers are too indifferent to notice.

God you people are hard to work with.. ;)

Best answer by Far ^ ^ ^

US bank visa is also a problem, the only left is Meta and not sure if that even works....

The go to another walmart. Trying to put a round peg in a square hole is never a good idea unless you're a 3 year old. People who do MS know that drawing attention to yourself is about the last thing you want to do. There is a 99% chance if you do MS over a 3 month period you will run into a brain dead Walmart CSR. It's going to happen. Move to the next one or the next Walmart. Be prepared to have money tied up for a decent length of time.