I loaded about $1200 in metabank VGCs to BB yesterday at registers, so it could be your BB is shut down.

But were they Metabank VGCs purchased from GiftCardLab?

I'd like to know this also. Anyone use Discover multiple times without issue?

I called AMEX and I am not shut down. Then I called GiftCardLab and was
told their VGS's from Metabank could not be loaded to Bluebird.
I guess if nothing else you could buy them cheap (free shipping and $3.95/card with current $2.00 off Easter promo)
to meet a minimum spend if you have no other options. I registered the card and will use it to pay down on a cruise
balance but this is certainly not what I intended to use this and more cards for.

How did you ask the question? Did you say something like "Can I use these cards to load to BlueBird?"

Dow did you know that the cards came PIN enabled?

Is Walmart the only location at which you've tried using them?

Hi, completely new to this, just started doing research, any guidelines or reference links would be greatly appreciated. I would love to pay off my auto loan with a credit card, so I read up on some things. Seems like purchasing debit cards (with a reward credit card) and then loading them into Bluebird (BB) is the way to go. So I signed up for the BB, but just read their FAQ and it says I can't load from a debit card more than $200 a day, $1,000 a month total. And then my debit card has to be in my name. Is that even possible with a gift debit card?

But then I read you guys are able to load much more money than $200 a day. What am I missing? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

DJR

Unless things have changed, it was $500 per load, $2500 per day and $5000 per month. But why buy gift cards and pay your loan? Just buy gift cards, load them on to BB and then pay the credit card company.

I've read warnings not to do that, as paying credit cards with BB will get you shut down quick. The blog said BB is a great way to pay real bills that won't accept credit cards, and that buying GC's and loading them to BB to pay CC's won't last long. Is the blog wrong?

Also, anywhere I looked, VGC's charge activation fees. Is that normal and I should pay them, or am I looking in wrong places and need to do a better search?

Thanks for the tips!

DJR

I did ask the phone rep at GiftCardLab if these cards could be loaded to BlueBird
and was told they could not...along with being told there were no cash advances.

The card came with a sticker that stated the card was activated and an insert stated
the Pin was the last four digits of the card. I left it that way.

After failing at both Kate and twice at customer service I used the card at World Market with
the Pin and was successful. I then went to a different WM and again failed to load to BB at
customer service. I was able to make a purchase with the card at WM and their system did
not ask for the PIN. It accepted it like a regular credit card. I tried to add $50 in cash back
to see what would happen but that didn't go through.

I have a GoBank card but suspect the problem originates with these MetaBank GC's from GiftCardLab.

Frozen Funds?
 

I tried searching and couldn't find any concrete info, so perhaps somebody can help me. I bought 4 giftcards.com Visa and tried loading them at Wal Mart registers since Kate was out of order. I didn't realize at the time that these Bancorp cards would not work, so I tried loading $500 into Serve on each card. This was back in mid Feb. All cards got rejected at the register, yet, somehow, there was an increase of $500 on my Serve account. According to the giftcards.com website, my available balance still shows as $500 for each card, but I cannot make any purchases anywhere, with or without a PIN. The transactions show on the history, yet the available balance remains at $500 for each card. What do I do at this point - call the card issuer and explain what happened, or am I supposed to wait this thing out for the funds to be available again?

[QUOTE=atanac;26375166
The card came with a sticker that stated the card was activated and an insert stated
the Pin was the last four digits of the card. I left it that way.
[/QUOTE]

Maybe I am missing something, but Giftcards.com cards do not come activated. You have to either do it online or with their app. It has been a few months since I tried loading one at Walmart but I never had an issue loading Serve or BlueBird.

Correct. Must be activated, and can change PIN in activation process. I don't think PIN is the last 4, but I never looked too closely because I just change the PINs when I'm activating. I've liquidated hem hem "several" of these cards this month at several WMs without any issue, so I don't know what to say other than that it sounds like user error (no offense intended).

You are correct about the pin. When you activate it assigns a random pin. You then can go in and change the pin if you want to. I always do.

1. Can we use 2 different credit cards to pay for giftcards.com; and

2. any free shipping codes? when was the last batch?

Much appreciated!

1. Not that I'm aware of, but the way their shipping rates work, that wouldn't be a ton of savings anyway.

2. Not that I'm aware of, but if there was, it would negate the portal CB, so you wouldn't want to use it.