Jan 6, 2016, 7:57 pm
Last edit by: inY
This thread has begun a new tradition of annual master threads, this one on Visa Buxx. The previous 2003- 2014 megathread is here. The previous 2015 megathread is here.
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Buxx cards can only be loaded with a Visa or MasterCard.
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Buxx cards can only be loaded with a Visa or MasterCard.
NW Buxx
Stopped taking applications August 24, 2016.
•Initial purchase fee: $5 (waived with promo code: 02050053 - ( PROMO CODE NOT WORKING)
•$2 load fee
•Max load per rolling 7 days: $200
•Max load per rolling 30 days: $1,000
•Max ATM per week: ($200 - but only if specifically enabled online, including PIN setup). No fee for some Allpoint ATMs (no way to know in advance if the Allpoint ATM will ding you $1; check your account carefully and call if necessary to reverse the $1 charge…IME 2/3 Allpoint ATMs do charge the fee).
•Max spend per rolling 7 days: $800
•Max # of CC on file is 2.
•Max balance per card: $1000
From Jan. 11, the maximum reload value will be $200 per week.
and the maximum initial load is $100.
If you card fails to load, check to see if there are at least 7 calendar days between loads, make sure the load won't bring your card above the maximum balance, or try the other CC.
Funding with Citi cards codes as a purchase for NW Buxx.
Stopped taking applications August 24, 2016.
•Initial purchase fee: $5 (waived with promo code: 02050053 - ( PROMO CODE NOT WORKING)
•$2 load fee
•Max load per rolling 7 days: $200
•Max load per rolling 30 days: $1,000
•Max ATM per week: ($200 - but only if specifically enabled online, including PIN setup). No fee for some Allpoint ATMs (no way to know in advance if the Allpoint ATM will ding you $1; check your account carefully and call if necessary to reverse the $1 charge…IME 2/3 Allpoint ATMs do charge the fee).
•Max spend per rolling 7 days: $800
•Max # of CC on file is 2.
•Max balance per card: $1000
From Jan. 11, the maximum reload value will be $200 per week.
and the maximum initial load is $100.
If you card fails to load, check to see if there are at least 7 calendar days between loads, make sure the load won't bring your card above the maximum balance, or try the other CC.
Funding with Citi cards codes as a purchase for NW Buxx.
TD Bank Go Buxx
•Can only be loaded with TD Bank credit cards, debit cards or direct deposit
•Initial purchase fee: $4.95 + $1 load fee
•Max load per day: $500
•Max load per 7 days: $2,000
•Max load per rolling 30 days: $3,000
•Max per ATM withdraw: $60/week. (No fee at TD Bank.)
•Max balance: $2,000
•Max spend per rolling 7 days: $2,000
•Max spend per rolling 30 days: $3,000
•Max load per funding TD CC (across multiple teens): $6,000 per 30 days
Limits are per teen card, not per master account
TD Bank card loads are treated as purchases by TD Bank and earn points.
Cannot be used to pay CITI or Capital One cards by phone.
States not supported: AL, AK, AS, AZ, AR, CA, CO, FM, GA, GU, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NM, ND, MP, OH, OK, OR, PW, PR, SD, TN, TX, UT, VI, WA, WV, WI, WY
USPS MOs count against the ATM withdrawal limit.
Do not create too many accounts too fast. Some reports of account shutdown when same SSN used across multiple cards / accounts in a short period of time.
•Can only be loaded with TD Bank credit cards, debit cards or direct deposit
•Initial purchase fee: $4.95 + $1 load fee
•Max load per day: $500
•Max load per 7 days: $2,000
•Max load per rolling 30 days: $3,000
•Max per ATM withdraw: $60/week. (No fee at TD Bank.)
•Max balance: $2,000
•Max spend per rolling 7 days: $2,000
•Max spend per rolling 30 days: $3,000
•Max load per funding TD CC (across multiple teens): $6,000 per 30 days
Limits are per teen card, not per master account
TD Bank card loads are treated as purchases by TD Bank and earn points.
Cannot be used to pay CITI or Capital One cards by phone.
States not supported: AL, AK, AS, AZ, AR, CA, CO, FM, GA, GU, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NM, ND, MP, OH, OK, OR, PW, PR, SD, TN, TX, UT, VI, WA, WV, WI, WY
USPS MOs count against the ATM withdrawal limit.
Do not create too many accounts too fast. Some reports of account shutdown when same SSN used across multiple cards / accounts in a short period of time.
USB Buxx (closed)
USB BUXX is closed:
Last day to load was Oct 24th, 2015.
Last day to use or withdraw all funds Dec 30th.
Cards closed Dec 31st
Transaction History available through 6/30/16
(NOTE: stopped taking new applications ~mid February 2014 through the official link.
USB BUXX is closed:
Last day to load was Oct 24th, 2015.
Last day to use or withdraw all funds Dec 30th.
Cards closed Dec 31st
Transaction History available through 6/30/16
(NOTE: stopped taking new applications ~mid February 2014 through the official link.
Visa Buxx(2016)
Oct 2, 2016, 6:54 pm
#556
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 36
"Your order could not be completed. Please try again or change your payment method."
I have been funding with the same Chase BA card since March-ish, once a week. When I log into the Chase website, for today it shows the $202 pending, as well as a $202 reversal immediately following it. Is Chase blocking this?
I have been funding with the same Chase BA card since March-ish, once a week. When I log into the Chase website, for today it shows the $202 pending, as well as a $202 reversal immediately following it. Is Chase blocking this?
Oct 2, 2016, 7:30 pm
#557
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 1,815
I called British Airways and they said that they were approving everything on their end, and that it should be going through. They said to contact Nationwide because the error or whatever must be on their end. I'd prefer not to call NW because I have 5 teen accounts. I tried a different Chase card and it worked right away. Any ideas? I'd prefer to keep using the BA to hit a minimum spend!
Never did figure it out so I just used a different card. Funny thing is when I opened my NW buxx I never had a problem using the card.
Oct 4, 2016, 8:48 pm
#558
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Land of the parrots and parrotheads
Programs: Several dozen
Posts: 4,820
Using BUXX as a repository for pinless debit transactions required for a tiered yield checking account. The BUXX cards then buy money orders at institutions which have denied gift cards and the money orders feed back into the banking system. Enough said.
Oct 5, 2016, 6:37 pm
#559
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 163
Isn't that rather expensive? since it costs $2 per load to Buxx, if you need to make 10 debit transactions, it would cost $20 per month. There are free options like Google wallet and Amazon reload that I use for this purpose.
Oct 6, 2016, 11:01 am
#560
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: NYC
Programs: Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Explorist, Jetblue Mosaic, Alaska MVP Gold, National Executive Elite
Posts: 78
Anybody else's NW buxx get shut down today?
Oct 6, 2016, 5:25 pm
#562
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: LAX
Posts: 3,267
Mine are good, but the website had a few burps while I was logging in and viewing statements.
Oct 10, 2016, 7:11 am
#563
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Tokyo
Posts: 586
NW Buxx is a real PIA to do anything other than cash advances (I'm living overseas). Always getting blocked when trying to use online (address mismatch, etc) and got blocked when connecting to bluebird and failed multiple times on Google Wallet (blocked again today). They never closed both of my cards (teen and parent) since 2012 both under my name and social security. I've even gone through a recent security screening for a week with both cards locked and they still reopened despite them under the same data. Not really sure how I can continue to use them for minimum spend if I can't properly connect them to BB or GW.
Oct 13, 2016, 4:11 pm
#564
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 101
NW buxx changed their web site today! It now looks totally different from yesterday.
To add/delete funding cards one has to go through "Manage Teens" => "Add Fund."
To add/delete funding cards one has to go through "Manage Teens" => "Add Fund."
Oct 13, 2016, 6:34 pm
#565
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: NY
Programs: MR, UR, UA
Posts: 180
Good catch! Very curious why they'd be re-skinning a dying product..
Edit: Silly me
The change is site-wide on visaprepaidprocessing.
Edit 2: Okay maybe not site-wide but at least on some other daughter sites.
Edit: Silly me
The change is site-wide on visaprepaidprocessing.Edit 2: Okay maybe not site-wide but at least on some other daughter sites.
Last edited by sponge_gto; Oct 13, 2016 at 6:42 pm
Oct 13, 2016, 7:34 pm
#566
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: NYC
Programs: Delta Platinum
Posts: 96
Tried adding a new teen to an existing master NW Buxx account today but couldn't get past the newly required "Promo Code" field. Appears to have been changed with the website redesign.
Oct 15, 2016, 8:28 am
#568
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Tokyo
Posts: 586
NW told me their card can't be used to load BB. Is this True?
What about loading NW onto Serve or Google Wallet? I wasn't able to get them to load on any so far.
Does the Serve/BB/GW address have to match the Parent address or the teen address when trying to load with the teen's card?
What about loading NW onto Serve or Google Wallet? I wasn't able to get them to load on any so far.
Does the Serve/BB/GW address have to match the Parent address or the teen address when trying to load with the teen's card?
Oct 15, 2016, 8:56 pm
#569
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: NY
Programs: MR, UR, UA
Posts: 180
NW told me their card can't be used to load BB. Is this True?
What about loading NW onto Serve or Google Wallet? I wasn't able to get them to load on any so far.
Does the Serve/BB/GW address have to match the Parent address or the teen address when trying to load with the teen's card?
What about loading NW onto Serve or Google Wallet? I wasn't able to get them to load on any so far.
Does the Serve/BB/GW address have to match the Parent address or the teen address when trying to load with the teen's card?
Oct 15, 2016, 9:39 pm
#570
Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 137
NW told me their card can't be used to load BB. Is this True?
What about loading NW onto Serve or Google Wallet? I wasn't able to get them to load on any so far.
Does the Serve/BB/GW address have to match the Parent address or the teen address when trying to load with the teen's card?
What about loading NW onto Serve or Google Wallet? I wasn't able to get them to load on any so far.
Does the Serve/BB/GW address have to match the Parent address or the teen address when trying to load with the teen's card?
