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ericdabbs Apr 22, 2020 1:39 am


Originally Posted by sa_cheerio (Post 32313101)
I got charged the same 3.95 and I used vanilla GC, it was my first time doing that so I was like, OK fine and lost $3.95 :(
but she told me the price before I even swiped my card, so it was not because of the vanila gc. I got the blue serve btw,


Edit: Nvm, I figured out why I got charged... because I got the blue meh
I thought I was applying for the One VIP which I found out it died a long time. So now my question is: Do you think it's worth paying for the Green Card's monthly fee with a low MS each month (around $2500)

Where are you trying to load your Serve card? I thought they are free loads if you do them at a WM or FD?

sa_cheerio Apr 26, 2020 12:55 am


Originally Posted by ericdabbs (Post 32314083)
Where are you trying to load your Serve card? I thought they are free loads if you do them at a WM or FD?

at FD, I thought the same, but I found out later that the blue one does indeed charge a fee when loaded

Will cancel this blue and get the green card instead (with a monthly fee, but no reload fee)

shadow520 Apr 26, 2020 2:13 pm

The fee is waived if there is no balance in the account at the time the fee is applied. That's one way around it. I usually leave a balance in it about every 4-5 months or so, so they get a fee once in a while. So far so good.

Randomguy1278 Apr 28, 2020 8:00 pm

Please let me know how to proceed or what to change. Hopefully this will be some good DP's on what, if anything, survives shutdown. I now have 4 serve cards. 1 is activated and being used & abused. 1 is activated but not used. And 2 are sitting in the drawer, not activated.

sa_cheerio Apr 30, 2020 7:16 pm


Originally Posted by shadow520 (Post 32326622)
The fee is waived if there is no balance in the account at the time the fee is applied. That's one way around it. I usually leave a balance in it about every 4-5 months or so, so they get a fee once in a while. So far so good.

OMG, you've made my day! Thanks so much. Do you know when "fee period" is around? the end of month or whatever?

Do you know if I can load green Serve with Wells Fargo Propel (not world) without setting the CA limit to 0? I've been messaging WF to set the limit several times, but no reply from them for like over a month already. I don't want to call either because of the current situation.

geoff325 May 13, 2020 7:20 am

Could I load serve with my aspiration debit card, satisfying the 1000 spend requirement?

RedSun May 13, 2020 7:28 am

So many abusers. No wonder Serve and BB are mostly dead by now. ;)

mickchanning May 13, 2020 6:16 pm

When did Serve loading with vgc at DG stopped working?


And so does that mean FD & WM are the only remaining places that work vgc loading now? got a vanilla vgc so that means WM is no go right?

RedSun May 13, 2020 8:01 pm


Originally Posted by mickchanning (Post 32373247)
When did Serve loading with vgc at DG stopped working?


And so does that mean FD & WM are the only remaining places that work vgc loading now? got a vanilla vgc so that means WM is no go right?

As far as I remember, VVGC does not work at WM. Fine with DG. Do not know about FD.

mickchanning May 13, 2020 8:41 pm


Originally Posted by RedSun (Post 32373433)
As far as I remember, VVGC does not work at WM. Fine with DG. Do not know about FD.


Tried today at DG and it was declined, something like tendered not allowed. even the top wiki says its not working anymore but idk this until after i got home. But FD worked after 2nd attempt, 1st attempt loading 500 was declined too but my guess is it could be the 500/day limit rule as 2nd time tried loading 200 worked. so now i still got 300 left on vgc

Also how do I pay Chase Freedom with serve? when trying to add payee the option to add didnt work [.Sorry, it looks like the account number or the zip code you entered is incorrect (you may need to enter a 5 or 9 digit zip code number Please try again.]

used chase commercial card as option and entered the card number as acct# and used the return slip zip code from bill but not working

RedSun May 13, 2020 9:01 pm


Originally Posted by mickchanning (Post 32373493)
Tried today at DG and it was declined, something like tendered not allowed. even the top wiki says its not working anymore but idk this until after i got home. But FD worked after 2nd attempt, 1st attempt loading 500 was declined too but my guess is it could be the 500/day limit rule as 2nd time tried loading 200 worked. so now i still got 300 left on vgc

Also how do I pay Chase Freedom with serve? when trying to add payee the option to add didnt work [.Sorry, it looks like the account number or the zip code you entered is incorrect (you may need to enter a 5 or 9 digit zip code number Please try again.]

used chase commercial card as option and entered the card number as acct# and used the return slip zip code from bill but not working

I remember hearing some say something stopped working at DG. Probably all Serve loading has stopped working at DG. Search the chat history.

For Chase bill pay, you'll need to set it as Chase Manhattan. You can try to use the long zip code. Serve and BlueBird has the same setup.

sa_cheerio May 15, 2020 10:33 pm


Originally Posted by RedSun (Post 32373544)

For Chase bill pay, you'll need to set it as Chase Manhattan. You can try to use the long zip code. Serve and BlueBird has the same setup.

I just got my 2nd green serve and tried the bill pay today. To my surprise, when I added the credit cards, it said the same error about zip code. I tried 5 digit and/or 9 digit from my billing statement, none of them worked. Is it because I added the same cards (tried Discover, Chase, and Citi from my 1st serve) or maybe something's going on here?
Also tried cards that has not been added to serve 1

mickchanning May 16, 2020 11:31 am

couple DPs from this wk's MS thread on churning subreddit about issues adding/paying Payees/cards, might need to resort to withdraw ATM for a while til its fixed

RedSun May 16, 2020 6:18 pm


Originally Posted by sa_cheerio (Post 32379463)
I just got my 2nd green serve and tried the bill pay today. To my surprise, when I added the credit cards, it said the same error about zip code. I tried 5 digit and/or 9 digit from my billing statement, none of them worked. Is it because I added the same cards (tried Discover, Chase, and Citi from my 1st serve) or maybe something's going on here?
Also tried cards that has not been added to serve 1


Originally Posted by mickchanning (Post 32380758)
couple DPs from this wk's MS thread on churning subreddit about issues adding/paying Payees/cards, might need to resort to withdraw ATM for a while til its fixed

I recently used BlurBird with Chase card. It is business as usual. I used 5 digit zip code. BB and Serve bill pay should be the same.

sa_cheerio May 19, 2020 12:17 am


Originally Posted by RedSun (Post 32381551)
I recently used BlurBird with Chase card. It is business as usual. I used 5 digit zip code. BB and Serve bill pay should be the same.

That's so weird, I tried every day the past week and had no success of adding Bill pay. Does using the ATM to withdraw money get flagged with Serve?


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