Buying Money Orders at Walmart (2018)
 

Any changes to the Walmart system? New year kicked in.

Just left a store, bought 2k of MO and nothing has changed.
 

Visited two stores today. I bought $2k at each and nothing changed.

Lots of reports of the new system requiring a signature and printing out MO with the gift certificate label. Although the nature of the "gift certificate" remains in dispute, this seems to be fine and hopefully not going to cause problems going forward.

Can anyone corroborate the report of having to input personal information for anything over $750 and WM subsequently limiting individuals to one MO per day. This would be a killer. Curse the gods if it comes to this.

So, not all wally have the new system yet?

Nothing has changed at the WM's that I patronize.

I will be heading out there this afternoon and come back with DPs

I bought 2 batches of $2K each yesterday. Have not seen any change, no signature required , doesn't say gift voucher etc. It seems like the new printing paper will have this gift voucher on it. So if you are not seeing that, your WM may still be using old paper??

No changes at my go to store. printing same as always - money order - WM.

I've been to one where I didn't get the "Gift Certificate" printed on the MO and I still had to sign a little slip.

It may be that some still have their older hardware but have switched to the new software.

No change in San Diego as of this morning.

No change in Northern Los Angeles today at my favorite WMNM. I only buy 1x MO at a time for $499, so this DP might not be complete if some WMs are requiring additional info beyond $750 (?) or more than 1x swipe. Also nothing about gift certificate printed on the MO.

I went to two neighborhood Walmarts today. Business as usual. One 999.30 MO at each location with two 500$ swipes. No new printing or procedure. Yellow vest manager couldn't have been less interested in what I was doing.

NW Chicago. First 2-swipe attempt for $725. The printer was acting up on previous customer, I almost bailed. No slips of paper, no gift card notation.

I came up with what might be a good work-around for various limitations.

I paid small amounts on two credit card bills at WM using VGC's. I paid Capital One and Elan Financial Services (Fidelity Investments Visa). Now I'll wait a few days to make sure it posts properly.

I asked the clerk, whom I know quite well, if there was any reason I couldn't do multiple swipes on a bill pay and she said no.

So this might be a workaround for both not accepting cards for MO's and for "one transaction a day" limits. I don't think you could do MO's and bill pays in the same transaction, and I don't think they would say a customer has to choose each day whether they want to buy MO's or pay bills, but they can't do both.

Aren't bill pays the fast way to get shut down?