Sticky Proposal - 'Top 5 Prepaid Money Cards & Con spotting others'

harvestthesouls

It seems understandable that experienced users might feel frustrated to have to repeat things to others, so I propose we create a new sticky called 'Top 5 Prepaid Money Cards & Con spotting others'.

Sticky contents:

Part 1: Best 5 Cards

1.We keep in the fashion of comparison sites, by listing the 5 most popular cards we think are the best.

2. For each one, we write out the hidden stipulations (that we know of).

3. It's pretty clear that the favourite seems to be Travelex Globe, so lets begin with this.

Part 2: Tips and Con Spotting Techniques

4. We explain why other cards are not recommended. Provide tips and con spotting strategies to help users to ascertain why an card offer looks 'too good to be true'. These strategies can be applied for merchants as a whole (e.g. Thomas Cook and Virgin) as well as different products sold by the same merchant (e.g. Travelex Globe vs Travelex Currency).

Conclusion:

If all goes well, when newbies like me ask 'why not this', or 'which one and why', we just quote the proposed sticky.

What does everyone think?

stilltheone

Please...why don't you simply research the cards, read their terms and conditions and make the post yourself?

All of the information has been posted on this forum before, a multitude of times. So you can also scour the board for the relevant info and collate it. Then you can create your own thread and start contributing.

First you tell us that you wanted to practice 'independent learning' and now you are suggesting 'spoon feeding'.

Make up your mind.

PS: If you want a 'Sticky' you will have to appeal to Admin, otherwise this thread will also fall into obscurity.

harvestthesouls

stilltheone wrote: »

Please...why don't you simply research the cards, read their terms and conditions and make the post yourself?

Because I did that, found nothing wrong on T&Cs, searched the forums again, found nothing and then appealed to you, but you didnt provide the links. I have no idea why. Perhaps they dont actually exist?

When I really cant find something, I ask for help. I'm trying to make useful info more accessible to other users, but I cant do that without the information first. So yeah the proposal is to spoonfeed now to avoid spoonfeeding again.

P.S. I'm waiting for interest from other users before proposing the thread to the admin, but thanks stilltheone.

stilltheone

harvestthesouls wrote: »

Because I did that, found nothing wrong and then appealed to you, but you didnt help. I'm trying to find out important information here, then make it more accessible to other users, but I cant do that without the information first.

Btw, the very first thing I do before posting, is to look in the forum history. When I really cant find something, I ask for help.

P.S. I'm waiting for interest from other users before proposing the thread to the admin, but thanks stilltheone.

I did help. You asked for the best Prepaid card for your trip. I gave you the answer and you decided to question it. Another poster confirmed that it was the best card for you and provided an explanation, but for some reason you are still here saying that you can't find the important information.

It really doesn't matter if there is a Sticky or not. People will still ask the same questions over and over again.

Because if they don't understand, they simply don't understand.

You have all of the information at your fingertips, but you don't understand it.

Perhaps you need to study harder, collate the information and then create the thread that you propose....or perhaps Moneysavingexpert admin will simply update their article in order to prevent the same questions from being asked time and again.