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Prepaid Cards

Im new to all this...does anyone have any exprience of prepaid cards...ie, Virgin.
All info good and bad appreciated, thank you.

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  • jalexa
    jalexa Posts: 3,448 Forumite
    Moosey8080 wrote: »
    ...does anyone have any exprience of prepaid cards...ie, Virgin.

    In my experience they do exactly what they say.

    In selecting a particular card be aware that there is a potential raft of sneaky charges (which should be clearly stated in the card summary).
  • NJW69
    NJW69 Posts: 843 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    I have an electron card through Entropay which is a virtual card i.e. you don't have a physical card but just the numbers exiry dates etc and I use this to avoid charges on Easyjet flights (you pay a % of the money you load on but nothing else).

    I have a Orange pre-paid Mastercard that I use for avoiding fees with Ryanair, costs £5 to buy and then nothing for loading etc.

    Only have them for this purpose so don't know about using them for anything else.
    GC Jan £318/£350, Feb £221.84/£300, Mar £200.00/£250 Apr £201.05/£200 May £199.61/£200 June £17.25/£200

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  • pmduk
    pmduk Posts: 10,722 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Some of them charge for cash withdrawals, other charge a monthly/annual fee. Always check the list of fee upfront.
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