Prepaid cards

Catman7

Anyone know what the best prepaid cards there is out there at the moment?

Anthorn

Catman7 wrote: »

Anyone know what the best prepaid cards there is out there at the moment?

For what purpose?

ColdIron

What's the best food out there?

badger09

ColdIron wrote: »

What's the best food out there?

I'm hoping its either the apricot ripple (with a dash of Amaretto), or coffee (with a dash of spiced rum) ice cream I've made today:drool:

oops I seem to have stumbled onto the wrong forum:rotfl:

paragon909

Catman7 wrote: »

Anyone know what the best prepaid cards there is out there at the moment?

Depends on what you want, You can get cards based on fees such as withdrawal charges topup charges such as paypoint or debit or credit card.

There is plenty of comparison sites about you can see a big list and compare cards.

Other wise if you come here and say such comments you will only attract wise guys.

Catman7

paragon909 wrote: »

Depends on what you want, You can get cards based on fees such as withdrawal charges topup charges such as paypoint or debit or credit card.

There is plenty of comparison sites about you can see a big list and compare cards.

Other wise if you come here and say such comments you will only attract wise guys.

They don't bother me lol just looking for a card to temp put a few thousand on but looking for the right card to offer protection if case they went bust, idea as they don't credit check and need some to put money to save leaving it in my house

PeacefulWaters

Prepaid cards tend not to offer FSCS protection.

Look into basic bank accounts and savings accounts.

Catman7

Basically my dad wants to put money away to stop certain people knowing about it because he is going bankrupt if this is morally right is a other subject.

I got him in debt so he doesn't see why he should give up money he has work for

Anthorn

Catman7 wrote: »

They don't bother me lol just looking for a card to temp put a few thousand on but looking for the right card to offer protection if case they went bust, idea as they don't credit check and need some to put money to save leaving it in my house

Since the demise of the Secure Trust Bank prepaid current account, prepaid cards/accounts with FSCS protection don't exist. You're mainly stuck with the issuer's track record: If they've been going for a few years and don't have any black clouds on their horizon they are unlikely to go bust now. Well, maybe not.

Catman7

Anthorn wrote: »

Since the demise of the Secure Trust Bank prepaid current account, prepaid cards/accounts with FSCS protection don't exist. You're mainly stuck with the issuer's track record: If they've been going for a few years and don't have any black clouds on their horizon they are unlikely to go bust now. Well, maybe not.

So where have people gone from secure trust bank then

Anthorn

Catman7 wrote: »

So where have people gone from secure trust bank then

Mostly to the new breed of Basic Accounts offered by the banks: That was stated to be the reason why Secure Trust Bank withdrew it's current account. There are quite a large number of prepaid accounts and cards available but none of them with FSCS protection.

Secure Trust Bank itself is a fully-fledged bank, a subsidiary of Arbuthnot but other prepaid accounts use the services of external banks, some in a tree of issuer and bank.