Spending Last Dregs of a Gift Card

Dagadog

Really not sure if this is the right forum for the question.

A family member gave me and my partner £150 in prepaid Vanilla Mastercard gift cards when we bought a house together. We haven't found any bricks and mortar places that will accept them, although we have used some of their value on line.

The problem is that we now have three cards with small but significant values on them, and are running into the problem where none of them will cover the price of a small item and the delivery cost. Online outlets don't allow you to split payments over multiple cards, and Vanilla will start to extract their monthly inactivity fee before the end of the year.

Are there any outlets in the UK who definitely accept these particular gift cards If not it looks like Vanilla will get to keep about 10% of the gift (in addition to the already hefty activation fee paid by my sister-in-law).

mcmaze

I think PayPal accepts vanilla card, and most shops accept paypal online so you can use it like any payment card there.

System

You could use it to pay into any account (e.g. mobile phone) that accepts additional MasterCard payments without charge.

Just pay the exact amount left over and bin the card.

WillPS

Use it to top up your Amazon account: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/gc/create

eDicky

If nothing else works, or you prefer not to spend, you could try using it to load the balances to Revolut or Loot prepaid accounts, having signed up on their apps. You can then withdraw to your bank account without fees. It would cost nothing to try (unless a fee is indicated for topping up from the gift card)...