Vanilla Mastercard gift card - advice please

Maria58

Fingerbobs wrote: »

Not the Vanilla card specifically, but I have been faced with a similar problem with another brand of prepaid card.


I ended up making a payment of £25 into my British Gas account on-line. That effectively converted it into money, as it just went towards my next gas bill.

Has anyone else tried this.how did you do it

Maria58

Fingerbobs wrote: »

Not the Vanilla card specifically, but I have been faced with a similar problem with another brand of prepaid card.


I ended up making a payment of £25 into my British Gas account on-line. That effectively converted it into money, as it just went towards my next gas bill.

How did you pay bills with it? Can you do it on line

Fingerbobs

Maria58 wrote: »

How did you pay bills with it? Can you do it on line

On the British Gas web site:
My Account —> Payments —> Make a Payment.

Don’t know about other companies.

Ben8282

All this fuss for £25.
Just use the mastercard to pay the first £25 next time you go shopping and spend over £25 in a supermarket and use the money that you would have spent in the supermarket to buy your eBay item.

The_Urbanite

Somerset_La_La_La wrote: »

I got a stack of these when they were ~£44 for a £50 value card at Wilkinsons last year.

Vanquis weren't best pleased that I paid my card bill using them (having used said card to purchase them). Blocked me from accessing the online payment page "for security reasons" after I'd done 8 or so.

Complaints department eventually unblocked me, but I put all 20+ through through the automated telephone system. Then got an angry message from them about how I shouldn't have done that :rotfl:

As above they are a massive faff to use though, particuarly for genuine customers! Paying Amazon/Gas/Tax etc above is a good workaround!

Good shout, using the phone payment system!

There used to be more ways to empty them out in a useful manner, but many of them were hammered by people and shut down. Utility payments seem to be the way forward.

BIGPANDA

I tried to use my vanilla gift card with Amazon and it was declined, I checked with them and they said that they do not accept them.

neilied

Just tried to use one of these in smyths toys and was told I couldn’t as it wasn’t chip and pin??

[Deleted User]

neilied wrote: »

Just tried to use one of these in smyths toys and was told I couldn’t as it wasn’t chip and pin??

I'm going to guess that's true.