Irritating small balance on Prepaid Mastercard

Fletchasketch

I've recently acquired a prepaid mastercard as part of our company reward scheme, having used the card to buy some blinds, I'm left with a small balance of £5.90. Mastercard advise me I can neither transfer this balance nor add to it so I can use the card again. I presume most people just forget about the dregs left on cards and Mastercard pockets them- very annoying! Other than by making a charitable donation, I can't think of another way to spend such a small sum online.

Has anyone else found a way round this small but irritating problem?

emmajones1976

Cant you go into a shop and spend it?

[Deleted User]

Add it to your Amazon account and use it up as part payment next time you buy something.

SoozyJ22

If you have an Amazon account you can use it to top up your balance - the top up amount is totally up to the user. I do this with the £4 prepaid gift cards I get from doing Pinecone surveys.

Fletchasketch

emmajones1976 said:

Cant you go into a shop and spend it?

I should have specified, it's not a physical card it's a set of codes- I don't think most shops would accept it. 

Fletchasketch

Deleted_User said:

Add it to your Amazon account and use it up as part payment next time you buy something.

This is a great tip, but I don't use Amazon. I'm hoping there are other organisations with a similar system! 

Thanks though

Ebe_Scrooge

Fletchasketch said:

Deleted_User said:

Add it to your Amazon account and use it up as part payment next time you buy something.

This is a great tip, but I don't use Amazon. I'm hoping there are other organisations with a similar system! 

Thanks though

Any family or friends that use Amazon that you could give it to?

Fletchasketch

Ebe_Scrooge said:

Fletchasketch said:

Deleted_User said:

Add it to your Amazon account and use it up as part payment next time you buy something.

This is a great tip, but I don't use Amazon. I'm hoping there are other organisations with a similar system! 

Thanks though

Any family or friends that use Amazon that you could give it to?

Very likely, I'd just rather it wasn't going into Jeff Bezos's pocket 

emmajones1976

Do any of your usual bills (water, electric, home service charge, mortgage, rent, Sky, phone bill etc....) accept one off or regular card payments from a card? Pay £5.90 off a regular bill and then you have an extra £5.90 to spend from your bill pot.

Fletchasketch

emmajones1976 said:

Do any of your usual bills (water, electric, home service charge, mortgage, rent, Sky, phone bill etc....) accept one off or regular card payments from a card? Pay £5.90 off a regular bill and then you have an extra £5.90 to spend from your bill pot.

Ladies and gentlemen we have a winner!

Have just added £5.90 to my EDF account. What a great idea, I'd never have thought of that- thank you so much!