US Prepaid Debit Card

DaffyDuck316

Hi, I am from the UK and I am trying to find a website that will give me a US Prepaid Debit Card.

The reason for this is I like to watch a show that is exclusive to Peacock in the USA, and the Peacock website will only allow a card payment that is from the US.

I used to use US Unlocked but they are telling me people in the UK cannot currently load funds on their site. I see there are lots of sites out there, but I am not very clued in on what I need to do.

Any assistance will be much appreciated.

On-the-coast

Would Wise or Revolute would do what you want. I know I can set up foreign ibans etc in them & transfer money into a dollar virtual account…

DaffyDuck316

Thank you for the advisement. I did think Revolut might work but I got a bit antsy when they asked for my passport/driving licence. I'll go have a look when I get home.

Thanks again

flaneurs_lobster

Assuming you are using a VPN to fool Peacock into thinking you are located in the USA to stream their content, could you not point your VPN at one of the countries that US Unlocked do allow to load to their virtual cards?

DaffyDuck316

Haha yeah, I did attempt to do that idea, but for some reason it was without success. Perhaps before I register with Revolut, I'll point my VPN at another couple of countries and see if they work.

ballyblack

DaffyDuck316 said:

Thank you for the advisement. I did think Revolut might work but I got a bit antsy when they asked for my passport/driving licence. I'll go have a look when I get home.

Thanks again

That is Revolut needing to you know who you really are. Its money laundering regulations. Nothing sinister. My experience with Revolut is first class..........

DaffyDuck316

Good to know, I had a feeling it was something like that, they are not going to be checking that I am imitating living in the US

forgotmyname

ballyblack said:

That is Revolut needing to you know who you really are. Its money laundering regulations. Nothing sinister. My experience with Revolut is first class..........

My experience was not so good. Initially opened the account and could not transfer the money into the account due to some restriction. On the phone it
was a mixed bag of instructions that I could not do because of the restriction.

Eventually got the account open and it was all good until they wanted photo ID which I do not have. After many conversations where they said no problem
upload a photo of my passport and that repeated over and over until they finally said just transfer money via my bank account and it was all good again
until they started with the we need photo ID.

They daft thing is I could have easily uploaded a photo of anyone and they would not know the difference.

flaneurs_lobster

forgotmyname said:

Eventually got the account open and it was all good until they wanted photo ID which I do not have. After many conversations where they said no problem
upload a photo of my passport and that repeated over and over until they finally said just transfer money via my bank account and it was all good again
until they started with the we need photo ID.

They daft thing is I could have easily uploaded a photo of anyone and they would not know the difference.

Not sure that makes sense, you say you have no photo id but do have a passport?

A passport is photo id.

PHK

forgotmyname said:

ballyblack said:

That is Revolut needing to you know who you really are. Its money laundering regulations. Nothing sinister. My experience with Revolut is first class..........

My experience was not so good. Initially opened the account and could not transfer the money into the account due to some restriction. On the phone it
was a mixed bag of instructions that I could not do because of the restriction.

Eventually got the account open and it was all good until they wanted photo ID which I do not have. After many conversations where they said no problem
upload a photo of my passport and that repeated over and over until they finally said just transfer money via my bank account and it was all good again
until they started with the we need photo ID.

They daft thing is I could have easily uploaded a photo of anyone and they would not know the difference.

They (like several banks) ask you to upload a photo of you holding photo id. 

DaffyDuck316

Well, my Revolut virtual card appears to be accepted as a payment method, thanks for the advice.