I’ll be visiting Canada on a tourist visa this year and currently do not have a credit card. I’ve been told that Canada is largely cashless so I was looking for options for a reloadable visa prepaid card that I can use while there, came across Canada Posts offerings.
My question is, is it available to me as a tourist? Can I just go in to a Canada Post and buy one and leave with a card?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated
I just saw that Canada Post offers pre-paid credit cards, which sounds to me like a good substitute for using PayPal for online purchases. Has anyone tried them? Can you recommend them?
How do we gift visa or mastercard giftcards to a friend based in Canada, but the senders are all based abroad (so needs to be done online)
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We are a group of friends that met in grad school, currently spread out across 5 continents.
One of our friend's mom has stage 4 cancer and our friend is traveling back and forth between Toronto and China quite often. We just received work his mom is in her final days.
We want to help our friend with his travel expenses, but he doesn't fly with a particular airline. It's more who is the cheapest at the moment kind of thing. We're figuring out a way how to send money over to him.
Is Paypal the only option we have? Will multiple $300-$500 deposits over a short period of time trigger some sort of hold in his account?
So I wanted to buy something from amazon, so I had to get credit card.Went to the store, got the card, all is fine so far..
Got home, tried purchasing it, and surprise surprise Nothing works. Amazon tells me to review the payment method.
I created an account on the slpcard.ca website.
Went to log in and..
SLPcard.ca doesn't let me log in, doesn't let me reset my password as it tells me to contact customer support, the forgot user number id tells me user id request could not be completed. I can't re-register the card as it says the user ID already exists, and it says I need to contact support.
Support doesn't help either as they tried to walk me through the registration which I had already done.
Overall a very frustrating experience.
As of now, the last thing that I think I could do would be to wait until tomorrow morning and call again..
Does anyone have any suggestions on what else I could do?
**Update : All is resolved after a call in the morning