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How can I check my Visa Gift card balance?
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How do I activate my Visa Gift card?
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Is it legal for a merchant to charge a fee for using my Visa card?
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Hello I recently got the card last night and when I tried to pay for something it kept declining the card. I tried on 3 different websites and it still says the same thing. It was a 25 dollar pre paid visa. Is there anyway to fix this I can't return the card and or get a refund.
Any help is much appreciated
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I bought a $100 vanilla visa gift card at target in person with cash over 2 days ago. I have the receipt and everything. I tried it out on several online retailers even amazon. They all declined. Whenever I go to https://www.vanillagift.com/ to activate my card, it still doesn't work because after I enter everything in and pass the captcha robot check, it says "system error, please make sure you aren't using a vpn and are logging in from the US blah blah blah"
And yes, I've tried entering stuff on that website using a computer, a tablet, and a phone. NOTHING works. I do not have a vpn or any extention activated and I do live in the US. I tried calling and all that answers is a bot, I don't know if there's some sort of thing I should wait for before entering anything but let me know if there's anything important I should know about that.
I even tried giftcard.com to activate my card and it's as if my card doesn't exist.
I know there's a sufficient balance in there because when I go to mybalancenow.com it says my card is active, it has $100 in there, and shows all my failed transactions. So I genuinely don't know.
The one thing I haven't tried is go back to target and ask about it but I don't know if I should do that because you can't return vanilla gift cards. It's weird because the card SHOULD have been activated already. The reciept says something along the lines of it being activated. But whenever I use that card online, it DOESN'T work. I haven't tried it in person but I just don't know.
Has anyone had some similar issues? I refuse to let $100 go to waste. And if you know anything that might help, please let me know.
I am attempting to purchase online and my Visa gift card will not work on ANYTHING! Things I have tried :
Adding to my Apple Wallet -Adding as a Venmo form of payment
Changing zip code
Using directly on the site
Every attempt is declined or invalid, please help!!
I bought a vanilla visa gift card. I was able to check the balance before in the morning. I went to go check again but it says " A system error has occurred. Please try again later". I called the number on the back to see if I can check there but once I put in the card details it says the card is invalid. I have no idea what happened. Can I still use it in-store?
I bought a VISA gift card for $50 in cash at Target and it is being declined everywhere—Amazon, EBay and PayPal. I am going to go to a store tomorrow and use it in person and pray it works. But if it doesn’t work, what do I do? Essentially it’s a $50 brick that I can’t use.
Yes, I called customer service for Target, PayPal, VISA, and the issuing bank, and they were all useless. Yes the card is undamaged, and yes the card actually has $50 in it. Yes I have the receipt.
$50 is a lot of money for me and I needed to buy a card so I could purchase things without notifying anyone. If it doesn’t work in person tomorrow, please, what can I do?