I have had mixed success in the past using digital cards from myprepaidcenter.com, and as I understand it, different types of cards may have different success.

Right now, I have 6 cards on there, totaling about $800 in value. The two largest (about $600) are digital visa cards. I have successfully used them in previous months, but since November I have not been able to buy a single thing with them. Here are some things I have tried:

• Refilling Amazon and target gift cards

• Anything with square or paypal

• 4 or 5 of the "approved" merchants listed on the myprepaidcenter.com site

• buying gift cards from the "approved" merchants listed on the site

• funding source for venmo

Any suggestions would be helpful. Sometimes it looks like the orders will go through (Amazon for example...), but then within a few hours I'll get a cancellation.

Some of the "approved" merchants I've tried include: Panera, BassPro, Cabelas, Under Armour, Old Navy, Gap, Pottery Barn, Shutterfly. No luck at any of them - even clicking directly to the sites from the list on the myprepaidcenter.com links.

In the future, I'm going to avoid these virtual visas and go with Amazon gift cards or something similar. I went with the prepaid virtual visas assuming they would be more useful...but that has not been my experience so far.

I want to check the balance of my card but everytime I enter the information it gives me the error "this card has already been activated" when I try to check the balance or link it to my account. I manage to register one of my gift cards to my account but now I can't do it with the others I still have money left.

I try to check Giftcards.com also and still gives me the error.