NetSpend Visa Users BEWARE!!!!!

[bernynhel]

Watch out for THIS NetSpend dealio! Cuz the card on the package AIN'T what's on the INSIDE!!!! I lost my wallet AGAIN and it was after hours so instead of going to a check cashing place the next morning where you deal with a counter person and can SEE the temporary card that you'll be taking away before paying I took my impatient ass to Albertson's around midnight, picked the package you see down there from the peg-board display where they have all the gift cards, phone cards and such things, paid and when I got home and opened the package to activate my new NetSpend debit card I found this GREEN THING! WTF??? NO Visa logo, 20 effen digits, no CVV on the back, no issuing bank info (of course not! why should NetSpend pay for TWO licensed Visas when they can just stick you with THIS crap til the customized Visa arrives in about a WEEK?) no expiration date AND, so it says in the little piece-of-shit 40 page booklet which is their TERMS in English and in Spanish in case you'er bilingual and need to be told TWICE, will only work when the PIN can be entered! (gas pumps, grocery stores, ATMs, whatever) No casino cashier can wring a nickle from it unless maybe the manager will do a manual deal if you give him the PIN or whatever. The customized Visa Debit card is in the MAIL so, in the meantime I guess I could get my cash back at an ATM (in $20 increments), buy a GreenDot Visa MoneyPak for $4.95 then pay the QuickTender fee on top of THAT and play with whatever's LEFT! (funding QuickTender is about the only thing you can do with a piece-of-shit GreenDot Visa). OK. NetSpend rules for depositing at online casios and poker sites but for THIS, NetSpend, YOU F**KING SUCK!!!! I'm about ten KINDS of MAD and I'm printing out three blown-up copies of this Green piece-of-shit: one each or the dart board, pistol range and the toilet bowl!!!

[babs7262]

got my first one tonight (i cant take not gambling anymore) !! I looked to make sure there was a visa in it, thanks for the heads up. I got the netspend All access visa gift card, not reloadable one. It worked fine at clubworld tonight

I hope you get your money back, that's just raw

[lojo]

i almost bought an 'off-brand' that I was sure i could make work, but it had to be validated at the cashier and only with a store 'club card' or a freakin Visa! I won't comment again, but it is a joke.

[amatrine]

I always use the the allaccessvisa, and never hava a problem. You just have to wait a half hour to activate it.

Ama

[babs7262]

That's wierd AMa, you had to wait 1/2 hour? We stopped to get mine 3 minutes from my home, I RAN (lol) into the house and and activated it and was gambling within 5-10 minutes of leaving the gas station

Like I said though, maybe PA is just more lenient(sp) and things go easier

[amatrine]

I dont get the reloadable kind. I hav to wait a half hour so I can register it online to be able to use the pin number.

Hey, Ill be up In PA end of March. We upped the moving date from may to march.

[gmblingal]

I also use these cards to play online. I have never had a problem with them. I live in PA also Babs but usually have to wait 20 mins or so to register the card online. The only casino group that I can't access is Trident group. All the others go smoothly.

Christine

[CountByte]

Do these cards have to be registered on-line with your name, address, etc??
or do you just use them as they are (the non-reloadable cards)?

[silkprint]

I have the reloadable one . The regular All Acces doesn't work for me anywhere anymore .

[amatrine]

You register them if you have to use the security number on the back for online purchases. Just asks for your name and email.

I did have wired plastic, until a new safeway employee messed up, and tried 5 times to load the card, and it didnt show up. Somehow it showed on my card later I guess, I never even looked, and safeway went to reverse all the charges to the card, and they over reveresed one somehow leaving me with a 55 dollar owing amount on my card. Went to safeway, and they blamed wired, wired blamed safeway, etc.... I was left with the bill,. so I said forget it. Cut my wired card in half.