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vanilla visa, mastercard ie prepaid
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:33 pm
by aptdwler
These are really cool. Basically you buy them at a store (in my case i used a drug store). You pay a surcharge of around $4 for the card. Then, when activated at the register, it works just like a charge card. It can be used to pay for stuff on line and you don't really have to provide accurate information about yourself. For instance, if you wanted to join a website, with repeated billing, you could use this and a fake name. When the repeated billing comes up, the card is out of money, so tough to the site. This is nice if you think it might be difficult to cancel a membership, or you just don't want to deal with it. It works for now, but be aware, I'm guessing this is going to become a major problem for websites, and they might work at ways around it. It seems fair to me, as recurring billing is a rich boys scam IMO...
Be aware that in some areas buying of the cards requires cash. They wouldn't take debit card to buy one in my area w/o 2 other forms of picture I.D. Why I have no idea. They get there money, so why is beyond me.
Re: vanilla visa, mastercard ie prepaid
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:26 pm
by buckethead
Awesome heads up.
Also, have you noticed they have these music players that don't need tapes or discs! They store the music digitally in memory - they call 'em MP-somethings.
Re: vanilla visa, mastercard ie prepaid
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:38 pm
by GoDogGo!
Anonymous credit card? Very cool idea.
Re: vanilla visa, mastercard ie prepaid
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:54 pm
by aptdwler
BucketHead wrote:Awesome heads up.
Also, have you noticed they have these music players that don't need tapes or discs! They store the music digitally in memory - they call 'em MP-somethings.
Sorry if I was a bit behind the times on these. I thought they were new. Yes I have heard of those new player. They are sweet as once paid for, all the music is FREE!!
Re: vanilla visa, mastercard ie prepaid
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:19 am
by Grandpa's Spells
aptdwler wrote:BucketHead wrote:Awesome heads up.
Also, have you noticed they have these music players that don't need tapes or discs! They store the music digitally in memory - they call 'em MP-somethings.
Sorry if I was a bit behind the times on these. I thought they were new. Yes I have heard of those new player. They are sweet as once paid for, all the music is FREE!!
Anonymous credit card like these are relatively new, at least from the major cc companies.
Re: vanilla visa, mastercard ie prepaid
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:51 pm
by Turdacious
Grandpa's Spells wrote:aptdwler wrote:BucketHead wrote:Awesome heads up.
Also, have you noticed they have these music players that don't need tapes or discs! They store the music digitally in memory - they call 'em MP-somethings.
Sorry if I was a bit behind the times on these. I thought they were new. Yes I have heard of those new player. They are sweet as once paid for, all the music is FREE!!
Anonymous credit card like these are relatively new, at least from the major cc companies.
I bought a pair of these with mine:
