Why won't my Vanilla Visa Card work?

[AlwaysNeedHelp]

So I was gifted a vanilla Visa gift card of $50 for Christmas. I wanted to hook it up to PayPal to I can make some purchases. The purchase I can make only allows PayPal, but PayPal sends me an error saying that the card is declined and I should add a different one. This is a prepaid gift card, and I really need it to connect ASAP. What I want to buy is currently on sale, but not for long! Please answer ASAP, -and to help me with my issue.

[nachomartin]

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[DPCreations]

Why not just use it to make purchases directly without risking some problems with PayPal.

[AlwaysNeedHelp]

What I want to spend the Vanilla Card on only accepts PayPal. Also I do not use Kik, nor do I trust it. If you could just say it on here that would help a lot.

[sharpiemarker]

There could be two problems:

1) PayPal may not accept the vanilla Card as a general rule or,

2) the card has not been registered at the Vanilla Card website with the same account name/address information as your PayPal account.

PayPal like to verify payment methods if possible for security/risk purposes.

See this page for FAQs about prepaid gift/debit cards:

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/template-management/prepaid-gift-cards