Is Vanilla prepaid visa gift card decline paypal ?

LewisUS
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I can not add my Vanilla prepaid visa gift card with my paypal. Anyone have this same situation as me?

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cobachientrung
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Finally I know exactly why vanilla gift card has stopped working at paypal. The problem is on vanilla gift card 's issuerm, not paypal. And I dont know when vanilla work again.

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jshillin55
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I had been trying to use the cards for international purchases.  They are intended for purchases in the US.  I didn't know this and it took multiple tries for anyone to recognize this.  Just load money directly to your account if you want to make international purchases.  That said, there is still a problem with the last Vanilla card.  PayPal simply will not link it.

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Siberblade
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Any updates?
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jshillin55
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Nope.  Just avoid the prepaid cards and load cash directly into PayPal.

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Sb182
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Is there any other company other than PayPal where Vanilla prepaid cards can be added to wallet and payments can be made. I mean what’s the replacement for PayPal where vanilla cards work

 

 

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Mickey2029
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it was frustrating for me not to be able to use my prepaid card (Vanilla) anymore on paypal or anywhere else. I tried another brand of prepaid card (Joker Prepaid). And everything works wonderfully well

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KerwinZqt
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Hi, I just replaced all my vanilla prepaid cards with joker prepaid card. But when I try to pay for my international transactions, sometimes the joker card works, but most of the time it fails. May I know how you use your joker card via Paypal? Thanks!

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Yungraider
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I’ve always used my prepaid vanilla cards for Spotify directly and also ALWAYS linked the card to PayPal in order to use it on other sites. Today the pre paid vanilla (Mastercard) wasn’t working, I called vanilla phone line the guy offered 0 help and said it’s not allowed to be used on PayPal?… so I went out and bought ANOTHER vanilla card (visa) and still doesn’t work like what the F man…
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kernowlass
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@Yungraider 

 

Paypal does not accept all cards so if you may get the message the card is declined. If the Visa you are trying to add is virtual or issued online you may need to try another card.



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SolidSonicTH
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Would you pay attention? People are saying that their cards are PHYSICAL cards.

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