Paypal Gift card declined

erkuh
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I’ve been trying to link my vanilla gift card to my paypal account for a while now and it keeps saying that my card was declined and I need to use another one. I knew knew linking a gift card to my paypal account was such a problem untill I tried it. I saw some stuff online about the problem being the billing address and when I tried to register my card for a billing address, I couldn’t find a website that would let me do that. I have a physical card in Canada but when I changed my location to the United States, it almost worked untill it showed the care was linked to another account which it was not. I’ve tried everything and I just can’t seem to do it. I do not think this is a problem with the card because I’ve used this card to buy many things off Amazon and SHEIN.
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kernowlass
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@erkuh 

 

Is your card registered to your name and address? I know that the Vanilla prepaid cards can sometimes be used without that information outside PayPal. However  in order to be used in the PayPal system you would have to attach that information on the card issuer's website to register it. If that has not yet been completed that is likely why you're running into issues using the card through PayPal.


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