Simon still good for EBAY PayPal? Using Simon - General problems / issues with Simon

[ff-x]

Hi all,

I actually live in Australia and I would like to buy a Simon Electronic Gift Card (they send it to you via email). How do I buy from them when they require a phone number in the United States for validation? Would someone be kind enough to give me their number and validate the cards for me? Or is their a way around this? Perhaps their may be another site I can buy it from?

Thank you,

Regards

[mr burns]

Yes i am also from australia i have tried to but with no success.
Help needed on this side of the world please!

[ff-x]

Yeah please help us guys!

[aspkin]

There are plenty of UK cards available. I'll have a list of giftcards posted soon.

[ff-x]

Australia is not UK, were like way down under on the Globe ... try Oceania.

[Mijusdek]

Originally Posted by DogFacedBoy

Got a Simon card yesterday and went to enter the info to sell (account was registered two weeks ago) and it said my card address didn't match my registered address. How can that be when there is no address on the card?

I did a live chat and the rep said that I could use ID verify.
The account is registered with the real information of a friend who just move, so the address and phone# (although now disconnected) are real.

Should I do the ID verify for $5 (from everything I have read here my gut says NO)

Should I try to set up a PP account with the card (or will I run into the same thing) and then select PP as payment method for EB


Or should I had the email registered on this account to my existing PP account(although the main email on the PP was the registered email on an EB account the just got banned)

Help, I thought I had things under control to get selling again

I just went to the Simon site and it said that I had to register to use it online...I guess for shipping info, whereas if it was used to buy something in person that wouldn't be required.
My bad.
I'll report back after trying to add it again...if it works(which I am hoping it will) it will make this post moot other than to help to educate others through my ignorance


Well, it took it, so slap me for not trying everything first before posting.
Hopefully someone else will read this and not goof up like I did

That happend to my brother. He bought a simon card at a mall but those don't have any address info registered. Funny too is that we have the same bank but Simon won't take his debit card but they take mine.

[ebaykilla]

Simon is cool as the other side of the pillow!

[eluxurygo]

I used Simon gift card to open an eBay account. I set that eBay selling fees will be automatically charged to this gift card. But today when I checked this gift card, I found Simon gift card declined it. Could you tell me if I did something wrong. Another question is if I can use one Simon card to open 2 eBay seller accounts? Thanks.

[Chris Hanson]

Can anybody confirm that ebay are blocking Simon giftcards or any at all?

[aspkin]

There hasn't been anything said about this; only the random one or two members that can't seem to activate a card, because of their own fault. It seems if you do it right, you have around a 90% chance of success.

[hateebaymorethanyou]

I know of someone who tried to get a simon card but tried to sign in with the wrong password to activate the card and they froze the account for 24 hours.

It's been a WEEK now and it's still frozen.

Emails to simon.com get the reply of -- tell us the last 4 #'s in the credit card and we'll unfreeze it.

But don't you have to get in to activate it to get those #'s ?

Doesn't make much sense to me.

[vers0]

Chris,

About 10 days ago, I did buy 2 Simon cards and was able to create 2 eBay accounts with these cards. Maybe some numbers are the problem. I have noticed that each card's last 8 digits have increased. I have a total of 9 cards still active and the first 8 digits have remained the same.

[ebaykilla]

i haven't been blocked lately....why do you ask?

[Jenilyn1980]

I use simon gift cards and vanilla visa and have never had a problem opening a paypal or ebay account yet...opened an ebay account yesterday with vanilla visa

[citeeofangels]

hi everyone, i'm about to purchase the virtual cc from simon.com, am i suppose to create a profile or do i just skip login and go directly to purchasing the cards? also, if i have to put the real names and address to purchase from simon.com, ebay wont be able to link them to the suspended accounts right? thanks!

[aspkin]

This has been talked about all over the forum. Just buy a giftcard with your real information, and use the same ⊗⊗⊗⊗ information you used when signing up with eBay when registering the card.

[Chris Hanson]

Oh okay. i was getting worried. alot of people were stating that they were having problems

[vers0]

Problems are user related...Like most PC problems are work.....

[Chris Hanson]

hahaha.. yeah I like that one.. I call it user error

[DogFacedBoy]

Right, the cards are intended to be used as gifts, so there is no reason to use a CC in your name to buy a GC in your name.

[SECondplaygames]

ebay & I offer both said my simon gift account was an invaild cc number? Any one else have trouble using a virtual simon gift account on ebay? Whats the soultion? I had to have it converted into a physical card.

[ebayhateluv]

HI- went through almost 30 ebay accts in last 6 weeks- so alittle knowledge?? ANYHOW, those cards at the grocery store are working perfectly, they took down 7 this week, i set up 9 more, sitting on almost 50, aged 30 dys+. READY FOR THEM.. the simon cards are nice, but when they pull an acct, you cant take it and get gas, as its virtual. I just used a vanilla visa bought at staples today, works fine, it was 3.95+ the $25. when the accts go down, take that card + fill up or use anywhere. Giving ebay their $5, then thats it...