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i just purchased a gift card for $25 and i tried to add it when i was listing an item for the auto payment option. I was given an error code saying i cant use a prepaid card. Must use valid credit or debit card. what the hell do i do now?

Can anyone help me?

What type of gift card did you try to use? The ones suggested here? Gift2Go?

I have read this post.. just a question for you..

So I set up a new seller account, use a gift2go card as my credit card with my stealth name and address registered online to the card number, to verify my account with ebay. I use a prepaid phone to verify my number with them, also registered to my stealth name and address.

I list some stuff for sale with my new paypal stealth account, matching name and address.

Q: Since paypal requires me to have a CC on file with them, can I use the same gift2go credit card? The same one I will be using to pay my fees with (not automatically)

If that works, I start selling.

My ebay listings require to me put in a paypal email where my money will go to.

Q: Do I use the same paypal address? (1 Ebay account, 1 PP account, 1 credit card number?)

Q: Once I get payed for my listing sale, how do I get my money out of paypal since I dont want them having my bank info?

Q: If I go to one of my online stores and "buy" something from myself with the funds in my ebay pp account, thus sending the money to an unassociated account loaded with my real personal info (banking info for withdrawal) and they nail me on ebay for some reason, will my real-info PP account be compromised? Or would they use that to associate my accounts if I do it repeatedly?

Q:How else do you withdraw? /What is the best way to withdraw your money?


Q Do the G2G cards have an expiry date and 3 digit security code on the back like a real CC?

Thanks..

J

so I just went to go buy a Gift 2 go visa...

can't register it to someone in Canada...

thoughts?

I dont think you need to get each account a card.

I have been paying all my accounts with the same card over and over and never gets linked. When you choose one time payment, ebay will ask you if you want them to remember this card to pay future fees, do not tick that and ebay will never get that full card number.

Credit card company will only show last or first 4 digits to ebay. Never had any accounts link this way :)

What? That's not possible - unless I'm misreading this:eek:

I've been doing it this way ever since and im from Malaysia :)

If this is true (which I am doubting you), this sure does simplify the whole system!

Thank you for your experience!

@Aspkin- What are your thoughts on this? Have you ever had this experience?

Would be interesting to know indeed

Is it true that they don't charge your Paypal account if you owe less than then 25$ at the end of the month? (assuming you signed up for fees to be automatically charged from Paypal )

Nice thread

I'm thinking what f1br3opt1c wrote, makes sense.
After all, if I'm a vendor, and I accept credit cards, that doesn't mean I'm entitled to see the credit card number of the buyer. I have no reason to. Visa or MC needs the full number, but I don't.

Can anyone else confirm what's being stated by f1br3opt1c ?

You Must Have Got Link Some How

**FIBREOPTIC**

Fibreoptic,

Was any of your account a STEALTH ACCOUNT or suspended account? So are u saying you are using one c/card for all your ebay a/c's to pay for ebay fees? by the way, do they ask u for name and address when u r inserting u c/c number for fees payment?

*shrug* i pay all my ebay fees from the attached paypal. Never any problems with that /shrug to each their own

I am paying with my vccs all my stealth accounts without problem and generally prefer to pay with "one time payment" section. Because of its not usable your pp balance at my countries pay pals I am generally attaching vccs to e bay and paying for each one or routing with pp

Neewbiee
 

Very new to this and i hope you guys go easy and explain a few things..Just recently entered the world of ebay and selling and i dont know if i am making mistakes yet or what to do and not do..This post got me panicking now as i pay my seller fees with paypal. i am in the uk.what other options can one do?. i also got the vero thing on me already with ebay cancelling some listings. Please advice. PM's welcome also. thanks..:juggle:

I pay some of my accounts with paypal and others with vc, and all are still going some over a year.
Think it just depends if you slip up somehow?

Hi.Iam from UK.Can i pay with orange prepaid card,or ibux,and 3V prepaid my monthly fees.So i can use any gift or prepaid card to pay my fee aint?

WRONG !

I just be killed on paying fees with a credit card linked to an blocked account !!

They log everything... think that ebay is too ugly !

Why on earth would you use a CC from a blocked account?
Where's your head?

Does Gift2Go gift cards still work to pay fees? Also, does it work when you get the "Set up an automatic payment method" when becoming a seller?

Last time I used them was about 2 years ago but things might've changed

Does anyone know? I don't wouldnt want to waste my money :/

Gift2Go cards have not worked for REGISTERING an eBay account for a while.

Gift2Go cards work just fine to PAY your eBay sellers fees.
I just paid mine with one about 5 minutes ago.

Just thought I would add this. I had to contact Entropay about somehting and I thought I would ask them a question...

Me: 'Just out of interest, when I make a payment with my card will my name be on the details of the payment?'

Them: 'We do not provide a name and address with the EntroPay Virtual Cards. When making payments with EntroPay Virtual Cards note that you may input any address and name however we do suggest you enter your own details'

Deos this mean that Entropay are anomynous and can be used for paying eb bills?

Sure sounds like it

Not sure if anyone else experienced this, but over the holidays I went to Walgreens and I could NOT be sold a gift2go card, the cashier said they had to take them down, I went to 2 other walgreens and couldn't even find them....

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GIFT2GO Cards???

Anyone else experienced this??

Are they taking them away? Please let me know

yes gift2go is done they are replaced with Awards2Go - Visa Gift Card, Corporate Incentive and Award Cards and Gift2Go Personal Gift Cards

I had the same thing happen to me at Walgreens a few weeks ago.
I looked again yesterday and there was not a single one on the wall.
It looks like Walgreens has stopped selling them maybe.??...??

I bought one online in the UK a couple of weeks ago and it never arrived and I'm struggling to get my money back :mad2:

Thought I'd chime in here with a bit of info I know for sure. f1br3opt1c is telling the truth. If you know anything about cc#'s you know they all have similarities based off of the issuing bank. Ex: for Am X cc's they always start with 3 7 - 72 and interestingly enough Dish Cover always starts with 6 zero 1 1. If you look at the gift cards you'll notice they have a variation in digits. Same is true for Deb Cards issued from the same institution Example Wachovia Visa's 4828. Another thing I know for sure is because of these ranges and identifying factors is cc#'s often get recycled the only thing that helps with this is AVS and it's only based off of the first few letters in a 1st and last name and the digs on an address.

I have a question about the thing that you said that the amount has to be exactly or etc.
what do you mean on that ?

you can use the same card for 100s of aco****s for one off payment ive done this last 2 years form my personal debit card thats was on a ebay paypal supsended , never linked any account for ebay fees with one time payment.

Using the same card would link though....

no it dosent link as you you dont save it when its a one off

From my experience, they save everything so I would not be risking using the same card across a large number of accounts.

Christianm which country you do this? in UK

I hear what you saying in my experience lets say 200 acounts in last 12 months never ever linked.i never get ebay suspensions always paypal due to the volumes. Its in uk

Did you ever find them? Im about to head to Walgreens before work I'll keep you updated.