Visa's alternative to Greendot

[Giardino]

Anyone seen these? I haven't seen em before and I checked em out. They look pretty promising (At least from what I can read on the cardboard)

The cards say they can do the following:

1. Direct Deposit
2. Hold funds like a bank
3. Do ACH Transfers
4. Basically greendot...

[FandangoKango]

Lol, I thought it was paypal, the sucky part is they use metabank which paypal doesn't lik very much. How about you try it and let us know if it works?

[djmusic]

looked at the website, and it requires a ssn (at least if you get it online) I would guess that is the case too if you buy in a store and want to setup ACH, but who knows. let us know how it goes

[newjerseymax]

Yea I would be interested but dont have an account ready to burn...

Let us know how it goes...

Thanks!

[nobody999]

if the do require ssn...wouldn't this be the same thing as opening a checking account and getting a debit card?

[BiN4RY]

Originally Posted by nobody999

if the do require ssn...wouldn't this be the same thing as opening a checking account and getting a debit card?

Blame the PATRIOT act. All reloadable credit cards requires SSN now, at least ones with Direct Deposit enabled.

[Giardino]

I didn't actually buy them yet. And speaking of the P. Act, doesnt that mean if you bought a prepaid card in the UK you could still be anonymous?

[rsot]

@'Dino - are these cards on display at a Walmart? Just asking because I am looking to take a trip to your sacred land soon and worth a test =) ha

Register online with SSN?

[Giardino]

nah these were at safeway. do they have those in canada?

[BiN4RY]

Very few to none

[Giardino]

Ok how about "Le Safeway Eh"

Kidding...

[FandangoKango]

I registered on the website for the card and put my ssn and everything. I will check it out and test it and hope it works in a few weeks.