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cash out vanilla visa gift card
« on: February 27, 2013, 12:08:43 PM »
Hi I have tried cashing out my $500 vanilla visa gift card at serve and amazon payments with no luck any ideas?    Thanks

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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2013, 12:19:38 PM »
Hi I have tried cashing out my $500 vanilla visa gift card at serve and amazon payments with no luck any ideas?    Thanks
You sometimes need to register it at vanilla visa in order to make online purchases.

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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2013, 12:25:54 PM »
Probably didn't do the fake Exp trick.
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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2013, 12:36:19 PM »
thanks for replying. fake exp by whom will amazon payments work?

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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2013, 12:42:22 PM »
thanks for replying. fake exp by whom will amazon payments work?
exp=expiration date, i.e. put in the wrong expiration date when you register it.
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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2013, 12:45:05 PM »
figured it out I had to register zipcode on vanilla site and went thru amazon payments with correct exp (tried the wrong first but no go) Thank you all

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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2013, 12:46:51 PM »
Probably didn't do the fake Exp trick.
fake exp trick not necessary with vanilla gift/prepaid cards

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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2013, 12:48:39 PM »
correct the initial PreAuth pending charge when added to amazon is $0.00

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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2013, 01:01:41 PM »
Does the expiration trick work for cashing out Amex gift cards as well?

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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2013, 01:02:18 PM »
Does the expiration trick work for cashing out Amex gift cards as well?

Yes.

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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2013, 01:03:32 PM »
fake exp trick not necessary with vanilla gift/prepaid cards

+1 IME with vanilla gift I forgot to do the trick but thankfully there was a pre-auth of $0 not $1.

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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2013, 10:56:46 PM »
can u add $ to ur own checking account with the visa gift card?

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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2013, 10:36:03 AM »
Fake exp trick is no longer needed for some GC's. IIRC it is still needed for Amex GC's.
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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2013, 10:37:23 AM »
can u add $ to ur own checking account with the visa gift card?
GC>Checking, no
GC>AP>Checking, yes
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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2013, 02:08:59 PM »

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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #15 on: March 10, 2013, 02:23:39 PM »
??????
You can't cash out the GC directly. You can get your cash out of the GC by using AP.
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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #16 on: March 10, 2013, 02:29:24 PM »
??????

What don't you understand?

GC= gift card.
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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2013, 04:12:18 PM »
??????
He meant transferring money from gift card directly yo checking account is not possible, but you can cash out the GC via amazon payments and transfer from there to checking.
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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2013, 06:37:15 PM »
Tu

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Re: cash out vanilla visa gift card
« Reply #19 on: April 04, 2013, 01:33:54 PM »
so totally stupid question- i can buy a gift card (say 1k plus whatever fee) and cash it out via AP?