The Target Prepaid REDcard

[noturbizniss]

Most people don't post their success. Only the failures are constantly posted. Enough data points. Unless you have tries all hours of the day and with every cashier and cs rep them it's meaningless as 8t has clearly been established that they can and do do whatever they want. Enough of the fear mongering.

[hvaces42]

As long as everyone keeps posting every move they make at every target they go to it will die pretty quickly in tri state area. Have you noticed that hardly anyone from other areas post what they do???

Can you prove this?  You think that they sit and read this thread and make their decisions based on what is said here??

[AJK]

I have a bridge to sell anyone who thinks loading RB via CC will last. It's not a question of "if," it's a question of "when."

[hvaces42]

Most people don't post their success. Only the failures are constantly posted. Enough data points. Unless you have tries all hours of the day and with every cashier and cs rep them it's meaningless as 8t has clearly been established that they can and do do whatever they want. Enough of the fear mongering.

AMEN!

I only post my success stories as i have yet to have a complete failure.

[hvaces42]

I have a bridge to sell anyone who thinks loading RB via CC will last. It's not a question of "if," it's a question of "when."

Absolutely agree. However rumors of its demise are greatly exaggerated.

[noturbizniss]

I have a bridge to sell anyone who thinks loading RB via CC will last. It's not a question of "if," it's a question of "when."

Sure,  but every time someone gets turned down they go all chicken little.
I made a thread where the6 can moan and complain. http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=49809.0
Any real and confirm info can and should be here, but all speculation should go in JS.

[noturbizniss]

Absolutely agree. However rumors of its demise are greatly exaggerated.

You should add links to your success all over the city to the wiki just to shut them up.

[hvaces42]

You should add links to your success all over the city to the wiki just to shut them up.

Thats way beyond my pay grade.

[lunatic]

I have a bridge to sell anyone who thinks loading RB via CC will last. It's not a question of "if," it's a question of "when."

+1000
Most thought it would not even last until now

[noturbizniss]

Isn't serve still alive and well?

[Aj3042]

I've seen someone mention here a couple days back that AMEX knows that you're loading RC if you do it with an AMEX CC and I didn't see anyone challenge that. Does anyone have proof of that? If the charge comes up as target how do they know the difference between a person buying real stuff and RC loads (unless they recognize it based on 1k+1k+500 but the guy who mentioned it before didn't sound like that)?

[hvaces42]

I've seen someone mention here a couple days back that AMEX knows that you're loading RC if you do it with an AMEX CC and I didn't see anyone challenge that. Does anyone have proof of that? If the charge comes up as target how do they know the difference between a person buying real stuff and RC loads (unless they recognize it based on 1k+1k+500 but the guy who mentioned it before didn't sound like that)?

And if they do, what practical difference will it make? Ive done multiple Amex loads, on 5 different Amex cards, every month since this started. No F/R. No A/A.

[avromie7]

I've seen someone mention here a couple days back that AMEX knows that you're loading RC if you do it with an AMEX CC and I didn't see anyone challenge that. Does anyone have proof of that? If the charge comes up as target how do they know the difference between a person buying real stuff and RC loads (unless they recognize it based on 1k+1k+500 but the guy who mentioned it before didn't sound like that)?

Being that RC is amex they can see when you load it and with which card

[Aj3042]

Being that RC is amex they can see when you load it and with which card

I hear but what makes you say the RC and CC systems are so well synced with each other. It's a totally separate branch of the company I would think.

[avromie7]

I hear but what makes you say the RC and CC systems are so well synced with each other. It's avtotalky separate branch of the company I would think.

You are probably right but some are nervous or overly cautious

[hvaces42]

You are probably right but some are nervous or overly cautious

Why dont we make another list of what makes people overly cautious or nervous about RC:
1. 1099
2. Loading with Amex
3. Unloading by paying Amex.
4. Cashiers that are lazy.
5. CSRs that are rude.
6. Chicken little posts.
7...

[Aj3042]

Recently I've done about 8k RC MS across 2 new AMEX cards (though I already have about 18 months history with them). Saw today that AMEX soft pulled my Experian CR. Does anyone think that means anything, like maybe I'm making them nervous with all the MS and fraud alerts? I know all banks soft pull every once in a while but these accounts are fairly new (which means they've just done hard pull to accept me) which is why I wonder.

Anybody have anything to say about this?

[hvaces42]

Anybody have anything to say about this?

DDF rules you can bump your post once every 72 hours. Thats all there is to say.

[HowYaDoin]

I have a bridge to sell anyone who thinks loading RB via CC will last. It's not a question of "if," it's a question of "when."

cross posting is against forum rules you can only sell that bridge in one thread (i noticed you were selling it in the inited glitch thread) besides it should be in goods for sale/trade :-)

[amk522]

As long as everyone keeps posting every move they make at every target they go to it will die pretty quickly in tri state area. Have you noticed that hardly anyone from other areas post what they do???

I think you are mistaken here. I think that the reason things die first in the Tri-state area are because of a few factors:
1) High concentration of MS, and limited store availability leads stores to notice techniques faster
2) Large fraudster population in the area who are using the same techniques as MS'ers which draws even more scrutiny
3) Not laying blame on DD, but many newbies unfamiliar with a MS technique may try something based on limited knowledge of what they saw Dan post about on the main page, and just expect that it will work no problems and start complaining when it doesn't work how they expected it would. Not intentional, but the impact is that it kills a technique faster.

Obviously this is my opinion, but I think it makes sense. If I didn't live near a major metropolitan area, I would tend to agree with your assessment much more.