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Since October 12, 2015, the prepaid REDcard (Redbird) can only be loaded at Target with cash. It can still be loaded online with a bank-issued debit card, up to $200/day and $1K/month.

Therefore, for MS (manufactured spending) Redbird is now considered dead. RIP!

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Re: The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7800 on: April 02, 2015, 07:37:04 PM »
The target that I go to isn't in NY. Of course there is no way of knowing, but it doesn't seem like they're bombarded with DDFers.
Um Howell, Bergen or any other lakewood, monsey, Teaneck locations are NOT the ones I'm referring to either. Maybe you want to share what state you're in.
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Re: The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7801 on: April 02, 2015, 07:50:42 PM »
Um Howell, Bergen or any other lakewood, monsey, Teaneck locations are NOT the ones I'm referring to either. Maybe you want to share what state you're in.
Yep-CS91 please state your state.

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Re: The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7802 on: April 02, 2015, 07:54:53 PM »
Yep-CS91 please state your state.
His state is probably clueless. 
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Re: The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7803 on: April 02, 2015, 07:55:17 PM »
Most people sending checks to themselves are from other Redcards not in their name and cannot withdraw to bank.
Some people were

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The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7804 on: April 02, 2015, 07:59:44 PM »
Um Howell, Bergen or any other lakewood, monsey, Teaneck locations are NOT the ones I'm referring to either. Maybe you want to share what state you're in.
I think he's a philly guy
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Re: The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7805 on: April 02, 2015, 08:20:25 PM »
I dont even think that you are technically right. Nowhere in the T&C does it say you cannot load for another and nowhere does it say that you have to load yours with your own cc. So the only thing one gets away with is using someone elses cc without ID.

You're theoretically right, that is the cashiers/cs rep should only care if the credit card with which you're loading money is in your name, they shouldn't care whose name is the Redbird into which you are putting money. Much like a bank doesn't really care to match the acct in which you're depositing money with your name.

In reality, some Target stores--most notably a couple in NYC--have taken it upon them to change the rules or enforce their own restrictions/rules, such as: a couple don't allow credit card loading at all, a couple do allow but only $1K/day and matching the Redbird in your name also. No surprise here; a lot of people do commit fraud or money laundering at big box stores (like Target) and some of those activities look like the MS ones....thousands of dollars in transactions, credit cards and gift cards, etc.

For the rest/most of the stores, you can definitely load Redbirds on other people's names with your credit cards. At the stores that I go to they never once asked for my ID to match it with my credit cards, let alone with the Redbird.

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Re: The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7806 on: April 02, 2015, 08:32:46 PM »
I think he's a philly guy
LOL how'd you arrive at that conclusion? You a cyber analyst or something?
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Re: The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7807 on: April 02, 2015, 08:34:42 PM »
His state is probably clueless.
Sorry but I got to take you to task over this one. Cluelessness isn't a state it's a whole planet (maybe even a whole galaxy).

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Re: The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7808 on: April 02, 2015, 09:24:45 PM »
Sorry but I got to take you to task over this one. Cluelessness isn't a state it's a whole planet (maybe even a whole galaxy).
Hey where I'm from Boro Park is a whole country. As is every bungalow colony.
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« Reply #7809 on: April 02, 2015, 09:53:32 PM »
Hey where I'm from Boro Park is a whole country. As is every bungalow colony.
Ha that's true.

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Re: The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7810 on: April 02, 2015, 10:52:59 PM »
You're theoretically right, that is the cashiers/cs rep should only care if the credit card with which you're loading money is in your name, they shouldn't care whose name is the Redbird into which you are putting money. Much like a bank doesn't really care to match the acct in which you're depositing money with your name.

In reality, some Target stores--most notably a couple in NYC--have taken it upon them to change the rules or enforce their own restrictions/rules, such as: a couple don't allow credit card loading at all, a couple do allow but only $1K/day and matching the Redbird in your name also. No surprise here; a lot of people do commit fraud or money laundering at big box stores (like Target) and some of those activities look like the MS ones....thousands of dollars in transactions, credit cards and gift cards, etc.

For the rest/most of the stores, you can definitely load Redbirds on other people's names with your credit cards. At the stores that I go to they never once asked for my ID to match it with my credit cards, let alone with the Redbird.
IINM, the T&C says that each individual store can make its own rules and limits.

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Re: The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7811 on: April 02, 2015, 11:11:58 PM »
Thats exactly what it is. Each store makes there own rules.

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Re: The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7812 on: April 02, 2015, 11:37:35 PM »
Thats exactly what it is. Each store makes there own rules.
He's not denying they are he's saying they are not violating any corporate terms.
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« Reply #7813 on: April 02, 2015, 11:38:37 PM »
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Re: The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7814 on: April 02, 2015, 11:39:59 PM »

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Re: The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7815 on: April 02, 2015, 11:40:49 PM »
huh?
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Re: The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7816 on: April 03, 2015, 12:27:51 AM »
Much like a bank doesn't really care to match the acct in which you're depositing money with your name.
Some banks won't allow you to deposit money in another persons account. Tried to make a large deposit into DW account and Chase said no way.
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Re: The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7817 on: April 03, 2015, 02:32:06 AM »

Some banks won't allow you to deposit money in another persons account. Tried to make a large deposit into DW account and Chase said no way.
cash or check ?
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Re: The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7818 on: April 03, 2015, 02:39:43 AM »
Some banks won't allow you to deposit money in another persons account. Tried to make a large deposit into DW account and Chase said no way.
that's surprising.
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Re: The Target Prepaid REDcard
« Reply #7819 on: April 03, 2015, 02:41:00 AM »
I've done a deposit for somebody else into a third person account with TD with no issues...
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