Visa Reloadable Prepaid Card in Canada?

[wwedx]

Do they sell these in Canada? i have never seen any?

[ruhroh]

I've seen Vanilla Visas at certain Shoppers Drug Marts behind the cashiers along with other prepaid cards. Certainly the one at Fairview. Most drug stores probably carry them.

edit: Actually I may be wrong and saw the Vanilla mastercard. I only saw the word "vanilla" clearly.

[CrazyJo82]

scotiabank might have them.

i had some scotiabank prepaid credit card before...

maybe you should try google
http://www.visa.ca/en/personal/prepaidcards/index.jsp

[mysticalinfluence]

Money mart has reloadable Visa as well but the fees are ***** rape.

[iEye]

Do they sell these in Canada? i have never seen any?

I bought mine at MAXI grocery store.. they also have them at PHarmaprix (SDM)

But if you buy it at MAxi.. you can pay for it at the self-service machine and use your credit card and get the points!

I think SDM makes you pay debit or cash for it.

anyhoo I bought the $100 card last year and it is still good, I usually use it for small purchases from Dealextreme and other websites that use Pay
Pal and I do not trust PayPal with my real information.

You can allways just get a $20 3V visa voucher from the gas station (Esso)

[willdacanucker]

Money mart has reloadable Visa as well but the fees are ***** rape.

This is true to be sure, but the convenience is worth it. At least this way, it is $15 a month CASH. At the end of the month, I may have paid a $15 fee, but I am not paying interest that would be more than that and i am in 0 debt. IMO, this is worth the fee.

[dealerguy]

RBC has them. $3.95 fees to get one and are re-loadable.

[BobSagget]

Citizen's Bank of Canada offers a prepaid visa gift card you can purchase.
You can even buy it online from their store.
More info here:
https://www.citizensbank.ca/Personal.../VISAGiftCard/

I have used one. No complaints.

[willdacanucker]

RBC has them. $3.95 fees to get one and are re-loadable.

Where can you get these? There is nothing on the RBC website that I could find, about a reloadable Visa card.

[iEye]

Where can you get these? There is nothing on the RBC website that I could find, about a reloadable Visa card.

As I said.. grocery stores and PHarmacy

[Pennyfoxer]

I know Shoppers has pre-paid VISA cards, however I am not sure if they are re-loadable...

[user01]

Staples have the Vanilla too in 50/100..

Anyone know if they work with Paypal verification?

[iEye]

Staples have the Vanilla too in 50/100..

Anyone know if they work with Paypal verification?

Yes...

I have done it 3 times now.

I also use it to pay for iPhone apps

[vlasko29]

This is true to be sure, but the convenience is worth it. At least this way, it is $15 a month CASH. At the end of the month, I may have paid a $15 fee, but I am not paying interest that would be more than that and i am in 0 debt. IMO, this is worth the fee.

Why not buy only what you can pay for at the end of the month and then save the $15 every month to treat yourself to a small present for being such a savvy consumer, while simultaneously flipping off the ***** rapists at Money Mart and the bank that would have charged you interest?

[crimsona]

This is true to be sure, but the convenience is worth it. At least this way, it is $15 a month CASH. At the end of the month, I may have paid a $15 fee, but I am not paying interest that would be more than that and i am in 0 debt. IMO, this is worth the fee.

That's not really how a credit card normally works... you don't pay interest on purchases until you are LATE after a statement, you typically have 21 days or so from the end of the billing period to pay off the balance interest free.

In 10 years I've paid $3 of interest total when I was late with a payment once