How Do I...?

[SamSpade]

I have - since Christmas - acquired or received a handful of VISA debit gift cards and they all have partial amounts.

It is an easy thing to just use the balance at a face to face register - but I have yet to figure out how to get AMAZON to use several, concurrently.
It seems like it just wants ONE - and if that one isn't enough - it just defaults to your default card.
BUT - it has NO PROBLEM just using any of its OWN gift cards, no problem.

Barring that, is there a way to just transfer the card to a checking account?

 

[LightRoasted]

For your consideration ...

I have - since Christmas - acquired or received a handful of VISA debit gift cards and they all have partial amounts.

It is an easy thing to just use the balance at a face to face register - but I have yet to figure out how to get AMAZON to use several, concurrently.
It seems like it just wants ONE - and if that one isn't enough - it just defaults to your default card.
BUT - it has NO PROBLEM just using any of its OWN gift cards, no problem.

Barring that, is there a way to just transfer the card to a checking account?

At your fingertips is a keyboard connected to a computer connected to the internet. Goggle a solution. I would assist in a solution, but ........

 

[BadGirl]

For your consideration ...

At your fingertips is a keyboard connected to a computer connected to the internet. Goggle a solution. I would assist in a solution, but ........ I'm just an inconsiderate jerk most of the time.

FIFY

 

[Sneakers]

Barring that, is there a way to just transfer the card to a checking account?

Check with your bank, maybe they can transfer the balance.

Buy a container of milk. When it asks if you want cash back, say yes and zero out the card, then deposit it.

 

[my-thyme]

Check with your bank, maybe they can transfer the balance.

Buy a container of milk. When it asks if you want cash back, say yes and zero out the card, then deposit it.

That's worth trying.

 

[vraiblonde]

FIFY

I love you, no sh!t

 

[Czar]

I have - since Christmas - acquired or received a handful of VISA debit gift cards and they all have partial amounts.

It is an easy thing to just use the balance at a face to face register - but I have yet to figure out how to get AMAZON to use several, concurrently.
It seems like it just wants ONE - and if that one isn't enough - it just defaults to your default card.
BUT - it has NO PROBLEM just using any of its OWN gift cards, no problem.

Barring that, is there a way to just transfer the card to a checking account?

Use them at the food store. I recently swiped 6 cards, a few with just a few bucks available balance.

Those self checkouts are also a great way to dump change without a fee.

 

[Miker/t]

You can use your pre-paid Visa balance to reload an Amazon gift card - https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=15401179011

 

[SamSpade]

You can use your pre-paid Visa balance to reload an Amazon gift card - https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=15401179011

<--- *This* - worked. Thanks!

Let me tell others, so you won't have to look it up ----

First, find the exact amount remaining on the gift debit - the downside is, Amazon does NOT take change. Dollar amounts only

1. Go to your payment methods. Add the gift card to your payment methods. Probably a good idea to add ALL of them here.
2. If you're still in the Wallet area, mark one of them as Default.
3. Go to Your Account/Gift Card balance and start reloading, using the custom amount.
4. When you get the two notices from Amazon, the balance is loaded, you can switch default to the next one.
5. When you've done all of them, restore your original default, delete all of the added cards.

My ORIGINAL intent was to use them all on Amazon for a purchase. Unlike Amazon gift cards, it doesn't like you using them in succession, and during Christmas season, what I learned was - if the purchase EXCEEDED the debit card amount, it did NOT do as a I expected - deplete the card and roll over to my default - but ignored it COMPLETELY and just went to the default.

Not wanting to be dissuaded, I tried adding to PayPal. Nope. In fact, PayPal responded saying, we're sorry, but we just don't take THAT company's gift debit cards. Better luck next time.

So I went to my bank - online. Nothing. And you can't use Venmo or Zelle.

So I tried Cash App. No luck.

The only other method I didn't try was to just use them in succession to pay any online bill, but the whole point was to buy a GIFT for someone else.

Since I can use the method above which WORKED - I can use the combined amount to send them a gift.

Thanks for the ideas. Appreciate it.

 

[vraiblonde]

Reason #1,493 why humans are better than the internet......

 

[Czar]

Reason #1,493 why humans are better than the internet......

Hold on here...

The internet provided the answer via a conclave of people with real life experience.

Without the internet, how would one find such multiple solutions for a problem in such expeditious fashion?

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[black dog]

My girl gets Visa gift cards every month from the casino, I use them to buy Amazon gift cards and then order what we want. I tend to do a few at a time.

 

[vraiblonde]

Hold on here...

The internet provided the answer via a conclave of people with real life experience.

Without the internet, how would one find such multiple solutions for a problem in such expeditious fashion?

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Excellent point

 

[LightRoasted]

For your consideration ...

Hold on here...

The internet provided the answer via a conclave of people with real life experience.

Without the internet, how would one find such multiple solutions for a problem in such expeditious fashion?

Well . . . . Back in the day, pre-internet, people did this thing called reading, or going to a library for research. People would also talk to other people, in person, (I know, a weird phenomenon). Also, people would try things out for themselves, ya know, experimenting and trying different things, doing things for themselves, and independently search out answers until they achieved the desired result. Used to be called ruggedness, individualism, and self-reliance.

Back in the day, doing something in a expeditious fashion, meant one dropped a deuce without straining. Whereas figuring out many things took time. And learning along the way to finding an answer. There was no instant gratification.

The internet? Has given people instant answers to sometimes very complex problems, making people think they are smart when they have that answer when someone asks them. The problem is that these people lack the foundational information/data that comes with experience to understand the entirety of an answer on a macro level. Aka, the internet had made people more stupid.

 

[TPD]

For your consideration ...

the internet had made people more stupid.

and smart phones have made people stupid. If you actually use the phone to call someone, how many people can you actually dial their phone number from memory?