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December 09, 2012, 06:40:03 PM |
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Hello, I recently received a 500$ prepaid visa giftcard from a friend at work. I want to buy bitcoins with the Visa Prepaid giftcard. Been lookin around for a good 2 hours and havent found any places. I decided to try and buy Lindens (Second Life $) then tranfer it to Bitcoins but Second Life doesnt even accept prepaids.. I also checked other Linden selling sites but they were all out of the country and my visa is only good in the U.S. Is it even possible to buy bitcoins with a Visa Prepaid giftcard?
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December 09, 2012, 07:20:02 PM |
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I recently received a 500$ prepaid visa giftcard from a friend at work Where do you find friends like that? my visa is only good in the U.S. Is it even possible to buy bitcoins with a Visa Prepaid giftcard?
Can the card be used at an ATM? Cash works for buying bitcoins. Do you have a Chase location nearby? Bitcoins can be purchased at BitMe with cash deposited at Chase. There isn't always liquidity so buying in the $500 range there might take a bit for sellers to take you up on your buy order. (or you can always buy at the current price for the sell orders, but that is about 5% over the spot price). You can also buy bitcoins using cash through BitInstant. - http://www.BitInstant.comThere is a service that accepts credit and debit cards, I don't know if they have restrictions against prepaid cards. At the moment the site reads: "Availability: Out Of Stock" though. - http://btcquick.comOr you might find a local trade (paying cash): - http://www.localbitcoins.comAdditionally, there are frequently individual traders on #bitcoin-otc who are willing to accept a prepaid card and after spending the funds successfully will send you the coins for the agreed-upon purchase price. Using the history from the Web of Trust (WoT) helps to ensure a safer transaction -- or perhaps asking the seller to agree to using an escrow is another way to lessen the chance that you would be cheated. - http://bitcoin-otc.com/ - http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#bitcoin-otc-foyer - http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratings.phpOr if you are considering a bank transfer, there all kinds of options are available: - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Buying_bitcoins
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December 09, 2012, 07:49:51 PM |
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Wow thanks for all the links to check out! I checked btcquick.com and they unfortunately dont take prepaid visa's either And it doesn't work at atm's..
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December 10, 2012, 02:45:22 AM Last edit: December 20, 2012, 05:24:20 AM by furrycoat |
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Liberty Payout has been very helpful. Hes offered to take my visa and exchange it for Bitcoins. Im going to trust him, I will report back with results.
Edit: Trusting him = fail
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December 10, 2012, 02:49:54 AM |
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Liberty Payout has been very helpful. Hes offered to take my visa and exchange it for Bitcoins. Im going to trust him, I will report back with results.
Offered to try, may or may not work. Fingers crossed though!
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December 10, 2012, 06:32:08 AM |
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Hello, I recently received a 500$ prepaid visa giftcard from a friend at work.
Boom! Here you go. This provides a method for a person to buy a gift certificate and pay for it using a credit card. The recipient of the gift certificate can then use the funds to make a purchase from the merchant chosen. Essentially one way this is used is as an account-to-account (A2A) transfer: - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/A2A_Transfer_MethodsWhy this is relevant to Bitcoin is because this technically provides a method for someone to sell bitcoins for a "gift card" through Square where the buyer can pay with a credit card. So get set up on #bitcoin-OTC. Offer to buy a $500 gift card (or multiples of $50 or whatever) at any Square merchant. Of course, you are taking the risk that the person selling bitcoins to you will cash out the gift card and not send the coins to you so the seller's -otc WoT history rating should be good (and you need to make sure they are authenticated on -otc otherwise it might be someone impersonating that -otc user.)
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December 10, 2012, 11:30:36 PM Last edit: December 20, 2012, 05:23:50 AM by furrycoat |
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Awesome! Thanks I will definitely give that a try.
Liberty Payout was very helpful, but we werent able to get it to work.
Thanks again!
EDIT: I take back every word said above.
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December 10, 2012, 11:42:04 PM |
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You could put it up for sale on BitMit. You won't get the coins until it sells and it ships to them, but it's a pretty good way to liquidate gift cards.
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December 18, 2012, 04:24:30 AM Last edit: December 20, 2012, 05:23:24 AM by furrycoat |
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Liberty Payout bought Bitcoins with my money and will buy bitcoins, lets see how this goes. Will update! Edit: Completely ripped off, peice of shit.
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January 18, 2013, 02:49:14 PM |
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it's very hard to buy btcs with visa... maybe even impossible!
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January 20, 2013, 04:09:14 PM |
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if he not from USA,then he can deposit in neteller from visa and here some guys exchange for EUR neteller BTC
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January 20, 2013, 07:57:34 PM |
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Liberty Payout bought Bitcoins with my money and will buy bitcoins, lets see how this goes. Will update! Edit: Completely ripped off, peice of shit. Open a thread in scam accusations with info of the transaction. Maybe you can get him a scammer tag. Sorry to hear you lost your money.
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January 20, 2013, 10:02:54 PM |
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I've tried but never succeeded.
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