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[dunchy]

Would love to know more information about your card issuer. I hope it's a relationship which you envisage will last permanently. A globally respected prepaid card services provider such as Wirecard would be my guess but I might be wrong. I don't really mind which issuer you use for as long as they are compliant, stable and here to stay for the years to come.

I can't wait for reviews from those lucky enough to get the earliest batch of cards. I'm a non-UK and non-EEA resident so might need to wait in line.

That game is over bro'. The Brussel's motherfuckers have tightened up the seal hermetically. And it's a game that surpasses crypto. Their sealing of the card transaction with outside world is a mark of some bigger geopolitical tectonic movements yet to come. If you belong to non-EU plebs, the only chance to see this kind of service or similar is if a provider has a "RUB" somewhere on its front-end. Like for example cex.io. Needless to say, whenever you see "RUB" option anywhere in the user interface, use that service only as a pipe, never keep any money there.

[cryptostrich]

It seems that Wirex is gonna use Contis Financial Services LTD to as the card issuer.

"Your Visa Debit & Prepaid Card will be issued by Contis Financial Services Ltd who is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority to issue e-money (Firm Reference Number: 900025) and is a member of Visa. Please note the Visa card is an electronic money product and although it is a product regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, it is not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. We ensure that any funds received by you are held in a segregated account so that in the unlikely event that Contis Financial Services Ltd becomes insolvent your funds will be protected against claims made by creditors."

I think it will be great and I can't wait to get my hands on the card. I'm really keen to see the limits.

[lex.l1]

Im on the waiting list for europe, some blog approximated that delivery will be end of march.
Can wirex give any kind of confirmation regarding that deadline or it was pure speculation?
Did anyone in the UK got their debit cards yet?

[NeuroticFish]

Im on the waiting list for europe, some blog approximated that delivery will be end of march.
Can wirex give any kind of confirmation regarding that deadline or it was pure speculation?
Did anyone in the UK got their debit cards yet?

That "some blog" has got its info from Wirex blog, since Wirex also has those dates written down.
Just read for yourself: https://wirexapp.com/press-release-wirex-brings-back-card-spending-europe/

So it's not a speculation, it's official info. For UK they wrote in March 9 "Plastic cards are currently being manufactured, and will be available to UK customers in a few weeks."
Maybe one of their UK customers can tell if they've got the cards already or not.

[Pab]

Info about partnership with Wirex you can find on Contis site

https://www.contis.com/

[warningsigns]

Info about partnership with Wirex you can find on Contis site
https://www.contis.com/

Nice find. Goes to show you can't really hide anything on the internet. They fiercely protect the confidentiality of their partnerships but as shown above, digging up that information is not impossible.

An initial contract of 3 years. Seems like they are treading cautiously, lest they lose their acquirer and issuer privileges. Hell hath no fury like Visa scorned.

[delpiero10]

Is this project dead? I'm in one of the supported countries and according to wirex site virtual card should be instantly issued but it's second day and I'm still around 70k spot on waiting list 

[dunchy]

Is this project dead? I'm in one of the supported countries and according to wirex site virtual card should be instantly issued but it's second day and I'm still around 70k spot on waiting list 

Can you please point me to the list of supported countries?

[delpiero10]

Is this project dead? I'm in one of the supported countries and according to wirex site virtual card should be instantly issued but it's second day and I'm still around 70k spot on waiting list 

Can you please point me to the list of supported countries?

sure, you can find it here: https://help.wirexapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000899593-The-list-of-supported-countries

And looks like information about instantly issued virtual card is misleading cause in latest mail they stated that it only applies to the UK for now:

Our virtual cards have now been released fully to the UK and the rest of Europe is soon to follow over the next few days and weeks!

[Spider07]

Hello

Do you have issues with Wirex ?
I made a withdrawal to an exchange account on March 23 and it always in pending status    
I created a ticket on saturday morning...no news during the week-end (I beleived that support was open 24/7)
I sent back a reminder on Monday and got this answer

Thank you for the feedback.

Please note that your case has been submitted to the relevant department for processing. As soon as I have gotten the resolution of your issue, you will be notified right away. In any case, I will keep you up to date.

Hope for your patience.

Impossible for me to continue with this company if a simple 0.02 BTC withdraw takes more than 4 days..... (hope it arrives one day !) .

Nota: My account is verified and I had in the past a Wirex debit CARD.....

Very angry....

[Arhat]

...

Do you have issues with Wirex ?

I most definitely do. They caused me a loss of around EUR 4000.

When they withdrew the  debit cards after the wavecrest issue, costumers  had their funds forcibly converted back to BTC. Which at that point was at 13222 EUR /BTC. No one is his right mind would have bought BTC when that high. But they did.

The decent, the ethical thing to do would have been to put the money into a fiat holding account, let the costumer decide if and when he wants to transfer back into BTC.

So I have no faith in wirex and will most definitely not ever do business through them.

Paycent is ready to issue their card next week. So that is where I am going.

[NeuroticFish]

I miss Michael's "touch" on helping with our support issues.
I have an issue that is taking way too long and I think that the ones handling it are not skilled enough and don't understand the problem.
@Wirex-E-Coin, can you please get Michael here? Please?

[HostFat]

https://wirexapp.com/wirex-payment-cards-back/

[TrendsProject]

Please check ticket 403019 VERY URGENTLY!

Thank you!

[Zebedee23]

ok i received and activated my new debit cards thanks Wirex.  Noticed my GBP card has a UK sort code and account number , can i use this for GBP transfers in/out???

[NeuroticFish]

ok i received and activated my new debit cards thanks Wirex.  Noticed my GBP card has a UK sort code and account number , can i use this for GBP transfers in/out???

I also received yesterday and activated this morning my shiny new card. I've also put some EUR onto it (converted from BTC). But at the shop it was "rejected by the bank". Is there anything else I have to do?!
Did you make any other step?

[Zebedee23]

ok i received and activated my new debit cards thanks Wirex.  Noticed my GBP card has a UK sort code and account number , can i use this for GBP transfers in/out???

I also received yesterday and activated this morning my shiny new card. I've also put some EUR onto it (converted from BTC). But at the shop it was "rejected by the bank". Is there anything else I have to do?!
Did you make any other step?

maybe try at an atm first, see if that works?

[gentlemand]

I also received yesterday and activated this morning my shiny new card. I've also put some EUR onto it (converted from BTC). But at the shop it was "rejected by the bank". Is there anything else I have to do?!
Did you make any other step?

What type of transaction was it? Anything prepaid won't work when you're buying fuel in my experience, I really don't know why, and that goes for non crypto prepaid cards in every country I've tried it.

Elsewhere they may pre authorise even on an in person transaction and if you don't have more than what you're spending on the account it may not cover it.

I've had more than a few sites reject my old Xapo card. When I called up they couldn't tell what type of card it was. 

[NeuroticFish]

maybe try at an atm first, see if that works?

I'll try that too tomorrow, thanks.

What type of transaction was it? Anything prepaid won't work when you're buying fuel in my experience, I really don't know why, and that goes for non crypto prepaid cards in every country I've tried it.

Elsewhere they may pre authorise even on an in person transaction and if you don't have more than what you're spending on the account it may not cover it.

I've had more than a few sites reject my old Xapo card. When I called up they couldn't tell what type of card it was.  

It was at a grocery store, which used to accept Wirex cards in December.
I'll give it another try tomorrow in a store and maybe also see at ATM.


Thanks for the answers, it seems that at least I didn't forget any step. If tomorrow still doesn't work, I'll go for their support ...


PS. Last year I've bought fuel with Wirex... just I paid "inside", not directly "at the pump".


Edit 2018-05-04: Today it worked in another store. Maybe because it's banking day, maybe because this time I used the card normally, not contactless. I didn't have to go to ATM.

[gentlemand]

PS. Last year I've bought fuel with Wirex... just I paid "inside", not directly "at the pump".

I could never get any of them to work inside or outside and that was in Europe and the US. I gave up and switched to cash. There is something not quite A1 with any prepaid card.