2017 Bitcoin Debit Card Reviews

[NeuroticFish]

Just updating the wirex verification process. July 1st I received the good news, now I'm a verified user!

I am a verified user too now
I was a little worried since I didn't translate my papers, but it's all good now.
I am unsure if I should buy a physical card too - I don't have so much Bitcoin to spend after all - but I am inclined to do that step too.

[EstevanM]

I am a verified user too now
I was a little worried since I didn't translate my papers, but it's all good now.
I am unsure if I should buy a physical card too - I don't have so much Bitcoin to spend after all - but I am inclined to do that step too.

Well, you do have to pay a monthly fee of 1GBP/1USD/1EUR. I would not recommend it unless you really need a card to buy at POS, i.e., you don't have any other cards to buy stuff in person.

[ghostbtc]

A lot of problems with Wirex, they don't even reply in the thread no more been months but they log in from time to time. Losing hope on these cards.

[EstevanM]

Ok guys, on Monday I did the online purchase I was going for (since I have a higher limit). Tuesday morning I received an email saying that some problem with the payment arised and the store had to cancel my order:
"I am very sorry but unfortunately there appears to have been a flag raised on the payment and under the advice of our card company, I have cancelled the order."
I asked for details and what I got was this answer:
"Unfortunately, we are not told the exact reasons for the payment not being accepted and are advised to cancel the order."
I don't know why I had a flag, I don't know if they can see that wirex is behind, but banks in the UK do have a history of making things hardes for bitcoin users. On the other hand, I've bought other stuff with my previous wirex card (not that much expensive though).

Fortunately, the store crew is very helpful, so I'm arranging a another way to pay for it.

Right now I'm waiting for the refund to arrive (the store said they already send the refund...let's sit, wait and hope).

[Bitcoinsummoner]

Ok guys, on Monday I did the online purchase I was going for (since I have a higher limit). Tuesday morning I received an email saying that some problem with the payment arised and the store had to cancel my order:
"I am very sorry but unfortunately there appears to have been a flag raised on the payment and under the advice of our card company, I have cancelled the order."
I asked for details and what I got was this answer:
"Unfortunately, we are not told the exact reasons for the payment not being accepted and are advised to cancel the order."
I don't know why I had a flag, I don't know if they can see that wirex is behind, but banks in the UK do have a history of making things hardes for bitcoin users. On the other hand, I've bought other stuff with my previous wirex card (not that much expensive though).

Fortunately, the store crew is very helpful, so I'm arranging a another way to pay for it.

Right now I'm waiting for the refund to arrive (the store said they already send the refund...let's sit, wait and hope).

I think the wirex card was abuse by many users where actually you are buying or what is the site you use the wirex?
I think much better to find other alternative to wirex which is unique 6 digit bin that still not receive any flag in any site or store..
Because there are many users of wirex which is they use it to make like aws account abusing the wirex and use the vcc in and now i think wirex is not acceptable right now with aws account..
So always look for unique 6 digit bin.

[EstevanM]

Ok guys, on Monday I did the online purchase I was going for (since I have a higher limit). Tuesday morning I received an email saying that some problem with the payment arised and the store had to cancel my order:
"I am very sorry but unfortunately there appears to have been a flag raised on the payment and under the advice of our card company, I have cancelled the order."
I asked for details and what I got was this answer:
"Unfortunately, we are not told the exact reasons for the payment not being accepted and are advised to cancel the order."
I don't know why I had a flag, I don't know if they can see that wirex is behind, but banks in the UK do have a history of making things hardes for bitcoin users. On the other hand, I've bought other stuff with my previous wirex card (not that much expensive though).

Fortunately, the store crew is very helpful, so I'm arranging a another way to pay for it.

Right now I'm waiting for the refund to arrive (the store said they already send the refund...let's sit, wait and hope).

I think the wirex card was abuse by many users where actually you are buying or what is the site you use the wirex?
I think much better to find other alternative to wirex which is unique 6 digit bin that still not receive any flag in any site or store..
Because there are many users of wirex which is they use it to make like aws account abusing the wirex and use the vcc in and now i think wirex is not acceptable right now with aws account..
So always look for unique 6 digit bin.

It was just a local bike shop (they have several stores at the same region). I don't think they sell it globally, it wasn't Amazon, Ebay or something like that.
What do you mean by a 6 bin? The card has 16 digits, shouldn't the first 6 be the BIN, the other 9 the account and the last one the checksum?

[NeuroticFish]

Well, you do have to pay a monthly fee of 1GBP/1USD/1EUR. I would not recommend it unless you really need a card to buy at POS, i.e., you don't have any other cards to buy stuff in person.

Thanks for the advice. However, the plan would be to get the plastic card and cancel the virtual card.
Then I will have all the features I'd need and also the same 1 EUR fee as I had for the virtual card.

"I am very sorry but unfortunately there appears to have been a flag raised on the payment and under the advice of our card company, I have cancelled the order."

Wow please let us know about the outcome / if you got your money back.
I know that this may take a while.

I think the wirex card was abuse by many

The cards are issued by Wave Crest and they are the issuer for quite a number of "Bitcoin card" services.
I think that the problem may be at Wave Crest side.

Still, the flag sounds pretty bad

[EstevanM]

"I am very sorry but unfortunately there appears to have been a flag raised on the payment and under the advice of our card company, I have cancelled the order."

Wow please let us know about the outcome / if you got your money back.
I know that this may take a while.

The purchase was cancelled on July 4th, MyChoice card sent me the money on July 7th. When I access the MyChoice card app the money is there, when I access the Wirex app the money is not there. So I don't know if MyChoice is going to talk to wirex about this or wirex will not recognize the money. I have no ideia what will happen if I try to withdraw/spend the money.

[NeuroticFish]

"I am very sorry but unfortunately there appears to have been a flag raised on the payment and under the advice of our card company, I have cancelled the order."

Wow please let us know about the outcome / if you got your money back.
I know that this may take a while.

The purchase was cancelled on July 4th, MyChoice card sent me the money on July 7th. When I access the MyChoice card app the money is there, when I access the Wirex app the money is not there. So I don't know if MyChoice is going to talk to wirex about this or wirex will not recognize the money. I have no ideia what will happen if I try to withdraw/spend the money.

I think that MyChoice has sent the money to Wave Crest. Wirex and the app may have to synchronize with Wave Crest. However, don't take this as granted, it's just a possibility.
From what I've read it could take 5-14 days. https://help.wirexapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000215653-How-do-I-get-a-refund-from-the-merchant-
You could ask their support about this, it's the best approach I could think of.

[mladen00]

so, no more gift or unverified VISA cards with 1000 Eur/USD limit?

[NeuroticFish]

"I am very sorry but unfortunately there appears to have been a flag raised on the payment and under the advice of our card company, I have cancelled the order."

Wow please let us know about the outcome / if you got your money back.
I know that this may take a while.

The purchase was cancelled on July 4th, MyChoice card sent me the money on July 7th. When I access the MyChoice card app the money is there, when I access the Wirex app the money is not there. So I don't know if MyChoice is going to talk to wirex about this or wirex will not recognize the money. I have no ideia what will happen if I try to withdraw/spend the money.

I wrote a question about your situation on Wirex' thread and I've got an interesting answer.
The "refund" should happen automatically and if it didn't, you have to get all the info from the merchant and fill a ticket.
The original / better explanation is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1392468.msg20104562#msg20104562

[EstevanM]

"I am very sorry but unfortunately there appears to have been a flag raised on the payment and under the advice of our card company, I have cancelled the order."

Wow please let us know about the outcome / if you got your money back.
I know that this may take a while.

The purchase was cancelled on July 4th, MyChoice card sent me the money on July 7th. When I access the MyChoice card app the money is there, when I access the Wirex app the money is not there. So I don't know if MyChoice is going to talk to wirex about this or wirex will not recognize the money. I have no ideia what will happen if I try to withdraw/spend the money.

I wrote a question about your situation on Wirex' thread and I've got an interesting answer.
The "refund" should happen automatically and if it didn't, you have to get all the info from the merchant and fill a ticket.
The original / better explanation is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1392468.msg20104562#msg20104562

Wow, thanks for that! I wasn't aware of a Wirex thread!
I sent them a request on the 10th of July and the replied me on 11th:
"Sorry for that, We have some temporary issues with unsynchronized card balance. Please recheck. Should be fixed. If not, please get back to me with screenshot."
I checked as soon as I saw the email and the money was there! 
One pound was missing, but I think it was the card monthly fee because it was exactly 1 month since I activated it. So everything is fine now! 

[NeuroticFish]

I checked as soon as I saw the email and the money was there! 
One pound was missing, but I think it was the card monthly fee because it was exactly 1 month since I activated it. So everything is fine now! 

This sounds great! Thanks for the news, I feel now more confident about Wirex.
Meanwhile I ordered a plastic card; all we need now is Bitcoin get on the rise again

[nutildah]

What's the best success anyone in the U.S. has had with a BTC or multicrypto debit card that doesn't have a monthly fee? I know there's a few, I'm still trying to suss out which card has the best success of use rate.

[alani123]

What's the best success anyone in the U.S. has had with a BTC or multicrypto debit card that doesn't have a monthly fee? I know there's a few, I'm still trying to suss out which card has the best success of use rate.

That'd be hard to spot but for US only cards I think that Coinbase's Shift card might be the winner. It came out early and was promoted by them, being the biggest bitcoin company. It got quite a bit of support from US bitcoin users so right now it might be among the top used ones among the numerous alternatives.

[Ferreck]

You should review and add TenX, they're shipping cards now... First ICO with a finished/working product so far.

tenx.tech

[alani123]

You should review and add TenX, they're shipping cards now... First ICO with a finished/working product so far.

tenx.tech

Shipping to who? Is this product intended to be publicly available at some point? Because I still see their app being unreleased to the public so I don't know what you're referring to.

[hilariousetc]

A lot of problems with Wirex, they don't even reply in the thread no more been months but they log in from time to time. Losing hope on these cards.

I was going to go with wirex as it seemed perfect for my usage but I read a couple of bad things about them. Does anyone recommend another? Preferably one that is UK based. Virtual or physical is fine, but if you can use the virtual card to direct transfer into your bank account that would be perfect. Also, if physical I would prefer one that can withdraw in USD and Euros if/when I'm in those countries. Thanks.

[nejibens]

Guys I hope you post also the supported countries by this card companies, because most of them (if not all) don't support the shipement for my country for example, and i am sure it is a problem of many other bitcoin's users.

[bluedeep]

Guys I hope you post also the supported countries by this card companies, because most of them (if not all) don't support the shipement for my country for example, and i am sure it is a problem of many other bitcoin's users.

What country are you from?

For example, Xapo: https://support.xapo.com/which-countries-can-the-xapo-debit-card-be-shipped-to

                   Wirex: https://help.wirexapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/207161779-The-list-of-supported-countries-for-Wirex-debit-card-issuance-and-delivery