Gift Card Help!

[Kansattica]

Okay, so I've stayed up until 3 AM local time trying to get a Visa gift card turned into Bitcoins. I think I can do it through PayPal or Moneybookers, but nobody likes those. Help, please!

[OgNasty]

Okay, so I've stayed up until 3 AM local time trying to get a Visa gift card turned into Bitcoins. I think I can do it through PayPal or Moneybookers, but nobody likes those. Help, please!

Why not spend the Visa gift card and then buy BTC with the cash you saved?

[Kansattica]

Then how would I get the coins? I can't really do a bank transfer.

[Weaver]

Then how would I get the coins? I can't really do a bank transfer.

Eh... At the current moment I don't think there are any official sites to change a visa gift card into a Bitcoin... You're going to have to find an individual to exchange it with. Go to #bitcoin-otc on freenode. (That's IRC, you can google mibbit (a web service) to use it easily). Or maybe someone wants it and will see it here. *shrug*

[Kansattica]

Thanks for the help! I ended up sending it to GetBitcoin. If there's another service that lets me use my actual debit card, I'd love to hear about it.

[Kansattica]

Update: Turns out you can use PayPal to buy bitcoins over eBay, so I'm doing that.

[Weaver]

Update: Turns out you can use PayPal to buy bitcoins over eBay, so I'm doing that.

I'd be very careful using PayPal. Too many users have had troubles with it. I'd suggest using ExchB and simply depositing straight up cash at a Wells Fargo.

[Kansattica]

Thanks for the help!