Re: OT: Back from the Wilderness and Downtime
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Sep 06, 2016
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Will they accept non-renewable/non-reloadable gift cards? More importantly, will they accept gift cards or prepaid credit cards with $0.00 remaining dollars? If so, then the solution is simple - buy yourself a $5 gift card as an early (or extra) x-mas present, spend it at the local dollar store, and once every cent is used up add it as the 'CC' for the shared paypal account.
Nevermind, it looks like this won't work as a long term solution (unless you are willing to buy and install a new gift card every few months^1) - they 'expire' as soon as they hit a $0.00 balance, and even if you leave say $5 on a gift card and never use it, eventually it'll get eaten up by fees from the CC issuer.
http://www.chrisinch.com/blog/articles/show/5-reasons-avoid-pre-paid-credit-cards/
^1. Even if you were willing to do this, the cost of buying a prepaid credit card might be high enough to make this impractical - $5.75 to activate a card with only $5 on it! Outrageous! And you'd have to do this every couple of months.
