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Vanilla Visa Gift Card?*

I'm trying to use a Vanilla Visa Gift Card on a store website to buy a christmas gift. (hottopic) Do I treat it like a credit card? Or debit card? I registered it on vanilla's site already..and it worked. But when I go through the final checkout on the stores site it asks for a security code I type it in (the 3 digit code on the striped sticker on back) and it says its incorrect. I dont know if im doing something wrong..or does the site just not except it?

Answers:

1) I've heard of this issue before, and it has to do with the merchant's online fraud prevention system not set up for handling the Visa gift cards. Check to see if there is a way to confirm payment over the phone. Since you have already activated/registered the card correctly, and you have entered the visa information correctly, there doesn't seem to be any better explanation than the issue is on the website's payment side. Sorry I can't be of any more help. Merchants are sometimes slow to adopt new products like this.

2) My Father got me $300 dollars worth of these last year for xmas to support my online shopping addiction, and I ran into this issue a lot. Although..it worked for some places. It ticked me off quite a bit, couldn't use it on urban outfitters and such, or even paypal ! I found out some information on them though and they can be pretty useless for online shopping as you've seen. There is a GOOD one that won't ever give you a problem online if you do get a gift card again... and that is the "all access" visa gift card https://www.allaccessgift.com/gift/index.m go there to see what locations they are sold at near you. Always get those ones instead of Vanilla if you are using it for online purchases.

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