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Note: On January 8, 2016 American Express sent out a notice to a large number of Bluebird & Serve cardholders informing them that loading capabilities on their accounts had been terminated. For more information, see: Amex kills Bluebird and Serve for manufactured spend
American Express updated the Bluebird Member Agreement today (July 1, 2014). Previously, each account was limited to $1000 per day of “cash reloads” (these are reloads via Vanilla Reload cards or at via debit cards at Walmart). The new limit is now $2500. The $5000 per month limit is still in place.
The double asterisk on the $2,500 per day limit states: **Up to $1,999.99 per day at Walmart registers.
I think that the big win here is for those who load Bluebird at Walmart and can now make fewer trips. No word yet on whether Amex will make a similar enhancement to the Serve card.
UPDATE: Serve also has this new $2,500 limit. The Serve User Agreement now says:
…no more than US$2,500.00 may be loaded to your Account using a Green Dot MoneyPak or Vanilla Reload in any one day.
Hat Tip: Paul
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All customer reps @my WG do not allow loading from nameless GC. Only debit cards with one’s name on it..what’s up with that?? Also the kiosk states the limit as 1K to any BB card… Any advice on the subject? thanks
@Greg The Frequent Miler
can i use my CC to fund someone else’s serve?
account got suspended.
any ideas please?
thanks
Probably. You would have to get an authorized user credit card for the other person to match the name on their Serve account.
Can someone please tell me which icon you use to load Serve? I have done bluebird easliy as there is a specific bluebird icon, but I am not sure which one to use for Serve.
Thank you
it’s the same one
@Greg The Frequent Miler
any disadvantage to loading serve with moneypaks vs. VRs(if you can find them)?
thanks!
Yes, there are a couple of disadvantages:
1. MoneyPaks cost more ($4.95 vs. $3.95)
2. If you load too many, GreenDot will stop allowing you to load MoneyPaks to that particular Serve card. I don’t know how many is too many.
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to answer my own question: I went today and loaded $2,000 at the MC and then the kiosk was actually working so I tried another $500 there and it loaded so I guess the $1999.99 is to address the velocity lock on the kiosk at that number but more can be loaded if you do it at least some at the register.
Thanks, Seth. Sorry, I guess somehow I missed your post… Will try to get back on tack soonest! THANKS for all the help!
I have had a similar experience – loaded $1,500 on the kiosk and $1,000 with a cashier, so $2,500 Bluebird load per trip to Walmart. Sweet!!!
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I came to the hobby at the wrong time (when WM shut the usual Bluebird reload routine) and have been a bit traumatized since, so probably back to basics… How do I reload Bluebird now? What is the simpler path to manufacture miles/point with my CC via Bluebird? Any quick help for a traumatized beginner at this?
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Tim- my staples only sells 50-100-200 denominated visa gift cards. I have only had luck loading those issued by metabank. So, i only buy these.
If anybody else has had luck with other cards available at Staples- please let the board know.
I too use the $200 Staples Metabank variety and have yet to have a WM cashier say anything. I tell them up front that I have 5 $200 transactions to load and they go along with it. Announcing I now have 10 transactions should be a joy!
Would it not be possible to buy $500 Visa gift cards at Staples/Office Max with the 5X office supply category bonus with Chase Ink/Bold to reload BB at Walmart?
*** This was supposed to be a reply to Jeff in a previous thread.
Well – the kiosk may get suspicious :).
I am going to load via the kiosk $1999.99 to my Bluebird, walk around for awhile then come back and load $1999.99 to my husband’s card. This will take the number of trips to Walmart down from 5 to 3 and on the last trip I should be able to load without the waiting – I really hate going in there.
Well – the kiosk may get suspicious :).
I am going to load via the kiosk $1999.99 to my Bluebird, walk around for awhile then come back and load $1999.99 to my husband’s card. This will take the number of trips to Walmart down from 5 to 3 and on the last trip I should be able to load without the waiting – I really hate going in there.
I’m confused about the $2500 fording and the $1999.99 limit. Can I do a full $2500 if I use the money center or kiosk but only $1999 if I use the register? Is the limit $2500 at all of the other places you can load but Walmart limits it to $1999?
Re Aks: I just loaded two Metabank visa GCs from Ofc Max using WM kiosk yesterday. Worked fine. You can use the last 4 digits of the GC as the PIN, or you can reset the PIN at go wallet.com. Either way works for me.