I have had this card since April of last year. I paid the $10 monthly just to give Netspend some money. I’d load about $7500-$10,000 a month and then liquidate it when the balance got close to $5000. I’d also swipe it about 10-20 times a month. I was going great for 8 months. But […]

Got a tip from this guy on X. His tip is that if you take your credit card (or your ID) and slide it into the opening on the back of the VGC up towards the magnetic bar code… if you immediately hit the sticky gel, then the card is LIKELY GOOD. However, if your […]

Ever since my last Vanilla card tampering incident, I was making sure to only buy new cards in packs or cards in the inside cabinet. However, the store started to run out of new packs and I was depleting the cabinet supply. I eventually got lazy and just started grabbing cards off the pegs, thinking […]

I bought a money order yesterday and noticed the paper had switched over to what you see above. The most noticeable changes are that the amount field is in yellow instead of white (maybe to help ATM machines read it better?) and now below the signature box it says “Mobile Deposit Prohibited.” I know some […]

Today I noticed how crisper the Safeway receipt looked compared to yesterday – almost like they moved to a laser printer over dot matrix. Then when I looked at my VGC receipt, I noticed it no longer prints the serial number of the VGC that I bought. It also grouped the fees into one line […]