Best Pre Paid Cards

clinteastwood43

Here is a wee list of the best Pre Paid

Cards guys 🙂

http://uk.creditcards.com/prepaid.php

My pick would be Pockit Mastercard

Pockit is a pre paid Mastercard & their

slogan is no nonsense banking & they

were card and payment winners 2016 .

Where you can join in 2 mins and get

an account & contactless Mastercard

and transfer money to UK & of course

International Banks .

The daily mirror for one sings Pockit 's

Praises .

http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/banks-refused-give-6-million-7927536

And offeroasis is giving a free fiver at

the moment when joining through the

link on their own homepage .

The offer is still on and I think it is well

iworth checking out and considering to

if it would be a asset for you folks .

http://www.offeroasis.co.uk/

dtuxcomp

@clinteastwood43 I can personally second your mention of Pockit as I use their service. I don't post an affiliates link so do not benefit from reccomending it.

I was looking for something where I could keep it sandboxed away from my bank account but still have the ability to shop online etc. Compared to credit card charges and interest I find their 99p to topup / send money to others charge cheap.

The default is to "buy" your initial card for 99p from a credit / debit card, but obviously that negated the whole process for me so I found that you can also do this using phone credit so I paid £1 ( as you can't do a 99p debit from phone credit but this was clearly stated ) and bought the card that way.

I've used it to setup an ebay account, paypal and direct purchases from independent outlets as well. Knowing that the worst can happen is the card will be emptied sure beats saying goodbye to your bank balance 🙂

Fortunately my local shop does paypoint so I only have a 5 mins walk to top the card but I always leave it at home otherwise as it is contactless so why carry it when I don't need to.

I'm sure there are other providers with similar offerings but this one works for me.

frenchielove

Great info @dtuxcomp thank you guys

clinteastwood43

@frenchielove

Good mornings and thankyou very

much 🙂

I love the idea it is not a credit or a

debit card and you only spend what

you load & its mastercard 🙂

Here is a handy wee U tube video I

thought will simply explain more to

anybody thats interested in Pockit .

giffer23

Thank you for sharing, great information.

mcilwraith

ive had a fairfx for years @clinteastwood43 dont know if i want to swap

bobrobinson

Hiya @clinteastwood43

Thanks for this great thread mate.

Iv just ordered the pockit card . It was so easy to fill in the form

I paid £1 through text and it was sorted.

Thanks again mate

Bob

clinteastwood43

mcilwraith wrote:

ive had a fairfx for years @clinteastwood43 dont know if i want to swap

Hey @mcilwraith

Good evenings 🙂

I was looking on martin lewis 's site at pre paid

travel cards and thankyou fairfx has a lot going

for it matey 🙂

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/credit-cards/prepaid-travel-cards

clinteastwood43

bobrobinson wrote:

Hiya @clinteastwood43

Thanks for this great thread mate.

Iv just ordered the pockit card . It was so easy to fill in the form

I paid £1 through text and it was sorted.

Thanks again mate

Bob

@bobrobinson

Hey bob 🙂

Good evenings 🙂

Here thankyou that is terrific matey 🙂

I think the pockit card pre paid card is

really brilliant and it's so handy to load

money onto and our @dtuxcomp is a

big fan of how useful and simple it is

to use too bob 🙂

bobrobinson

@clinteastwood43

Cheers mate im looking forward for it to come and i can start using it.

All the best Bob

chand311

Good info @clinteastwood43.

clairef866

Great, thanks!

dtuxcomp

bobrobinson wrote:

Hiya @clinteastwood43

Thanks for this great thread mate.

Iv just ordered the pockit card . It was so easy to fill in the form

I paid £1 through text and it was sorted.

Thanks again mate

Bob

@bobrobinson A couple of tips for you mate. The card does take a few days to arrive but if you are worried the website has a chat section where you can ask for help, also when you go to top it up at a paypoint shop if they say it won't work check they are swiping it like a bill payment card and not inserting it in the maching like a chip and pin card, this one had me baffled until I went to a different shop and they figured it out. If you top up this way 99p of what you top up is taken to cover the top up fee and your online balance and statement shows the current activity quite quickly. Hope it works out for you. D.

bobrobinson

@dtuxcomp

Hiya Mate and thanks for the tips

My card came this afternoon. I tried to activate it on the app and it said your aplication is pending try again later.

So i went on the computer and it takes me straight to the block or unblock card page.

I dont know whats wrong.

Bob

dtuxcomp

@bobrobinson I haven't tried the app, I just followed the instructions with the letter and the card activated no problem. I've just tried to log into my account but my browser has forgotten the login details so I'll have to try again when I can did out the password on the paperwork. On the website does it list your account and show a zero balance ?

bobrobinson

Hiya @dtuxcomp

No it just takes me to the summery and the blocked cards page.

I went to settings and all my profile is there.

I also delibratly put in a wrong password when i logged in and it did say wrong password so it is al set up.

dtuxcomp

@bobrobinson Just managed to get into my account, had to extract the password from my tablet as can't remember where I put the original paperwork ☹ On the page which should show your card details - https://app.pockit.com/cards there's a table that lists your cards, it should show yours as primary and if you look along the top of the table there's a heading for "status" does that have a tick under it ? Mine has a tick there then says "view limits" and "block" after the tick. I might just be that it needs some time to activate but I can't remember what I did.

dtuxcomp

@bobrobinson Had to avoid screen grabbing my card no but it should look like this.

bobrobinson

Hiya @dtuxcomp

I used that link you gave and it just takes me back to my login page and when i log in it just takes me to the page it always does.

As you say it it may take a while to activate.

Thanks for your help mate .

Bob

dtuxcomp

@bobrobinson You can email them - >**email_removed** or access the online help via the account page, it's in the top right corner with the FAQ's etc. Once you get setup, as long as you remember where you put the password for safe keeping ( or maybe that's just me 😉 ) it does work flawlessly, hopefully it's just slow to activate. Let me know how you get on. D.

EDIT :- Just realised the email address was removed, let me know if you want me to PM it to you, or it's available via the website.