At first, she didn't quite believe me, and kept asking for the other four digits of the PIN to
reload my Bluebird.
I discussed earlier the recent ability to assign a PIN to some prepaid debit cards, making it possible to use them to
reload a Bluebird card at physical Walmart stores — or for use with other... [Read more...] about Which Gift Cards Are Easiest to Use for Manufactured Spending with a PIN?
You can also
reload Bluebird with Vanilla Reload cards which you can buy at CVS, Walgreen's or other locations.
Not exact matches
Though you can get a
Bluebird card online, you will not be able to access some of the free features - including free cash
reloads, unless you go to a Walmart.
This is a great way to help meet the minimum spending requirement on ANY credit card, or even for earning miles and points for transactions which don't usually earn miles and points as long as you buy Vanilla
Reload cards with your credit card at Office Depot and load them on your
Bluebird card.
@VULCANICO - You can't load a
Bluebird card at Family Dollar and they don't sell the Vanilla
Reloads which you can load online.
You then load your American Express
Bluebird with the Vanilla
Reload card and use your
Bluebird for transactions for which you don't usually earn miles and points — rent, mortgages, ATM withdrawals, paying bills by checks, etc..
Here's a post on what a Vanilla
Reload looks like and how to load a Vanilla
Reload card to your
Bluebird account.
You then load your
Bluebird card with the $ 500 Vanilla
reload card online and use your
Bluebird for transactions for which you don't usually earn miles or points — such as paying mortgages (using the
Bluebird Bill Pay), withdrawing from ATMs, paying other persons, etc..
One of the best uses of American Express
Bluebird is to buy Vanilla
Reload cards at an Office Depot with your credit card.
There is no easy replacement for Vanilla
Reloads to build a large account with
Bluebird and use it to pay your mortgage.
Put simply, you buy Vanilla
Reload cards using your credit card, load the funds to your
Bluebird prepaid card, then either cash out to pay your credit card bill or pay the bill directly from the
Bluebird bill - pay section.
To make real use of
Bluebird though, you must buy prepaid
reload cards like Vanilla Reload or Green Dot with one of your rewards - earning credit
reload cards like Vanilla
Reload or Green Dot with one of your rewards - earning credit
Reload or Green Dot with one of your rewards - earning credit cards.
I've loaded my
Bluebird with funds from Vanilla
Reload cards that I bought at my local CVS and then paid my mortgage, property tax, my electric bill, and put down a down payment for a vacation rental.
Simply use
Bluebird in conjunction with rewards - earning debit cards or prepaid
reload cards and you'll earn miles and points on the funds you deposit into your account.
Bluebird won't be a useful tool if you're unlucky enough to live in a destination where stores don't stock Vanilla
Reload prepaid cards.
The toughest part of earning miles and points with a
Bluebird account is finding Vanilla
Reload cards at a store that will accept credit card payments.
Without a rewards - earning debit card, you're relegated to making use of
Bluebird with Vanilla
Reloads.
Note that each of these methods relies on the Vanilla
Reload /
Bluebird method.
Bluebird has a $ 5K monthly limit on Vanilla
Reload loads.
If you're loading
Bluebird and all your Amex Prepaid cards with Vanilla
Reloads, then you'd need to buy 25 of them to reach the load limits (10 for
Bluebird and 15 for three Amex prepaids).
You can... [Read more...] about An Introduction to Using
Bluebird and Vanilla
Reloads for Earning Miles
It used to be that number 2 was where challenges arose, but with the rise of Vanilla
reloads, prepaid cards, and
Bluebird, it has gotten a lot easier to meet minimum spend and get your 50,000 - mile bonus to use for an award.
Dear Cashing In, To get extra reward points, I used to buy Vanilla
Reload cards on credit from a pharmacy nearby, then load a
Bluebird account and pay my rent with it.
And for good reason -
Bluebird is by far the easiest way to create points for ultra cheap, but it's not... [Read more...] about Cheap Points with Green Dot MoneyPak
Reloads at RiteAid
You could load $ 500 on each for only $ 3.95 per
reload, and send the money to a variety of prepaid cards (including
Bluebird).
Bluebird is pretty much the simplest product out there: you load it, either with Vanilla
Reload Network reload cards or a miles - earning debit card (like Bank of America's Alaska Airlines debit
Reload Network
reload cards or a miles - earning debit card (like Bank of America's Alaska Airlines debit
reload cards or a miles - earning debit card (like Bank of America's Alaska Airlines debit card).
She signed up for
Bluebird, and since I would be visiting her in Atlanta soon, waited for me to guide her through her first Vanilla
Reload purchase.
The one drawback here is that you are limited to loading $ 5,000 in Vanilla
Reloads onto your
Bluebird per calendar month (rather than rolling month); this means that you can only meet $ 15,000 of your minimum spend this way, and you can only have a balance of $ 10,000 at a time from sources other than check - by - mail or direct deposit.
I buy a lot of Vanilla
Reload cards to pay all of my mortgage / car / HOA and other bills by credit card (via
Bluebird).
- I can now cash out those gift cards for free via Amazon Payments or I can also go buy Vanilla
Reload cards and cash them out via
Bluebird.
It's great for buying money orders at Walmart, loading
Bluebird (if you can't find Vanilla
Reload or Visa / Mastercard giftcards), and buying miles cheaply using Square Cash.
You must spend $ 2,000 in 3 months, but that is pretty easy to do with Vanilla
Reload Cards and
Bluebird.