[Update 12/16/20: This comment suggests that it’s mainly the multi-card purchases that were bothersome; it’s possible that using a single card to make a single transaction stores might allow without asking to see card, etc. YMMV, of course.]
[Update 12/14/20: Some were saying this is all the elaborate work of trolling. However, I’ve now heard from enough sources making me confident this is legit.]
Walmart stores are circulating a memo indicating that the stores will no longer allow transactions for the purposes of manufactured spend beginning December 19, 2020.
The memo, pictured below, describes what manufactured spend is, and that Walmart stores will no longer allow it due to the time-consuming nature of these transactions. It’s up to Walmart employees to spot the activity and disallow such transactions.
Reader Sam sent in the above image, and reader b. also tells of seeing the same memo (though they were barred from taking an image), and reader Jonathan sent in this tip as well.
This will affect prepaid card loads, money orders, etc. Anything that appears to the Walmart employees to be for manufactured spend purposes won’t be allowed, according to the memo, which is probably (?) being sent to all Walmart stores nationwide.
This looks to be the final nail in the coffin of the Walmart/MS era. Sad day for many people. If you rely on Walmart, be sure to liquidate everything this week before the ban goes into effect.
I successfully earned Citi Premier bonus rewards yesterday when I purchased a $100 Walmart gift card at the self checkout. My Citi app APPEARS to count it as a purchase so everything SEEMS to be working, at least for Citi Premier MS purposes.
possible to liquidate a Metabank prepaid Mastercard gift .card at Walmart, a$2,555 value from a class action suit
Anyone bought MO using $500 VGC after Dec 18?
I was able to load a $500 Mastercard MetaBank gift card in one swipe onto my prepaid Bluebird today at Money Center.
+1. $500 Meta MCGC to bluebird.
Question though. it did not asked for pin so I’m assumming it was run as credit. The cashier was a bit surprised but didn’t say anything. Is that big no-no?
My last successful money order purchase was Dec 18. I tried to get one a couple days after Christmas and got the “Debit Not Available Appr. Code = 01” error. Same customer service rep I’ve gotten money orders from for years and she had no idea why it printed the error. So, looks like it might be hard coded into the registers now, at least at my location. Tried to load $200 on my GoBank card and it was also declined for the same error (I used a different gift card just to make sure my first gift card that I used for the attempted money order purchase didn’t have an issue).
RIP Walmart. It was good while it lasted. This is going to severely affect my MS activities as Walmart was my best option for GC liquidation.
Last year, I was able to use my VISA GC as debit to pay for my Erie insurance (credit card not accepted). However, it did not work this year
Can confirm that $500 VGC loaded just fine at the WM register. However, I was unable to load $500 at money center/customer service (error code 56).
Also, at money center/customer service you can load $100, it doesn’t have to be $99 (I loaded $300 by splitting the tender on 3 cards, $100 on each).
Which VGC card did you reload at the WM register? Do you mean you purchased a WM VGC at the WM register with your CC?
I didn’t reload visa gift card. I moved money form the visa gift card to my prepaid BlueBird.
Purchasing WM VGC with your CC shouldn’t be a problem at all.
Thanks for the clarification!
what’s the vgc’s first 6#s that u successfully loaded a $100 @ MC?
sorry, I don’t remember the numbers. but I used at least 9 different VGCs, drained $100 from each.
Ever since mid-late November I was only able to debit $99 each swipe from such VGCs at the MC at my local WMT stores. It pains me now that I can only buy a $395.12 max money order per visit to a WMT MC. The whole MS is now costing too much more effort than before.
Did you do at Self-service check-out register or at regular register (with a WM employee)? Also, how do you load money on BB at register…put the BB card and then the GC and follow the prompts? never done it before ….
As I previously wrote (much to the now chagrin of the corp-whores who fought it and are now exposed): wmt: corporate terrorists.
Now, even more proof: murderers*.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/22/business/walmart-justice-department-opioids/index.html
Sacklers: murderers who’ve killed many hundreds of thousands of people. Yet, white and kushner-like, so obv tax breaks and pardons from russia-loving-whitehouse-treasonists, rather than prison terms. Walk away billionaires, like waltons.
*Just as one does not need to pull the trigger to be legally culpable of murder, one does not need to physically stick it in to be a catholic child rapist, nor be at the register/website when the capo-terrorists fulfill the mafioso crimes and eventual murders.
Decades and decades of corporations being terrorists, against the people of this great country, which is the richest in the history of the world… while having the most starving children in the history of the first world, the highest infant mortality in the modern world…. For those who fight for corps over the citizens of this great, rich country: GFY and GTFO.
All the best to those who actually fight for this great country and our people, and most importantly, for the kiddos who cannot yet fight for themselves! xoxo
murdered many hundred of thousands of **people = **AMERICANS
Went to load my gobank card this evening with a $200 vgc at the register. It was declined the first swipe, receipt said reason code 01. Tried again with the same card and it went through fine. Anyone know what reason code 01 is? I am wondering if I fat fingered the pin code.
Did some Bluebird reloads at a few Walmarts yesterday, got the same thing at some of them.
Greg .
You probably entered your PIN correctly
Hey
kenpet – yeah, bill pay on the Bluebird site has been broken ever since the November redesign, and it was already having issues when InComm took over the site from Amex. I can’t even pay my pre-update bills with it.
I just transfer the loaded funds to an external account when I know I’ll have a break between reloads. I’ve done this several times since November and InComm hasn’t said anything about it.
I don’t have any personal experience with their Visa bank product, so don’t have any insight there.
Thank you so much
Chris. The limit for external bank transfer is $15K/month. I may have to go that route if they can’t fix Bill Pay. Any experience using BB checks? Thanks again
Yeah- ACH external transfer is typically a 5 day wait and doesn’t seem to be a transaction limit aside from the 15k monthly, so may be your easiest route,
kenpet.
Haven’t used BB checks either, although that’s basically what they do for the bill pay. At one point they didn’t tell Chase which CC to pay, so Chase mailed it to me and it was a bit of a headache getting the check reversed.
I got debit not available errors with a US bank visa gift card loading a bluebird.
for $500 or what amount? plz try again & post if will go thru? if not, wonder a $99 load would be successful?
Bau for me this morning