Lots of us were using Amazon reloads to easily meet credit and debit card small spend requirements. That method died yesterday when Amazon raised the minimum to $5.Â
As an example, one of my many bank accounts requires three debit transactions to be kept fee-free. I dutifully reloaded my Amazon account with three $1 reloads to keep the account fee free.
People also like making small transactions to drain down a small balance on a prepaid card. You can find and contribute data points on which retailers drain prepaid cards in this dedicated post. For example, the reports there indicate that Aldi and Albertson’s and many other grocery stores drain down prepaid cards when swiped.
Please share your method for meeting small transactions requirements below. I’ll try adding them in as well:
- Paying for one banana at a time at the self checkout aisle in the grocery store
- Paying small amounts at the gas pump
- Water, gas, electric bills
- Phone, internet bills
- Insurance bills, and really any other bill being paid online
- Vending machine
- Toll account load and metro card load
- Patreon for $1
- Cash app reloads
- Load your Apple balance for $1
- Google Fiber $.01 loads
- Split payments when paying with PaypalÂ
- $1 Amazon gift cards via the Pepper app
