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prepaid credit cards?

jonfirlotte — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 13:05:52 GMT

does public mobile accept prepaid visas? just asking for a family member. thanks!

Re: prepaid credit cards?

CellGirl — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 12:56:00 GMT

https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Paying-for-your-service/Setting-up-Autopay-using-Prepaid-Mastercard-Visa/m-p/328963/highlight/true#M24856

At above URL, @z10user4 talks about his success with a Visa gift card..

Re: prepaid credit cards?

Triguy — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 12:56:19 GMT

Yes.

Credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express) and Visa Debit cards that have been issued by Canadian or American financial institutions and are associated with addresses in Canada or the U.S.

Re: prepaid credit cards?

stonechucker — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:30:00 GMT

Public Mobile previously advertised the KOHO prepaid card. I'm using the virtual card for online purchases, and the physical card for brick and mortar locations.

Working well for me.

https://www.koho.ca

Re: prepaid credit cards?

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:41:25 GMT

@jonfirlotte wrote:
does public mobile accept prepaid visas? just asking for a family member. thanks!

Vanilla branded Visa or Mastercard work. Not their sister branded MyVanilla (I was trying to not sign-up to anything so that one didn't fit that criteria)

I haven't tried others. I like these because they're easy to find. And you can stay anonymous.

Triguy: he's asking about prepaid cards not full-on proper credit cards.

(As a caveat, one little detail that I haven't tested for my curiosity...actually renewing on the card. It sets up. It satisfies autopay. Manual payments can come from it. But I haven't actually tested a renewal. I was going to recently but then the 5gb promo showed up :). Now it'll be a couple more months.)

Re: prepaid credit cards?

Jesscross — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 21:41:20 GMT

If the prepaid Visa you are using does not work, you can get a Koho Visa card. It costs you nothing, and Public Mobile has been cross promoting it a couple of months ago

Re: prepaid credit cards?

stonechucker — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 22:58:11 GMT

@Jesscross wrote:
If the prepaid Visa you are using does not work, you can get a Koho Visa card. It costs you nothing, and Public Mobile has been cross promoting it a couple of months ago

I already suggested this above.

I can confirm the KOHO works for renewals.