@EB0 wrote:You can’t have the vanilla Mastercard giftcard as payment option, however, you may be able to use it to add money to your account by add
fund with credit card
How recent is your information?
While I have not helped activating any Public Mobile accounts since March, up to that point activation with Vanilla Mastercard was my go-to means for the process. I still have zero balance Vanilla cards registered on the two accounts left here (using up available funds and data before jumping ship for BTS/BF/BD offers elsewhere). Obviously this hack for people without a "real" credit card, or not willing to use it here, could have been disabled since, so I bow to the most up-to-date information. But it might just be one of those glitches. FWIW, for whatever reason I found Vanilla Mastercards more consistent for sailing through the process without a hitch, the few times I tried a Vanilla Visa, I needed two tries.
- I never assigned a postal code to the card itself (at vanillaprepaid.com). Didn't run into problems. If you chose to assign a postal code, make sure that it matches the one in the step below.
- The PM activation portal did require a valid postal code for a physical address (ie if you have a rural PO box address, pick a friend's street address in town).
- I always started activations on a completely clean slate. When it was still possible through the web browser, it meant clearing browser cache and using incognito in a fresh session. Potentially even going with a different browser. Nowadays activations can only be completed in the app. I'd log out of the app completely and uninstall the app, reinstall it and start activation.
You can’t have the vanilla Mastercard giftcard as payment option, however, you may be able to use it to add money to your account by add
fund with credit card
