Quote from: aigeezer on January 26, 2018, 07:18:29 PM

Good point, but why wouldn't Visa and Wavecrest just come to some agreement (asked rhetorically)? They've arguably both lost millions in revenue over some rule breach. Why wouldn't they just fix whatever it was? Even the governments affected may have lost millions in VAT or sales tax revenues. Bitpay cancelled its Visa card offering to Canadians, btw. I've forgotten whether it was a Wavecrest card but I think it was. Anyway, your U.S. example begs the question of why the Visa cards will only work now in the States? If Wavecrest did something so wrong that it lost the franchise, yet the solution is available for coinbase and Bitpay, then why isn't such a solution available for Visa worldwide, either to Wavecrest or some other provider?

Millions...do you have sources for this?
You're probably over inflating the numbers of users for those card.
In my case, and I live in Europe those card are useless for daily activity, even weekly. High fees, lower exchange rates, what's the point in using them as I can sell my coins for fiat and receive the money same day with a 1.5 euro bank transfer fee.

And how have the government lost millions in taxes?
You are not going to shop at Tesco, the government is losing taxes? what are you going to do for food...shop at the other stores, the government is getting his money in VAT.
Same with the cards, just because you don't have the plastic, you;re not going to spend your coins anymore?

Anyhow I would recommend everybody to stay away from shady companies issuing cards.
I've lost 2500$ when Epassporte went down and I barely managed to avoid other fiasco by withdrawing my money by chance 3 days earlier.

Quote from: aigeezer on January 26, 2018, 08:33:00 PM

What are the rules? Which rules did they break? Of course, I agree they may have broken rules, and that if we knew what they had done we might all agree that they did something wrong. However, we have no idea what exactly they did and neither Visa nor Wavecrest is speaking publicly to the issue. Wavecrest has our identity documents, btw, so if they are Bad Guys, it would be nice if Visa told us some details.

If Wavecrest who is the major loser of this is keeping quiet, is this because they don't want to scare the other customers, knowing that a ban in the US is closer than ever?

Back on the subject..the reviews..

I also need a card but I want it just for small online purchases.
I don't want the plastic, and I don't want to pay that 40$ fee, especially since I'm going to purchase stuff under <100 and only one time.
Also, I'm OK with any verification whatsoever
Suggestions?