Well my original problem has gotten sorted (i got the $5 balance to show up in my account) but now i'm facing the problem of what to do with not just thus $5 on myprepaidcenter.com but also the $10 card i bought from the bitcoin company using sats. The bitcoin company uses this site yourrewardcard.com. I'm guessing this too must be the exact same corporations that do the former site. Both of these cards do not work on where i intended to use them (Spokeo.com).
So my question now is, where are these cards spendable? Which merchants accept these cards? Spokeo itself is a scam service that tells you the report is just $0.95 but also tries to set you up on a monthly payment plan of much larger payments. So, maybe these virtual cards won't be accepted by them, for they want to scam people with regular credit cards who will not regularly check their statements.
There's no way to tell for sure. You'd have to test that sadly. You can do that with small amounts and see for yourself, especially if the site you're using is not a well-known one.
And by the way, you're not the only one having issues with the Bitcoin company. I had a similar experience.
Actually The Bitcoin Company guys refunded my sats back to me. At least they have a customer support email and telegram system in place. Though, they showed a lot of attitude ("mate, you only have a $10 card, why are you wasting our time" etc. they're from Australia). But at least they refunded my money back to me. Didn't lose anything and gained 1000 sats for signing up on their stupid app.
But the MyPrepaidCenter thing is a disaster. There is no support email and you have to call their phone numbers. I have written about how I did not get (or maybe did not see the email) the code from them initially, and then somehow got a free international calling app (that provided just 2 minutes of 1 free call) and managed to call their Tolled support number, and get the card to show up in my account. But it was all for vain, the card would not work anywhere. I finally resorted to using it to top up some gift card balance on my amazon.com account (not my actual amazon.in account, it wouldn't work there). It's still wasted, since I can't really use this $5 balance to buy anything, the shipping on Amazon.com to India itself would be a lot lot more and they don't allow buying Kindle Books on Amazon.com that can be read by an account in India (*rolling my eyes*). Still better to waste it this way than have the cheaters at Pathward N.A. gobble up my $5 on an unused card.
MyPrepaidCenter and basically all Pathward N.A. cards only work on USA sites it seems.
Basically they're all cheating when they use words like Worldwide and International. These cards are not international. They only work on USA sites.
It's all a clusterf*ck, that's why the world needs bitcoin. These financial k*kes will create 100 hoops to jump through to even spend your own money. Bitcoin is the way.
Never buying any "card" issued by Pathward N.A.
