How to Use a Green Dot Card
The "Green Dot" card is part of Visa/Mastercard's new "prepaid" product line. A "prepaid" card has several distinct advantages. Rather than being a credit card, a prepaid card is a card that you load with your own money, avoiding the hazards of high APY and interest on unpaid amounts. The green dot cards will no doubt help many of us carry value conveniently without carrying cash or racking up credit card debt.
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Buy your green dot card at a local retailer. Convenience stores, pharmacies or other convenient locations near you will sell green dot cards over the counter. Visa/Mastercard provides a list of locations for a region on the website under "store locator" (see Resources below).
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"Load" money onto your card at the point of sale and keep track of how much you contributed.
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Use your green dot card anywhere that Visa and Mastercard are accepted. Green cards can save you lots of hassles in many places, from the train or bus station to the cafe.
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"Reload" your card with the "MoneyPak Universal Reload" system. Just return to any retail location that sells green dot and ask for the MoneyPak reload package and follow the instructions to add any amount of money to your card for future purchases.
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Take advantage of green dot card products tailored to your situation. From the "uso diario" or "daily use" card, to other cards available in Spanish translations, a variety of products serve diverse customers. A "student card", for example, allows parents to provide value to departing undergrads without issuing them a credit card.
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Comments
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I want to buy 3 of them as gifts for Christmas. I don't have the individual's SS#. What do I do?
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I put money on it but now cannot rmmber the zip code I used at t time how do I retreive this?
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bobnert
May 17, 2010
What a rip off! Yes, Green dot is a rip off. Amazing. If you don't call to close the card after using it they will continue charging you a monthly fee indefinitely. Green dot is a rip off. Ripoff rob scam Green Dot. -
mangokim
Dec 26, 2009
I'm a freelance writer for MasterCard's Mango Money prepaid debit card and I like the convenience of using Greendot as a way to load money onto the card. Here's an excerpt from the website for more information: You can load cash onto your Mango MasterCard Prepaid Card by purchasing a Green Dot® MoneyPak®, which is a way to convert your physical cash to electronic cash when loaded onto your prepaid debit card. With money loaded on your prepaid debit card, you can shop online or in stores with no high fees and no interest. Get a MoneyPak® at one of tens of thousands of retailers nationwide from the Prepaid Product Section. Its easy to load just follow the direction on the package and Green Dot will add the money to your Mango Card. Your funds will be instantly available.
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slapstick
Sep 05, 2008
green dot has screwed me twice. once for $35 and another time for $1800. theres not even an activation code this time.
