Comments on: 3V Voucher Prepaid Card Review

By: peter grieveson

peter grieveson — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:20:46 +0000

What a complete load of rubbish a 3v card is. I got one worth 25 pounds at christmas. Registering is a joke. Tried to buy items which failed. Tried to transfer it to Amazon vouchers but got refused. Customer services is useless. These cards should be banned. Just use a normal visa card. Utter rubbish. Rip off. Naff. Pathetic avoid at all costs.

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By: Steve Fitton

Steve Fitton — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:22:41 +0000

What a useless card! Difficult to register and when you have wasted hours trying to use it, you are charged £3.50 to redeem a £25 card to your bank account. They don't answer E mails and currently I am still waiting for it to be paid to my account after a week. Under no circumstances buy one of these cards for a gift or for anything else. There is not a zero stars rating or it would get it!

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By: colin

colin — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:56:11 +0000

i purchased a 3v evoucher (it cost me only £2) and i used it to verify my LIMITED paypal account. it worked almost immediately and i was even able to withdraw ALL of my funds from my limited paypal account which arrived as a deposit on the evoucher the next day. i would highly recommend the 3v evoucher for use with paypal, and i am sure it could also be used with ebay too.

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By: Ian Simmons

Ian Simmons — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:16:25 +0000

I got a £25 card as a birthday present. This whole set up is deliberately designed to be costly to use - multi stage registration, can't use for any purchase for more than £25, then a fee if you want to transfer to another card - or £3.50 to your bank account - and even then they want an IBAN number - Lloyds are still trying to find mine. Take some first hand advice - like everyone else here - AVOID 3V PRE PAID CARDS LIKE THE PLAGUE UNLESS YOU ENJOY PAYING RIP OFF CHARGES!

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By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:45:57 +0000

Pain in the posterior to spend a small remaining card balance online. I have £1.99 remaining balance and it seems £5 is often the minimum spend required by online retailers. Complicated registration process. A £2 monthly fee after 9 months is also a bad feature - their customer services refunded this when I complained it was poorly described on the online statement and have changed their description from now.

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By: Glen

Glen — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:55:30 +0000

Got one of these cards given to me for my birthday, tried in vain... to link it to a current paypal account, failed.... tried to confirm card to activate it, failed.... eventually managed to transfer total amount left on card to bank account, hopefully with some success!!!! ONLY TAKEN ME 8 MONTHS !!!!! LOL (PLEASE CAN I HAVE ANY PRESSIES IN CASH IN FUTURE !!!!! LOL would not use one again, or give one. NIGHTMARE, TO COMPLICATED FOR MOST TO USE.

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By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 22 May 2011 14:47:58 +0000

I received 2 £25 cards as a gift and thought I would be able to make a purchase of £50 from them. But no each card has to be used seperately or if you wish to combine them you need to pay a fee of £1.75. Fed up with this I decided just to transfer the balance to my bank account - cost £3.50 per card. A rip off and uneccessarily complicated. AVOID!

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By: fran burton

fran burton — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:54:39 +0000

Avoid this card like the plague. poor reg process, it was bought for me as a present. spent more than an hour trying to link it to pay pal, still no luck just keeps saying contact the card issuer. yet the card clearly displays the ebay and paypal trade marks and says gift card which it is not. its a 3rd party pre paid credit card. rubbish give them cash instead.

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By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:16:08 +0000

3V Voucher Prepaid cards are a rip off. Almost every way you turn they find a way of adding huge charges. On a card worth £25 a charge of £3.50 to transfer any remaining balance is ridiculous. The only way to bring the balance to exactly £zero is to make a donation to your chosen charity.

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By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:33:33 +0000

This must be the worst rip off card on the highstreet,you think it would be easy to transfer money that is on the card to your paypal a/c think again I have been trying for 2 days but all paypal keeps saying is error contact your bank or card supplier and as no phone No is supplied you have to contact them by email which every time I try says error wrong address.AVOID AVOID AVOID.

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By: Wendy

Wendy — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:16:46 +0000

Terrible waste of time and money, the entire procedure is designed to make sure you end up paying charges for using the card(when you actually manage to activate it). My husband simply wanted to load £50 to my paypal account for my birthday, but you can only use one card per transaction and he bought two £25 cards from Morrisons. You are charged if you buy from abroad, if the transaction fails for any reason, if you don't us it within 9 months or if you try to transfer the funds to your own bank account. You can't buy anything for a greater value than the card (including postal) so beware they are NOT worth buying as a gift

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By: ian

ian — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:21:33 +0000

I got one of these and it's a rubbish card. Worst gift card out there. Why would you give this card when you have to go through the register process, then activate it, then you get trouble when trying to use it etc etc, Capital bonds or just normaql vouchers are much better than this.

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By: susan

susan — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:20:12 +0000

3v voucher is not a bad card the only thing that lets it down is you couldnt withdraw cash from, but as gift card its a great alternative so kids can get what they really want

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