VISA gift card not working in valorant
Im trying to use a prepaid VISA gift card i got a while back to buy $35 worth of VP and it just says "transaction has been declined. The card seems to be invalid" Ive bought things in valorant just fine before this with prepaid gift cards, anyone know whats up? card has enough money on it.
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Have you tried contacting Visa about this problem?
nah, contacting visa or riot is probably my next step if no one here knows
Sometimes they lock the card due to suspicious activity (personally, I think they do it on purpose) and you usually you have to call them and confirm it's actually you trying to use the card
Mastercard did that a few times but idk about Visa
do they do that with the gift cards? i imagine that would only be for proper debit and credit cards
It's a Visa prepaid card right?
yea prepaid gift card
Yea, there's a possibility of them doing that
mhm, will look into it
ong whats the info of the card
ayo?
VISA was not able to help me
neither was the card provider but i didnt get through to a real person so who knows
Where did you buy the card from?
some CVS pharmacy if i remember correctly
Are you using the card via in-game?
yep
i tried amazon too
Have you tried contacting Visa via email?
i cant
they ask for card number and the one on the card itself doesnt work
i cant use my visa gift card either
provider?
Maybe they didn't activate the card when you purchased it from CVS
nope, i have made two purchases with this card previously
i got it for my birthday idk where they got it from
no like on the card
for example mine says vanillagift
mine dont have one
its a happy bday card
visa
mhm
it was bought from target
Does it like have an online portal where you can see the balance and stuff? maybe you can see if it's locked
there is, at least for vanillagift
doesnt help though
i tried calling the number on the visa gift card website but i got stuck in a giveaway loop
it also says the card is active on the vanillagift site so idk
Yeah I currently have the same issue - I've bought from the store using visa cards many times before, but this time is different - and the card itself isn't an issue since I had been able to make a steam purchase as well
the thing is u need money for tax so that might not work
I have more than enough on the card for tax
I’ve sent a ticket to riot, will report back
I did the same about 2 hours ago, but at least its good to know that we're also not the only 2 dealing with visa problems
I've seen a couple other people here report on it so it should be fixed soon
i'll send the response to my ticket if it helps here
Sometimes for prepaid cards you have to login to the visa website and add a postal code for verification
I don’t think there is a way to do that on visas website
I am going to sleep now tho
if you know a way I will check tomorrow
my ticket got redirected, might take until tomorrow
with vanilla gift cards, the way I do it is connect it to a PayPal account and use PayPal to buy the cards
PayPal let’s you connect prepaid cards, and you can use it that way instead if you want
it should work with any other prepaid too
don’t have PayPal
@drysdalia I just bought a val giftcard (before purchasing the points) off of Best Buy pretty easily, but Amazon is also another option if you want to use that
Its basically 1 extra step for a reliable solution
Mine did not work on Amazon
And im trying to get $35 worth anyways
Got a response from riot support, I haven’t looked too closely at it but it’s basically stuff we already know
So I’m kinda stuck
alright well my card started working on amazon so im just doing that
o7
still not working in valorant so i guess this is just how it be now
it is a prepaid visa right?
next time just search visa prepaid
and then login with ur card
I've done it before
Much easier with vanilla prepaid Mastercards too