Green Dot visa card

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[idrawchickens]

Same card, same issue here. Only happening with steam it seems like. Not sure which end is being wonky though. Super annoying.

[Elvis II]

I just had this problem, talked to Green Dot support and was told that Steam is no longer accepting any Green Dot cards. I pressed for details, but didn't get any. I was just told that I can't use the card on Steam anymore.

[Tralalero Tralala]

hi

[anrkyuk]

Have you registered your name, address and telephone number with the card issuer, and do those details match your steam account details ?

[Christopher]

I had this problem too. The problem is Green Dot sucks. It used to be possible to purchase directly through Visa Green Dot cards but apparently they recently put some sort of block on it. I tried calling in to manually request the transaction to be approved multiple times. They always say they approved it, but it never works.

The only work around I've found is to link your green dot card to a PayPal account and pay with PayPal. It doesn't cost any extra and the payment processed fine for me after that.

[crunchyfrog]

Assuming this is the case - that Steam are no longer accepting them, then it's usually for a couple of reasons.

Whenever a vendor like Steam accepts cards or bank payments, then they obviously have to go through the same banking procedures everyone else does. I won't go into the details here, but the problem arise when there's fraud and mistakes.

If say, Valve get a payment from an account that has been phished, the scammer used the REAL owners bank card or another stolen one, and the bank that owns the card will not only rescind the payment, but Valve get forced to pay a fee (iirc it's around $35 a pop, but I could be wrong on that).

But it cuts both ways too. If there's an exploit or people are abusing this type of card, then Valve will still get the fee if the payment gets returned.

So it wouldn't take too many instances for Valve to go "♥♥♥♥ it" and cancel them as a payment method.

A few years ago, PaysafeCard was restricted on here for some time after a security breach (it was a few months iirc). Same thing.