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3V Cards in Ireland by Visa, one of the Irish banks and a company (3V): https://www.3v.ie/about_3V_vouchers.html https://www.3v.ie/about_3V_vouchers.html AFAI
by patrickk 16y ago
3V Cards in Ireland by Visa, one of the Irish banks and a company (3V):
https://www.3v.ie/about_3V_vouchers.html https://www.3v.ie/about_3V_vouchers.html
AFAIK, this was one of the first ever 'disposable' credit cards to come out. It's pre-paid - you get a new credit card number whenever you top-up. Great way to make a large, once off purchase (e.g. a new MacBook mmmmmm) that is over your existing card's credit limit.
- barrkel 16y agoI find it easier to overpay the credit card account, so that you generate positive (or negative, depending on how you look at it) balance. The bank's usually unhappy about it, but it works. This was one of the cheapest ways of turning my cash in my Irish bank account into cash in foreign countries. By loading up my Bank of Ireland credit card, I could withdraw cash from ATMs at Mastercard's exchange rate, and no other fees (or with no loss at all if in Euro). Since the cash advance isn't actually a loan, BoI doesn't charge interest on it. Unfortunately, the same trick doesn't work for most banks in other countries; almost every other bank charges interest on cash advances even when the bill is already paid, much less paid before due.