Epassporte is the only funding option.....

[morphball]

I haven't done a bank to neteller deposit in a long time, but wasn't neteller 8%, if so ePassporte is 5%, that doesn't seem so bad, as long as you do blocks of $100...

[revots33]

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As for whether Epassporte will continue to have EFT's available, they have one thing in their favor that Neteller never had. They are a prepaid Visa debit card, and marketed as such. In addition to personal accounts, they offer business acounts, gift cards, etc. It seems unlikely ACH's will start blocking EFT's to prepaid Visa card companies, as there are a large number of them, and prepaid cards are popular.

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I may be wrong, but wasn't Firepay the same type of "virtual visa card" system? Why would epassporte be immune to the law when Firepay wasn't?

[Tachyon]

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There seem to be a major misconception about ePassporte's fees. Here is what I posted in another thread...

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Deposit/Load
Credit/Debit Card: US$5.00 per US$100.00 load or portion thereof
US Checking Account: US$5.00 per US$100.00 load or portion thereof for the initial load., then US$2.00 per reload regardless of amount reloaded.

Withdraw
ePassporte Visa Virtual Account Holders may transfer directly to a US Bank Account for a flat fee of US$2.00 per transfer. Non-US bank account holders can request a bank wire transfer for a fee of US$50.00. ePassporte Visa Virtual Account Holders who purchased a Visa Card can withdraw funds at millions Visa and/or PLUS ATM locations worldwide for just US$2.00 each transaction.

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That sure reads to me like it costs 5% for deposits via credit card. $5 for your intitial checking account deposit and $2 for every subsequent deposit transaction. Withdraws to a checking account seems to be $2 per transaction.

Now their definition of a transaction:
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Standard: $500 maximum transaction amount Max 10 transactions, Max 5 loads
Select status: $1000 maximum transaction amount, Max 10 transactions, Max 5 loads

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But here is the key:
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ePassporte Personal Account Holders may alternatively contact our Account Holder Services Department to increase their limits by providing additional personal information and documentation.

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You can increase your limits even further than $1000 per transaction. Even at a maximum of $1000/transaction, that equates to 0.2% which doesnt seem too bad to me.

I'm not sure how high they will let you go but if you can get it raised to say $10K. You are only paying 0.02% which is pennies...

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Is there a limit to the amount that you can withdraw back to your bank per transaction?

[h83puttin]

Can anyone who recently opened an epassporte account tell me how long it took to verify your account. I registered for my account two nights ago and they still haven't put those two small credits into my checking account so i still can't verify it.

[LeapFrog]

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Can anyone who recently opened an epassporte account tell me how long it took to verify your account. I registered for my account two nights ago and they still haven't put those two small credits into my checking account so i still can't verify it.

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Took a week and a half for the verification charges to show in my checking account. Already answered this in some other thread, maybe legislation. We should get some stickies setup...

[h83puttin]

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Took a week and a half for the verification charges to show in my checking account. Already answered this in some other thread, maybe legislation. We should get some stickies setup...

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Sorry searched the threads and couldn't find any info on that. Thanks for the quick answer.

[malo]

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As for whether Epassporte will continue to have EFT's available, they have one thing in their favor that Neteller never had. They are a prepaid Visa debit card, and marketed as such. In addition to personal accounts, they offer business acounts, gift cards, etc. It seems unlikely ACH's will start blocking EFT's to prepaid Visa card companies, as there are a large number of them, and prepaid cards are popular.

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I may be wrong, but wasn't Firepay the same type of "virtual visa card" system? Why would epassporte be immune to the law when Firepay wasn't?

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Firepay is a publicly traded company (Fireone). Epassporte is not. Firepay is strictly a virtual, online service. Epassporte offers both virtual, and plastic that can be used at b&m businesses.

Also, near as I can tell, Epassporte is not accepted at any sportsbooks. This may or may not wind up being significant, but it was facilitating the transfer of sports bets that got Neteller in trouble with DOJ.

[Ali shmali]

someone just told me epassporte also pulled out. can anyone confirm this? I don't see why they would

[curious123]

Who is this "someone"?

[Ali shmali]

a pokerstars affiliate on myspace. I don't think he know what he is talking about, but I want to double check.