The official EPASSPORTE thread. (#3 of 3.)

[ak47cali]

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im planning on going outside the US for like 6-8 months. will i have a problem trying to get money out of my atm EPP card?

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[rminusq]

In an effort to boost my loading capability from $300 to $500 or more, I added my BoA/VISA debit card to epassporte, did the verification and sent through a $100 load. It went through immediately (less the $5 fee), and I put $100 on Stars. I then got an email from BoA saying they were worried about fraudulent use of my debit card and to call them. It was ass o'clock, so I didn't at that point.
Today I get a call from them asking about the charge. I confirm that I made it. They said they block online gambling charges and epassporte is generally used for online gambling, so they blocked it. They ask if it was for online gambling, and I (foolishly) say "yeah". I then ask to confirm that they said they rejected the charge and they said they did.
Once the call is over, I go onto epassporte and BoA. Epassporte still has the $90 balance it had last night after the load and the Stars funding. BoA still shows the $100 charge (and the $1.25 verification) as pending.

Am I totally boned when BoA cancels the transaction and leaves me with a negative balance on Epass? I was perfectly able to load my account via ACH from the same BoA checking account.

[Buffalo66]

I've been an ePP user since January. At first my bank transfer was denied. I then loaded with a debit card and have been able to transfer money between sites without any problems.

I was using a prepaid Mastercard to cash out (called obopay) - I'd load the prepaid MC with the ePP virtual visa. Fees were very low.

Around June the ePP virtual Visa was being denied almost everywhere I tried to use it, including obopay. I bit the bullet and bought the plastic ePP Visa for $35 on July 5th. ePP said card would be delivered in 3-5 weeks.

5 weeks have passed and still no ePP Visa. After reading about many of the CS nightmare stories, I'm not sure I'm ever going to see this card.

It's looking like checks or finding a venue where the virtual Visa will work.

[rminusq]

So I called BoA just because I wanted to be sure I could now use my debit card. I was asked to confirm 3 recently questionable charges. Three? A computerized voice walks me through it:
Charge from Epassporte on August 12 for $1.25. If this charge is valid, press one. [boop] Charge from Epassporte on August 12 for $100. If this cha-- [boop]
what the hell's the third one?
Charge from Chick-Fil-A on August 10 for $6. [boop]
freakin' banktards

Then I go and buy lunch with my debit card and come back to another fraud alert. I had to deal with this crap on my credit card two months ago, entirely unrelated to poker, so I think it's just BoA being tards. Still, I think I'll do ACH from now on as it's a smaller fee, even if it takes a @#$#in week to get there.

[Mike Haven]

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The important current facts will be repeated without having to scan through some old and unimportant stuff.

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This is basically what I was looking for when I was posting in the ePass thread #2. It would be very useful. Perhaps a post in a sticky thread just explaining the current status of ePassporte and general info about it?(info that can't be easily obtained from the ePass website).

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If you would like to scan through the last hundred or two posts and precis the important facts in a post in this thread, it would be much appreciated by all. Thanks.

[butt3rcup]

Im new with the account and it is not activated yet and i dont know anyone who own an epassporte so i dont know what to do. Can anyone help me with this. thanks

My account is buttercup.

[Stosh]

Is the Epassporte ATM card still working efficiently? I haven't used it in months, but plan to soon.

[pepper123]

I used it to buy dinner last night and it ran through fine

[malo]

Used it a couple days ago at the grocery store. No problems.

[TheRedRocket]

does anyone know if the paypal visa debit card will work as a epassporte funding option?

thanks