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PrepaidnGift Balance has 271 customer reviews and ranks 114th in the Gift Cards category. Common review topics include customer service, gift card.

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Virginia
1 review
8 helpful votes
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I spent hours trying to activate!
January 9, 2019

So my kids received these cards for the Christmas present. Went online and activated them. Used them on Amazon they bounced. Tried going online to see why and I was locked out. Called the phone number and hold forever. Finally spoke to a person after being on hold for over an hour. She said she would activate. We will see what happens.

Date of experience: January 9, 2019
Oregon
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Don't ever purchase
January 7, 2019

I bought one of these for my friend and one for myself. Both had $20 on them. Mine worked for a little bit, but then I wasn't able to sign into my previously activated account. My friend spent $10 and when he went to make another $10 purchase, it was declined. He checked his account and the other $10 was randomly deducted from his account with no signs of someone having the card info. No logs or anything.

Date of experience: January 7, 2019
Canada
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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Terrible. Terrible.
January 3, 2019

No way to get this website to load. Shameful that VISA would associate with such a terrible useless service provider.

Date of experience: January 3, 2019
Ohio
2 reviews
13 helpful votes
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Might as well be typing in nothing
December 31, 2018

Got two gift cards. One, completely fine for a bit, made several transactions online. Then I couldn't log in. "Okay," I thought. "I'll just use the other one." Can't even activate that one.

Date of experience: December 30, 2018
Ohio
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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The Worst
December 27, 2018

Tried to receive my money back from merchant, and was never told al the information needed for refund. Went from 10 days to 120 days. I suggest you never make any attempts to use this Service. The do not Care and The Reps are not trained well to responded to customer questions when trying to get a Refund.

THEY SUCK... NEVER AGAIN

Date of experience: December 27, 2018
Texas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE STAY AWAY.
December 27, 2018

Tried and Tried to put the card number in for 8 hours. Finally worked for 2 hours. Had to reactivate it again for another 2 hours. DO NOT RECOMMEND

Date of experience: December 27, 2018
Texas
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Would have done better just giving cash!
December 27, 2018

Have been trying to activate since 3:00p.m. It is now 8:50p. M, still haven't activated card. Customer service is useless. I will never purchase this card again.

Date of experience: December 26, 2018
New Mexico
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Impossible to activate and register
December 27, 2018

Received card as a Christmas gift and spent many hours trying to activate it online. Then called the customer service number and was on hold forever. I read the comments and someone said to use firefox so while hold, I downloaded the Firefox browser and waited for it to load. Was able to log in and the Register Gift Card link took a million years to load but then bombed out when I entered my address. Stay away from this gift card!

Date of experience: December 26, 2018
Arizona
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I've been on hold for nearly 30 mins waiting for a response. The first time I called they sent me a link-- I had hope after 6 hours of frustration but then it would not load to the next page.

Date of experience: December 26, 2018
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Impossible to activate
December 26, 2018

I am a teacher and often receive gift cards from my students. I received a prepaid visa for $50 recently. I have now been trying for 3 hours to activate my card. The website wouldn't load on my phone for 45 minutes. Finally got the sign in screen, entered my information, and it froze. After reading reviews from people who had similar problems, I used the customer service number. It prompted me to enter the pertinent numbers, yay, I thought, success. When I entered it, it said they would send a text with instructions. Waited 10 minutes, no text, so hung up and tried the website again. 20 minutes later I got a text with a link, tried the link, and back to the non-loading website. Finally got through to customer service who said they are doing maintenance and to try back in a max of 2 hours. I'd be hopeful, but the reviews I've read said they experienced this as well with no luck (calling back later got the same message). I guarantee I will no be purchasing any of these gift cards for others in the future!

Date of experience: December 26, 2018
Virginia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Almost impossible to register to the card for online purchases. Website is constantly down. DO NOT use gift cards for online purchases, website never works. Have tried accessing my account 3 days in a row, none have worked.

Date of experience: December 26, 2018
West Virginia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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A Complete Nightmare!
December 26, 2018

The process of "PrepaidGiftBalance" is worse than the process of buying a new home. The website rarely works; the automated system will not complete the process; and, it is HORRIBLY understaffed, and "Sylvia" that answered was rude as hell!

Date of experience: December 26, 2018
Ohio
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Craphole website
December 26, 2018

Just trying to see how much is left on my giftcards. The website worked when I got the cards, but now it isn't loading.

Date of experience: December 26, 2018
Michigan
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Website is horrible
December 26, 2018

I bought three (3) $100 prepaids and tried to register them. The website refused to load on Chrome and timed out on Edge. I had to install Firefox and wait 20 minutes to get to the site. And the phone number is useless. No activity after 2 whole minutes.

Date of experience: December 26, 2018
Texas
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Never use prepaid gift balance EVER!
December 17, 2018

I put $400.00 on a Prepaid Balance Visa Gift Card, after using the card for several purchases, I signed on line to find out I had a negative balance! When I called the company they said some retailers hold certain amounts but they will put my money back. After 3 weeks my money has not been put back on my card, They blocked my from the website so I cant pull up any of my transactions and on top of all that they told me the first person I spoke with didnt know what she was talking about! So my money is missing and I cant even verify my transactions! Employee and Manager are rude as hell! I feel like they stole money from me!

Date of experience: December 17, 2018
Canada
1 review
9 helpful votes
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If I could give it 0 stars I would!
November 28, 2018

I was given two gift cards for my birthday. What a waste of time! I received these almost a month ago and STILL have yet to be able to go online to use these to purchase.

Every time I try going on their website "prepaidgiftbalance.com" it ALWAYS fails, times out, etc.

I have NEVER come across a prepaid gift card that costs this much to use and then the hassles - have to register online before I can use it?

Customer service is a joke. I keep getting put on hold (after at least 10 to 15 minutes of waiting) and then only to be told, the website is experiencing higher than normal volume, try again in a couple hours.

Or if I wanted to register with a live person, I'm put on hold AGAIN, and passed around like some floozy at a biker bar.

This is by far THE worst company I've ever dealt with. What's even more sad it's YOUR money to start with. All this hassle to use your own money.

Never again. Shame on Kroger for even stocking this product.

Date of experience: November 28, 2018
District of Columbia
1 review
10 helpful votes
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I am extremely disappointed in this service. First of all, why do I have to register it to make an online purchase? Then, when I go to the website to register, it doesn't do anything. Next I called and they texted me a registration link. That was easy to use, except it failed at the end. Then I had to speak to a rep, which was fine, she sounded like she was used to lots of complaints, although she did complete the registration, but then had to break the news to me that I had to wait an hour to use the card. I have never seen this kind of nonsense for something I paid for. I will be sure to spread the word to everyone I know.

Date of experience: November 4, 2018
Oregon
7 reviews
21 helpful votes
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Site is broken all the time
September 16, 2018

Error processing. Obama and the "shadow" government have been working on the kinks to make SURE you have no anonomyous way of paying anything without the government tracking you down and collecting the info that can be used against you at any time and I mean ANY time years later. T
That is why for the gift card stuff working less and less.

Obama passed a rule secretly that you can't use gift cards international anymore but a lot of people only noticed the hard way and started complaining "My VISA gift card won't work in XYZ country and it's perfectly valid" with the usual generic answers.

If they had their way you wouldn't be allowed to even use cash!.

Hillary wanted to put TSA on trains and buses for "your safety" but to keep tabs on who is on her league and who isn't. People have randomly "died" under her including the person who claimed he started the who Russian crap and a few days later died mysteriously. Typical pattern.

They want the chip in your head as your ID wherever you go. There has been experimental stores that have systems to take money out of your bank account just by walking out the door thru sensors installed. Cashier less shopping.

Date of experience: September 16, 2018
California
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Fraud operations to say the least
August 10, 2018

I bought a new card. As soon as opened it to activate it told me that the three-digit code on the back is invalid. I called customer service and they told me that the card has a balance of zero because there was a transaction posted. Mind you this is within 5 minutes of me taking the card out of the package it comes in. I have now called three times to try to dispute this charge and I always get the same "no dispute agents are available, they are here 24/7 but today nobody came to work". Seriously! THis is what they tell me!.

Date of experience: August 10, 2018
District of Columbia
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Teribble
August 6, 2018

When I bought a 25$ gift card I tried logging in, it said the 3 digit code was incorrect i looked on the back of the card and it was not incorrect then it told me to call the number and it told me the 3 digit code was incorrect. Complete waste of money

Date of experience: August 6, 2018