Know the rules of the game before taking Capcom card [Defend Your Dollars]
]]>Also, you couldn't use it "Anywhere VISA is accepted" like they claimed. I tried to use it to sign up for an online game and since they don't keep your address on file, it didn't go through.
Granted, it was a visa gift card, but they still advertised it as being accepted anywhere Visa is.
]]>YOGA FLAAAMMMMEE
]]>Bad/no credit and a need to buy things with a credit card. Eg: Online purchases.
Before you suggest someone in that state shouldn't be buying stuff, consider someone underwater on their mortgage, or severely in debt with a good job. Once they foreclose/go bankrupt, it won't take long before they have a strongly positive cashflow (usually 9 monts, maybe 21 months where I am). If they learned their lesson about credit, buying things online with a pre-paid credit card is probably the smartest thing they've done.
For these people, spending $6 in fees means they don't end up with more credit, which they know they aren't (yet) responsible enough to have.
]]>"FINISH HIM"
as they suck the last pennies out of the debt car via fees and the poor husk of a user is turned to dust.
Then the late fee penalties kick-in....mwahahahahahah.
]]>Good gravy does it at least include free play on all Capcom arcade machines?
Otherwise someone needs a taste of the old E. Honda "Slap Attack."
]]>That is insanity!
]]>@antoineawwad: I don't know, but if you send me 1300 bucks I'll send you a check for $100 per month for a year. It's like free money!
]]>Jim Cramer and Fox News say we are going to devolve into post-apocalyptic chaos and a revolution right now.
Which is exactly why it will NOT happen... those guys are idiots.
As a gun stockpiling conspiracy theorist, I believe that things aren't as terrible as some people would like you to believe--and that the average republican in the public view would LOVE for things to continue to tank on Obama's watch, it's like a 2-for-1 for them, you scare the sheep into hating a Democrat AND a black person, bonus!
Whatever Jim says, it's like hearing "that guy" at office, you know the one who always had a huge food stain on the front of his shirt?, yammering on about what new investment he just bought or business he just started and he's going to be rich by next October.
]]>Oh, well, that's really generous of them... I can check the balance online and they'll "waive" whatever fee they would have liked to have charged.
]]>Dhalsim was the only good one for me. He was so stretchy he could kick ass before the other characters got anywhere near him!
]]>Took the words right out of my mouth!
]]>@Canino: I'm sure that things like shipping, filing, paper use fee, training, licensing, forwarding, memory, etc. So for every hundred dollars put on the card, you get to spend about $12, and it has to on capcom stuff or there is a competitor fee also.
]]>fee fi fo fum?
]]>What do you call a forum insult levied by a practitioner of eastern meditation?
A Yoga Flame.
]]>@ Stream of Consciousness:
Yep, and then wait for when the FEDS bail them all out.
]]>(Eddie Murphy's Chinese voice)
Nih-nihtee Fih, what ah bahgain!
]]>@Canino And the Fee Fi Fo Fum Fee.
]]>I think most of us that are old enough to understand the character references that Alex makes are also old enough to stay away from this card.
And I used Ken. And I sucked.
]]>I was at Safeway yesterday an a woman purchased 4 pre-paid Visa debit cards in line in front of me, grand total a little under $1400. Each card had an activation fee of $9.95 added so there appears to be market for these type of cards with or without Ryu on it. As always, cash is always appreciated as a gift, at least for me.
]]>I think ammunition is a much better place for the money than artificially high gold myself.
]]>Memory-loss fee! (Profitable and since I can't remember why I charged it and you don't remember asking for it, you can't have it reversed. I mean, just because you don't recall asking for a service doesn't mean you didn't right? Right? Hello?....)
]]>Apparently no one was trying to hide their evil when they came out with this. It's like Satans card.
]]>Anyone silly enough to believe that would be all over a debit card like the Capcom one.
]]>You can buy a regular visa gift card with an activation fee of $5.95. I use them for online purchases because I'm paranoid and its worth $5.95 for my piece of mind. You can get up to $500 on the one's I have seen.
]]>You forgot the fee fee and the fee fee fee.
]]>Dear lord I hope no other card companies decide to use this business model.
]]>Bad Capcom, bad! *hits with rolled up newspaper*
]]>Sweet, a fee to use a service that most banks offer for basically free? That makes good business sense, it's only lacking in the basic consumer incentive that would make me rush out to get one.
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