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Bluebird and Serve Daily/Monthly Limits Reset at 9PM PST

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Bluebird and Serve Daily/Monthly Limits Reset at 9PM PST

This has been known for a while, but I thought I would share again.  All daily and monthly limits for Bluebird and Serve reset at 9PM PST or 12AM EST.  Here are my latest transactions from 10 minutes ago.

Serve Loads and Bill Payments

As of right now, it is technically June 1 in Bluebird’s and Serve’s database, so go wild.

Here are my Sunday errands, so please keep me on track:

  1. Create a blog posts for my San Diego Meet Up next Saturday night.  I need to put together a list to determine how many people are coming so I can make a dinner reservation.
  2. This shouldn’t take too long, but I want to reorganize some of my pages, specifically the pages under the How To Guides and Credit Card tabs.  I want to spread out the pages across these 4 tabs: How To Guides: Miles/Points, How To Guides: Cash Back, How To Guides: Everything, and Credit Cards.  I need to set up redirects so old URLs redirect to new URLs addresses.
  3. Lastly and probably the most overdue/major headache for me is to start catching up on my trip reports.  I am proposing that I do one week straight of nothing besides trip reports.  I made myself a deal that I would post at least 1 trip report per day before I mention any other travel-related news.  This is going to be tough.

That’s it for me.  Have a great Saturday night or a sleepy Sunday morning.

State of the Union: Bluebird, Serve, and Go Bank Reloads at Walmart with Gift Cards as of May 30, 2014

UPDATE 6/20/14: Do not use OVGCs or VGCs at Walmart.  Use other gift cards from other banks.
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State of the Union: Bluebird, Serve, and Go Bank Reloads at Walmart with Gift Cards as of May 30, 2014

First off, I want to thank all of you who commenting on my post from this morning ((Rumor) Walmart Updates Point of Sale (POS) Software, Making Bluebird/Serve/Go Bank Reloads Difficult) and shared their results, both successes and failures.  Based on your feedback, I can generalize what works and what doesn’t.  I have tried to make this as clear as possible, so here goes…

If you have $200 gift cards from Staples, Staples.com, Office Depot, or Office Max, your gift card reloads should work just as they always have.  You can load these gift cards at the Money Center ATMs/Kiosks, at the Money Center Department, or by going to a regular checkout lane.

These gift cards are issued by Gift Card Mall, which uses Metabank, therefore, any Visa or MasterCard gift card issued by Metabank should work as of today (May 30).

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(Rumor) Walmart Updates Point of Sale (POS) Software, Making Bluebird/Serve/Go Bank Reloads Difficult

UPDATE 6/20/14: Do not use OVGCs or VGCs at Walmart.  Use other gift cards from other banks.

Old Update from 5/31/2014: see the updated results here.GC WM BB

(Rumor) Walmart Updates Point of Sale (POS) Software, Making Bluebird/Serve/Go Bank Reloads Difficult

According to recent comments on my blog and this FlyerTalk thread (link), it looks like Walmart updated the software on their Point of Sale (POS / cash registers) sometime yesterday, making it difficult to load gift cards with PINs to your Bluebird/Serve/Go Bank card.  The general consensus that I have heard is when people swipe their One Vanilla Gift Card, Vanilla Visa Gift Card, or other gift card, they see an error message on the screen or the cashier tells them that the card is being processed as a credit card, not a debit card.  Continue reading →

Random Fact: Serve Cards have a $10,000 Monthly Bill Pay Limit

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$10,000 Monthly Bill Pay Limit

This morning I was trying to pay some bills with my Serve Card, but kept getting this error message “That payment amount exceeds your monthly limit.  Please lower your payment amount and try again.”  I’ve never seen that message before so I was confused.  Let me try a bank transfer instead…

Serve Monthly Limit Bill Pay

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PSA: Keep Track of your Bluebird or Serve Monthly Reload Limit

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PSA: Keep Track of your Bluebird or Serve Monthly Reload Limit

Good evening everyone, this is just a friendly reminder to keep track of your Bluebird or Serve monthly reload limit.  You should always know how much you have loaded onto your Bluebird or Serve Card and how much you have left to go.  If you have one card, it is easy to keep track of your reload amount, but it gets exponentially harder as you try to keep track of 2, 3, 4 or more cards.

I created a handy excel spreadsheet that you can download and fill out in my post Keep Track of Bluebird/Serve Transactions.  If you are not sure if you need it, answer this quick question: how much have you loaded onto all of your Bluebird or Serve Cards from May 1 through today?  

Don’t guess, you should know.  There is no worse feeling that driving all the way to Walmart, standing in line for the Money Center counter/ATM, and being told that your gift card cannot be loaded onto your Bluebird or Serve Card.  Whenever I hear someone say that they were unable to load a gift card to their Bluebird or Serve Card, I immediately ask people if they have already maxed out on their $5,000 monthly reload limit.  Most will answer, no without thinking, then when they log into their account, they will see $5,000 in reloads magically appear.   Continue reading →