Prepaid Mastercard No Loading or Purchase Charges (Works with Ryanair)

championc

I can confirm that the Dundrum Gift Card WORKS with Ryanair. I needed to re-charge a Perfect Card and they charge €5 to do this now. My wife got a Gift Card not realizing that they were different. Anyway, I tried it and it works.

In fact, if you look at both Gift Cards or Perfect Cards, their numbers BOTH start with 5274 5500. The BIN Ranges (the first 6 digits of a card) identifies the card type and the issuer. Therefore, there is no way for any online system to differenciate between these two "so called" different cards.

Now for the best bit.
If you go to the Perfect Card website and use the check balance link - http://www.perfectcard.ie/PerfectCard004_Live05/AccountEnquiry.aspx

You can insert the Gift Card details and it will give you your gift card balance and showed my Ryanair transaction.




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Fringe

So can anyone tell me what to do? I'm a bit confused after reading some comments. I'm booking some flights soon and not paying the extra fee would be great. Does the Dundrum card definitely work? Which one do I get?

championc

Just get a Dundrum Gift Card - 100% guaranteed. As I have already said, despite what they will tell you at the sales desk, both cards carry the same Bin Range so online systems cannot tell the difference between the two cards. I did my booking only last week.

I would expect any Mastercard branded gift card to work in exactly the same way - not sure if Blanch do one ???


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clancger

I got a Blanchardstown Gift card yesterday and used to book with Ryanair without issues, and more importantly without Credit Card charges

madmoe

clancger wrote: »

I got a Blanchardstown Gift card yesterday and used to book with Ryanair without issues, and more importantly without Credit Card charges

How much did it cost?When you top it up do they charge you?

clancger

When you buy the card , you can put whatever amount you want onto it, but you can't top it up again.
At a later point, the cust service desk can transfer a remaining balance to a new card, which would be kind of a topup equivalent, but you need to go into the cust service desk for this.
As it happens, I didn't put on enough credit yesterday for all the flights I need to buy, so I have to go back in later to do exactly this. I'll report back on how I get on.

Here's a view from the online balance enquiry:

madmoe

clancger wrote: »

When you buy the card , you can put whatever amount you want onto it, but you can't top it up again.
At a later point, the cust service desk can transfer a remaining balance to a new card, which would be kind of a topup equivalent, but you need to go into the cust service desk for this.
As it happens, I didn't put on enough credit yesterday for all the flights I need to buy, so I have to go back in later to do exactly this. I'll report back on how I get on.

Here's a view from the online balance enquiry:

Cheers for that!

clancger

so I went in at lunchtime to the Blanchardstown cust service desk. I had €25.03 on my card and wanted to buy a new card worth €100.
The girl said no bother, I'll use the €25 on the old card as a part payment for the new one. She gave me back the 3 cent to avoid messing about with change, and I paid €75 off my laser - done deal ;-)

Kevin!

So from reading the above posts - Dundrum now offer two types of card, a store card and a perfect card - perfect card cost's a 5er but the dundrum card is free and can be used online?

also

Blanch shopping center cards work online - and there is no fee in them?

cheers,

k

championc

No fee on any of these cards. Forget about the Perfect Card - there's no benefit to having one of these over a general Gift Card. As I said already, the BIN ranges are the same. My guess is that Blanch cards are also starting with 5274 55 and so, no system could even tell the difference between a Blanch or Dundrum one.

Also, you can never loose with the Gift Cards. If my any miraculous situation it didn't work, just use it for you general grocery shopping. In the same way, it's best to well and truely overfill it so you can still use the balance for other shopping.

Remember, you can use the Perfect Card balance checker online to check your Dundrum or Blanch balance - even more confirmation that their own systems cannot tell the difference.


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Fringe

How do these cards work anyway? Are they like vouchers where you get a specific amount of money or can you top up anytime?

livEwirE

+1

If I get one of these cards, put on €150 and then go to the ryanair website to book my flights how do I actually pay? Do I need to book ryanir flights over the phone and provide the number on the card

adamski8

livEwirE wrote: »

+1

If I get one of these cards, put on €150 and then go to the ryanair website to book my flights how do I actually pay? Do I need to book ryanir flights over the phone and provide the number on the card

are you serious?
When the payments options come up select "mastercard prepaid" and put the card details in, on the wesite that is!

livEwirE

@ adamski8, of course, makes sense:o, haven't booked ryanair flights in about 8 years so didn't know that there was an option to choose a 'prepaid card' instead of a standard credit card :P

groom

My first bad experience with the DCGC

I used this card in the US recently and a transaction costing $25 came out as a €25 charge which is pretty excessive because the mid rate was c.€1=$1.22 so I wouldn't recommend using it for non€ transaction unless you have to.

Irish Kev

another happy blanch prepaid card user, just saved myself €20:D

freebee23

championc wrote: »

No fee on any of these cards. Forget about the Perfect Card - there's no benefit to having one of these over a general Gift Card. As I said already, the BIN ranges are the same. My guess is that Blanch cards are also starting with 5274 55 and so, no system could even tell the difference between a Blanch or Dundrum one.

Also, you can never loose with the Gift Cards. If my any miraculous situation it didn't work, just use it for you general grocery shopping. In the same way, it's best to well and truely overfill it so you can still use the balance for other shopping.

Remember, you can use the Perfect Card balance checker online to check your Dundrum or Blanch balance - even more confirmation that their own systems cannot tell the difference.


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Just got a Blanch card and booked ryanair flights.
Saved €40 euro on fees!!!
Also used the Dundrum perfect card checker and balance shows up.

I used the Entropay service till last X-Mas and this works out even cheaper with no loading or currency change fees.

Cheers to all who have posted here,
Freebee23

lillil

groom wrote: »

... so I wouldn't recommend using it for non€ transaction unless you have to.

+1

Booked with Ryanair today using the Dundrum Card and used a non EUR currency. What should have been a 390 EUR transaction
came up as 417 EUR on the PerfectCard online checker.
So yeah, defo use the Ryanair currency trick as described by Kotek Besar a couple of pages back.

crouchie15

Hi,
Was just wondering does anyone know if the dublin city gift card one in the jervis centre still works on ryanair without the cc charges?
Thanks.

championc

If it has a Mastercard symbol on it then it should. And if it does, my bet is that the card number will begin with the same 6 digits (5274 55) as all the other cards do


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groom

crouchie15 wrote: »

Hi,
Was just wondering does anyone know if the dublin city gift card one in the jervis centre still works on ryanair without the cc charges?
Thanks.

I booked flights about 2 weeks ago and it did then

Aug2009

groom wrote: »

My first bad experience with the DCGC

I used this card in the US recently and a transaction costing $25 came out as a €25 charge which is pretty excessive because the mid rate was c.€1=$1.22 so I wouldn't recommend using it for non€ transaction unless you have to.

I heard a similar story yesterday. I told my friend to use prepaid card abroad as i used mine and got a great rate. She is ready to kill me now. :eek:

I have a prepaid MAstercard from Bishopstown Credit union and get great rates but i would not give advice to anyone else after that other than if you want a prepaid card try bishopstown if you can join. I know a lot of ucc students who are going to get one soon as it was in the su president's manifesto.

maciejowy

Blanch gift card works with Ryanair checked yesterday myself


cheers

madmoe

Is there a Jervis Street card that works for this lads?

curly from cork

posting from cork ( as in user name ! )
if i phoned dundrum centre to buy a card woth my laser , presume that would be ok. how long will the dundrum card be valid for ? or can anyone offer an alternative for cork users ? ( not a member of bishopstown credit union as mentioned in a few posts earlier )

greenman09

Visa debit cards are free from charges as well arent they. Just had a query there with a customer.

Lemsiper

Nope, not anymore.

championc

curly from cork wrote: »

posting from cork ( as in user name ! )
if i phoned dundrum centre to buy a card woth my laser , presume that would be ok. how long will the dundrum card be valid for ? or can anyone offer an alternative for cork users ? ( not a member of bishopstown credit union as mentioned in a few posts earlier )

It's all about finding a store which do a Gift Card and which has the Mastercard symbol on it. I'm sure you can find pictures of the Dundrum or the Perfectcard on Google.

You cannot top up or buy a Dundrum Card with a Laser Card.

Check out http://www.payzone.ie/outlets/ or https://www.entropay.com/prepaid-mastercard.php

madmoe

Is it possible to top up the Perfect Card? Where can it be bought?

Also, I have an Entropay account already, it was setup for a Visa Electron. Can this be changed to a Prepaid MasterCard?? Are there fees involved when topping up etc.??

Cheers,
M

Esel

madmoe wrote: »

Is it possible to top up the Perfect Card?
No.

Where can it be bought?
Jervis Centre, and other places. Any prepaid Mastercard will work.

Also, I have an Entropay account already, it was setup for a Visa Electron. Can this be changed to a Prepaid MasterCard?? Are there fees involved when topping up etc.??
Ask an Entropay user. Oh, wait....

Cheers,
M

Seriously.....

maciejowy

actually they say Liffey Valley Mastercard may not work! But never tried myself...

Athlone_Bhoy

madmoe wrote: »

Is it possible to top up the Perfect Card? Where can it be bought?

Also, I have an Entropay account already, it was setup for a Visa Electron. Can this be changed to a Prepaid MasterCard?? Are there fees involved when topping up etc.??

Cheers,
M

Avoid the entropay mastercard.

chillywilly

sorry if these questions have been asked before....

Whats the deal with the name on the card? Is the card in my name?

And if I had an alertpay account could i use this for my account?

Sheep Shagger

Athlone_Bhoy wrote: »

Avoid the entropay mastercard.

Why?

Seems to work fine for plnety of other people (myself included).

madmoe

Is there a charge for topping up the Entropay card guys? Or a charge everytime it's used?

Our man in Havana

4.95% loading charge.

curly from cork

maciejowy wrote: »

actually they say Liffey Valley Mastercard may not work! But never tried myself...

anyone any idea about liffey valley ??/ because it seems to be the same as the cork mahonpoint one. if liffey valley does work ...then yipppeee im off and running to mahonpoint

metrovelvet

Does anyone know of an instant virtual mastercard?

maciejowy

wirecard.com

cgarrad

Just to clarify:

Walked into St Stephens Green Shopping Center to the Ticketmaster kiosk under the first escalator.

Paid €100 for a prepaid mastercard with €100 loaded on it.

Went home, bought flights on Ryanair no problem.

Used my address and all my details worked as expected.

I can use the remaining credit anywhere they take mastercard

The self serve tills at tesco are a good place to use small amounts.

pay the first bit in cash and leave what have on the card and press other payment.

OutlawPete

Which counter in St Stephen's Green do these ..

Is it the Ticketmaster one where they do the lottery?

hynesie08

OutlawPete wrote: »

Which counter in St Stephen's Green do these ..

Is it the Ticketmaster one where they do the lottery?

Yep

The Guvnor

HappyHarry wrote: »

Really? Since when? Did you have to pay this when buying the card in the center? Is it applied to each card regardless of value?

According to PerfectCard there are no fees in the first 12 months http://www.perfectcard.ie/faq.html#3

I see the prefectcard are behind the quays in newry 'gift card' so I will give this a go and see if it works!

madmoe

cgarrad wrote: »

Just to clarify:

Walked into St Stephens Green Shopping Center to the Ticketmaster kiosk under the first escalator.

Paid €100 for a prepaid mastercard with €100 loaded on it.

Went home, bought flights on Ryanair no problem.

Used my address and all my details worked as expected.

I can use the remaining credit anywhere they take mastercard

The self serve tills at tesco are a good place to use small amounts.

pay the first bit in cash and leave what have on the card and press other payment.

Great to hear this! Must get me in there and get one!!

frankie55

Got a giftcard from dundrum shopping centre (perfectcard) no charges until 13months in etc, booked ryanair fights to london €5 each way no extra charges... nice

Knifey Spoony

Sorry for the bump, but I've a pre-paid master card from Bishopstown Credit Union (down here in Cork) and I know that I can aviod the handling charges on Ryan Air. But has anyone used it, or any type of pre-paid mastercard, on Aer Lingus? Like, can this card be used to avoid the handling charge with Air Lingus? I have searched their site, but fond nothing on it.

Sheep Shagger

AFAIK Aer Lingus charge a fee regardless of if you are using a debit or credit card.

indiewindy

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

AFAIK Aer Lingus charge a fee regardless of if you are using a debit or credit card.

They must offer a free fee option, otherwise they must include the fee in their initial fare

Our man in Havana

indiewindy wrote: »

They must offer a free fee option, otherwise they must include the fee in their initial fare

Their free option is visa electron.

jakdublin

Not sure what the story is but there's a report on the Consumer Issues forum that the Ryanair mastercard is gone bust. It doesn't make much sense and it's not verified, but I went in to load my Dublin City Gift Card yesterday at two Ticketmaster outlets and they said the machines were down until Thursday.
Anybody else hear anything?