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Transferring from Pre-Paid Credit Card(s) to Irish Bank A/C

  • 30-10-2015 12:45PM
    #1
    WetDaddy
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    Hi All,

    I have 3 pre-paid credit cards (gifts):

    1 x €75 Electronic Visa
    1 x €50 Physical Mastercard
    1 x €200 Physical Mastercard

    What I'd like to do is take this entire €325 and use it to pay off my "actual" credit card bill. Or, to make it simpler, simply deposit the value of these pre-paid credit cards into my BOI A/C (although I also have an AIB A/C I could use).

    There doesn't appear to be a straight-forward way to do this, that I can find. I wouldn't mind losing a few quid on transaction charges of course, but even still nobody seems to want my money!

    I think I could do something like create a 2nd PayPal account and link these three cards to it, use my 1st PayPal account to Request Money of the 2nd PayPal account and then "pay" the 1st PayPal account from the 2nd PayPal account. After that, I could withdraw the balance of my 1st PayPal account to my linked BOI A/C.

    However, there are a two main problems with this:

    1. Lots and lots of transactional fees with this method along with likely a long wait time to get everything approved and processed.
    2. I hate PayPal with a passion akin to that of 100 raging super novae.

    Does anyone have any suggestions other than simply trying to flog the pre-paid cards to people for cash?

    Thanks in advance!


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