How to Use Bluebird in a Post-Vanilla Reload World

You can no longer buy Vanilla Reload cards with a credit card at CVS.

That was the simple way to load Bluebird.

Buy the Vanilla Reloads with a credit card, put the funds on Bluebird, transfer the funds back to your bank account. It was the lazy way to earn miles with a single trip to the store, with the rest of the work done at the computer, sitting on your couch.

Vanilla Reload cards cost $3.95 per $500.

But you can still accomplish the same thing, with the same $1000 per day load limit, with two store trips and a cost of $4.95 per $500.

  1. Buy a $500 OneVanilla Prepaid Visa for $4.95. CVS still lets you pay for these with a credit card (you can also substitute a $200 PIN-enabled card from an office supply store).
  2. OneVanilla is a Visa gift card. It’s simple to use. The PIN number is whatever 4-digit combination you use first (use it once, then that’s the PIN for future uses, of course there’s no need to use it more than once).
  3. Go to Walmart, find the Moneycenter.
  4. Load it onto Bluebird for free.
  5. You can do up to $1000 per day this way.

You can also buy money orders for 69 cents, although some cashiers at some stores do not like to do this with gift cards that do not show your name pre-embossed.

The economics of this doesn’t work well for me because I do not live near a Walmart. As a result the $1000 per day limit means I can’t spread the cost of time and gas across enough miles and spend to justify the trip.

Update: Apparently Travel With Grant manages to do this in less than 10 minutes.

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