The Card Network saga:
Just encountered a problem when trying to use The Active Card's that I converted for online use.
I've tried to use them to make a purchase at The Athletes Foot (the store I converted them to use at). I enter the details into the credit card slot (the converted cards wont work in the gift card payment option available online) and tried to pay but of course it wasn't accepted because the total of the purchase is more than $100 and I was using a converted $100 card. I knew the total was more than $100. But I'd hoped that the system may recognise this, take the $100 and give me options as to how to pay the residual amount.
There appears no way to purchase anything for more than the face value of one of these cards. This seems to be a serious flaw with these converted cards. To use them I'd need to ensure that the entire purchase was exactly $100 or less than $100 and potentially I could get stuck with a small residual that I couldn't use such as $2 or $5 because the store sells nothing online that equals exactly this residual amount.
Anyone else encountered this at The Athletes Foot or any of the other online stores that you can convert these cards to?
Anyone know if you can use the converted cards in store and have them enter the credit card number directly into their terminal?
I've sent a message to the Card Network outlining the issue.
