The prepaid Target REDcard was a fun card to have a couple of years ago. You could load the card Visa or Mastercard gift cards for example with no fee. That all stopped back in 2015. Now Target REDcard, or REDbird as it was known, will be discontinued on August 13th. You can use it for…
After playing mean for most of 2016, Amex has started to play nice for the few people left who still have their prepaid products. We always had to make the tough choice previously when picking one of their products since you could only have one Bluebird, Serve or Redbird per social security number. Now Amex has…
It was expected and it was the most likely outcome, but we were still holding out hope of the whole thing just being a system glitch. Well, there’s no more hope. It is not a glitch and Redbird is dead. FrequentMiler posted yesterday a corporate memo regarding tender accepted for Reloadable Prepaid Cards. Per the memo, effective…
You’ve probably heard or experienced yourself by now the fact that Redbirds have been pretty useless since yesterday. I hadn’t done much reading over Columbus Day so I thought it was just a local glitch when I tried to load my Redbird in Long Island, NY. But it is a nationwide problem and it is…
If you have Redbird (Target Prepaid REDcard), then you probably already know that it can’t be loaded with a credit card. That change went into effect on May 6th when Target sent out a memo to all its stores. So the new nationwide policy is simple, no credit cards can be used for loading Redbird. Here…
As you probably know by now, Target was supposed to halt all credit card loads for the REDcard today. There was a memo that would go out nationwide, but there were still many unknowns unless there were data points. Well, this morning there’s a few of those, and they’re not good. Credit card loads have been…
REDcard has been one of the most useful tools for MS this year for me. Although credit card loads are hard to come by in NYC, I have been able to load tons of gift cards, especially Amex, at various Target locations throughout the tri-state area. It has been tough since March, but yet it…
I have written a few times about my REDcard loading experiences around NYC. While loading a with a credit card is not breaking news around the country, it sure is in New York City. Gateway Center – Brooklyn, NY I visited the Target store at Gateway Center in Brooklyn, NY on April 30th. This was my first visit…
Here’s another scare regarding your REDbird (Target AmEx REDcard). There’s a few people claiming to have received emails from American Express with notices of account shutdowns. A reader in flyertalk forums was apparently the first to report such an email, but there’s been some other reports as well.
I have been covering the REDcard, also known as REDbird, frequently lately. Today I have more problems to report, this time from Queens, NY. We already knew about one of the most problematic Targets around, the one on Atlantic Terminal. But the Target on Queens Blvd. in Elmhurst seems to be the latest location to…
Just as we thought, the problems with REDbird, Bluebird & Serve were just technical issues on the Amex end. I reported earlier of the problems that started yesterday in the afternoon. Now everything seems back to normal. I called CS around 10:20AM ET and was told that service would be back within a few hours, but I…
UPDATE 4 (10:38 AM ET) Bluebird account started working online as well. I successfully logged in two accounts. It seems like the online problems have been fixed much faster than I was told over the phone. UPDATE 3 (10:30 AM ET) I just successfully logged in my REDcard account. Still can’t log in my Bluebird…
The REDcard seems to be creating a lot of confusion lately among Target employees. Apparently most of the confusion is coming from incompetent employees and even managers, which is not such a big surprise. There has been a few scattered reports of Target stores not allowing credit card loads for the REDcard or putting a…
Today I went to the Atlantic Terminal Target in Brooklyn to verify if they have stopped allowing credit card loads, and in fact they did. I tried loading my REDcard at 2 different cashiers and they both told me to go CS where I was told that they only allow debit and cash loads for the…