Guys, all access don't work anymore on stars/ FT or at least they didnt for me... I tried multiple times, registered them, everything and never seemed to work... so I had to use mine at bodog after days of almost breaking my computer lol. so just be warned...
if you guys use netspend.com's pre-paid VISA and fund it with paypal, you might get a locked account on paypal. I don't know if paypal is locking numerous accounts or just mine. FWIW I was making pretty big transfers, 2k-3k range so maybe if you make smaller transfers you won't get flagged.
I tried to deposit with an All-Access gift card, but it says that my card number is not valid when I called customer support. I guess that means that it was not validated correctly??
I did the www-card.com today. I didn't work at first and finaly went through. I'll spare you everything I went through and the people I talked with, but I did want to share that out of my experiance I believe that there is an intermittant problem caused by the way PokerStars processed Visa charges. I'm guessing that they have multiple interfaces with the Visa clearnce house and that www-card only works via internet interface. I think that the times mine was rejected they were communicating via a telephony interface instead of IP (internet) after trying serval times over a period of 3 1/2 hours it finaly was approved.
A note to the above, it seems that if you log in with the card number on the www-card site then it has a better chance of going through stars.
Another VERY strange thing happened today with the www-card. I bought a card on 4/21 with a Commerce Bank check card. There was a pending transaction for a week and then it was removed today from the pending transactions (and nothing got posted to the history). I called Commerce and asked them about it and they said that the funds "expired" for the company because they did not take it. I asked if this could somehow bite me later on and he said no since the money was available to them but they did not get it in time. Very odd.
Another VERY strange thing happened today with the www-card. I bought a card on 4/21 with a Commerce Bank check card. There was a pending transaction for a week and then it was removed today from the pending transactions (and nothing got posted to the history). I called Commerce and asked them about it and they said that the funds "expired" for the company because they did not take it. I asked if this could somehow bite me later on and he said no since the money was available to them but they did not get it in time. Very odd.