I am trying to get the epassporte Visa Card but it keeps saying "You cannot buy a Visa Card unless you have a verified load mechanism associated with your account"

What do i have to do? Do i have to send them something?

You need to add a credit card or add your bank account info.

I have used the visa gift cards from wallgreens to deposit and i do not have a bank account for myself since i only turned 18 a month ago... eek what should i do? Should i send in a photo ID and a picture of the visa card?

Seriously, take $5 and just go open a checking account at some local credit union. Then verify that account with EPass.

If you're still not convinced call Epassporte.

if i do that then how would i verify it with epass? Im sorry im just new to this.

You give them your checking account information and they make two deposits into your account (tiny ones, like ten cents apiece). In a few business days, you call Customer Service at your bank and ask them to tell you what the amounts of those deposits are. You go back to ePassporte, log in, click the "Verify" button and put the amounts of the deposits into the appropriate slots. Then, you tell them how much you want to upload, and then you wait some more.

I'm going through the process myself right now. From start to finish it's about two and a half weeks--half of it waiting for the deposits to show up in your bank account and half for waiting for your money to go from the bank to ePassporte.

ok thanks. thats exactly what i am going to do.

I used my debit card from BofA. It took the small charge about 20 minutes to show up as pending. I then made a deposit with no problem except that I have to call BofA to get my card reactivated as they flagged this as a suspicious activity. 10% vig sucks though.

At least with Pokerstars, the most old-fashioned route has its advantages:

1) Go to your bank and get a $U.S. internatonal money order for your initial deposit. The bank service charge should be no more than a few bucks, and certainly nowhere near 10% of the deposit amount.

2) Ship it (so to speak) via FedEx or similar service to the Stars office on the Isle of Man. If you email Stars support in advance, they'll send you the mailing coordinates and details for how to fill out the "pay to ..." section of the money order.

3) Takes only a few days to process the deposit, depending on the speed with which it gets there. If you're not in a particular hurry, regular registed mail would be even cheaper.

Aside from the bank charge and mailing costs, this seems a much cheaper option than paying the fees that epassporte would charge for it to make a profit. You may also have noted a recent and credible-sounding post by Dan Druff on epassporte ... not the most reassuring reading, I'm afraid:

http://www.neverwinpoker.com/phpnuke...ict-41402.html

I may be a luddite, but this method is the least complex and least fraught with worries about getting your money out the processor, etc. The only downside, of course, is that it takes a few days to send over the item, but, as an earlier post noted, it will take some time to set up the epassporte account, too.

And - of course - since we're all winning players, we only ever need to make one initial deposit, since from that point onwards, we'll just be building the roll. ;-)

Why not just go get a Western Union. It only takes a few minutes to get there and you are in business. Same for the moneygram. I think most Walmarts do those.

I had originally funded epassporte with my chase mastercard. When I went to add more money, because I suck, I found out I could no longer use chase mastercard to fund it. So I then used my citibank checking account. This is working but the wait period is 3 business days to verify and 10 days to load. Bit of a pain.