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Humm Why not simply take advertising out in Gaming magazines?

ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck


Read what he sayed, it´s not a "credit card" it´s a "cash card", you have to put money on it first and you can´t get credit on it. It´s simply another matter of payment which allows you to be used via the internet and other online / cash free payment methods.

This is not stupid, it´s actually prety clever. We have something like this in Germany too. Basically a prepaid paying card.

Well, theres:
Credit Cards
Debit Cards (tied to a Checking acct)
Re-loadable "credit" cards

I would say what talking of might be a checking acct or savings acct with a "check" card..

Used like a credit card but automatic debited so a debit card.

However not all places will accept "debit" cards so we have the re-loadable cards which can be loaded over and over, you deposit in say $100, you now have a $100 Line, their taken and handled as credit cards and the loaded balance is seen as a "credit available" getting around those that don't take Debit cards.

The "line"is reduced by purchases like a credit line is, to a merchant it is a credit card, but on bank side they treat it as a debit card.

Lots of other creative ways to pay too, check free, pay pal, etc..

ORIGINAL: ravinhood

For a 12/13 year old though that "cash" has to come from somewhere, so it still falls back on mom & dad for the most part, unless they aren't lazy and are allowed to mow yards, rake leaves, clean garages, etc. etc. for a little cash. At 12/13 I was selling GRIT newspapers for my income lol .05 cents proft a paper.

market. heh I'd still wager the majority of middle class kids don't get that kind of cash to even have a bank account.

When you sold GRIT, what were prices like? not knowing age hard to pin you, when I was 12/13 Lets see...

Comics 12 cents, cokes a dime, oh plus deposits...and I'd hunt out tossed away bottles, loved to find the BIG bottles with their larger deposit... Icecream bars at I believe 15 cents, Breyers... cheaper types were a dime..

Candy was quite cheap...

A Dollar went a long way then...

Humm Now?

kids make lots more money... My older sisters nephew as a teen was doing a mowing service
which he now still has but its BIGGER now with several crews and that started from him as a teen with one mowing machine and a list of customers [:D]

The point is kids can make quite a bit at odd jobs because costs are higher....

Oh btw when I was a kid I had my own bank account and I was a mere middle class kid,it was a savings acct which I accumulated cash in...taking out some at times for something I really wanted..

I think you miss the boat on some things or else
your parents were more restrictive... the beauty of a savings acct was I gained interest, even if it was a mere 3 pct or so.. [;)]

ORIGINAL: Charles_22

Oh sorry Marc, but I only responded to that one post of his, and as such I don't see the words 'credit card' what I did see though was this

My best friends 13 son and his friends all have bank accounts (with Dad) and they all have a ATM card with a credit card logo. They can make all of there online and retail purchases from it and get cash when then need it.

Since he mentioned credit card logo what was I to think? He didn't actually mention what kind of card it was. You just must have read between the lines better than I did. I've never used one, but I think what he's talking sbout is called a debit card.

It is a debit card, by credit card "logo"he means that the card is ISSUED by a CREDIT card company...

I've had debit cards, they either have VISA or Mastercard logos on them, issued by the bank , tied to checking acct, serviced by a credit card issuer like visa, usually taken same as if a credit card.

Looks like, Feels like a credit card but isn't one
[:D]

The one problem in using such through is your entire checking acct is open to use, someone could steal number and debit all the money you have in the acct on purchases..

Maybe even overdraw/overdraft the checking acct.

And there may not be same fraud protections on them as with a credit card... so....

Theres now the re-loadable "credit card" load it and thats the "credit line" it has... purchases reducing as with a credit card the line till its "0"

same fraud protections as a credit card.

The block of death!

Paragraphs are your friend...

LOL no chit! hahah and this is our military personnel? OMGawd saveus! hahah

Ummm theres stores that will NOT take back opened software other then to exchange it for another copy of same if defective, so your not necessary going be able to return a opened RETAIL box either..

Oh yes I am, see, here is what you don't know what you are talking about or know who I am or who I am associated with. So, here you are clearly wrong bucko.

ORIGINAL: ravinhood

Ummm theres stores that will NOT take back opened software other then to exchange it for another copy of same if defective, so your not necessary going be able to return a opened RETAIL box either..

Oh yes I am, see, here is what you don't know what you are talking about or know who I am or who I am associated with. So, here you are clearly wrong bucko.

Oh Pardon me, I didn't know you were part of the "family"

[8D][:D][:D][:'(]

ORIGINAL: Bodhi

Just goes to show how out of touch I am: I thought teenagers got nearly all their games from P2P downloads rather than the old "purchase" method.

In my (limited) experience teens in this country have minimal interest in PC games compared with console games, anyway. Sure you could get console games PtP too, but as the kids have the console rather than a PC lurking in their rooms, the only PC available would usually be the "family" one, and it would be hard to keep up a constant steam of torrent downloads without parents noticing. That doesn't mean many kids don't get games that way, if course, but I'd dispute "most". All of my kid's friends have consoles; none have their own PCs.... none are even aware of PtP to my knowledge (although I may be wrong, of course).

Oh Pardon me, I didn't know you were part of the "family"

My birth name is Petrocelli.

Also about consoles and PC's, while raising my son, I gave him my old PC's when I upgraded. He had "one" console the PS, but, usually wanted to play on the PC and most especially MY PC.