Pre-paid card

I was wondering I am able to use a green dot pre-paid debit card to pay for Norton anti-virus.

Like Peter, I'm doubtful that prepaids are accepted but check in case it has changed.

 

In any case if you can find a store with it on sale or a reputable offer on the internet from people like Amazon  it is likely to be much cheaper to buy a new copy and use the KEY to reactivate you present copy -- make sure you buy exactly the same version of the product although the year on it does not matter since about 2008.

 

However don't use a new KEY until a couple of days before youor present subscription expires since it does not add days but replaces any unused.

 

You do not have to reinstall.

I was wondering I am able to use a green dot pre-paid debit card to pay for Norton anti-virus.

I was able to successfully buy Norton anti-virus with a pre-paid card. Thanks for the help guys.


odtsdog wrote:

I was able to successfully buy Norton anti-virus with a pre-paid card. Thanks for the help guys.


Thanks for the feedback.

 

That was online with the Norton Store then?

This has come up before ...

 

For those wanting to know about debit cards and Norton, (at least in my experience), I've been using debit cards from my bank since 2003, for Norton products and yearly subscriptions.

 

Whether it be through Norton Account or an online Norton store.

 

They might lose some customers if they didn't allow debit cards?

 

 

 

Ed

Ed

 

I still do not see an option for debit cards in the shopping cart on the Norton Store. How did you enter the payment info for a debit card?

 

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Is it possible, a temporary debit card is treated like a credit cart? I have seen this for some gift card purchases I have make.

Ed,

 

Someone else confirmed recently that Debit (often also ATM) cards of the kind that snatch immediately from your bank account are accepted by Norton in addition to Credit Cards but prepaid cards that are loaded up to a certain amount by the user are not quite the same and that's why I asked this latest user about his use and acceptance.

 

The market place changes so rapidly ......


peterweb wrote:

Ed

 

I still do not see an option for debit cards in the shopping cart on the Norton Store. How did you enter the payment info for a debit card?

 

norton checkout2.JPG

 

 

 

Is it possible, a temporary debit card is treated like a credit cart? I have seen this for some gift card purchases I have make.


Hi Peter,

 

I recognize the form in your screen shot and I would be able to use a debit card there like I have in the past. Debit cards have become so widely used, that most places accept them. Mine is a Visa bank card, also called debit or ATM card. Mine is different in appearance from a Visa credit card because it's issued from the bank. It has the bank logo and name of the bank on the card. It can be used any place in the world that accepts Visa credit cards.

 

Many websites display the Credit/Debit cards they accept. Even if they only say Credit Cards we accept, they still also accept debit cards, because they make no indication of, 'We do not accept debit cards'.

 

This has been my experience over the last ten years of paying for Norton products / Subscriptions. Personal preference, I only use my regular credit card as little as possible.

 

 

 

Ed


Edjr60 wrote:


Hi Peter,

 

I recognize the form in your screen shot and I would be able to use a debit card there like I have in the past. Debit cards have become so widely used, that most places accept them. Mine is a Visa bank card, also called debit or ATM card. Mine is different in appearance from a Visa credit card because it's issued from the bank. It has the bank logo and name of the bank on the card. It can be used any place in the world that accepts Visa credit cards.

 

Many websites display the Credit/Debit cards they accept. Even if they only say Credit Cards we accept, they still also accept debit cards, because they make no indication of, 'We do not accept debit cards'.

 

This has been my experience over the last ten years of paying for Norton products / Subscriptions. Personal preference, I only use my regular credit card as little as possible.

 

 

 

Ed


Ed

 

So would you just choose Visa, then enter the number on your card? Is there another question or option you enter on the next screen that indicates it is a debit transaction? How do you enter the PIN number?

 

 


peterweb wrote:

Ed

So would you just choose Visa, then enter the number on your card? Is there another question or option you enter on the next screen that indicates it is a debit transaction? How do you enter the PIN number?


Hi Peter,

 

For example I use Identity Safe. If I were at the webpage in your screen shot, I would click on Identity Safe and then while mousing over Fill with Identity Card, because the page has a form, I would click on 'Card' that pops out to the right. I just named it card, nice and simple. That would fill in the fields that show in yellow. The Visa debit card is in my saved Identity Cards.

 

There is no indication as to whether it's a credit or debit transaction at websites. These transactions appear on your monthly bank statement, just like the credit card transactions appear on your monthly credit card statement.

 

As far as the PIN number. Under no circumstance do you ever give a website your PIN number. Same thing with phone transactions that you trust. After all these years, I have never been asked for my PIN online or while on the phone with an order. If that were to happen, then a person is on a fraudulent website or talking with a crook on the phone.

 

The only time and place you use your PIN is while at the store or someplace shopping. You swipe your card thru the little machine you see at every checkout isle, then carefully enter your 4 digit PIN, making sure no one is peeking over your shoulder.

 

In case your asking about the 3 digit security code on the card, if the website requires it, Identity Safe will fill that in. Not all websites require it.

 

 

 

Ed

Ed

 

Thanks I think I have it now.

 

I was refering to your PIN number not the security number. I have never used a debit card for an online transaction, so I am ignorant about the pocedures, but I can understand your comments about the security of your PIN.

 

 

<< The only time and place you use your PIN is while at the store or someplace shopping. You swipe your card thru the little machine you see at every checkout isle, then carefully enter your 4 digit PIN, making sure no one is peeking over your shoulder. >>

 

Or I think you can sign with the stylus instead of inputting the PIN, at least in some stores ....

Very true Hugh, very true. Most stores I've been to though, don't seem to offer that, or they don't tell you.

 

In my case it has happened so few times, you tend to forget that part. I think there was a couple of times at the Submarine Sandwich place. They handed over the counter to me the unit to sign, which was on a long coiled type cord.

 

I think once at an out in the boondocks mini mart, but that's about it for me.

 

 

 

Ed

Ed

 

My experience would be at a local supermarket where the signature unit is anchored to the countertop and includes the card swiper.