Eco-warrior, Have you ever tried to get your money bank from a credit card company? The process is long winded and potentially could be thousands of available balance is 'in limbo'. If there's only £40 on a prime card then surely that's all that is at risk!

Karenblyth, It appears now that a lot of these pre-paid card companies are a shambles and shouldn't be allowed to trade in the financial market. If you still feel the need for a pre-paid card then I still recommend Cashplus by Broadcastle bank who operate through the 'Money Shop', previous known as 'cash-a-cheque' I believe, ...

Pauledg, I think you'll find all financial institutions use passports as ID these days due to money laundering legislation. One trick I used for a friend was to start up another new CashPlus account with a new card and as my friend had no ID like yourself, I applied for a secondary card in his name and then gave him both in order that I ...

One particular pre-paid card to avoid is from the Crew Card Network. I applied for this card as I liked the fact that a secondary card holder can simply be 'text' funds from the primary holder which seemed a nice gimmick for pre-paid card holders. From the start, I knew there would be issues. Firstly, after waiting 10 days for my card to ...