Do Visa gift cards work for forum donations?

[johnny means]

I was trying to use a gift card to pay and keep being told that my card cannot be used. Anyone else run into this?

[Wayne Hendrix]

Generally to use a Visa gift card online you have to register an address with the company that produced the card. All of the online Visa payment verification systems use the billing address as a way to prevent fraud by insuring that the person who has the card number also has some information that only the correct card holder should know. Because the gift card does not have an address associated with it it cannot be used online. Registering an address associates the address with the card and allows it to be used.

Take a look at this link: http://usa.visa.com/personal/cards/p..._card_how.html