What is the Bluebird Card?
It is a new way to pay using a prepaid card that can help manage and control our money. This is a partnership between American Express and Wal-Mart. Strange bedfellows?
The Bluebird Card can be an alternative to a checking account with no minimum balance, and no monthly fees, no annual fees and no overdraft fees. There will be a fee for using an out of network ATM for customers who don’t use direct deposit.
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Walmart cites a Bretton Woods study that shows consumers now pay an average of $259 per year for a basic checking account and says “that cost is rising due to higher minimum balance requirements and a growing list of fees being added to these services.”
The Bluebird Card will come with some cool features such as the ability to deposit a check by taking a picture of it with your smartphone. The card will also offer fraud protection if it is lost or stolen. You can set up sub-accounts for family members or others, giving them access to certain funds and not the whole account. Perfect for spendy teens!
I like to use prepaid cards when I buy online and don’t want to use my “regular” checking account. They are also great for offers that will auto-renew if you forget to cancel them.
The Bluebird will be available next week at www.bluebird.com and at more than 4,000 Walmart stores. Let’s see how this turns out.
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