Hey this is a good opportunity to mention that I saw prepaid VISA gift cards in my local Safeway recently. i live in north vancouver, BC (canada) and thought they didn’t exist up here. But they do!

Apparently they don’t work reliably in normal stores (every place i’ve worked has had issues with them), but do work online. They take a bit of extra effort somehow but the fact is, you can get them.

Then you just use paypal as the cashier, you don’t actually need an account. Just fire the prepaid card info into it and you’re done!