Sun Prepaid MasterCard A card with all the usual offerings.
Overall:
The Sun Prepaid MasterCard ® is a great prepay card, with all the usual offerings, but as it's a Tuxedo product, it shines in the servicing areas. They offer the Tuxedo ‘eccount’ which is similar to most other prepay card online services but with more mobile functionality.
Good bits:
> The eccount.
The Sun Prepaid MasterCard eccount is great as you can download it to your mobile and from there have bucket loads of functionality, including moving your money about from one account to another. However, after your first month you do get charged for it.
> Get £5 free.
At the moment, if you purchase your card you will get £5 put into your account BUT this only applies if you make an initial £50 top up!
Bad bits:
> It's got 'The Sun' written on it
If you want a prepaid card with 'The Sun' written on it, this is the card for you! If you don't, we'd suggest you look elsewhere. Or you could simply get the 'run of the mill' Tuxedo card - it's pretty much the same thing, offered by the same people.
> Activation form
You have to send in a form to activate your card. Many other suppliers only ask this if they haven’t been able to verify you during your online application or when you purchase your card. See the ‘Card verification’ page for more details.
> There are lots of extra fees.
Once you have purchased and been approved for your card they charge you for a lot of extra things that you probably will want to make the most of your account. A few examples are: Direct debit set up (per payment), direct debit monthly fees, person-to-person money transfer fees, a new paying in book, if you wish to change your tariff…
> No alternative if you are not verified
Many providers, such as cashplus and Virgin, offer you a card even when you haven’t been fully verified (see the card verification page for full details) >. However, Tuxedo don’t do this, so neither does the Sun prepay card.
Standard bits:
> All fairly standard
Much of the Tuxedo prepay card is standard, and as this is simply a 'Sun' badged version, it’s mainly the service options that you can do via your mobile phone that make it stand out, that and all the extra charges.
> Cashback.
They have a cashback site that offers you between 15 and 20% off various things including holidays.
Best card for you if:
- You if you love your mobile phone and want to do a lot of money management with it.
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