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BVA VCA credit card failure?

June 14, 2021 12:21AM
Is anyone else doing the BVA online ordering project? I've been doing this for years without too many problems and all of a sudden in the last 3 weeks, all of the vcas provided are failing. Bva hasn't been much help but it seems very strange that 90 plus percent of my tasks are failing for VCA payment.

Anyone else seeing this?
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June 16, 2021 12:21AM
You might get someone to respond if you spelled out what BVA and VCA mean. Just don’t reveal the client and the MSC. Edited to add: I guess BVA is the MSC. Still no idea what VCA means.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/16/2021 12:40AM by kenasch.
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June 16, 2021 01:44AM
It sucks having to use your own cc.
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June 16, 2021 01:53AM
BVA is the MSC the VCA is the prepaid card that they provide for the project.

VCA is virtual credit account.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/16/2021 01:53AM by foodluvr.
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June 16, 2021 02:20AM
Seems you need a "Swift account" to be paid by this MSC.

If I Googled this correctly that's a "Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) is a member-owned cooperative that provides safe and secure financial transactions for its members".

Do they have shops in the US?
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June 16, 2021 05:45AM
The May batch of bad VCNs was the second bad batch within a year. But the failure rate this time around was much higher than the previous bad batch. I haven't experienced an unusual failure rate thus far into the June batch of VCNs.

Apart from the project to which the OP refers - which is by invitation only - BVA has a small number of traditional shops within the US all of which are subcontracted to other MSCs.
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June 16, 2021 09:44AM
I stopped doing these because of the poor exchange rate. If you have to use your own cc, this is bad for you!!
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June 16, 2021 04:18PM
@Rousseau wrote:

The May batch of bad VCNs was the second bad batch within a year. But the failure rate this time around was much higher than the previous bad batch. I haven't experienced an unusual failure rate thus far into the June batch of VCNs.

Apart from the project to which the OP refers - which is by invitation only - BVA has a small number of traditional shops within the US all of which are subcontracted to other MSCs.

Agree, my June shops look good but my May ones were awful. I just wanted to be sure it wasn't me and that other people were seeing it too!

From an exchange rate side it's not that bad at all. They guarantee the refund and I get cash back on my credit card, so I don't mind using my own credit card but it was getting pretty expensive there for a little bit.
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June 17, 2021 03:39PM
They must have changed it, because the exchange rate used to suck!!
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June 23, 2021 02:20PM
I experienced that same issue with the May assignments as well. I sent an inquiry email to support but they never did send a response. The lack of response from them was so out of character. So far the June assignments have worked out just fine.
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June 23, 2021 06:22PM
@starrynight wrote:

I experienced that same issue with the May assignments as well. I sent an inquiry email to support but they never did send a response. The lack of response from them was so out of character. So far the June assignments have worked out just fine.

Agree! My June ones look great! I got a reply that basically said they were looking at it but never got any other resolution except that but I kept emailing them.
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