{"id":1332,"date":"2013-11-14T14:05:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T19:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/southerntravelgirl\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2016-02-14T11:19:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T16:19:48","slug":"vanilla-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/2013\/11\/14\/vanilla-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanilla Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"

(or why I am not the Queen of Vanilla Reloads)\"Vanilla<\/a><\/h1>\n

While I am certainly not the Queen of Vanilla Reloads, I do try to make sure my Bluebird is happy and well fed each month.\u00a0 As VR has increased the number of options for reloads, there have also been other changes\u2026 an updated website\u2026and a change to the Pin scratch off on the back of the card.\"Vanilla<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The old scratch off area was a solid silver stripe whereas the new one has somewhat of a mottled design to it.\u00a0 What I did not know was that the new scratch off area is VERY<\/strong><\/em> sensitive.\"Vanilla<\/a><\/p>\n

Tonight as I began scratching off the first card, I accidentally scratched off the last four digits of the PIN on the back of the card. Oh my gosh! What to do? I frantically dug through my receipts and found the one for this particular card because I knew it showed the activation number. Well, duh\u2026.the four digit activation number is NOT<\/strong> the PIN!\"Vanilla<\/a><\/p>\n

I logged on to the Vanilla site to attempt multiple guesses at the last four digits. Try as I did, I could not read the last four digits! I tried every combination I could think of trying to match the tops of numbers with the way the numbers look on other cards. Fail.<\/p>\n

I called the number on the back of the card in an attempt to reach a person at the Vanilla Network. None of the options seemed to want to take me to a person. I tried each of the options<\/p>\n