Happened to me, too. Demanded personal info I really didn’t want to give.
Solution: get the debit card. Give the address to be where you work, mum’s house, whatever, where they’ll mail it. Give a bogus SIN (asked only last 4 digits?, forgot). You’ll still get it.
Then you’ll have, say, 35bux on the card when they mail it to you. Use it wherever as a regular CC (up to the balance), or just do a buy from FT, GB, whatever.
If you “pay by debit card” you’ll only be able to spend up to that balance but not a penny more. I had to “top off” one time (was on AX, no PP option, just CC/DC), and they do that in 10buk increments, which I didn’t like (only needed like 1buk to make the buy).
But if you buy from GB/FT and “pay by paypal”, you’ll have the option to “use balance?” and it’ll burn through that first, and then charge only the “excess” to your linked card. New balance on the card will be 0.00 once used up.
At that point, you can use the DC or not as you see fit. Toss a few bux on it to pay for lunch, etc., vs using a CC/DC of your own. This way, you’ll know how much you’ll have available on it as a maximum, and even if lost, no one’ll be able to keep soaking your linked card as long as you have that option turned off.
Ain’t too bad. All that bogus info on that DC, and no one “caught” me yet. :laughing: