Here’s a great deal we found from O2. You can get up to 4 free sim cards and once you have activated them and become a customer - bung about £5 on each one – you can then apply for the O2 prepaid Visa debit card.

This is a very good deal for UK customers who want another card for shopping, online and otherwise. There’s no charges if you use it within the UK. This is ideal with Xmas coming up.

Popularity: 23% [?]

I have been trying to get myself a paypal debit card in recent days and am just about at my wits end with all the ‘verification’ criteria that the apply. I would not really bother about it other than for the ridiculous length of time it takes for your money to transfer from your paypal account to your bank account – five days in my case and weekends are not included.

Surely in this day and age electronic transfers can be done in half that time!

First I had to verify my bank account – done; then I had to verify my phone number – done; then I had to verify my address – done. So I fill out the online application and wham - still not accepted!

I am being declined because I am not on the local electoral roll which is used to verify you, not everyone is who have not lived here all their lives and who are not British citizens. So for now I have given up, paypal can keep their bloody debit card.

Popularity: 35% [?]

Paypal is a wonderful innovation but I find one of the drawbacks is the length of time it takes for your funds to reach your bank account – five days in my case and sometimes a bit longer if I transfer right before the weekend.

I like my money there when I want it so I have applied for Paypal’s debit card – it has a chip and Visa symbol so you can use it online. I’m a bit nervous about the clause stating if the underwriting bank, RBS, goes under the card and any funds in it will be lost, but right now I am confident that RBS will be solvent for a while yet.

Actually, I intend to load the card with funds only when I need them so I wont have it sitting topped up with too much for too long a period of time.

I do a lot of online shopping so it will serve it’s purpose and I can get at my cash as soon as it hits my paypal account. I would recommend it to people who do paid blogging – the application only takes five minutes.

Popularity: 47% [?]