Privacy.com - Get a new virtual card for every transaction

I really recommend this for everyone. This is how online payments should be - easy to checkout, automatic notifications on spend, easy to close down cards, and they're starting to give cashback!

Pros:

Best way to prevent unwanted subscriptions / overcharges, manage my spend, and super easy to use

Cons:

none

Highly recommend them, they have great customer service too!

Pros:

Instant burner virtual cards & recurring purchase cards. U can set $$ limits on all cards. U don’t have to use ur real credit card online

Cons:

No option for a physical card.

You need to associate a bank account before you can create cards. Customer support is horrible. They charge per payment, which is quite expensive. I'd rather pay with my own card.

What a horrible on boarding process. Susan wasted hours of my time. Their API is horrible. Avoid at all costs!

Hiding your identity to the outside world is all good but is your privacy really safe with this company? I'd think twice using their services. I'd rather buy a prepaid visa card.. Goodluck!

Okay so here is a 5 year update with my experience. at the end of the day I can not recommend this product , but honestly love the idea of it. Pros: IF you can get it to work it lets you re-take control of subscriptions, and lets you try joining and buying from newer startups without the risk of them losing your credit card information in a database breach because you used a one time only card. The safety to the principle of this concept that it adds to ecommerce can not be understated, in the same vein as their competitors like Peeks, MySudo, or Skrill etc. etc. The need for this product is clear and I am glad they at least spend more money on advertising so that the average non-tech person can discover the need for such products. Cons: There is no transparency. For something that wants to link to your bank account there need s to be better communication and transparency when things go wrong. When things do go wrong, as you can read from others experiences, in my experience they never tell you why or what went wrong or how to fix error messages. WHICH is double frustrating because if you get an error message on their website it asks you to email their support, who then tell you its against their policy to tell you what went wrong... yet you want access to our bank accounts. For all the promise of something we really need, I can not in good faith recommend Privacy.com =( there are some slightly other annoying cons, but they are covered by other users in this thread and you can read them there.

After waiting a month to get verified, including giving them my sensitive banking information, they close my account with no reasoning. Now I have no clue who they are going to sell my info to. Stay far away. This is a scam.

I've wanted this for so long! How does it work? I feel like this could also be used to game companies' referral programs, since a lot in the on demand economy use credit card uniqueness to prevent you from earning rewards by referring yourself. (Not endorsing that of course.)

Any plans on launching in Australia (understanding banking compliance is time consuming and different for each launch market you enter)? Thank you

Awesome, but I'd rather not have one credit card for each service and how is this "private"?